TCL might not be a brand that you are totally familiar with but it's America's most popular TV manufacturer, as well as being the licensee of some house-hold smartphone brands such as BlackBerry and Alcatel. Thanks to a leak by Evan Blass detailing the company's roadmap, it seems that the brand is prepping to launch a range of smartphones and a flexible tablet over the next 12 months.
First up is the T1 Pro with a trio of rear cameras, a 6.53-inch ‘Dotch' FHD+ display with a punch-hole design and a 90% screen-to-body ratio. A Snapdragon 675 processor resides under the hood along with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of built-in storage. The phone will run Android 9 Pie out of the box with an upgrade to Android Q via OTA. There's 3,820mAh battery with 18W fast charging and what appears to be a fingerprint reader on the rear panel. The T1 should be available for under €399 according to the leaked roadmap and may be announced during IFA 2019 in Berlin next month.
The Pro version of the T1 features a curved AMOLED display with quadruple rear cameras along with a proposed price of less than €499 ($550) with a release sometime in Q1 of 2020. Sometime in the following quarter, a 5G variant of the T1 and T1 Pro will launch costing €549 and €599 respectively
Last on the roadmap is something called the FlexTab which would appear to be a foldable tablet featuring a Flexible AMOLED display and a possible price tag of around €1,299 ($1450), which makes it more than a tad cheaper than either Samsung's Galaxy Fold ($1,980) and Huawei's Mate X which should be around $2,600.
BlackBerry fans will note that there's no mention of a KEY3 launch, but that may be because this is a roadmap for TCL-branded devices and not its licensed products.
Source: Evan Blass (@evleaks)
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