TCL 10 5G UW Unboxing: Verizon's Cheapest 5G Smartphone! By Slashdot

Hey, what's up guys beau HD here and if you're on the market for a new 5g smartphone, but you don't want to shell out the 500 plus dollars for one you might want to look into the TCL 10 5g UW, and that's especially true if you're on Verizon, because uh this is Verizon's most affordable, 5g phone and what's attractive about this. Is it supports Verizon's, low band sub 6 networks, which is being rolled out nationwide, but it also supports the company's millimeter wave ultra-wideband network. Hence, the UW in the name and this particular network isn't as readily available as the other network I just mentioned, but it offers some crazy fast, gigabit speeds, so you should be future proofed, at least for the next few years now, TCL sent us this reviewers package, which contains the consumer edition of the phone. As you can see here, packed inside this box with a neat stealthy diamond texture, underneath TCL was kind enough to include a mask which I could always use more up. So I appreciate that, and we also have a TCL branded cleaning cloth. Last but not least, there is a protective case to keep this phone nice and protected.

So now we can take a look at what's inside the TCL 105g. This is what you're going to find inside. If you pick up a unit for yourself. First, we have the phone itself which I'm going to set off to the side. For now.

Next we have a packet containing some basic paperwork and a sim card ejector tool and finally, there's an USB charging cable that looks to feature a ballistic nylon coating, which should help keep this cable from ripping apart as easily over the months and years. That is, if you don't lose it first, and then we have an 18 watt, fast charging wall board, so pretty basic stuff included in the box, taking a look at the TCL 10 5g and unwrapping it from its protective plastic, which I totally failed at as you can see, we'll find that this phone features an aluminum frame with a glass front and back panel, and we'll see that the back panel features a diamond texture that gives it a little of personality to help it stand out from the others. There's a symmetrical camera layout, consisting of three lenses and a flash that is on each side. There is a headphone jack up top, which is nice to see here, as is the micro SD card slot for expandable storage overall, the phone it feels pretty darn sturdy, it's definitely slippery, so I would recommend the case, but other than that it doesn't feel particularly special or unique, but that's not really a bad thing. It's just.

I don't know it feels pretty normal average. It's fine! It's fine! In terms of security. We have a fairly basic, but not very secure, face unlock method, but with coven 19 and the abundance and importance of mask wearing you'll probably want to use the rear-facing fingerprint scanner and uh. Thankfully, it works pretty well to unlock the phone quickly upon first impressions, but I did have to go into the settings to turn off the unlock sound because that was pretty darn. Annoying not gonna lie now.

This phone is on the big side of things as it features a 6.53 inch, full HD, plus IPS lcd with a front-facing camera cut out in the upper left hand, corner there's no fancy 90 or 120 hertz refresh rate, but you do get some options in the settings to tweak the display, vibrancy and turn on a reading mode that mutes the colors to resemble an e-reader, the chipset that enables 5g and runs all the processes on this phone is the Qualcomm snapdragon chipset paired with six gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of internal storage? Obviously, I'm going to have to follow up to see how this phone runs after I put it through its paces, but I'm optimistic that it'll run fairly well, largely because of how relatively lightweight the software looks and feels. So it's running, TCL UI with android 10, and you do get some handy features like the display. Customization features I mentioned earlier, and the fingerprint gestures and the ability to sort your apps in more ways than most other phones, but it feels pretty similar to stock android. The only downside is uh. There appears to be a fair amount of bloatware.

We have our usual Verizon apps that we see on all Verizon phones, but we also have a bunch of random pre-installed games and services like Disney, plus and Pluto TV. I personally would rather not have these apps pre-installed on the phone now TCL gives us quite a bit of versatility with photography as there's a 48 megapixel main sensor. We have an 8 megapixel super wide angle, camera and a 5 megapixel macro camera. The macro camera is mostly just a marketing ploy, in my opinion, as I have yet to find a really super capable macro lens, but hey, I'm not really complaining too much, because the more lens is the better. In my opinion, especially in a device, that's only four hundred dollars, but it's probably the main 48 megapixel lens that will uh deliver the best results for you.

The last thing I want to touch on is the battery. It's a 4 500 William hour cell. That should deliver a full day with moderate to heavy usage. I know 5g sucks up more power than 4g, but the fact that it doesn't have that millimeter wave antennas should help it last a little longer than other phones that do have that antenna. So if you're on Verizon, and you're looking for a new 400, 5g smartphone, that's future-proof you might want to look into the TCL 10 5g I'll place a link in the description to check it out if you're interested and if you have any questions I'll, do my best to answer them in the comments section below.

As always, I'm beau HD from phonedugg. com. Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed this video, and I'll, see you right back here in the next one, see ya.

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