The TCL Tab 11 Gen 2 has a footprint of 253.6 x 165.4 mm with a thickness of 7.3 mm and a weight of 512 g, giving it a relatively slim profile for its size. The tablet does not include a stylus, detachable keyboard, or backlit keyboard, and it offers no water resistance. Pen tilt sensitivity is also absent, which is consistent with the lack of stylus support.
The TCL Tab 11 Gen 2 features an 11″ IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 px and a pixel density of 206 ppi, running at a standard 60Hz refresh rate. Brightness is rated at 400 nits, and an anti-reflection coating is included to help manage glare. The display does not use branded damage-resistant glass or sapphire glass, and it does not support HDR10, HDR10+, or Dolby Vision. An e-paper display mode is also available alongside the standard LCD output.
The TCL Tab 11 Gen 2 is powered by the MediaTek Helio G80 chipset, built on a 12 nm process with 5,500 million transistors and an 8-thread CPU configuration running at up to 2 x 2 GHz and 6 x 1.8 GHz, with a turbo clock of 2 GHz. It is paired with 6GB of DDR4 RAM at 1800 MHz across two memory channels, supporting a maximum memory bandwidth of 13.41 GB/s and expandable up to 8GB, while 256GB of eMMC 5.1 internal storage is complemented by an external memory slot. Graphics are handled by the Mali G52 MP2 with 2 execution units, 32 shading units, and a GPU turbo speed of 950 MHz, supporting OpenGL 3.2, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2, and DirectX 12. The SoC uses big.LITTLE technology, includes integrated LTE, integrated graphics, and ARM TrustZone security, with a thermal design power of 5W. The tablet ships with Android 14 and scores 416 single-core and 1,354 multi-core on Geekbench 6, with L2 and L3 caches of 0.3 MB and 1 MB respectively.
The TCL Tab 11 Gen 2 includes an 8MP rear camera with a CMOS sensor capable of recording 1080p video at 30fps, supported by touch autofocus, continuous autofocus during recording, a single LED flash, and a video light. Manual controls cover ISO, focus, exposure, and white balance, though manual shutter speed is not available. The rear camera supports slow-motion video recording and a built-in HDR mode, but does not offer optical zoom, optical image stabilization, panorama shooting, burst mode, BSI sensor, or 3D recording capabilities, and neither HDR10 nor Dolby Vision recording are supported. A 5MP front camera is also present for video calls and selfies, though it lacks a front-facing flash.
The TCL Tab 11 Gen 2 features a dual-microphone setup but lacks stereo speakers and does not include a 3.5mm headphone jack. Bluetooth audio codec support is absent across the board, with no aptX, aptX HD, aptX Low Latency, aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless, or LDAC available. There is also no built-in radio.
The TCL Tab 11 Gen 2 is equipped with an 8000 mAh rechargeable battery that supports fast charging and includes a battery level indicator. The battery is non-removable, and wireless charging is not supported.
The TCL Tab 11 Gen 2 connects wirelessly via Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) and Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) with download and upload speeds of up to 300 Mbits/s and 100 Mbits/s respectively, alongside Bluetooth 5.0 and a USB Type-C port running USB 2.0. It does not include a cellular module, so neither 4G nor 5G connectivity is available, and there is no NFC, HDMI output, Ethernet, or gyroscope. Location support is provided through GPS and Galileo, and the tablet includes an accelerometer, while a compass, barometer, infrared sensor, and built-in projector are all absent. On the software side, the tablet supports a broad set of privacy and productivity features, including location privacy options, camera and microphone access controls, app tracking blocking, clipboard warnings, and on-device machine learning, though cross-site tracking blocking, Mail Privacy Protection, Wi-Fi password sharing, Quick Start, focus modes, and app offloading are not available. Additional software capabilities include split-screen multitasking, Picture-in-Picture, full-page screenshots, dark mode, dynamic theming, theme customization, media picker, widgets, customizable notifications, notification permissions, Live Text, battery health check, offline voice recognition, voice commands, sharing intents, the ability to play games while downloading, an extra dim mode, and multi-user support. Direct OS vendor updates are not provided, and biometric security options such as a fingerprint scanner, iris scanner, or 3D facial recognition are not included.
In Geekbench 5 benchmarks, the TCL Tab 11 Gen 2 scores 350 in the single-core test and 1,300 in the multi-core test. The tablet uses DDR4 memory for its RAM configuration.
