WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.099 my expectations going into this one we're pretty low I mean the way that I 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:11.040 know TCL is as that budget TV brand that 00:00:08.099 --> 00:00:15.809 managed to sell so many budget TVs that they got a big enough R&D budget to 00:00:12.809 --> 00:00:18.180 start making like actually really good 00:00:15.809 --> 00:00:22.470 TVs so I expected kind of a similar paradigm these things would be good 00:00:20.070 --> 00:00:25.380 enough as long as you only have you know a couple hundred bucks to spend on a 00:00:24.060 --> 00:00:29.670 phone but it's gonna take them five years to make anything decent and then I 00:00:27.660 --> 00:00:33.750 saw the reviewers guide and I'm not talking like the flashy marketing terms 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:38.399 and the reviewers guide they call it what do they call this thing a Dodge 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:44.570 display which basically just means it has a whole bunch get it it's a dot not 00:00:41.430 --> 00:00:47.760 dot I'm talking the level of 00:00:44.570 --> 00:00:50.760 transparency and evidently thought that 00:00:47.760 --> 00:00:52.800 has gone into seemingly every aspect of 00:00:50.760 --> 00:00:58.230 these phones I mean there is a level of maturity in at least the feature set 00:00:55.469 --> 00:01:03.449 anyway that I would have expected from a phone manufacturer that's been doing 00:00:59.699 --> 00:01:06.229 this for five years not just a couple 00:01:03.449 --> 00:01:10.200 okay so you got a sim removal tool and some other stuff including oh look at 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:17.909 that they've got a case display greatness wow that is that is attacking 00:01:13.260 --> 00:01:19.860 USB type-c cable and wall wart is this a 00:01:17.909 --> 00:01:24.000 decent wall wart or is it like a budget one five volt to em so this would be a 00:01:21.689 --> 00:01:28.920 low-speed wall wart with the ten L it's how look at what we got with the pro got 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:32.520 the phone itself got basically the exact same thing here but this one better not 00:01:30.540 --> 00:01:37.049 have that display greatness nonsense on it does I mean I can see why they want 00:01:35.189 --> 00:01:40.650 to wear that on their sleeves well really on your sleeve because that's 00:01:38.970 --> 00:01:44.579 their focus they're going okay hey where's our credibility in the phone 00:01:42.329 --> 00:01:47.759 market you make good TV so then like those have screens so phones also have 00:01:46.290 --> 00:01:52.439 screens so that should work out great for everyone right will see us PC cable 00:01:50.340 --> 00:01:58.079 it's good everything should have us pc charging and a there it is nine volt two 00:01:55.860 --> 00:02:02.969 amps so this one can apparently take the 10 pro from zero to 50 percent battery 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:09.000 and about half an hour I mean it's pretty standard fare these days but it's 00:02:07.020 --> 00:02:13.010 nice to see on you know affordable offerings I guess interestingly the 10 L 00:02:11.550 --> 00:02:18.049 comes with a protector while the ten pro does not 00:02:15.019 --> 00:02:21.799 probably because the ten pro has this 00:02:18.049 --> 00:02:24.439 kind of sexy two and a half D glass that 00:02:21.799 --> 00:02:30.349 we first saw on the Samsung Galaxy s8 and that I still like basically like an 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:33.500 SI plus clone really if you want to 00:02:30.349 --> 00:02:36.230 compare it directly to anything and then 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:41.599 for this this feels quite a lot more budget like even the back doesn't have 00:02:38.299 --> 00:02:44.659 that same sort of slickness to the to 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:46.640 the glass both of them have quad camera 00:02:44.659 --> 00:02:49.760 setups though which I thought was pretty interesting now whether or not you 00:02:48.049 --> 00:02:53.930 actually get any decent results out of them that remains to be seen but both of 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:58.310 them have quad cameras had dual flashes on them that's firing them up 00:02:56.030 --> 00:03:03.560 immediately the difference in display technology between these two is stark 00:03:01.549 --> 00:03:09.170 and not just the difference in display technology but the difference in display 00:03:05.780 --> 00:03:12.799 calibration the LCD one is clearly more 00:03:09.170 --> 00:03:15.409 purple while the OLED on the pro is more 00:03:12.799 --> 00:03:20.299 like what I would expect from this you know hi there Android startup page this 00:03:17.690 --> 00:03:24.590 does not actually bode well for a company that is supposed to be a display 00:03:22.129 --> 00:03:29.319 specialist and there is a lot of color shift and brightness loss when you're 00:03:26.660 --> 00:03:35.060 viewing the 10l from off axis this is definitely a budget display compared to 00:03:33.109 --> 00:03:38.900 well at least to the pro anyway there's a green cast to the pro two which is 00:03:37.129 --> 00:03:43.549 interesting I mean let's get into the display settings cuz you never know they 00:03:40.609 --> 00:03:47.510 might have some goofy like high vibrancy mode on by default or something dumb 00:03:45.079 --> 00:03:50.569 like that who the haptic feedback is not great on this one that's something I 00:03:49.069 --> 00:03:54.370 would turn off immediately we're in an age where a good haptic feedback is 00:03:52.250 --> 00:03:59.329 something that I expect and this is very several generations ago the pro is quite 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:02.659 a bit better though oh good updates out of the box my favorite I guess updates 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:09.049 this better than no updates that's something that would really gave me pause going into one of these especially 00:04:06.739 --> 00:04:15.560 at a higher price they've committed to Android 10 and 11 but there's no 00:04:12.379 --> 00:04:17.570 commitment past 11 and that is really 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:21.349 the big issue with budget Android handsets is that yeah you're paying half 00:04:19.729 --> 00:04:26.010 the price compared to an iPhone but you're also getting half as long to use 00:04:23.659 --> 00:04:29.220 it compared to an iPhone when you talk the software support side of things 00:04:27.420 --> 00:04:32.760 that's something that I'd really like to see if you want to break out as a phone 00:04:31.440 --> 00:04:37.800 brand it's like these guys have done a great job of you know good messaging and 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:42.270 good features and just amazing transparency they get right into all the 00:04:39.810 --> 00:04:47.130 chips that they're using all the sensors that they're using so this one right 00:04:43.980 --> 00:04:49.770 here is a Snapdragon 675 pretty low end 00:04:47.130 --> 00:04:53.760 for something with a pro moniker on it at this point in time but for most 00:04:52.290 --> 00:04:56.970 people I would make the argument that it's actually kind of fast enough as 00:04:55.620 --> 00:05:01.800 long as everything else is up to snuff it's got six gigs of RAM on the pro 00:04:58.770 --> 00:05:04.650 model 128 gigs of storage microSD 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:09.840 expansion which is really nice to see no 5g but it does have 4G and it's got a 00:05:07.110 --> 00:05:15.000 headphone jack and is that no way is that an IR blaster hold on a second your 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:19.560 software is compatible with an IR blaster dang so you can use this thing 00:05:18.180 --> 00:05:24.120 as a universal remote that's a feature that I really wish like still existed 00:05:21.900 --> 00:05:29.280 the other top-level features are a 4500 milliamp hour battery 00:05:25.140 --> 00:05:32.310 64 megapixel main shooter and yes an 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:34.350 under screen fingerprint sensor moving 00:05:32.310 --> 00:05:37.920 over to the L it definitely lacks some of the cutting-edge features of the pro 00:05:35.850 --> 00:05:43.950 so it's got a rear fingerprint sensor that's a 48 megapixel main shooter 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:46.430 amongst a generally less capable camera 00:05:43.950 --> 00:05:53.490 loadout it's actually got a Snapdragon 6:65 rather than a 675 so this isn't 00:05:49.650 --> 00:05:55.650 even like a flagship mid-range processor 00:05:53.490 --> 00:06:00.930 and while it does still have six gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage a SIM slot 00:05:58.350 --> 00:06:05.100 and microSD slot and a headphone jack one of the biggest compromises is as 00:06:02.940 --> 00:06:10.470 I've alluded to already the screen so where the pro has an OLED this one uses 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:15.000 an LCD that really has not impressed me so far interestingly TCL has you use 00:06:13.110 --> 00:06:18.870 your dominant hand to choose which side the back button is on I do prefer I'm 00:06:17.520 --> 00:06:23.940 right-handed and I do prefer the back button on my right we can see what next 00:06:21.630 --> 00:06:29.400 vision versus not next vision looks like I can already tell I don't like it it's 00:06:26.580 --> 00:06:32.970 like a contrast sharpness saturation enhancement oh one thing I didn't 00:06:31.290 --> 00:06:37.110 mention is that the 10l has a four thousand milliamp hour battery compared 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:40.710 to the ten pros 4,500 million power battery enough of what's different 00:06:38.699 --> 00:06:44.520 about them let's talk things in common again so they both do have that cool 00:06:42.599 --> 00:06:49.560 multi Bluetooth feature that I mentioned before and they've also both got this 00:06:47.039 --> 00:06:54.000 which is what they call their smart button so you can press once for some 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:58.289 action press twice for some other more different action and press and hold for 00:06:56.250 --> 00:07:01.500 a third action this is basically what the big speed button should have been in 00:07:00.210 --> 00:07:03.780 the first place so let's see what they're configured to by default oh look 00:07:03.479 --> 00:07:08.819 at that they just let you set it up oh cool so 00:07:07.169 --> 00:07:12.870 you can launch different camera modes that's pretty sweet 00:07:10.440 --> 00:07:17.430 this could be better would be nice if you could just open any app you want 00:07:15.030 --> 00:07:24.030 open a feature go open it up Hey look at that very nice I like it I'm not a huge fan 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:26.699 of buttons that oppose other buttons just because it's kind of easy to 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:30.180 accidentally mash them I mean the good news is you can at least just disable if 00:07:28.349 --> 00:07:33.599 you don't like it naturally the good old classic rear fingerprint scanner is 00:07:32.009 --> 00:07:36.509 faster so you'll actually quick draw this one faster than you can quick-draw 00:07:35.159 --> 00:07:41.069 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 00:07:39.509 --> 00:07:44.729 optimized which is something that you can configure your smart button to do is 00:07:43.500 --> 00:07:51.270 just kind of close all your background tasks at once Facebook Netflix just like 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:57.419 the usual Google Apps actually not that much garbage on here wait radio don't 00:07:54.479 --> 00:08:00.449 tell me this has an FM tuner shut up connect the headset it functions as a 00:07:59.129 --> 00:08:04.379 radio antenna oh okay yeah okay well hey that's better than 00:08:02.490 --> 00:08:08.520 like not having a headphone jack and not having a radio antenna I guess overall 00:08:06.210 --> 00:08:13.080 this is looking pretty stock Android AF here right now visual enhancement screen 00:08:10.740 --> 00:08:19.050 color okay we're in vivid vivid I want I want standard give me that standard 00:08:15.300 --> 00:08:20.190 police dang they got a system-wide dark 00:08:19.050 --> 00:08:24.960 mode very nice hi kitty this is a nice feature you usually see this on Chinese phones and 00:08:23.849 --> 00:08:31.139 it's making its way over to other ones as well app cloner so you can have multiple instances of some apps 00:08:28.919 --> 00:08:34.349 including Facebook Messenger or snapchat like plus your messaging apps this where 00:08:32.640 --> 00:08:40.110 it might be useful to have multiple accounts signed in at once curiously 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:43.469 this appears to be a 64 gig phone when I 00:08:40.110 --> 00:08:45.930 think my documentation says 128 gates so 00:08:43.469 --> 00:08:53.700 the L might be up to 101 gig there yes it is hi sweetheart 00:08:50.930 --> 00:09:00.690 it automatically recognized that this is in fact a cat and switched over to cat 00:08:56.250 --> 00:09:03.180 mode wow that is a really loud shutter 00:09:00.690 --> 00:09:09.270 sound okay volume buttons act as a shutter oh hi what a pretty picture 00:09:06.870 --> 00:09:13.350 that's a lot better than I expected to be perfectly honest with you I need to 00:09:11.130 --> 00:09:19.140 turn off that stupid watermark that's for sure but oh that's kind of cool 00:09:16.230 --> 00:09:24.660 you can see previews in their camera app of what all the different lenses will 00:09:21.839 --> 00:09:29.610 look like original ultra wide low light video so that's a really low resolution 00:09:27.300 --> 00:09:33.720 sensor but designed for very poor lighting conditions interesting both of 00:09:32.010 --> 00:09:39.510 them are using pixel binning by default so 16 megapixels here and 12 megapixels 00:09:36.570 --> 00:09:44.010 here down from 64 and 48 if you have very good light you might want to switch 00:09:41.190 --> 00:09:47.459 up to the high pixel mode but probably a good call for doing right now hey kitty 00:09:46.020 --> 00:09:52.680 cat can you come back so I can get a quick video sample hi oh hi there 00:09:50.490 --> 00:09:56.250 both of them have a shutter button that you can press while you are recording 00:09:54.540 --> 00:10:01.320 video that's a feature that I actually use a lot just because you know you're 00:09:59.400 --> 00:10:03.930 you know recording everyone singing happy birthday but you're never gonna 00:10:02.490 --> 00:10:09.150 actually watch the video again you just want the picture so that way you kind of cover your bases for both of them hey 00:10:06.870 --> 00:10:14.190 stabilization seems reasonable and autofocus is actually not bad let's see 00:10:12.750 --> 00:10:18.029 if we what happens if we switch lenses so we'll try it on the 10 L so they both 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:24.180 go to 2x but you get an additional slider on the 10 Pro let's find 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:29.070 something far away so there's the 10 L we've got the 2 X + 1 X I'll actually 00:10:26.640 --> 00:10:33.120 you get this nice slider on the 10 L as well so you can go all the way to 10 X 00:10:30.510 --> 00:10:38.370 but like that's obviously not usable let's try the same exercise on the 10 00:10:34.920 --> 00:10:40.200 Pro okay 1 X 2 X let's slide it all the 00:10:38.370 --> 00:10:44.190 way to 10 X it's better definitely not amazing definitely better 00:10:42.510 --> 00:10:48.870 I was expecting the cameras to be immediately and obviously awful that's 00:10:46.350 --> 00:10:52.709 usually a big differentiator for budget films especially from inexperienced 00:10:50.250 --> 00:10:56.940 brands but I would say there they're gonna be usable like man if I'm like 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:59.110 selfing like that ooh there's a lot of beauty smoothing going on ok hold on a 00:10:58.470 --> 00:11:04.360 second front-facing camera does 1080p video though so that's that's nice okay so 00:11:02.529 --> 00:11:08.589 let's let's try a picture without face beauty hey look at that even without 00:11:06.250 --> 00:11:12.580 face beauty I'm still beautiful that is not a very sharp camera interesting I 00:11:10.930 --> 00:11:17.620 had wanted to use a movie that I know well on Netflix to judge the display on 00:11:15.310 --> 00:11:21.370 this thing and unfortunately it prompts you to update your Netflix app and then 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:25.269 when you update it it says it's no longer compatible with this device 00:11:22.779 --> 00:11:30.519 contact the developers of your device growing pains I guess but that is one of 00:11:28.329 --> 00:11:33.910 the things that can come with buying a phone from a brand that just doesn't 00:11:31.810 --> 00:11:42.130 have that experience I don't know what the hey let's just throw Avengers on 00:11:35.589 --> 00:11:44.380 here Oh TCL you done sinned mono speaker 00:11:42.130 --> 00:11:49.450 on the pro it has our max brightness they claim it's in the neighborhood of 00:11:46.029 --> 00:11:52.060 600 nits and is Netflix HD are 10 00:11:49.450 --> 00:11:55.240 certified it does appear that HDR ten is working it looks alright 00:11:53.620 --> 00:12:01.149 definitely a little bit of clipping in the highlights on the reflection on the floor there dad's it's pretty good and 00:11:58.540 --> 00:12:05.380 the HDR is definitely working it's amazing how good like a mid-range phone 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:08.740 processor performs these days like you know I'm just casually browsing lct 00:12:07.029 --> 00:12:11.860 store calm I got my movie running in the background it's like I don't take this 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:16.899 for granted you know like I had a blackberry summary time then on the 10 L 00:12:14.620 --> 00:12:20.560 there's a pre-loaded app Netflix that doesn't launch on the phone due to a 00:12:18.250 --> 00:12:23.980 compatibility issue I have to hope they're gonna sort that out but it does 00:12:22.029 --> 00:12:27.310 give me some hesitation when it comes to what the software supports gonna look 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:31.420 like if these guys want to stand out I think saying hey we're gonna do Android 00:12:29.020 --> 00:12:36.880 11 and 12 might be a really good way to do that other than that they are looking 00:12:33.880 --> 00:12:38.709 pretty darn good for value phones after 00:12:36.880 --> 00:12:43.800 the little bit of tweaking that I had to do on the 10 Pro to make the display not 00:12:40.630 --> 00:12:47.079 look like dogs garbage mono speakers 00:12:43.800 --> 00:12:48.699 that's a drag for me because I mean the 00:12:47.079 --> 00:12:53.230 earpiece speaker is there all you had to do was amplify it but the fact that 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:56.890 there's a headphone jack as well as microSD expansion means that these are 00:12:55.360 --> 00:13:02.079 looking pretty competitive and the cameras better than I expected for sure 00:12:59.800 --> 00:13:06.100 not that I have you know rigorously benchmarked it the one thing I've saved 00:13:03.790 --> 00:13:10.570 for myself till the end is the actual price I know that their value phones but 00:13:08.649 --> 00:13:19.399 I don't know the exact pricing so I'm opening that up now 00:13:12.499 --> 00:13:21.589 and the 10 Pro is gonna be 449 us that's 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:27.559 looking pretty compelling 8 it now let's have a look at the 10 L 249 Wow you can 00:13:25.129 --> 00:13:32.599 sure get a lot of phone for 250 bucks now if the software only lasts for a 00:13:29.779 --> 00:13:37.489 year or two being up to date this ad half the price of an iPhone is less 00:13:35.179 --> 00:13:44.359 compelling to me than if you get 2 years out of this for 250 bucks not bad 00:13:41.359 --> 00:13:47.569 overall build quality definitely not as 00:13:44.359 --> 00:13:50.089 premium but no obvious snappiness issues 00:13:47.569 --> 00:13:54.379 and that is a WoW that is a lot of phone for 250 bucks so thanks for watching 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:58.369 ShortCircuit this has been the TCL 10 Pro and 10 le make sure you get 00:13:56.209 --> 00:14:00.969 subscribed and all that good stuff see you in the next one