6 of the coolest new displays I saw from TCL at MWC, and some of them could be in your next phone.
TCL doesn’t just make phones and TVs; the company also makes demonstrations of these products, offering them to various other companies. TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) is part of the TCL Technology Group that specializes in display manufacturing, and at MWC 2026, the company showed off new displays, many of which were aimed at mobile devices.
There was a lot to show off at the booth; too many to mention here. But here are the most interesting things I saw on the TCL CSOT site.
Super Pixel
Headlining the booth is the new Super Pixel technology. This technology appears to have several advantages, from greater clarity to lower power consumption and higher refresh rates.
Super Pixels are different from regular display pixels because of the way they are configured. According to TCL CSOT, the underlying pixel density has increased by 1.8%, which may not sound like much, but this seems to significantly improve image clarity. That’s because unlike regular pixels, which often need to borrow colors from nearby pixels to get the desired output, Super Pixels feature true RGB programming for “Pixel-level image quality.”
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TCL CSOT claims that the use of thic technology can reduce the power consumption of the display by 25% because the display does not have to work as hard. So, even with a maximum 420ppi, a Super Pixel display will use less power than a WQHD or FHD+ display with the same display size.
Finally, the TCL CSOT was able to achieve a high refresh rate of 165Hz, which is often popular with gaming smartphones.
And the good thing is that TCL’s Super Pixel technology is already in commercial use, and can be found in the latest Xiaomi phones.
Portable and foldable monitor
TCL CSOT’s foldable and portable IJP OLED Monitor Display takes the concept of trifolding to the next level. When closed, it doesn’t look like much, like a large 16-inch notebook, but open both sides and you’re met with a large 28-inch ultra-wide display.
The TCL CSOT claims to feature the “world’s largest waterdrop hinge” to achieve more flexibility between different modes. The display is admittedly very bright and the bezels are large, and I agree that I would like to see TCL use its NXTPAPER technology for something like this to reduce glare.
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That said, it’s still a very cool and well-designed device, and the built-in stand makes it very useful for being more productive while on the go. Can you see yourself rocking a portable monitor like this?
Portable laptop
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TCL CSOT also showcased a foldable laptop, which it produced for Huawei as the world’s first flexible LTPO laptop, capable of a refresh rate of 10-120Hz and with a high contrast ratio.
It’s not the first time we’ve seen a foldable laptop, but it’s still rare, and using it looks solid. You can use it in normal laptop mode, the lower part of the display is kept as a touch keyboard, or you can put it down like a very large tablet, which can be good as a canvas or to use media.
And if the touch keyboard doesn’t do it for you, you can slide the physical keyboard into the lower part to turn it into a real laptop.
A very bright display
Smartphone displays seem to get brighter every year, with the latest models reaching over 6,000 nits. It almost seems like an overkill, but the TCL CSOT pushes the world’s brightest OLED display to an impressive level. 15,000 you say. At this level of brightness, you shouldn’t have any problems seeing the contents of your display in direct sunlight, although I wonder what this will do to battery usage.
Very small bezel
As much as I love flip phones, one problem I have with them is that they don’t have very small bezels. TCL CSOT tries to address that, showing the world’s smallest contrast in a foldable OLED display.
I didn’t get a figure for how thin the bezel is, but it’s noticeably thinner than any other phone bezel I’ve seen, and I’ve tested quite a few of them.
And to top it off, the phone was subjected to its own bend test to demonstrate the durability of the display. It will be really interesting to see if and when Android OEMs will adopt such a small display on their foldables, although part of the reason the bezels are so large is because they act as bumpers to keep the display glass from exploding on its own.
Sun screen
Finally, the last innovation I found interesting was TCL CSOT’s mobile OLED display that ensures natural light. The idea is that instead of just being a bright display that resists direct sunlight obscuring your display, the phone uses second-generation spherical technology to reduce glare.
Another thing is that this technology helps improve visibility when looking at the smartphone display with sunglasses, and due to the nature of the polarization technology, it should reduce visual fatigue, meaning you can indulge in long exposures without your eyes feeling tired.
TCL CSOT demonstrated this by having two phones at opposite ends of the rotating panel. Part of the panel has an effect on it to mimic how the display can be obscured by sunglasses, so rotating it to the left dial can darken the screen to the point where content is hard to see. However, when that section of the panel was rotated to the right, the effect was absent.
It was a neat demonstration and a good way to show that TCL CSOT is not only thinking about improving display brightness, reducing bezels, and bright pixels, but how it tries to ensure that its displays are also comfortable for the user.
