Samsung's Worst Nightmare By PAINFULLY HONEST TECH

This phone should scare the pants off companies like Samsung. Let me tell you why, so this is a TCL 10l. It just came to me in the mail yesterday, and I was just kind of like oh I've been looking forward to these phones. I saw them at CES, I talked to TCL about them, they're, making a bunch of phones that are coming in below $500. This has got a class back. It's its all that kind of stuff I handled the phones at the event.

I talked to the folks. At the event, one thing I didn't do, though, and I haven't done until I got this thing in my hand, and one thing I didn't do until I got this thing, in my hand, was really look at the specs of anything any of it and talk. I just didn't want to know anything about the phone until I had it in my hand, until I really used it a little. I, just didn't want to be like spec hunting, if you, if you will, and so I just looked at this TCO thing, and I was like when I get the phone I'll check it out, and it's got four camera lenses. It's got two flashes which you just saw because I turned on the flashlight.

It's got a fingerprint reader here. Furthermore, it also has faced unlock and it's got. You know multifunction button here, it's got volume rocker, it's got a headphone jack. Okay, it's got a headphone jack, of course, I'm excited about this TCL phone and, of course, I'm excited about the fact that companies like Samsung companies like Samsung, who, this year, no matter how much of a fan of Samsung you are, or you are not. You have to admit that this year, Samsung kind of didn't read the room when it came to getting the phones at the prices that people were willing to pay, and this is even before coronavirus and everything else.

Samsung released their most expensive phones on in the s-line ever and nobody was buying them. Nobody was buying them because they were too expensive and all the time throughout 2019, and then you know here in the beginning of 2020, I've been thinking and a lot of other people have been thinking. This way that the mid-range, the $500 is phones are gonna, be a lot more interesting in 2020, then they would have been in years. Past I mean you've got the brand-new iPhone SE that just came out. There's a lot of use, phones that you can get I got this I got this note 9 for three hundred and fifty dollars, Amazon renewed, then I mean, of course, you've got the iPhone 11.

The iPhone 11 is not that expensive compared to some other things so Samsung, you know, releases really expensive phones, whether they're, nice phones. We could have that conversation, but I knew that TCL was coming, and I'm surprised that Samsung didn't if you're not familiar with TCL as a company. This is not the first time that TCL has made a smartphone. TCL has made smartphones under the Alcatel name. They made the most recent Blackberry phones and I.

Guess this year they just decided to come out with their own models. They're going to have this the tip. This is the 10 L and then there's the 10 Pro, and then there is the 10 5g and all of those funds are going to be under $500 Samsung. You should be really be very afraid, be very afraid. Like I said, I didn't look at the specs I didn't really study up on these phones until I got this in, and I put it in my hands and I set it up, and I used it.

It's a beautiful phone, beautiful thumb. Look at that crazy! Look at that wallpaper, beautiful thumb and so after I used it for a little while, as I close to snap it. This is nice. It's doing this thing, I decided to go on Twos webs and look up the specs. This has got the snapdragon 865 processors in it, which is your know, not the top of the line, but it's not absolutely terrible.

This has got a hit, did I mention it has a headphone jack yeah has a headphone jack I really haven't been all that like there's. No lag or anything as I've been moving through different apps and all that kind of stuff. Nothing is really stood out to me. It's like oh well, that's its phone as two hundred and fifty dollars, two hundred and fifty dollars for this phone. If this phone is two hundred and fifty dollars and the other two phones that TCL are gonna, release are going to be less than five hundred dollars, which means you're getting a 5g phone for less than five hundred dollars.

If that's the case, why would anybody buy a Samsung phone for fourteen hundred dollars or for a thousand dollars or for twelve hundred or for whatever Samsung has done really well with there a series? Phones, the series- phones, don't get a lot of play. They don't get a lot of talk. Most people, don't really say very much about them, but the thing about the series phones is Samsung sells the majority of their stuff right in that market. Right in that, like $500 or less market, they do a lot of business there. They have a lot of phones in that market.

The S series is kind of their boutique model that note series was supposed to be the kitchen sink model, and they were the ones that got all the press, but Samsung has sold phones in the lower tier markets for a long time, and they've done well, and they've done well. But now here's a company like TCL is not a small company. It might be a lesser known company in the United States, but it is not a small company. They make all kinds of they make just about everything that Samsung makes. You know, refrigerators and washers, and dryers and blade blah-blah, all kinds of stuff now they're stepping in to Samsung's backyard and leaving them a little present.

If you can make a four lens camera 48 megapixel phone out of glass with a flat screen for $250, why would you ever buy a Samsung phone again? Why? What? What would be the reason if you go strictly by price? Why would you buy a more expensive phone when you could get this one for $250 now this hasn't been released, yet a full review coming after the release, but it just got me thinking about what is happening in the smartphone industry right now. The smartphone bubble has been about ready to burst for a while. You know so over the past 10 years, smartphones at first we're improving exponentially one year after the other, after the other big improvements, especially on the Android side, but only around on the iPhone side, as well big improvements from year to year to year, but since 2017 smartphones really haven't improved all that much. So that's why I can grab this note 9 from a couple of years ago, and it feels like a brand-new phone still all right. This is a better phone than the note 10, no 10 plus it just.

Is if it's a great phone? If you didn't tell me that it wasn't a brand-new straight off the line, phone I wouldn't know it. Smartphones have not changed significantly enough, and I know somebody out there says all, but the cameras, the cameras, cameras, cameras, don't matter, you know what matters. The people who use the cameras to take the pictures. If you can't, or you don't know how, or you haven't built the skill enough to be very good with a mediocre camera, then a better camera is never gonna. Do you any good? So that's not to say the north.

The note nine cameras, fine, but the smartphone market point is smartphone market not really growing exponentially anymore. A phone from 2020 versus a phone from 2017 is not that big a leap once we come out of this situation that we're in with the coronavirus- and you know that all the stuff economies are going to recover, but they're going to recover slowly. People are going to start buying things at a much slower rate and in different parts of the world. I'm sure that will be a lot different, but I believe that the era of the thousand dollar smartphone as sort of the norm is over this. This TCL phone right here is sort of the herald of that.

A high quality phone for one quarter of the price of its flagship competition. It's not as good a phone as those flagship phones, but for the majority of people this phone would likely do them. Just fine, so I, don't know. I just wanted to come on and make this video quickly and talk to you guys a little about where the smartphone market is the fact that the smartphone bubble has burst and the coronavirus situation has made that happen much more quickly than it might have. But 2020 was always going to be about budget phones, and how close can they get to the performance of the phones that are at the top of the heap and the answer to that question in looking at all these phones that I've been talking about here? They answer that question is pretty darn close.

So if you're, a Samsung Knight or if you're, an Apple sheep or if you know any of those things, these phones might not be for you, but if you're a regular everyday person who just wants to go in and buy a phone and not put yourself in a ton of debt to do so, the world of smartphones is getting a lot more interesting for you. Starting right now. Tell me what you think: I think that there will always be sort of the flagship level phones, but they will become more of a boutique thing. They will become more of a thing that people buy. You know as a as an upsell as a you know.

I really want this thing: Apple's got the SE. We watch TCL come out with these phones. The use market is better than it's ever been before, and now Amazon's renewed program is putting the opportunity to put in renewed phones into people's hands a lot more easily than it was to buy used phones in the past. So tell me what you think down in the comments, thanks for listening to me, ramble on for a few seconds, I hope you're having a great weekend and until the next time, I'm out.

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