TCL 20 Pro 5G The underwhelming battery life poor By Android Buzz

Tcl20 pro review disappointing budget phone with skin deep appeal, the tcl20 pro packs an immersive display and great design, but fall short in the camera and battery department. TCL 20, pro d, the underwhelming battery life, poor rear cameras and slow charging make the tcl20 pro hard to recommend the impressive display and good-looking design make the phone a joy to look at, but they still don't make up. For these obvious shortcomings. If you are looking for a premium experience at a fraction of the cost, it's not the worst option, but there are better alternatives out there tcl20 pro 5g 549 pounds 499. Following its predecessor, the TCL 10 pro the tcl20 pro ships was the more budget-friendly snapdragon 750 g. The phone is available in one option, with 6 GB of ram and 256 GB of storage.

There is support for expandable storage up to 1 tb related the best budget phones. You can currently buy design wise. The phone is very similar to its predecessor, but this year TCL moved the cameras to the phone's left side. The device comes in two colors moon dust gray, and marine blue in the box is the phone, a 18w charger and an USB to USB cable. The tcl20 pro is priced at 549 across Europe and 499 pounds in the UK and is currently available to buy.

As of April 2021. Tcl has said, the 20 pro will come to the U. S. later this summer with pricing to be confirmed. What is the design like most modern smartphones, sport, large camera, bumps? The tcl20 pro, on the other hand, has a camera module that sits flush with the back glass of the phone.

To be honest, it's refreshing to see a design like this. The back is matte frosted glass and the sides are encased in an aluminum body. It feels premium in hand as with last year's TCL 10 pro there is an additional customizable, smart key on the left side. I'm glad to see this addition, especially considering that this button can be customized for several actions, not just Google Assistant. The top of the phone also features an IR blaster and a 3.5 millimeters headphone jack. On the whole, I like the design of the tcl20 pro it's sleek minimal and premium looking, even though the back is a frosted matte finish, it still picks up a considerable number of fingerprints, it's nowhere near as bad as a glossy finish device, but it's definitely something to make note of the phone is protected on the front and back by gorilla glass 5, which isn't the latest grade, but is competitive with phones at this price point.

If you've heard of TCL before then, you probably know the company for its displays. Thankfully, the tcl20 pro offers a competitive display experience with a full HD plus a mold panel. That being said, this screen is locked at 60 hertz, which is a bit sad to see. Other budget offerings such as the Samsung Galaxy a52 5g, offer a similar experience with a 120 hertz panel. The 20 pro relies on TCL's not vision, 2.0, which attempts to turn SVR content into a HDR image. This works surprisingly.

Well, it's not going to transform anything into true HDR content, but for what it's worth, both SDR visual content and games, look more saturated with higher contrast and more dynamic range. The display also features support for HDR 10, which means viewing genuine HDR content, looks fantastic due to the longer 20 9 aspect ratios. Most vertical content looks great, but horizontal content can look a little small, especially if you are viewing a standard, 16 9 images. This results in large black bars on the left and right sides of the content movies. On the other hand, fill the large 6.67-inch screen. The tcl20 pro has a very competitive display for a budget phone.

The tcl10 pro shipped with a water drop notch designed for the camera. This year, the TCL 20 pro ships with what TCL calls a dodge, which is nothing more than a central punch hole camera. The display is mostly full screen, but there is still an ever so slight forehead and chin. It's not distracting, but I would have liked to see some slimmer bezels on TCL's flagship phone shipping with a 4500 my battery, the TCL 20 pro looks like a solid performer on paper. Unfortunately, that's not the case in my day-to-day testing, which consisted of some moderate gaming, a considerable amount of social media and some photography.

I averaged about five hours of screen on time. At best, the phone reminded me of android phones of yore, as I was pretty worried. I'd have to recharge it about 75. Into my day. That said, lighter usage saw the phone lasting through a full day, but that's with minimal social media and no photography TCL did include a super saving mode that drastically increases battery life.

However, this mode limits the number of apps you can use to the dialer and messages and also changes the wallpaper to a black background. This would be a useful feature in a pinch, but doesn't excuse the poor battery life charging isn't much better either in the box comes an 18 w charger and charging from 0-100 took a little over an hour and a half. This is on pair with the Samsung Galaxy a52 5g, which also ships with a 18w fast charger, but powers up in 90 minutes. Surprisingly, though, the tcl20 pro does include support for wireless charging up to 15 w. How powerful is the tcl20 pro while the snapdragon 750 g is no slouch performance on the tcl20.

Pro is less than ideal. Day-To-Day tasks saw little to no stuttering, but any heavy gaming or video tasks saw the phone lag significantly trying to play back 1440p HDR video resulted in a jumpy and often frozen image. Meanwhile, games like clash, royale ran just fine, while 3d titles like ancient impact or pub mobile, were laggy and stutter in high action moments, albeit still playable. Is it the worst gaming experience I've had no, but the 6gb of ram and lower clock chipset can't handle heavier gaming. Titles benchmark, scores, honestly, weren't, half bad in geek bench 5, the TCL produced respective scores of 651 and 1886 in single and multi-core performance.

These results hang with other competitors such as the Samsung Galaxy a52 5g, and the auto plus word three marks wildlife test placed the tcl20 pro with a score of 1114 and an average frame rate of 6.70 fps. Again, these results are on par with the galaxy a52 5g and actually beat it by a very slim margin. How are the cameras? The most disappointing aspect of the tcl20 pro is its cameras. The main 48mp f 1.8 sensor captures decent images at a glance but upon further inspection photos are over softened and noisy in the shadows. There also seems to be a bit of over sharpening occurring in the edges when, coupled with the over softening, this produces some strange artifacts.

Fortunately, the dynamic range is not terrible, but the phone still darkens the image in favor of retaining the highlights. Also, there is a small amount of chromatic aberration happening in the out of focus areas and edges of each image. Well-Lit photos can come out looking good, but more often than not the over softening ruins the image. Most photos will work in a pinch, but don't expect phenomenal results. Anything else in display fingerprint reader.

I had mixed success with this fingerprint sensor, setting it up worked just fine, but for whatever reason it took a few attempts to actually read. I ended up setting it up again with more consistent results when it worked, it was fairly snappy and accurate software i. e. The tcl20 pro runs a skid version of android, 11 and TCL has said it will support the phone for two major software upgrades. To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of the TCL skin or launcher, while the menus and navigation are all pretty straightforward.

The icons and quick settings feel unpolished to me. There's nothing inherently wrong with them. They just remind me of android phones from a few years ago and feel slightly outdated. Also, there is some bloatware installed on the phone, such as booking. com and a few other miscellaneous apps, but these can all be uninstalled.

There are a decent amounts of options for customization and TCL does include a few themes to play with audio. Unfortunately, the single mono speaker on the bottom of the device yields lackluster results at best, the audio produced lacks bass and, while the treble sounds clear, overall audio is washed out. Fortunately, there is a 3.5 millimeters headphone jack, which means audio enthusiasts. Don't have to worry about carrying a dongle with them. Video at 4k 30fps footage isn't half bad.

Although there are some jerky movements present, which is probably a result of the electronic image stabilization at play. You can find an example of a video here. IP rating, the tcl20 pro, does not ship with any sort of official IP water and dust resistance rating 5g. Since the tcl20 pro ships with a snapdragon 750 g, it will support sub 6, gigahertz 5g networking, but not wave.

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