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September has opened with Poco's F9 Pro and F9 Ultra debuting almost immediately, kicking off what looks like the busiest launch month in years. This week's IFA trade show in Berlin will bring phone reveals from Tecno, TCL, and possibly Xiaomi's first-ever foldable at the event, while Apple has scheduled its own iPhone event for September 9th.
A developer has published an extensive personal account of using Tcl/Tk, a decades-old scripting language and GUI toolkit, to build console and graphical applications that run natively on Windows, Linux and macOS. The piece walks through the toolkit's threading model, small footprint, ability to produce compact single-file executables, and its BSD licensing, based on the author's hands-on experience after moving past initial enthusiasm.
The TCL QM7L mini-LED television is currently on sale, with the 55-inch model dropping to $797.99, a $200 markdown from its regular price. Discounts also extend to larger screen sizes, though Amazon shows limited stock remaining for the 65-inch version.
TCL's Nxtpaper 11 Plus, an Android tablet with a 2.2K, 120Hz display, is currently discounted to $220 from its usual $280 price. The device can toggle between a full-color screen and an E-Ink-style mode, letting it function as both a tablet and an e-reader or digital notebook. A ZDNET reviewer reports using it alongside an iPad and Kindle without encountering crashes or performance issues, despite its lower-end specs compared to Apple's silicon.
Google Home users report that automations set to trigger from TV events, like powering on or off, are failing to activate. Reports so far point to TCL televisions, though it's unclear if other TV brands are affected. Google has acknowledged the issue publicly on Reddit but has not yet issued a fix.
TCL has released the Note A1 Nxtpaper tablet, a device that blends a full-color 120Hz LCD screen with a matte, low-glare display and a pressure-sensitive stylus designed to mimic the scratch of pencil on paper. Rather than a standard Android home screen, it opens to a note-and-calendar interface inspired by devices like the Remarkable, though it still allows full access to the Google Play Store.
Amazon is selling TCL's NXTPAPER 11 Gen 2 Android tablet for $159.97, a 30% cut from its $229.99 list price. The 11-inch tablet features a glare-reducing, paper-like display, an octa-core MediaTek chip, up to 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, an 8,000mAh battery, and ships with a stylus and flip case.