TCL 20 SE Review By YugaTech

What's up guys, earl here figure, tech and the TCL brand is known as a television brand and a couple of years back. The company is exploring the smartphone industry. They have given us budget friendly smartphones in the past, and now it's time to check out its entry-level phone, the TCL 20se. It has a 6.82 inch display, quad, rear cameras, a 5 000mah battery and a Qualcomm snapdragon 460 chipsets, so does it have what it takes to be your new daily driver? Let's all find out right off the bat. The TCL 20se has a tall and thick form factor which makes it feel robust to hold. It shines with a reflective mirror finish: that's topped with glassmaking it prone to fingerprint smudges.

So we highly recommend using the free jelly case included in the box. The fingerprint scanner is located at the back together with a slightly protruding vertically aligned camera module. It is available in two colorways aurora, green and new it blacks, which is the one we have. We like how it's got a two-tone accent that changes depending on the angle of the lighting. You can also use this as a handy mirror.

If you will locate on the right side, are the sleep wake button alongside with its volume rockers? They are tactile and click. However, people with smaller hands might need to adjust a little to reach it. One-Handed checking out the left side. Here's a textured, smart key Google Assistant button that I keep mistaking as a volume button. Sometimes then, you can also find here is its hybrid sim card tray for two NATO side, sim cards or one NATO sim, plus a micro SD card up top.

We get a secondary microphone and a 3.5 millimeter audio jack. Well at the bottom, are the priority microphone USB type-c port and the two loudspeakers. The overall signing of the DC l20se honestly looks very stylish and feels premium thanks to its rear glass panel, flipping to its display. The tcl20 s8 comes with a large 6.82-inch v-notch screen with a resolution of 1640x720 and has a pixel density of 263ppi. Now consuming media on this device is decent, and we can expect vibrant colors as well as nice, viewing angles if this display needs more improvement for you.

Well, the TCL is utilizing its specialties when it comes to display quality with its next vision, app to enhance your media consuming experience further. It even has a video and game enhancement option to boost the color contrast and depth of details in videos or games to provide such HDR quality. Viewing. Also using the phone under broad daylight is viewable enough, but it can be brighter. The bezels aren't the slimmest, but pretty sizable with a slightly thicker chin.

It also has an old notch design that can be covered with a black bar in the settings if you are not a fan of it. Nonetheless, the display is very good enough for casual binge-watching content on YouTube and Netflix. Otherwise, the DC l20se has a stereo speaker setup, but it wasn't the best in its class. It can easily fill up the room at maximum volume, but the sound quality can be too tinny and lacks some bass. We still highly recommend taking advantage of the 3.5 millimeter audio jack for more optimal sound experience for cameras. We have quad rear camera setup consisting of a 16 megapixel primary camera.5 megapixels super ultra-wide angle, 2 megapixel macro and 2 megapixel depth sensor. Meanwhile, for selfies it has an 8 megapixel front facing camera.

The image quality coming from this device is decent, which is expected considering its price range. However, image quality can be too contrast and colors can look washed out and saturated in certain situations, but overall image quality coming out from this device is pretty usable for quick social media postings. You can also opt to choose between 2x and 4x zoom. Well, just like its main camera. Don't expect too much.

The AI color mode highlights subjects by transforming the environment's color to black and white, but this feature can be a hit or a miss to use. In addition, if you want to take some night shots using this device, unfortunately this doesn't have a dedicated night mode, although the AI feature can help boost the image taken in dark scenarios. Now for selfies images are decent. Skin tones can be a little too dark and sometimes photos come out a little noisy, even though taken under good lighting conditions now for videos, the dcl20se can shoot up to 1080p at 30 frames per second, it doesn't have any optical image, stabilization or digital stabilization to expect to have shaky videos when not placed on a tripod or a gimbals for software, it runs on TCL UI based on android 11. , but the overall software looks clean and has a lot of resemblance to stock android.

With a few TCL bloatware we're glad to report. The UI is pretty straightforward and fairly customizable. According to your preference, app drawer option is present, and you can also use either navigation buttons or gestures. When it comes to performance, the tcl-20se comes equipped with a Qualcomm sound dragon 460, coupled with an arena 610 GPU, four gigabytes of ram and up to 64 gigs of internal storage. Doing basic tasks such as casually browsing the web or your social media, apps navigation and streaming videos on YouTube or Netflix can be decent with some stutters.

When too many apps are running in the background, graphically intensive games are mostly playable in low to medium settings, but they can get very laggy in most cases, so we highly suggest using the lowest graphics settings for a smooth, gameplay experience or use TCL's proprietary game box app. We run it through our usual benchmarking apps and here's what we got now for battery. It comes with a massive 5000?mm hour battery with support for 18 watt fast charging in our use. The DC l20se can last up to a whole day of mix use if you are not into playing a lot of heavy games in the PC marks battery test. This device lasted for 21 hours and 42 minutes, while in our standard video loop test, which entails playing a 1080p video on loop with airplane mode turned on with 50 brightness and volume with headphones plugged in, we got a good 15 hours and 7 minutes charging, on the other hand, takes more than 2 hours and 30 minutes, which isn't surprising, considering its huge battery capacity.

The TC l20se is priced at 890 pesos and even though its camera isn't its strongest suit, as well as its performance, you will still have a huge battery that can last up to one to two days with fast charging support a huge display.

Source : YugaTech