Mid-Range Battle: Mot G100 vs TCL 20 Pro 5g By 2NA Tech

How you guys doing today we are focusing on something pretty interesting, at least to me. So ever since this thing called a global pandemic, a so-called chip shortage- and you know, people losing jobs and money being tighter has been an interesting trend. Years ago there was a popular trend towards the budget flagship OnePlus, the nexus line, this kind of things and that's kind of went to the wayside, with the iPhones shooting up in price, Samsung's and so forth, and even OnePlus as guilty of this. But the mid-range phone space has been heating up and when I say mid-range, I mean around 500 USD today we're going to discuss two heavy hitters that are currently in the mid-range space. They're somewhat new for the most part, both have a different take on the 500 phone with different sacrifices. So what are we talking about? We are going to look at the Motorola g100 and the TCL 20 pro 5g.

So let's go over a few things about these phones. We have both and which should you choose now, that's a complicated question, and I'll give you some specs and some comparisons, and maybe you can help make your decision when you're looking for a phone in this price range, especially if you're looking at these. Both of these phones are running android 11. Now I have the Motorola set up. So it's running an an an UI, that's pretty similar to stock TCL runs an again android 11, but with a TCL UI overlay.

Now this phone is not set up, it's relatively new, but I can still go over a few things with you, as you can look, I'm going to take the case off this thing, so it's a little closer to a comparison of these two phones. So, looking at the two phones, the screen size is roughly 6.7 inches for both the TCL phone itself, though, is a little lighter and minimally thinner. Okay, so, as you can see, it's not been set up, but it is on I kind of want to turn it on for a couple of reasons too, but we'll get to that. The Motorola phone here with the 6.7-inch screen offers a resolution of 2520 by 1080, or we call it full HD plus. This is a 21 by 9 aspect ratio, basically meaning it's thinner taller with a 409 PPI.

If you're interested okay, the TCL is 2400 by 1080, with a 20 by nine aspect ratio. So it's not 21 by nine, and it's got 395 for the PPI, so 409 PPI 395 very, very similar, just like the screen size, but it gets a little interesting. Motorola has a 90 hertz refresh rate, whereas TCL stuck with a 60 hertz, so you're thinking, oh well, IPS is you know or Motorola's got the lead there and I kind of just spilled the beans on what I was going to talk about next year. But looking at that, this is an IPS LCD and this is an AMOLED screen. So what you're looking at here is this might be more buttery smooth going through stuff, but it will have less deep, blacks, and it'll be subject to somewhat motion blur, but it's hard to see with the eye.

So with these two comparisons you got to make a difference. Do you want deeper contrast to your blacks, or would you want to 90 refresh 90 hurts refresh rate? The next segment here is pretty interesting. So, like I said, these are upper mid-range, um, spec phones, but here's where they've they start to differ a little more. The Motorola g100 has the snapdragon 870, which is basically an overclocked 865 or barely overclocked 865, plus that you'll find in the tab s7 from Samsung. It's a very good processor, it's not at 888, but it's one step below, so gaming should be fun.

On this, the TCL went with the snapdragon 750 g. Now that's a 7 series. It's an 8 series. I want to say that both series came at the same time, but in generalities the 7 series is usually one step slower than the 8 series. Both have expandable storage via micros, the Motorola has 8 gigabytes of the LDAP ddr5 ram with 128 gigabytes of storage.

The TCL only has six gigs of lap ddr4 memory, but it has 256 gigabytes of storage, so you're going to get faster, ram more and faster ram, less slow ram battery. The Motorola has a 5 000 William hour battery and when I first opened this phone and picked it up and held it in my hand, I could feel the heft, and now I know why it's got five thousand William hour battery. They claim two hour two days battery life. I can't make that claim, but I can tell you it lasts for a while. The TCL, on the other hand, has a 4 500 William better battery about William hour battery.

Now you might think it's only 500 Williams different, but that can make a big difference, especially when the batteries are running low, so you're asking yourself okay, so this one's got a slightly bigger battery, but how do they charge now? This is another different differentiating factor. The Motorola has turbo power, wired only but 20 watts with a charger included. The TCL supports quick charge 3.0, which they claim 18 watts wired, but this one offers 15 watts wireless charging, which is kind of rare. For this you know this kind of area of the phone is this price range cameras are another kind of differentiating factor, so I want to flip these over. So again, this is the Motorola.

This is the TCL. The Motorola's main camera is a 64 megapixel f 1.7, their secondary camera. The back is 16 megapixel ultra-wide with an f 2.2, and that ultrawide also doubles as a macro, and this has a unique little feature around the macro lens. That has a ring light. So when you get close to something it'll brighten it up.

The third camera is a 2 megapixel depth, camera and the fourth is just a time-of-flight 3d camera. Now, on the front of this, as you can see, I'm trying to turn it on. You have two holes here, it's hard to see, I mean and that's interesting, because it has a 16, megapixel, f, 2.2, main selfie camera and an 8 megapixel ultra-wide f, 2.4, aperture camera. The 8 megapixel does have 118 degree fields of view. Okay, now the TCL's main camera is a 48 megapixel, f 1.8, but this one has optical image stabilization, where this one doesn't their second camera is a 16 megapixel, ultra-right, f 2.4. Instead of integrating the macro into the wide angle, they actually put in a 5 megapixel macro, separate camera in here and the fourth camera is a 2 megapixel depth camera now on this one try to see if you can see that you see a center hole punch.

So these are side center. You got one camera, but this one is a 32 megapixel with an f 2.4, so for biometrics, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, assume. I know this one has a generic face, unlock with the camera here, so it's not as secure as you what you'll find on the iPhone on some android phones that have the IR sensing, but they may both have that. But as for fingerprints, this one has an in screen fingerprint reader, and this one has it right here on the power button. Now you might think well in screen some new words better in some respects.

It is, but it's also just as quick, so I can turn it off and turn it back on. So some other things we'd like to talk about, and I'm going to see they both have a 3.5, millimeter headphone jack. I do believe the TCL it does have FM. So when you plug in your headphone jack, you use your headphones into the headphone jack. It doubles as an antenna for the FM receiver.

They both support, Bluetooth, 5.1. The motor does support Wi-Fi six. I believe the TCL only goes up to Wi-Fi. Five Motorola has a type c, USB type-c charging cable, but it's 3.1 USB 3.1. This also has a type c cable, but it's only 2.0. They both support NFC for mobile payments.

The TCL does have you can see it right here, that's an IR blaster, so you can commonly use it with TVs and stuff that you still could support IR for moving. You know: power on power off channel volume up um Motorola has this unique feature called ready? Four, so you basically plug in an USB to HDMI cable, and it turns it into a mobile, desktop. Uh mobile video game system that you hook up to a bigger screen or TV uh and that's unique to this device in this segment. Other companies do this Lenovo's implementing some of this in some of their tablets and Samsung's been doing it with Samsung DEX for a while, so which is better. It really depends on your needs.

I'd say, camera wise is pretty close. You don't want to get into a megapixel war, it's all about software processing. While if you look at the specs, the motor does seem to have an advantage, but, like I said it all, really comes down to how they are processed in the end plus, the TCL does have the optical image stabilization. I believe that the TCL will have a better screen since it uses AMOLED as opposed to LCD in the motor, but this does have a 90 hertz, refresh rate, like I pointed out earlier, hands down the place for the Motorola is much better. Is the processor.

It's got a better processor, it has the ready for feature which allows more flexibility and that extra processing power and the better GPU with that will have mobile gamers satisfied. The TCL does have wireless charging and that's very convenient, and I do like that, but the Motorola does have the larger battery, which should allow it to last slightly larger or longer amount of time. What you really need to do is figure out which company you trust more so twos are relatively new to the game. They've had a couple of years of cell phones, they're big in the TV space, but I can't tell you how good they are with the software. This is the first t cell phone I've ever used and, as you can tell, I haven't really used too much of it.

That's why I'm not comparing it based on use. I want to use this one. I don't know how their software updates are. Motorola has been making smartphones a lot longer, but with my experience with Motorola devices, software updates have updates, have always been hit or miss. They do offer them, and they have been getting better, but in the past, like I said, it's been hit or miss based on the device you were using.

Also, what will you use your phone for Motorola's build quality is not near as nice as the TCL's, but it's interesting to see where each company made the cuts to get it to the mid-range class. So, as you can see, this is more like a plastic, maybe some aluminum here, where this phone is more high-end. The screen rolls around the sides a little. It feels better in the hand. It's thinner, so I mean tech talent-wise.

I would pick this phone, so both are currently 4.99 right now in the US, but Motorola's has a 100 discount, and I'm not sure how long that's going to last. So technically it could go up 100 soon, but they don't have an expected data. When that discount won't end, you have to make a decision based on your needs. In my personal opinion, take it as you will from tuna tech. I would pick the motorola g100 for the longevity, the faster refresh rate, the bigger battery, the faster processor and the more amount of memory and speed of that memory.

So basically this will last longer, as phones are aging, they tend to slow down and if you have a slower processor, they will tend to slow down faster. In my experience again, this is theater. I'm giving this battle the wind to the g100 check me out for the next battle.

Source : 2NA Tech