TCL Do More Than Just TVs | TCL 10 Pro Mobile Review By Tech Nuovo

Te'o's been known for some time now as television manufacturers, and it wasn't until last CES, where we were fortunate enough to go that they announced their brand-new range of mobile phones. One of those phones was the TCL 10 Pro, and everyone was pretty excited. Of course, TCL sold the hell out of them during the conference, but didn't let us journalists get too hands-on with them. We now know why, but first, let's talk about the TCL temporize design, the TCL 10 Pro has a graduated rear. The device that was sent to us ran from almost white at the bottom to a parish grade towards the top. Although at CES we were shown a green version which, to be honest with you, I do prefer myself, but that's not really for me to say personal preference and all that the phone's rear is covered in glass and has an aluminum frame, which will, though, looks very sleek and stylish.

It's very slippery in the hand to hold, but that is pretty much expected for a modern handset now. One thing that is strange about the design is the fact that they've written a see logo, as well as the company name and address of what I'm assuming is an office or factory in China. It looks completely gross and ruins the aesthetic of the actual rear of the device. My eyes were drawn to it as soon as I flip, the phone over, which is just bad. There are also four cameras on the back as well, which are bordered with a glossy strap that spans the width of the handset they're flush to the body, which is a very nice feature, although each lens is smaller than similar, multi lens handsets like the iPhone 11, Pro, Max or Samsung S 21 thing.

This phone is missing, though, is a little nub like we saw on something like the OPPO Reno handsets to keep the rear of the phone slightly raised from a surface to save the lens covers from getting scratched, if you put them down on a table, there's also two flashes either side of the lens tuned, which aids in flash photography to get a more even lighting across the frame down the right-hand side. You can find your unlock button as well as your volume rocker. The lock button isn't really for using the phone with one hand, but the volume rocker is a bit of a stretch and will probably require a second hand to stabilize the phone on the left. You can find a dedicated Google Assistant button which, when pressed or held, opens up the assistant ready for you to speak to it. It's a feature which means you don't have to yell at my phone before it comes to life and Doubleday it on the lock button from anywhere will fire up the camera? Unfortunately, you cannot map the Google Assistant button to anything else.

You can disable it all together. So you don't nudge it accidentally. Every time you pick up your phone, which happened to me a lot, but you cannot map it to another feature on. The bottom is a dual SIM tray, which also doubles up as a micro SD slot, which is compatible with up to 128 gigabyte SD cards. If you're not using both micro SIM slots for SIM cards, the phone also uses a USB type-c port, which is also compatible of fast charging 50% in roughly 35 minutes.

On top, you can also find a headphone jack, which is very strange place. To put it, but definitely welcome. Audio is delivered from the bottom speaker, which sounds alright, but it's nothing special, and it just reminds me of mobile phone sound, which is never that great anyway. The handset is on the larger side of the scale due to the real estate of the screen. It sports a six point.

Four seven-inch full HD AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080 by 2340, with a pixel density of three nine eights. This gives the phone an aspect ratio of around nineteen point five by nine, and it's a decent size, especially if you're someone who likes to consume media most of the time traditional media will be shown at sixteen by nine, but the phone allows you to stretch it across the screen for a full edge to edge video. It has a teardrop area where the selfie camera is so there is that, but it doesn't ever hinder the viewing experience of your device. Now the notch can be turned on and off in the display settings menu. If notifications really do bother you when watching media, but it's not the teardrop camera anyway and there's no getting rid of that either it's there all right die begins to the image settings.

You can find all the usual stuff like turning on eyewear mode or setting the adaptive brightness level, but TCL have included what's called an NOT vision or next vision, where you can set a visual enhancement which adjusts image settings, like contrast, sharpness and saturation in real time or turn STR content into HDR. As this screen is rated HDR 10 there's also an adaptive tone. Settings so the phone decides whether to change it to warm or cool color tones, and you can also choose the color gamut from vivid to gentle as they're calling it now I left the vision enhancement settings switched on during my testing and definitely found it to be pretty decent. One thing I do like about the phone, though, is how much real estate the screen takes up and how skinny the bezels actually are. It has a curve surrounding the actual glass itself, and it makes it look as if the screen is disappearing into the back of the handset.

It's nice and bright, making even small text readable on websites. Colors do look pretty decent too when watching content on YouTube. Now, one thing that really did stick out to me is when I stuck a 4k nature video on YouTube. It recognized it as an HDR signal and showed me HDR options in the menu when I went to go and select a resolution. I've never seen that before in my life on a phone, but it was definitely welcome just to bring out the rich colors of this phone.

Unfortunately, though, the TCL 10 Pro is far from a flagship handset, as it's only sporting a Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 inside, which is a far cry from the current market leading Snapdragon 855. You can find in current flagship handsets there's, also six gigabytes of RAM on board as well. So there is that TCL 10 pro is one of the company's first mobile phones under its own brand. So using a lesser chip will definitely keep the price down for consumers looking for a new handset, and it's a decent way to try and break the mid-range market. They keep bench v gave me a score of 501 on a single core and a Diver 9 v 3 on a multi-core score.

It sits on par with a Sony Xperia x, z2 on a single core score and on the multi-core score, sits just above the Samsung Galaxy, a 30 s according to the Geek bench v and good benchmark websites. It also saves battery life too, though there is a 4500 William battery inside the screen, size and brightness will no doubt be the contender for a battery hub. My normal mobile phone workflow generally involves social media use as well as listening to music. While on the move and watching YouTube videos, and to be quite frank, it did everything perfectly I never really experienced any kind of slowdown that could hinder my app use. Although I did notice, things like auto rotate on the screen took a while to kick in and my thumbprint for unlocking the phone just didn't work every time and when it did work took an absolute age to actually read my phone.

The phone also has face unlocking capability as well, which thankfully was a lot more accurate and actually unlock the phone pretty fast way under one second jumping into a game of Naruto slug fest game Oh kicked in straight away, which is supposed to optimize the phone's hardware to get the most out of your games. Unfortunately, this slugfest being an MMO on a mobile was a little glitchy inside the starting area. When loads of other players congregate, online, shooter Dino squad fared much better and also looks pretty sharp and even vivid, maybe a little over saturated on the screen and RAM pretty smoothly as well gain dependent, of course, but I don't think the Snapdragon 675 is as much of a hindrance as you might expect. The phone recommended me to run the slingshot Extreme benchmark inside a 3d mark and I got back a score of 1032 and OpenGL and 1080 on Vulcan the benchmark glitched, all the way through, so I dropped it down to the standard, slingshot benchmark and still retain the same glitchy bench. Mother, goddess score of 1710, which is again miles below flagship handsets the TCL 10 Pro runs Android 10, but has it's very own TCL? U I skinned over the top of it.

For the most part, it looks like a druid, traditional Android experience, app icons, look nice and clear zipping from one screen to the next is also pretty fast as well. There is one thing I have not seen before and that's the categorization of apps in the main menu you can sort them by name or by label usage installation order and category which benches are the apps depending on their task communication houses. Your contacts, Facebook duo, call Gmail, Gmail and phone wall utilities is anything from Google Chrome to the calculator to file share and keep notes. One thing about this Android experience I was not keen on, though, is the fact that it comes with a bit too much gum from my liking and what I mean by that is third-party apps, approved by TCL to shippers default with the handset. His official name is boy ware, and I'm, not a fan at all bloatware I.

Don't need booking. com we're in a pandemic and I don't need an office suite, as my phone is rarely used for work in that capacity, and this TCO is very own browser now, I'm, not sure for who its power by but logo looks very similar to Google Chrome's as default. TCL set you up with the traditional three button setup at the bottom of the screen, one for home, one for back and one for recent opened apps. This can be changed to full gesture control. That's if that's more your thing, but with the size of this phone and the reach I had with a single thumb.

I did opt to stick with the naval at the bottom of the screen. There's a couple of cool things that you can apply to your phone as well, which doesn't do much except change. Some color schemes and wallpaper and the home page and the widgets for your home screen are than usual generic widgets that the found on an Android phone today. As we said before round back, you can find four lenses each with their very own job. To do.

The first is a 26 millimeter wide 64 megapixel beast with an F 1.8 aperture. The next is a 16 megapixel ultra-wide lens at 13 millimeters. The third is a 5 megapixel camera for macro shots, and the last is a 2 megapixel, F 2.4 lens, which helps with depth and for the most part, photos turned out surprisingly well now. I know: I can't really test this camera fully as I'm pretty much isolated to my house and garden. So I come out to the garden just because we're in isolation now, and I have no way of reviewing this phone in anywhere interesting.

So you've got a bit of footage from the garden from this camera. The camera comes with all the features we've come to expect from an Android device like a standard snapper, a portrait mode which blurs the background of your photos, which is also available in the selfie camera here and a night shot which does bring out a lot more detail when shooting at night. Now. The camera, in all honesty, did surprise me and the quality the photos did really shine. The standard, auto mode produces some really sharp vibrant images, and although I've only really got my garden to take photos in right now, I think the camera did a perfect job.

The only downfall was in its saturation, which I thought was a little over saturated at points, especially when taking landscape shots. Now. Furthermore, where this camera really shines, is if it's super macro mode? A couple of pictures, I took of flowers and ornaments came out very detailed, which I did like the biggest issue with getting that close to the subject is holding the phone, steady, which, unfortunately, the built-in stabilization isn't enough to do. The best bet is to use a small tripod with a mobile adapter. Port rates are also nice, but they do lack the hard edges that we've come to expect from flagship handset cameras, and your subjects can turn out looking a little soft one thing: I did notice, which I really hated.

Why they did this I, don't know, but TCO buy before watermarks the photos, you tape, you can turn this off, but you have to go menu diving to find it come on CCL. That was a awful mood now. I know you want a bit of advertising if people upload their photos directly to social media, that this was taken on a TCL mobile phone, but it's just bad taste now video ships up to 4k at 30 frames per second. But it's a shame that the video can't you had a smoother 60 frames per second at the top resolution, now even lesser resolutions, you're still not to 30 frames, but the quality I got from shooting video was nice, but again a little over saturated and a bit fake. Looking.

It's also got some very decent image, stabilization built in too, which helps win hand-holding your phone trying to capture action shots, though you can't really get many action shots in a garden anyway, what can you do? Backflip card backflip I'm, not gonna, backflip slow motion capability is available and does shoot up to 960 FPS at 720, but you have to be careful with what you're filming now I try to do some distance filming in slow motion and the camera struggled with what to focus on sometimes and same on close-up as well. Once action starts happening, the camera started really focused hunting for the best performance you're going to have to lock your focus to your subject and that's easily down by holding your finger down on the screen rather than tapping, and the slow-motion capability definitely shoots in a lower resolution to the rest of the video modes, because you can tell it just doesn't look good so and that's a bit of a problem if you're shooting something in the distance, then it's not good. The TCL tempura is a nice phone. It looks premium feels premium, but unfortunately lacks the processor power that you'd expect from premium now sure it can play certain games, although struggles with, and it can easily handle all of your social media needs, and it even has a pretty decent snapper form said and done the Android bloat where I could have done without, but it is what it is, and they need to recoup some of their costs for a manufacturing somewhere. It's not too intrusive, though so.

Don't really worry about it too much. It's these heels first rodeo when it comes to own brand handsets you've, got to remember that, and they have played it safe. But to be perfectly honest with you, I think they've done a pretty good job this time around, but next time aim for the stars and stick a top processor in there that the TCL tempura will be hitting of the UK on June the 1st 2019, and it should be found priced around 399. That's pounds in the UK. So thank you very much for checking out our video review of the TCL 10 Pro.

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