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my expectations going into this one we're pretty low I mean the way that I

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know TCL is as that budget TV brand that

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managed to sell so many budget TVs that they got a big enough R&D budget to

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start making like actually really good

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TVs so I expected kind of a similar paradigm these things would be good

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enough as long as you only have you know a couple hundred bucks to spend on a

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phone but it's gonna take them five years to make anything decent and then I

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saw the reviewers guide and I'm not talking like the flashy marketing terms

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and the reviewers guide they call it what do they call this thing a Dodge

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display which basically just means it has a whole bunch get it it's a dot not

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dot I'm talking the level of

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transparency and evidently thought that

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has gone into seemingly every aspect of

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these phones I mean there is a level of maturity in at least the feature set

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anyway that I would have expected from a phone manufacturer that's been doing

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this for five years not just a couple

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okay so you got a sim removal tool and some other stuff including oh look at

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that they've got a case display greatness wow that is that is attacking

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USB type-c cable and wall wart is this a

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decent wall wart or is it like a budget one five volt to em so this would be a

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low-speed wall wart with the ten L it's how look at what we got with the pro got

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the phone itself got basically the exact same thing here but this one better not

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have that display greatness nonsense on it does I mean I can see why they want

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to wear that on their sleeves well really on your sleeve because that's

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their focus they're going okay hey where's our credibility in the phone

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market you make good TV so then like those have screens so phones also have

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screens so that should work out great for everyone right will see us PC cable

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it's good everything should have us pc charging and a there it is nine volt two

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amps so this one can apparently take the 10 pro from zero to 50 percent battery

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and about half an hour I mean it's pretty standard fare these days but it's

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nice to see on you know affordable offerings I guess interestingly the 10 L

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comes with a protector while the ten pro does not

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probably because the ten pro has this

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kind of sexy two and a half D glass that

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we first saw on the Samsung Galaxy s8 and that I still like basically like an

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SI plus clone really if you want to

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compare it directly to anything and then

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for this this feels quite a lot more budget like even the back doesn't have

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that same sort of slickness to the to

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the glass both of them have quad camera

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setups though which I thought was pretty interesting now whether or not you

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actually get any decent results out of them that remains to be seen but both of

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them have quad cameras had dual flashes on them that's firing them up

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immediately the difference in display technology between these two is stark

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and not just the difference in display technology but the difference in display

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calibration the LCD one is clearly more

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purple while the OLED on the pro is more

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like what I would expect from this you know hi there Android startup page this

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does not actually bode well for a company that is supposed to be a display

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specialist and there is a lot of color shift and brightness loss when you're

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viewing the 10l from off axis this is definitely a budget display compared to

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well at least to the pro anyway there's a green cast to the pro two which is

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interesting I mean let's get into the display settings cuz you never know they

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might have some goofy like high vibrancy mode on by default or something dumb

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like that who the haptic feedback is not great on this one that's something I

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would turn off immediately we're in an age where a good haptic feedback is

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something that I expect and this is very several generations ago the pro is quite

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a bit better though oh good updates out of the box my favorite I guess updates

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this better than no updates that's something that would really gave me pause going into one of these especially

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at a higher price they've committed to Android 10 and 11 but there's no

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commitment past 11 and that is really

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the big issue with budget Android handsets is that yeah you're paying half

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the price compared to an iPhone but you're also getting half as long to use

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it compared to an iPhone when you talk the software support side of things

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that's something that I'd really like to see if you want to break out as a phone

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brand it's like these guys have done a great job of you know good messaging and

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good features and just amazing transparency they get right into all the

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chips that they're using all the sensors that they're using so this one right

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here is a Snapdragon 675 pretty low end

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for something with a pro moniker on it at this point in time but for most

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people I would make the argument that it's actually kind of fast enough as

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long as everything else is up to snuff it's got six gigs of RAM on the pro

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model 128 gigs of storage microSD

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expansion which is really nice to see no 5g but it does have 4G and it's got a

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headphone jack and is that no way is that an IR blaster hold on a second your

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software is compatible with an IR blaster dang so you can use this thing

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as a universal remote that's a feature that I really wish like still existed

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the other top-level features are a 4500 milliamp hour battery

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64 megapixel main shooter and yes an

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under screen fingerprint sensor moving

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over to the L it definitely lacks some of the cutting-edge features of the pro

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so it's got a rear fingerprint sensor that's a 48 megapixel main shooter

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amongst a generally less capable camera

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loadout it's actually got a Snapdragon 6:65 rather than a 675 so this isn't

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even like a flagship mid-range processor

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and while it does still have six gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage a SIM slot

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and microSD slot and a headphone jack one of the biggest compromises is as

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I've alluded to already the screen so where the pro has an OLED this one uses

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an LCD that really has not impressed me so far interestingly TCL has you use

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your dominant hand to choose which side the back button is on I do prefer I'm

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right-handed and I do prefer the back button on my right we can see what next

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vision versus not next vision looks like I can already tell I don't like it it's

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like a contrast sharpness saturation enhancement oh one thing I didn't

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mention is that the 10l has a four thousand milliamp hour battery compared

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to the ten pros 4,500 million power battery enough of what's different

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about them let's talk things in common again so they both do have that cool

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multi Bluetooth feature that I mentioned before and they've also both got this

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which is what they call their smart button so you can press once for some

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action press twice for some other more different action and press and hold for

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a third action this is basically what the big speed button should have been in

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the first place so let's see what they're configured to by default oh look

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at that they just let you set it up oh cool so

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you can launch different camera modes that's pretty sweet

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this could be better would be nice if you could just open any app you want

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open a feature go open it up Hey look at that very nice I like it I'm not a huge fan

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of buttons that oppose other buttons just because it's kind of easy to

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accidentally mash them I mean the good news is you can at least just disable if

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you don't like it naturally the good old classic rear fingerprint scanner is

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faster so you'll actually quick draw this one faster than you can quick-draw

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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

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optimized which is something that you can configure your smart button to do is

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just kind of close all your background tasks at once Facebook Netflix just like

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the usual Google Apps actually not that much garbage on here wait radio don't

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tell me this has an FM tuner shut up connect the headset it functions as a

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radio antenna oh okay yeah okay well hey that's better than

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like not having a headphone jack and not having a radio antenna I guess overall

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this is looking pretty stock Android AF here right now visual enhancement screen

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color okay we're in vivid vivid I want I want standard give me that standard

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police dang they got a system-wide dark

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mode very nice hi kitty this is a nice feature you usually see this on Chinese phones and

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it's making its way over to other ones as well app cloner so you can have multiple instances of some apps

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including Facebook Messenger or snapchat like plus your messaging apps this where

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it might be useful to have multiple accounts signed in at once curiously

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this appears to be a 64 gig phone when I

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think my documentation says 128 gates so

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the L might be up to 101 gig there yes it is hi sweetheart

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it automatically recognized that this is in fact a cat and switched over to cat

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mode wow that is a really loud shutter

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sound okay volume buttons act as a shutter oh hi what a pretty picture

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that's a lot better than I expected to be perfectly honest with you I need to

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turn off that stupid watermark that's for sure but oh that's kind of cool

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you can see previews in their camera app of what all the different lenses will

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look like original ultra wide low light video so that's a really low resolution

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sensor but designed for very poor lighting conditions interesting both of

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them are using pixel binning by default so 16 megapixels here and 12 megapixels

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here down from 64 and 48 if you have very good light you might want to switch

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up to the high pixel mode but probably a good call for doing right now hey kitty

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cat can you come back so I can get a quick video sample hi oh hi there

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both of them have a shutter button that you can press while you are recording

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video that's a feature that I actually use a lot just because you know you're

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you know recording everyone singing happy birthday but you're never gonna

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actually watch the video again you just want the picture so that way you kind of cover your bases for both of them hey

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stabilization seems reasonable and autofocus is actually not bad let's see

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if we what happens if we switch lenses so we'll try it on the 10 L so they both

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go to 2x but you get an additional slider on the 10 Pro let's find

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something far away so there's the 10 L we've got the 2 X + 1 X I'll actually

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you get this nice slider on the 10 L as well so you can go all the way to 10 X

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but like that's obviously not usable let's try the same exercise on the 10

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way to 10 X it's better definitely not amazing definitely better

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I was expecting the cameras to be immediately and obviously awful that's

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usually a big differentiator for budget films especially from inexperienced

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brands but I would say there they're gonna be usable like man if I'm like

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selfing like that ooh there's a lot of beauty smoothing going on ok hold on a

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second front-facing camera does 1080p video though so that's that's nice okay so

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let's let's try a picture without face beauty hey look at that even without

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face beauty I'm still beautiful that is not a very sharp camera interesting I

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had wanted to use a movie that I know well on Netflix to judge the display on

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this thing and unfortunately it prompts you to update your Netflix app and then

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when you update it it says it's no longer compatible with this device

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contact the developers of your device growing pains I guess but that is one of

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the things that can come with buying a phone from a brand that just doesn't

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have that experience I don't know what the hey let's just throw Avengers on

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here Oh TCL you done sinned mono speaker

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on the pro it has our max brightness they claim it's in the neighborhood of

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600 nits and is Netflix HD are 10

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certified it does appear that HDR ten is working it looks alright

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definitely a little bit of clipping in the highlights on the reflection on the floor there dad's it's pretty good and

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the HDR is definitely working it's amazing how good like a mid-range phone

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processor performs these days like you know I'm just casually browsing lct

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store calm I got my movie running in the background it's like I don't take this

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for granted you know like I had a blackberry summary time then on the 10 L

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there's a pre-loaded app Netflix that doesn't launch on the phone due to a

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compatibility issue I have to hope they're gonna sort that out but it does

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give me some hesitation when it comes to what the software supports gonna look

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like if these guys want to stand out I think saying hey we're gonna do Android

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11 and 12 might be a really good way to do that other than that they are looking

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pretty darn good for value phones after

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the little bit of tweaking that I had to do on the 10 Pro to make the display not

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look like dogs garbage mono speakers

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that's a drag for me because I mean the

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earpiece speaker is there all you had to do was amplify it but the fact that

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there's a headphone jack as well as microSD expansion means that these are

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looking pretty competitive and the cameras better than I expected for sure

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not that I have you know rigorously benchmarked it the one thing I've saved

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for myself till the end is the actual price I know that their value phones but

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I don't know the exact pricing so I'm opening that up now

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and the 10 Pro is gonna be 449 us that's

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looking pretty compelling 8 it now let's have a look at the 10 L 249 Wow you can

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sure get a lot of phone for 250 bucks now if the software only lasts for a

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year or two being up to date this ad half the price of an iPhone is less

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compelling to me than if you get 2 years out of this for 250 bucks not bad

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overall build quality definitely not as

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premium but no obvious snappiness issues

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and that is a WoW that is a lot of phone for 250 bucks so thanks for watching

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ShortCircuit this has been the TCL 10 Pro and 10 le make sure you get

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subscribed and all that good stuff see you in the next one