TCL 10 5G | Unboxing & Full Tour | OnePlus Nord Rival? By Tech Spurt

So, an awful lot of mid-range smartphones have launched here in the UK. These last couple of weeks got, of course, the likes of the OnePlus nose, the model g5g plus and the Google Pixel 4a. It's finally, actually a thing that launched yesterday go check out my full unboxing. If you haven't already, no, you know. Don't if you don't want to, you, don't need some bald guy on the internet. Bossing you about, and a surprising number of these mid-range mobiles do actually come with 5g built in as well as does the TCL 10 5g, as the name kind of obviously gives away, and while the TCL name may not have the cloud of a one plus or a pixel in the smartphone world, they've definitely got plenty of mobile know how and the TCL 105g certainly seems to pack some really solid specs and some really slick design for a sub 400 pound price point.

But that's enough of me banging on anyway. Let's get the TCL 10 5g all unboxed. Take you on a full on tour of the hardware and the software and for more on the latest and greatest tech. Please do poke subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers. So there is the TCL 10 5g in all of its greatness.

Let's see what else you get in the box first, so, first, of course, you've got your porky pin device for actually getting your sim and the TCL 10 5g, and probably double as a cute little sword for a hamster, Halloween costume and pretty much all budget and mid-range smartphones now come with a bundled condom case as well. So you can just wrap around it to add a bit of extra protection to the good little bonus. You've got an USB cable type c and, of course, here in the UK at least, you get a bundled three pin adapters with hilarious, pop-up action, and now here is the TCL 10 5g fully unsheathed, and you can actually pick it up in a couple of different colors. This is, unfortunately the rather bland mercury gray. You can also pick it up in chrome, blue.

If you prefer bland is probably a little harsh. It does look rather smart. I've got to see. I do still like that horizontal strip for the camera action as well just makes a change if nothing else from the old vertical camera arrays. It's got this kind of neat gradient effect as well sort of darker at the top, and so it lightens in tone as you move down towards the bottom end.

The tcl105g is constructed from glass and I'll. Tell you what it's got a bit of a heft to it as well: 210 grams! Definitely right up there. I've got I've been building up my biceps in this lock down hell and I believe it's constructed from gorilla glass front and back as well. Just like the tcl10 pro, which I recently reviewed. They don't expressly say that in the uh, the press specs, unfortunately, but they do say that it's scratch resistant, so I'd be surprised if it wasn't and good to see a rear mounted fingerprint sensor back in play as well almost flush with the surface, just indented enough.

So you can hopefully find it no problem with your finger when you're fumbling about round back and other notable design features include a headphone jack up top. Quite a lot of budgets to mid-range smartphones do still support those, and you do have a dedicated Google Assistant button over here on the left edge as well, and also when you come to stick your sim card inside. It's just a single sim tray here, unfortunately, you don't get a dual sim uh effort, but you do have a micro SD memory card space, so you can boost that 128 gigs of internal storage by a further terabyte, which is lovely so boom, the TCL 105g all set up and ready for action, and what you've got here is a good old, android 10. But it's not the stock version of android 10. What you've actually got is the TCL UI slatted on top very imaginatively titled there, and this launcher does change up the look and the feel of android in a few different departments.

But thankfully you do get all the standard android features on there, such as, of course, a good bit of dark mode action which you can actually schedule to turn on and off at set times, and you can also get rid of this clunky old nav bar down at the bottom as well, and just go back to good old gesture, navigation the standard, android, 10 effects or swipe like so to get around and loads of other bonus features in there as well, including a dedicated one-handed mod. This can be accessed at any point by pulling down that notifications bar going into the shortcut section, as you can see, there's an icon for it and since the TCL 105g is a complete beast uh, that's definitely going to come in very handy indeed, and, as I mentioned before, dedicated Google Assistant key on the side here as well, so I'll give that a pork and up she pops and good to see. The Google Assistant understands me as much as anyone else does now. We'll cover some other TCL UI features as we're going through. But let's turn our attention to a bit of hardware, specifically that behemoth 6.53 inch, IPS screen and sure it may not be an OLED screen, unlike the OnePlus word and the Google Pixel Fourier. But you know what for an IPS, it's not bad at all.

You've got full HD plus resolution, so those visuals are nice and crisp. Uh, certainly no issues with viewing angles or anything on top brightness it'll just about deal with uh, some pretty harsh outdoor lighting too. I believe the specs said it was 450 nits at that maximum level and the colors aren't super punchy sure. But you know what they look perfectly natural: they look nice, they definitely don't appear washed out or anything like that. So yeah, certainly for you, know, kicking about a bit of Netflix, something like that will do the job, and this is just a single dinky, little uh, pinhole orifice down here in the bottom corner as well, which barely intrudes on the action.

Unlike some big fat mamas, we've had recently, I'm definitely liking. The contrast here on the tcl105g as well. Those blacks are looking pretty deep and, as you can see, there, you've got full HDR support. In fact, in the likes of Netflix, you can really take advantage of that shop. Contrast.

The natural looking colors and part of the TCL UI features, of course include the next vision feature as well, which just adds, as you can see, a few little display-based features, including the visual enhancement. This just helps to brighten things up a bit boost the clarity, basically, if you're trying to watch something, that's really sort of moody and dark, especially if you're trying to watch it in quite a brightly lit room. You've got the sort HDR up converter as well, and you can also mess around to a limited degree with the uh, the color output as well. It's set to uh adaptive by default, but, as you can see, you make things a bit warmer a bit cooler, and you've got the usual night mode, shenanigans and everything on board as well on the sound front, there's less customization, as you see no support for Dolby, Atmos, no form of equalizers or anything to piddle about with, but what you do gets for super Bluetooth support which is supposed to have an incredible range. I think it's about 400 meters or something and also support for up to four pairs of headphones or speakers at once as well see it's good.

If you're having a party, you want to pump up music to lots of speakers around a garden or a house, and support for high-res audio and everything as well so definitely sort if you're a bit of an audiophile and just as good news. If you're a bit of a gaming fan, you're like a bit Call of Duty, PUBG mobile or something like that, because it's the snapdragon 765 g chipset on board here, which I've already played around with on the likes of the OnePlus nodes and the realm x55g six gigs of ram on here as well. So you should find that that plums is nice and smooth for your everyday shenanigans. Even if you're running quite a few apps at once. You know streaming media in the background stuff, like that fun that delivers absolutely stunning performance, even on the likes of Call of Duty on at that maximum detail level and maximum frame rate setting as well.

And if you dive on into the advanced features you'll see, you've got the game mode as well, which uh standard sort of game mode shenanigans. You can block notifications and, thankfully, disable the smart key and other bits as well, so you're, not accidentally quitting out of your game. You've got a game. Turbo uh performance boost feature not that you'll need that anytime soon on the 765g and a good bit of network optimization as well such as ensures that no other pesky apps are nicking. All your precious bandwidth and battery life, 2 should be perfectly respectable, certainly doesn't seem to be draining particularly fast, even though you know I've had apps downloading.

In the background all that kind of shenanigans, whereas actually the battery section. I can never find it on this stupid UI there. It is smart manager staring me right in the face, so we get packed inside is a 4 500 William cell, it's quite a generous size of battery uh. So yes, I should hopefully keep you going all day and when it is time to recharge you do get quick charge.3.0 support it's 18 watt! It's not superfast! You know quite a lot of mid-ranges. Now they support 30 watt again the likes of the OnePlus nose uh.

But you know it'll do the job. You've got the usual battery, optimization options and all the rest, but of course, as always, stay tuned for my in-depth TCL 10 5g review for all. You need to know about the battery life, the performance and everything else, and, let's finish up with the squint at the TCL, 105 g's, camera tech, and we get is a quad lens arrangement, as you can see in that funky nifty, horizontal uh style design, and we've got a 64 megapixel primary lens, an 8 megapixel ultra-wide angle, 5, megapixel, macro hooray and a 2 megapixel depth sensor and, as usual with TCL. It is a fairly complex camera app. As you can see, there are lots of different options and toggles to play around with.

For the most part you can ignore this top stuff, it's all to do with like the flash, the HDR level, the aspect ratio. I've got a bunch of filters that you can play around with if your heart sore desires, and it's worth mentioning as well, that the TCL 105g does actually shoot uh images in 16 megapixel resolution by default, using four in one pixel binning. But you can swap to that maximum 64 megapixel level. If you want by diving into the bonus modes, you've got a digital zoom that you can play around with here on the right, because of course, there's no actual telephoto zoom and then uh swap to the ultra-wide angle, ends with a quick tap down there and so far seems all right to be fair. It's quite uh ambient light.

Shall we say here in the studio? So sometimes you get quite grainy results with mid-range mobiles, but this actually appears to be fairly sharp detail, natural, looking colors and everything as well. You do, of course, have that depth sensor for your portrait shots as well, so you can just accurately lock onto your subject and just adds a nice both style effect. In the background, as you can see, you can set the level of both action by playing around with this fake aperture setting. If you want to make the UI even more complicated, you can switch to the dedicated pro modes, and then you can play around with likes the ISO level. The white balance all that kind of stuff, and it's also not just any ordinary night modes here on the TCL 10 5g, it's a super night mode, no less just give that little tap.

As you can see, it takes lots of different exposure, shots bungs them all together and the result, as you can see, there is a significant improvement compared with that original shot. It has really dulled down actually the light. In the background there, the rest of it's nicely balanced, though, as you can see a lot more background information than what we got before and for your bit of whole movie action as well. You can swap some video uh, let's dive into the settings, it sets a 1080p by default as usual uh you can bump up to 4k, not at 60fps, though you've got to shoot at full HD. If you want that and then.

Lastly, if we swap around to the 16 megapixel front facing camera, hopefully it should be absolutely fine again just for your standard, everyday selfies and I already look like I've downed, a vodka shake or two uh right there, I'm looking a lot happier than I feel and using that selfie cam. Of course, you can shoot up to full HD video. You got a portrait mode as well. If you want to blur out the background and make it all about you baby yeah, and that right there in a nutshell, is the TCL 10 5g, so stay tuned for my in-depth review for all you need to know about, as I say, the performance, the battery life, if there's any little quirks in there or anything 400 pounds, definitely some decent, specs and features, but is it a true rival to the likes of the OnePlus node and the Pixel 4a it'd be great to hear your own personal impressions of it down below. Please do poke subscribe, ding that notifications bell and have yourselves a lovely rest of the week.

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