TCL 20 SE Review | Why do we pay so much for mobiles? By Chris Vanderstock

Have, you ever considered buying a cheap mobile phone only to talk yourself out of it because you figure a cheap one, can't be any good right today, I'm hoping to change your thinking on this. I was given the opportunity to try TCL's 20se and when I started writing my review on it. I didn't know how much this thing cost huge screen: decent performance and a price that will make you ask: why do I pay more than a thousand dollars for a smartphone? When I could get this for a quarter that price for a phone that only costs 299 dollars? You would think that many features will be admitted fast charger, yep, NFC payments, yes, protect2ks, headphones, USB, multiple cameras and more yes, yes and uh. Yes, it's all here and only let down by a few things which I'll cover soon that 6.82 inch v-notch display is bright and offers a lot of screen real estate collar uniformity is good with no visible hot spots and just a bit of fringing around the notch. For me, I used to like large phones, and if you do too, then this will actually feel great in your hand, as is a 20.5 by 9 ultra-wide screen, the phone is very tall and narrow. It can easily be held in one hand, provided you're, ok using android 11 gestures, which need finger orientation to the bottom of the screen.

For me, I'm used to pixel phones and the UI interface that pixel offers that is swiping from the sides of the screen to go back return home and more but weirdly. I couldn't find this function on the TCL being a software thing. I think that the UI can be forgiven and those familiar with older phones wouldn't even notice. The tcl20 SC has a screen to body ratio of 90, and you'll. Never know that it's display is only 720 by 1640 pixels.

Those on iPhones can attest. Resolution is a relative and on a display device like mobile phones, ask yourself: do you actually need more expensive, quad HD displays? I don't think so. TCL has packed into this phone a software feature which makes that 720 display genuinely appear better than perhaps it should be called not vision, it up, converts SDR to HDR and provides enhanced color calibration and some marketing hype called eye safety out of the box. I found the display to be a bit too blue for my liking, so a quick toggle of the not vision, slider and column mode to natural, and you've got a great looking display that v-notch hides a 26 millimeter wide camera capable of capturing respectable selfies in either 8 or 30 megapixels, and video at 1080p at 30 frames per second above. The notch is a well hidden speaker, which is plenty loud for phone calls and okay for dual speaker: output up top you've got a 3.5, millimeter headphone jack and an ambient noise microphone to help with those extraneous noises like wind or background music during phone calls. Voice calls are handled well by that top speaker, and not once did I have any complaints about call quality on the bottom.

You've got perhaps our first budget constraint what appears to be two downward firing. Speakers is actually only one, the right side in particular, which provides decent sound for media consumption. It loud doesn't distort nor require cupping of your hands to get any sort of volume out of it. So, whilst I might be harsh in saying that the left grill is just for uniformity and looks, TCL has made some smart choices here, packing the necessities, make them capable and do away with triple speaker, arrays it works and is forgivable. Given its price point, charging the tcl20 SE is done by USB and its faster charger.

It can accept up to 18 watts and that 5000 William hour battery is full in about two hours. That's good and the feature that sometimes left off: cheaper phones to the right side, you'll find volume up and down rocker plus screen, lock, all of which have a satisfying click to them on the left is a Google quick access button, meaning that you can access your voice assistant from any app? It's quite handy, and I actually found it to be more useful than I anticipated just above. The Google button is your dual sim or SD SC memory, expansion tray, not you'd, need it with 128 gigabytes of onboard storage on the back that black mirror slab gives way to an attractive design in TCL signature new web black. A strong, defining vertical bar shows the TCL logo and camera array and to the side a shimmery finish which collects smudges faster than you can say too late. The fingerprint reader is quick and performs well even with sticky fingers for a 299 phone.

The inclusion of so many cameras is baffling their. Okay, in fact, if you have high enough contrast, situations bright lighting to help capture a seam, you're going to get reasonably good, looking pictures out of it, but I couldn't work out why they needed four cameras. The mainstream is a 16 megapixel there, which gives you good pictures and reasonable video put it in lower light situations like a moody IKEA, faux display going to get a lot of noise loss of detail and luckiness that might upset aspiring social photographers. The inclusion of a 5 megapixel ultra-wide is welcome, providing one and fifteen degrees field of view, so you'll be able to flex your creative side and pack more into your photo library with this fun lens. But the macro lens, whilst impressive in its ability to pull out hidden details, is actually missing the mark due to its 2-megapixel limitation.

I think TCL should have opted for a true telephoto lens, wide lens and main shooter and dropped those macro and depth options. For me, a much rather better performance in low light, decreased noise and increased dynamic range performance for such a cheap phone is good. Under the hood. A Qualcomm snapdragon 460, with 4 gigabytes of ram, handles most apps well running on android 11, with TCL UI overlay, everyday apps, like Instagram tick, took, YouTube emails. Web browsing run smoothly with no obvious signs.

The phone is running on lower end silicone, a geek bench score of 250 or roughly half that of my pixel 5. This phone costs about one quarter of that one did see what I mean I keep asking myself. Why do I keep on continuing paying for premium phones when offerings like TCL and others are making significant inroads on performance and expectations? Sure high-res gaming is not something I would do on this phone, but I don't use my phone for games anyway. Also compared to my pixel 5 and its 90 hertz frame rate, the 20se isn't doing anything special in this space, but again for 299 dollars. I wouldn't expect it to my time with.

Tcos20Sc has been a refreshing, surprise. Sure, there are issues here like okay, camera performance, TCL UI, get in the way of stock android dropped frames when using notification, slider and app switching, but at 299 dollars. I can't, I can honestly forgive all of these things. It's a lot of bang for your buck hour display fast charging NSC for payments, four cameras, one too many you've got a large phone that is capable in almost all areas. I would give the TCL 20sc a try.

You'll be amazed at what 299 dollars can get you in 2021. Folks. If you enjoyed this video, please do consider giving a subscribed it's free and whilst you're there leave me a little comment, or you've got a question, do put it down. I actually do read them if you want to take your support to the next level. Consider joining me over here on Patreon, where you get early access to news polls behind the scenes and a lot more all from as little as 2.50 per month or 60 cents per week and as per usual you'll, be good, and you'll be green. You.

Source : Chris Vanderstock