TCL 10 Pro - The Android iPhone SE? By Matthew Moniz

So I just got a brand-new smartphone in the studio. This is called the TCL 10 Pro and those of you unfamiliar TCL. This is a company that usually focuses on perfect budget products, in fact the same company that makes the current BlackBerry devices that are still available on the market. This is a four hundred and forty-nine dollar. Smartphones and I put this in context. It's about fifty dollars more expensive than the iPhone SE, and possibly a good alternative.

If you're looking for something on Android now this is a phone that has the look of a very premium smartphone and the way they do that is they give you the cosmetic design, but then they sacrifice other things in order to continue with a lower price point: yeah. Okay, we have the phone itself inside the box. We have a sim tool and of course we can have some paperwork ooh, and it's a case to go with your phone. I love these like really terrible CPU cases because they're a great alternative until you get a real case. So this we don't break your device until that time happens.

Now this is very, very flex and I. Don't like this stamp on the back. I know they're trying to be cool with the whole L as a display logo, but it just looks like they ran out of printer ink. You get a bunch of manuals which we don't care about. You do have your USB type-c charger and, of course, a charging brick.

Now this charging brick charges up to 18 watts fast charging, there's no wireless charging on this device, but at least it can fast charge. It now I have to admit this is a very, very good-looking phone like for a mid-range device. This honestly looks just as good or comparable to some of the more expensive smartphones that are on the market. Top of the phone feels a bit darker than you, then you get down to the bottom and the gray kind of gets a little lighter. It's just a nice way to color your phone.

Now, this camera airway is insane like there's zero camera bump on the back and what you're getting is four lenses in a mid-range device. You have your 64 mega pixel wide lens, which will take your regular photo. You have a 16 megapixel ultra-wide lens, you have a 5, megapixel macro camera and, of course, a 2 megapixel depth sensor, which of course, will help you with things like portrait mode and in distances, you have a smart button which you can bind to specific applications if you want it to load quicker and then, of course, on the right hand, side, you have your volume, rocker and power button. Now they do have an almost notch list display, but they decided to go with a little camera cutout at the top. Well, I guess it's more of a notch since it indents downwards, but overall is a very clean display.

The one thing I do not like, though, is these edges they're, not as I, don't know as bad as the 1 plus 8, but they're, pretty darn close and for those of you that are anti edged, you're, probably not going to like the way. This feels when you're typing on it. Now this is interesting. This has a historic piece of tech on it. This has one of those things they used to call a headphone jack, something we're no longer seeing on any smartphone IR blaster.

This is another thing. I haven't seen on a smartphone for a while, and, of course you have a speaker, SIM tool, tray or the sim tool, tray, SIM tray, which you can put in two SIM cards, or a SIM card and micros. Now, interestingly, this phone does have an N display, fingerprint sensor. It's pretty quick, obviously it's not as fast and snappy as the OnePlus knee pro, but fast enough for a mid-range device. The theming on this device is not too bad.

Either it's not overbearing. They didn't bog it down with an insane amount of extra apps that get you confused. It still looks fairly clean. The app drawer is fine. You do have Google now, when you swipe to the right, which is always my favorite place for it to be the menu, does support, of course, Android 10, which means you get all the new features like dark mode baked in and overall getting around.

The menus are very convenient. Now the one thing I do like about this device is the bezel is to split it's a little chunky on the bottom, but I think for a mid-range smartphone. They actually did a perfect job. Considering this is a 1080p display, the colors pop they're, vibrant, it's not as bright as a galaxy device, but I think it sports around 600, nits and brightness, so very similar to the pixel. For now this does support an always-on display and, of course it has 6 gigabytes of RAM, which is like the absolute minimum.

I want to use on an Android phone, but the one area they had to cut costs was the CPU. This is a Snapdragon 675, so very similar to the Snapdragon 835, which was released a couple of years ago. It's not a slow performer but like when you're scrolling down certain menus. There is a bit of micro lag that you'd get on this device compared to some faster performing smartphones that are on the market. It's not bad by any means that still feels fast and fluid, but it's something to consider when there's other phones like the iPhone S II, which has an 13 and this faster than most processors in premium phones.

A lot of you are probably saying that why would I buy or spend money 450 bucks on an Android phone when I can get the iPhone SE for 399 dollars, and you're absolutely right performance, wise and this phone will completely destroy this, but the TCL 10 Pro offers a lot of other advantages like, for example, this camera has so many modes to choose from you can use the regular portrait mode. You can use it in the front-facing camera, the rear camera. You could also use super night mode to take nighttime photography. Furthermore, you can go all the way into the menu and do things like super macrophotography. All these things.

You can't do on the iPhone SE, unless you spend more on an iPhone 11, so you're, taking away the speed, but you're getting a bunch more features that you wouldn't necessarily get on the $399 iPhone SE. So unfortunately, there's only one speaker on this device, and it's the bottom firing speaker and I- would have loved to have dual speakers considering that just could have utilized the air piece on the top to provide stereo quality. I'm going to give you an example of how this phone sounds compared to the iPhone SE, so obviously the iPhone SE sounds better. It just sounds so much better balanced like you can hear the meds there's bass. It just feels like a better sound experience.

Now that the mono speaker is bad, but at the end of the day it's a mono speaker and what you're really hearing is more of the high-end. Now the battery is big in this 4,500 Williams. For a six point, four seven inch display that's 1080p. My gut feeling is that you're going to get exceptional battery life on this device. I mean this is a fairly good priced, midget', mid-range smartphone, with a lot of the bells and whistles that you'd usually find on more expensive flagship phones.

Yes, it's not going to be as fast as the iPhone. It's not going to get updated as quick as the iPhone, but if you are looking for every single feature you can pack into a smartphone, this device is one that you might want to consider now. I'm going to be reviewing this, please. Let me know your questions in the comment section down below, and I'll make sure to answer them in my full review, I'm always on twitch every second night, if you feel like playing a little of Call of Duty war zone, of course, like the video, if you liked it subscribe, if you haven't already, and I'll see you guys in the next video.

Source : Matthew Moniz