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so many budget TVs that they got a big enough R&D budget to start making like actually really good TVs so I expected kind of a similar paradigm these things would be good enough as long as you only have you know a couple hundred bucks to spend on a phone but it's gonna take them five years to make anything decent and then I saw the reviewers guide and I'm not talking like the flashy marketing terms and the reviewers guide they call it what do they call this thing a Dodge display which basically just means it has a whole bunch get it it's a dot not dot I'm talking the level of transparency and evidently thought that has gone into seemingly every aspect of these phones I mean there is a level of maturity in at least the feature set anyway that I would have expected from a phone manufacturer that's been doing this for five years not just a couple okay so you got a sim removal tool and some other stuff including oh look at that they've got a case display greatness wow that is that is attacking USB type-c cable and wall wart is this a decent wall wart or is it like a budget one five volt to em so this would be a low-speed wall wart with the ten L it's how look at what we got with the pro got the phone itself got basically the exact same thing here but this one better not have that display greatness nonsense on it does I mean I can see why they want to wear that on their sleeves well really on your sleeve because that's their focus they're going okay hey where's our credibility in the phone market you make good TV so then like those have screens so phones also have screens so that should work out great for everyone right will see us PC cable it's good everything should have us pc charging and a there it is nine volt two amps so this one can apparently take the 10 pro from zero to 50 percent battery and about half an hour I mean it's pretty standard fare these days but it's nice to see on you know affordable offerings I guess interestingly the 10 L comes with a protector while the ten pro does not probably because the ten pro has this kind of sexy two and a half D glass that we first saw on the Samsung Galaxy s8 and that I still like basically like an SI plus clone really if you want to compare it directly to anything and then for this this feels quite a lot more budget like even the back doesn't have that same sort of slickness to the to the glass both of them have quad camera setups though which I thought was pretty interesting now whether or not you actually get any decent results out of them that remains to be seen but both of them have quad cameras had dual flashes on them that's firing them up immediately the difference in display technology between these two is stark and not just the difference in display technology but the difference in display calibration the LCD one is clearly more purple while the OLED on the pro is more like what I would expect from this you know hi there Android startup page this does not actually bode well for a company that is supposed to be a display specialist and there is a lot of color shift and brightness loss when you're viewing the 10l from off axis this is definitely a budget display compared to well at least to the pro anyway there's a green cast to the pro two which is interesting I mean let's get into the display settings cuz you never know they might have some goofy like high vibrancy mode on by default or something dumb like that who the haptic feedback is not great on this one that's something I would turn off immediately we're in an age where a good haptic feedback is something that I expect and this is very several generations ago the pro is quite a bit better though oh good updates out of the box my favorite I guess updates this better than no updates that's something that would really gave me pause going into one of these especially at a higher price they've committed to Android 10 and 11 but there's no commitment past 11 and that is really the big issue with budget Android handsets is that yeah you're paying half the price compared to an iPhone but you're also getting half as long to use it compared to an iPhone when you talk the software support side of things that's something that I'd really like to see if you want to break out as a phone brand it's like these guys have done a great job of you know good messaging and good features and just amazing transparency they get right into all the chips that they're using all the sensors that they're using so this one right here is a Snapdragon 675 pretty low end for something with a pro moniker on it at this point in time but for most people I would make the argument that it's actually kind of fast enough as long as everything else is up to snuff it's got six gigs of RAM on the pro model 128 gigs of storage microSD expansion which is really nice to see no 5g but it does have 4G and it's got a headphone jack and is that no way is that an IR blaster hold on a second your software is compatible with an IR blaster dang so you can use this thing as a universal remote that's a feature that I really wish like still existed the other top-level features are a 4500 milliamp hour battery 64 megapixel main shooter and yes an under screen fingerprint sensor moving over to the L it definitely lacks some of the cutting-edge features of the pro so it's got a rear fingerprint sensor that's a 48 megapixel main shooter amongst a generally less capable camera loadout it's actually got a Snapdragon 6:65 rather than a 675 so this isn't even like a flagship mid-range processor and while it does still have six gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage a SIM slot and microSD slot and a headphone jack one of the biggest compromises is as I've alluded to already the screen so where the pro has an OLED this one uses an LCD that really has not impressed me so far interestingly TCL has you use your dominant hand to choose which side the back button is on I do prefer I'm right-handed and I do prefer the back button on my right we can see what next vision versus not next vision looks like I can already tell I don't like it it's like a contrast sharpness saturation enhancement oh one thing I didn't mention is that the 10l has a four thousand milliamp hour battery compared to the ten pros 4,500 million power battery enough of what's different about them let's talk things in common again so they both do have that cool multi Bluetooth feature that I mentioned before and they've also both got this which is what they call their smart button so you can press once for some action press twice for some other more different action and press and hold for a third action this is basically what the big speed button should have been in the first place so let's see what they're configured to by default oh look at that they just let you set it up oh cool so you can launch different camera modes that's pretty sweet this could be better would be nice if you could just open any app you want open a feature go open it up Hey look at that very nice I like it I'm not a huge fan of buttons that oppose other buttons just because it's kind of easy to accidentally mash them I mean the good news is you can at least just disable if you don't like it naturally the good old classic rear fingerprint scanner is faster so you'll actually quick draw this one faster than you can quick-draw the pro let's have a look at how we're doing in terms of bloatware so you've got Netflix you've got they're optimized which is something that you can configure your smart button to do is just kind of close all your background tasks at once Facebook Netflix just like the usual Google Apps actually not that much garbage on here wait radio don't tell me this has an FM tuner shut up connect the headset it functions as a radio antenna oh okay yeah okay well hey that's better than like not having a headphone jack and not having a radio antenna I guess overall this is looking pretty stock Android AF here right now visual enhancement screen color okay we're in vivid vivid I want I want standard give me that standard police dang they got a system-wide dark mode very nice hi kitty this is a nice feature you usually see this on Chinese phones and it's making its way over to other ones as well app cloner so you can have multiple instances of some apps including Facebook Messenger or snapchat like plus your messaging apps this where it might be useful to have multiple accounts signed in at once curiously this appears to be a 64 gig phone when I think my documentation says 128 gates so the L might be up to 101 gig there yes it is hi sweetheart it automatically recognized that this is in fact a cat and switched over to cat mode wow that is a really loud shutter sound okay volume buttons act as a shutter oh hi what a pretty picture that's a lot better than I expected to be perfectly honest with you I need to turn off that stupid watermark that's for sure but oh that's kind of cool you can see previews in their camera app of what all the different lenses will look like original ultra wide low light video so that's a really low resolution sensor but designed for very poor lighting conditions interesting both of them are using pixel binning by default so 16 megapixels here and 12 megapixels here down from 64 and 48 if you have very good light you might want to switch up to the high pixel mode but probably a good call for doing right now hey kitty cat can you come back so I can get a quick video sample hi oh hi there both of them have a shutter button that you can press while you are recording video that's a feature that I actually use a lot just because you know you're you know recording everyone singing happy birthday but you're never gonna actually watch the video again you just want the picture so that way you kind of cover your bases for both of them hey stabilization seems reasonable and autofocus is actually not bad let's see if we what happens if we switch lenses so we'll try it on the 10 L so they both go to 2x but you get an additional slider on the 10 Pro let's find something far away so there's the 10 L we've got the 2 X + 1 X I'll actually you get this nice slider on the 10 L as well so you can go all the way to 10 X but like that's obviously not usable let's try the same exercise on the 10 Pro okay 1 X 2 X let's slide it all the way to 10 X it's better definitely not amazing definitely better I was expecting the cameras to be immediately and obviously awful that's usually a big differentiator for budget films especially from inexperienced brands but I would say there they're gonna be usable like man if I'm like selfing like that ooh there's a lot of beauty smoothing going on ok hold on a second front-facing camera does 1080p video though so that's that's nice okay so let's let's try a picture without face beauty hey look at that even without face beauty I'm still beautiful that is not a very sharp camera interesting I had wanted to use a movie that I know well on Netflix to judge the display on this thing and unfortunately it prompts you to update your Netflix app and then when you update it it says it's no longer compatible with this device contact the developers of your device growing pains I guess but that is one of the things that can come with buying a phone from a brand that just doesn't have that experience I don't know what the hey let's just throw Avengers on here Oh TCL you done sinned mono speaker on the pro it has our max brightness they claim it's in the neighborhood of 600 nits and is Netflix HD are 10 certified it does appear that HDR ten is working it looks alright definitely a little bit of clipping in the highlights on the reflection on the floor there dad's it's pretty good and the HDR is definitely working it's amazing how good like a mid-range phone processor performs these days like you know I'm just casually browsing lct store calm I got my movie running in the background it's like I don't take this for granted you know like I had a blackberry summary time then on the 10 L there's a pre-loaded app Netflix that doesn't launch on the phone due to a compatibility issue I have to hope they're gonna sort that out but it does give me some hesitation when it comes to what the software supports gonna look like if these guys want to stand out I think saying hey we're gonna do Android 11 and 12 might be a really good way to do that other than that they are looking pretty darn good for value phones after the little bit of tweaking that I had to do on the 10 Pro to make the display not look like dogs garbage mono speakers that's a drag for me because I mean the earpiece speaker is there all you had to do was amplify it but the fact that there's a headphone jack as well as microSD expansion means that these are looking pretty competitive and the cameras better than I expected for sure not that I have you know rigorously benchmarked it the one thing I've saved for myself till the end is the actual price I know that their value phones but I don't know the exact pricing so I'm opening that up now and the 10 Pro is gonna be 449 us that's looking pretty compelling 8 it now let's have a look at the 10 L 249 Wow you can sure get a lot of phone for 250 bucks now if the software only lasts for a year or two being up to date this ad half the price of an iPhone is less compelling to me than if you get 2 years out of this for 250 bucks not bad overall build quality definitely not as premium but no obvious snappiness issues and that is a WoW that is a lot of phone for 250 bucks so thanks for watching ShortCircuit this has been the TCL 10 Pro and 10 le make sure you get subscribed and all that good stuff see you in the next one"}