TCL 10 Pro Review | Can you get a premium phone without the price tag? By Chris Vanderstock

Did, you know that TCL not only make TVs but also phones. I didn't either well. They reached out to me and sent me this TCL 10 pro to review and well mid-tier. I'm going to challenge you on what that actually means find out in this review. Are you looking for a phone that looks a lot like Samsung, but without the price tag? Well, I might just have the phone for you, the TCL 10 pro, if you're like me- and you didn't know that TCL makes phones well, I'm here to say: yes, they do and what my time with the 10 pro surprised me what whether its premium design, regular software updates and a device that punches above its 550 price tag. So in this review I'll be covering its build features, software and camera and answer the question: do we need premium smartphones? The first thing I noticed about the TCL 10 pro was its long slender design that feels premium because well, its materials are made from a solid powder coated metal chassis.

This 177 gram, mid-tier foam, isn't made from plastic like the Google Pixel 4a nor Samsung's, a41 and a51. Instead, you get a satellite matte edge glass back. That looks and feels similar to an OnePlus phone, but where those and other cheap phones fail like on so many levels, the TCL 10 pro looks and feels great in hand helped by that 6.47 inch AMOLED display in terms of screen brightness. I found the tcl10 pro to be completely fine and usable outdoors. However, I have seen reviews starting at anywhere between 300 and 600 nits, but I've also seen ones stating a thousand nits.

Now I think those lower numbers are to do with it operating in HDR mode, which I'll talk about soon. Now that screen is plenty punchy and web pages are clear. However, around the edges, you will notice some sort of fringing going on, which is a little distracting if you go looking for it. Circling back to this display's HDR capabilities in Netflix gets the true HDR 10 certification. You can opt for it to have a crack at doing like SDR to HDR.

But honestly, I couldn't make out any difference between doing this, so let me know below if you have one and whether it's worth your battery, I have to say as striking and warm as good. Looking as the screen is with that Samsung like scream wrap, it makes people wonder if you've actually got a high-end foam. The way the screen melts into the sides is pretty good. For the most part, I'm normally not a fan of curved screens because of accidental palm inputs. But TCL has you covered with settings available to pad out that zone under the screen is an optical fingerprint sensor, which gets the job done in a reasonable time frame.

Taking a tour around the phone, you've got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, a dedicated, sorter programmable side button to summon google a camera ram and flash that is thankfully flush with the phone's body, meaning no bump or annoying rocking, like some phones do for charging. You get USB and a single speaker on the bottom right, which is okay for couch consumption of YouTube or listen to music. But it's not good. If you hold your phone and cover that speaker and being just at one place with sound output, it certainly won't do well in a busy street or give you a stereo effect now before we design external features. I need to make mention of this manufacturing issue whereby the bottom ridge doesn't quite run in line with the rest of the body.

It didn't bother me at first but as I got to know exactly where it was my OCD kicked in, and I kept checking to see it was perhaps a result of previous reviewer dropping the phone or just a design flaw shooting the specs. The tcl10 pro has a large 4500 William hour battery that lasts for a good 10 hours, plus even on heavy use days on weekends, when I'm home- and I tend not to use my phone as much dispatcher- would often go two full days without needing to be recharged TCR's. Custom UI is not overplayed with Google stock OS apparent and doing most of the heavy lifting you'll get some silly doubling of apps a little of bloatware and other system tweaks. That should perhaps actually be included into like stock android phones. Performance is pretty good, with little stuttering or telltale signs of under baked chipsets.

The tcl10 pro is powered by a snapdragon 675 and backed by six gigabytes of ram. It's a good setup for a phone in this price point. Opening apps is snappy with the camera firing up quickly. Skipping between multiple open apps is brisk enough with thanks to that generous ram, allotment and home screen navigation feels nice and fluid. I looked up geek bench performance because once again, this phone felt more than capable of keeping up with like a Samsung flagship phone and what amazingly multi-core geek bench 5 scores with the tcl10 pro at a reasonable 1604.

That's actually better than Samsung's a51, which comes at 1293 and the Pixel 3a. So hats off to TCL for choosing a good processor and generous ram performance overall is good, but for die hard gamers. The 10 pro may disappoint, but hey, if you're into mobile gaming. Would you actually be looking at this phone anyway for casual gaming like angry birds, it's more than powerful for a mid-tier phone sure you're, not gonna, get top shelf processing power here, and there has to be some emissions to keep prices down like the absence of an IP water rating nor wireless charging either you get most everything else like NFC check, Bluetooth, 5.0 check, dual sim or micro, SD expandability check turn into the TCL cameras the front facing 24 megapixels selfie camera takes reasonably crisp shots' album with a little of noise and well they're serviceable? Looking to the rear ram featuring no less than three cameras with one of them for measuring depth. Only.

I can't work out why there isn't a telephoto lens. I mean come on three lenses wide normal and zoom. Am I right so? Instead, the phone will either like zoom or crop shots depending upon camera mode, a weird emission. Indeed, for those who want to try a bit of macrophotography, then I would recommend the tcl10 at just 5 megapixels. It produces in good light, great looking shots which hide that low pixel count, the main 64 megapixel, f 1.8. Camera is good, too.

Shots. Look a little over colorful and high contrast for my liking, similar to what I found on Samsung phones, but you can actually dial back in software. Completing the camera array, the 10 pro has a 16 megapixel ultra-wide camera, which is fun to use more often, I found myself taking photographs with the primary and then this lens just to see if I could get something a bit of different results were pleasing with little distortion nor vignetting. Hey guys, have you found wally, yet no, you haven't seen wally, yet where's wally or colder where's Willie. What does he look like now? The camera app has a lot going on too much for this review, but one feature I think worthy of mentioning is his ability to take night shots called super night mode.

It's hard to tell between this phone and my main go to the pixel 5. Can you tell perhaps you could but remember this phone is half the price of the pixel 5 or about 100 less than any of the variants? So if you're looking for a good camera at a reasonable price, I would suggest the TCL 10 pro well. My time with the tcl10 was pretty good. I have to say that this thing impressed me more than I expected the display. I think it's pretty good the reviews.

Furthermore, I've read out there about it, not being very bright, I'm not getting it, honestly. This thing's been reported a thousand nits, and it's perfectly workable outside and very poppy inside. I think that the HDR tuning that they've done especially like for Netflix, if you're a consumer of media content on your phone, give this thing a look. Honestly. There is an it's a great display, and it's kind of easy to look past the fringing on the edges, which I talked about earlier plenty of ram plenty of grunts, honestly, if you're thinking that you want a high-end phone like what Samsung used to do with its curved screens and its performance and more overall look and design.

This thing is undercutting them by quite a lot and now that they've come out with the s21, and they've dropped that curved screen, and you still want that with the large screen gorgeous screen. You can't go wrong with it sure if you're into hard end gaming, this isn't for you, but for casual gaming. Like you know, angry birds, yeah, it's perfectly fine, so I think you can get this thing between like 600 to 750, depending on where you get it from. If you need a large phone, and you want something, that's going to last you all day, you really can't go wrong with the TCL 10 pro you.

Source : Chris Vanderstock