TCL 10L Review // Best Budget Phone For 2020? By Kevin The Tech Ninja

At CES TCO announced three new phones, TCL 10 TCL 10, 5 g and the TCL 10 Pro I'm sure this is not the first review you're seeing on the TCO l as they sent this out to many people, so I'll save the normal mushy and spec stuff for a different YouTuber. So today, I'm going to talk to you about my experience using the 10 L, let's dive right into it, the TCL 10 L is a budget device coming in at $250, and you can order it on May 19th. So it's definitely a budget phone through and through, but it gives you think that most people want from a smartphone now, visually speaking, this looks like a very modern phone at six point: five three inches, and it's a full HD LCD screen. There is a hole, punch it's in the top left corner of the screen and, of course the body has a power button volume rockers, but it also has a smart key. This smart key can be programmed to do different tasks. There's a number of things you can do, but make sure you set it up to be the most not intrusive, because I found myself hitting the button on accident.

All the time reach in my pocket grab the phone I hit the button adjust the orientation to watch a video hit. The button pick it up off a desk hit the button and after about 10 days, I was still doing that, and it was launching Google Assistant every single time. Now you can program this button to do different things, so you can set up a single press, a double press and even a hold I would say it is nice to be able to hold the button down and have it to do an action like maybe Google Assistant or even double tap for the camera to pop up now, you can't program it to open every single app as it's a list of apps, but it's still nice that you can at least have some customization over it. There's a fingerprint scanner on the back, which function is pretty good and face unlock works very fast to the color of the phone that I have. Is a Marianna blue I'm going to call it blue it.

Pops looks great under sunlight, but it does get fingerprints like none other, and it's slippery plastic I mean the fingerprints is probably one of the worst I've seen on a back of a plastic phone now TCL did toss in a case which is a nice touch, but I wish it wasn't a big advertisement for TCL. Also, the speakers are mono and there very weak and downright embarrassing, playing at high levels. The screen is pretty saturated, I wouldn't say it's annoying, just not my cup of tea and there's also a setting called next vision or NEW T vision, which boosts the colors even more and giving you an HDR effect. I wasn't a fan of how it looked, but I can definitely see how some people may like the look. I just felt it was a little weird, but luckily it is something you can turn off, and you can even go into screen settings and change the modes until you find the one that works best for you.

So after tweaking it a little. I found the screen setting that I liked, and I was okay with it. On the back of the phone, you see a very impressive, a camera ray and something like this is found on more expensive phones. Now you do have four separate cameras, starting at 48 megapixels for the wide 8 megapixels for the ultra-wide and 2 megapixels for the macro, and also the depth sensor, and we'll talk about cameras really soon. The 10 L does come with 64 gigabytes of storage, but it has an SD card slot too, and also 6 gigabytes of RAM, I would say in real world day-to-day usage.

The 10 L didn't feel budget at times. I could do things like tic TOC and even some gaming without thinking about it, I mean even some decent web browsing and chatting and switching between apps. It just felt pretty good, but then out of nowhere doing some basic things like opening a text message or loading a web page. Now you start to see some shuttering and lagging, which is kind of confusing that you see it in some easy task, but it runs so well in hard tasks. It's quite annoying, hopefully that can be fixed with software updates, because I think it's more of a software thing than a hardware thing now, I think battery life is where it should be based off the specs of this phone.

It is a full day worth of battery life. Landing me around 25% after a normal day and that's around five to seven hours of screen on time. It's a lot of heavy usage, intense apps. You know uploading files to Dropbox, watching videos, podcasts the occasional game here and there that's sort of my typical day and even then end of the day, 25% charge it overnight. Everything was good.

So, let's move over to the camera, I would say the camera in daylight and in good lighting scenarios works pretty good, I do think for people and even some objects. The camera was a little overly sharp, leaving some skin. Looking a bit porous or also like you, take a picture of a tree outside and sometimes that tree looks like it's removed from the background. I know I'm nitpicking, but it does feel like the image is overly processed. The colors were vivid, and the image was pretty bright.

Some say it may be too saturated, but for a smartphone camera I really don't mind that I will say the macro lens to me. Just wasn't great I just wasn't able to nail those amazing shots. I've sawed people do online, so it may be just a user error, but I was not able to get it working. The way I would hope for it to work now. Once things get a little darker I'll say after golden hour, let's say 8:00 p.

m. or so the phone starts to struggle. There is no night mode and the flash just sort of blinds the subject and or just gets lost in detail, and this is very typical for budget phones, especially not having a dedicated night mode. Now. Video quality has nothing to be super excited about a shoot at 4k in 1080p, but the video just doesn't look amazing.

It's passable outside, but inside without perfect lighting, the video struggles, it's jumpy. It doesn't focus great, there's, no optic image. Stabilization I know it's a budget phone, so I'm not trying to go too hard on it, but just the video is this: something I wouldn't even use at all unless I'm in direct light or outside there's also no optic image stabilization, so that makes it a little tough to do. Video as well. The front-facing camera takes some pretty good photos, but once again, without proper lighting, the images start to look flat or even blurry at times.

And yes, you know by now that TCL puts their watermark on the image. As you can see here in the corner, it's annoying yes, but you can turn it off. You know, TTC I was proactive because they started hearing. People complain about it, and they're gonna push out an update that makes this not on by default, but at the same time it comes off very cheesy. You shouldn't have to dig into settings to turn off an advertisement, but I'm not going to harp on that I'll say software wise.

This is Android 10 with the promise of Android 11. The skin feels very close to stock Android, and they added features that are pretty bad. Like smart manager, this is like a task manager you'll see on Windows, but it also allows for a hidden folder, which is definitely a nice touch and there's a lot of nice little software things sprinkled into this phone, which I think makes it. Okay, it's not annoying at all. Look overall for $250! This is a solid phone.

It's not a game changer since right now, the budget lineup has never been this competitive for $50. More than you're in the territory for the Motor, G stylus and overall, that might be a better phone. Plus motor has a better track record when it comes to phones as well. I, just personally, don't know how this phone will age there's a promise for an update, but when will that update come and all those things like that I think this is a great first attempt for TC LT CEO is huge in TVs, and I'm excited to see TCL continue to make phones. This is a great first attempt.

Is it the best phone for this price? That's debatable, but I will say if you do have this phone or if you do pick up this phone, you really won't hate it. It's decent, just not great anyways, guys, Kevin. The tech ninja here have yourself a great day hot you guys later peace.

Source : Kevin The Tech Ninja