TCL 10 Pro Unboxing: Solid $450 Budget Phone! By Tim Schofield

Hey everyone Tim Schofield here it's time to take a look at the new TCL 10 Pro, a very promising phone I'm excited to open up and check it out. You might be familiar with TCL from their TVs, so I'm hoping that HDR 10 six point. Four seven inch AMOLED display is good. Along with that, you have features like a 64 megapixel camera, the snapdragon 875 processors, from Qualcomm a headphone jack, and it is priced very competitively at four hundred and fifty dollars. So let's go ahead and unbox the TCL 10 pro see what we get at that price point: let's go and get started here is the TCL 10 Pro, also noteworthy 128, gigs of storage and 6 gigabytes of RAM opening the box. There is our TCL 10 Pro set that to the side for a second as usual, and we have our sim ejection tool and there's also a micro SD card in the TCL 10 Pro.

So you can expand that hundred twenty-eight gigs of storage, opening it up, you'll, see just some booklets and then a display greatness case from TCL, so nice that it actually does come with a case included pretty standard charging, cable and adapter, which is USB type, a 2 USB type-c. So that's everything that comes in the box. Let's check out the TCL 10 pro take off some of this packaging on the back. Let's put the phone up also review video is coming soon, so be sure to subscribe, so you're notified when that goes live I will be putting my SIM card in this phone installing all my apps and speaking of apps, so I partnered, with bumble and online dating, is tough, specifically building those one-on-one connections and what I found from my experiences with the bumble app is that I was able to have the most high-quality conversations within it, and it's really great having the girl message me. First, because then I know they're genuinely interested in having a conversation.

Bumble is also adding very useful and relevant features to their app. They have in-app video calling. So a woman can use that as their first move to do a video chat or, of course, in response, a man can go ahead and start a video chat. So you can go ahead and do some virtual dating. If you'd like for some virtual dating ideas, you could order the same.

Takeout have dinner together. You could even show off your crib, show off your living space and introduce them to your pets, and then you could even teach them how to mix and make your favorite drink. You can even add a virtual date badge to your profile, so people know you are interested in video chatting. So that is to bumble app you can get it in the App Store, the Play Store I will link to it down in the description below so go check out to bumble app right away, I'm noticing the back, has curved sides to it and then also really nice. So look at the quad camera system on the back.

It's completely flush with the back of the phone. However, the flashes, the LED flashes on the left and right hand, side protrude out just slightly, which is actually a great thing, because with phones that have completely flush cameras and nothing on the back, they slide on tabletop so easily. So the fact that these have LED flashes right here should make it so that this does not slide off the table so down at the bottom. That sim card slot micro, SD card USB, C slot for charging microphone and one of our speakers moving along the right side, is where the power button is volume controls up towards the top check this out microphone and an IR blaster, so an infrared blaster. So you can go ahead and control TVs and such, and there is our headphone jack up towards the top and that, on the left side, make note of the rounded back and rounded front with the display- and you do have a separate button on the left side called a smart key, which you can customize we'll talk about that in just a second on the front.

Here you do have a bit of a notch for that camera, placement and overall minimal bezels. Also, on the back is that 64 megapixels standard wide-angle lens 16, megapixel, ultra wide-angle lens, and then you have a five megapixel lens for macro shots, so getting really close to the subject and then finally, a two megapixel depth, sensing lens: let's go ahead and skip through the startup process. I'll talk about anything noteworthy. The 10 Pro does have an in display fingerprint scanner. So let's go ahead and set that up to set our finger on where that fingerprint is at lift it on up all right, so fingerprint added.

We can rename it if we would like to let's go ahead and continue on. You can also unlock with your face. So let's go ahead and do that. So let's try this around the camera. So putting my face in that was really quick continue.

Your face has been registered, we're we are ready to go, so we'll test both of those out. It's also the NOT vision, setting, maybe next vision where it's going to adjust contrast, sharpness and saturation to improve your screen image. So we can go ahead and leave that one on now also whether you want the home and app drawer or just the home screen. Oh me, I, like to have the app drawer setup, is complete. Let's go ahead and continue through.

Let's go into settings and jump into display right away some status bar settings. You can actually get rid of that notch, so you can hide the front camera. We can try that out, and you'll see that notch does go away. If you don't actually want that. Just puts a color around the status bar looks like they have a dark mode built in.

So we can turn that on, and it's going to probably have a system-wide dark mode. Turning on between apps that you can schedule, I'm really glad TCL decided to add a scheduler to their dark mode, got a lot of questions about this one, but they do have an always-on display which is awesome to have for OLED displays, there are different styles to them. If you wanted to mix up the clock, change some things, so let's go ahead and add that one! So when we go ahead and lock our phone that always-on display should come up, there we go, we could see the notification icons, time date and battery percentage and that little jellyfish there, so we could go ahead and lock our phone with our fingerprint scanner. Let's test that out again so Ted, let's go ahead and set it down with our lock screen upset that on down so seemed like it worked pretty well. I'm going to have to get used to that positions, a little lower than I'm used to, but I find over time.

You do get used to it. I do also have that face unlock turned on so let's go ahead and try that, and it unlocks it just about right away, and of course this is a bad angle, so nice to see that works. Well now for the smart key on the left side, it does have some texture to it. You'll see it has a separate app here where you can really customize the action, a single press. We can have it maybe launch the Google Assistant if we want to have it, launched the camera in different modes to gallery smart manager edge bar a bunch of different things like a flashlight.

So let's say I want to have a double press. I want that to be a flashlight for sure, so let's go ahead and try that out so double tap this button. What do you know both our flashes are on their Doubleday to turn it back off good to go, and then, if we press it once it will go ahead and activate our Google Assistant kind of neat and convenient and great that you can customize? For those of you wondering this is TCL skin on top of Android 10, so the latest version of Android to see jumping into our recent apps, you can clear all you can go ahead and swipe up to get rid of apps. Let's see if we can actually activate some gestures going into settings advanced features system navigation, so they do have just your navigation. So back from the side, it looks like they have more to where you can swipe up from the corner.

To go back, but I actually prefer back from the side for sure. So, let's swipe up to go home. If we go into settings, go into advanced and swipe from the right it would. It goes back swipe from the left. It goes back swipe up and pause gets to our recent app.

So you can activate gestures. You don't have to have buttons quickly want to show off the included case on the phone. It does cover all of our buttons down at the bottom. There are cutouts for our charging port, etc. , and, of course, they cut out for infrared and headphone jack.

So overall, looking good, definitely add some grip to the sides and a little of thickness. So it makes it a little easier to hold a couple more noteworthy features. There is an edge bar that you can customize with apps contacts. There's a ruler built in you can change those if you want to go back. They also have a one handed mode game mode, driving mode and gestures.

So you can have a three finger. Screenshot split screen gesture, so you swipe up with three fingers to activate split screen. This app doesn't actually support it, but if we go into an app that does like the Play Store swipe up with three fingers, and it will go ahead and activate our split screen mode. Finally, let's jump into the camera app for the first time and just snap, a quick picture, there's one two, just to kind of see the shutter speed and check out some modes here, a light trace, I wonder what that actually is capture movement capture, light or draw light. That's kind of cool I'm going to have to test out that mode for sure more to come on that swapping through you do have portrait.

You have. A pro mode was even that super night mode to take some long exposure, shots of course more to come in a future video, so stay tuned for that. So that's everything I want to talk about with the TCL 10 Pro for now pretty exciting device at that $450 price point drop a comment. Let me know what you think. I hope you enjoyed the video be sure to give it a thumbs up, as always guys.

Thank you very much for watching.

Source : Tim Schofield