TCL Pro 10 hands-on: A curved screen and 5G for just $500 By CNET

Five G phones are expensive. Phones with curved screens are expensive either. One of these is expensive. In fact, they will both cost under $500 when they launch in 2020 I'm at CES, and we're going to take a look at the TCL 10:5 g and the TCL 10 pro. Let's start with the TCL 10 5g. Now this phone is a big deal because it is going to be under $500 and 5g phone so far are really pricey.

We still haven't gotten to that place where there are mid-range, 5g phones. That might be ok, because we also haven't gotten to a place where there are plentiful, 5g networks all over the world, so the two are really going to be maturing hand at hand. So the strongest of 5g networks are the more pervasive. They are the more opportunity there is to bring people on board. So the more a demand there will be for cheaper 5g phones.

This phone will definitely fit that demand now you're forgiven, if you don't recognize, TCL is a brand for phones, especially a TCL is known best for making good quality and affordable TVs, and they want to approach the phone industry in the same way. So you're going to see a lot of affordable devices from them. We know a few things about this device. The TCL hasn't given us a ton of the specs they're going to hold off for MWC Mobile World Congress to really dive into those, but we do know that there is a large screen here with a front-facing camera that is a punch hole design over here on the left. It does have a headphone jack.

So if you love your wired, headphones you'll be happy, there's also a USB-C charger port on the back, we've got a generosity of cameras. There are four of them and two flashes. The back of the phone says that it is a 64 megapixel main camera. So you can expect that as well as a macro lens and an ultra-wide fingerprint reader on the back as well, now I notice immediately that this is sort of a fingerprint magnet, and it feels like it's a plastic backing. It could be glass, but for only about five hundred dollars.

I think that is a trade off that is well worth it when I hold the phone in the light in a certain way, there's this kind of cool, iridescent diamond-cut pattern, it's completely flat. It's just sort of something that you see this trick of the I. Think that's pretty nice compared to a lot of the edge-to-edge displays that we're seeing the bezel here feels a little thick, but it does give you a handhold in a grip, and you'll be less likely to touch the phone with your palm, is you're holding and using the device. So that's the affordable, 5g device, but the one I'm really excited about is the TCL 10 Pro I mean immediately seeing them side by side. It's like night and day.

You've got this sort of plastic looking thing, and you've got this really polished phone and remember this phone is also going to cost you only about $500. It will be 4G instead of 5g, but looking at it, the screen just totally pops and in fact it kind of looks like a galaxy s, 11 clones from the front, that's kind of what it is. You've got these dual curved screens here. It's an AMOLED display all this rich color, there's even a pull-out menu on the side that acts as sort of like a shortcut tab to your favorite apps. You've got a notch, selfie cam, here on the front again, you've got this headphone jack and USB-C charging the headphone jack is a really nice touch.

This color on the back is really beautiful. This is glass, and it's sort of got this like satiny finish and again, this trick of the light where you get this deeper, richer. Color I, don't see my fingerprints, and it feels just perfect to hold really polished. You would not look at this and think this only costs $500. The camera story is pretty good.

? you've got a 64 megapixel main camera. There are four sensors back here as well: two flashes you're, definitely going to get ultra-wide, and you're going to get macro. We don't have a lot of information about the specs yet again, we'll get those in late February, but we do know that the phone will run Android, and we also know that it is coming to North America, so expect it in the US and Canada as well as globally. So this is your first look at the TCL 10-5 g, + TCL Pro. Make sure that you check with CNN and subscribe for all the CES coverage.

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