{"video_id":"PvafqYvACGc","title":"TCL Deleted the Camera Bump - 20 Pro 5G Smartphone","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2022-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":488,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":5.44,"text":"pcl the only way for me to know if your product is a good value is for me to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.76,"end_s":10.16,"text":"know the price and the closest thing i have to a price for the 20 pro 5g","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.839,"end_s":14.639,"text":"is this article from last month in pc meg where it is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.28,"end_s":18.48,"text":"apparently 549 us dollars","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.639,"end_s":21.359,"text":"or 549 euros so i guess we're gonna go","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.48,"end_s":24.88,"text":"based on that one of the big features here today is of course that tcl 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like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":477.199,"end_s":482.639,"text":"from a just fit and finish and overall feature","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":480.72,"end_s":485.84,"text":"standpoint tcl has a winner on their hands here","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":484.0,"end_s":489.039,"text":"so good job guys and good job you guys for making it to the end of the video","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"pcl the only way for me to know if your product is a good value is for me to know the price and the closest thing i have to a price for the 20 pro 5g is this article from last month in pc meg where it is apparently 549 us dollars or 549 euros so i guess we're gonna go based on that one of the big features here today is of course that tcl has deleted the concept of the camera bump so you can see the entire device is completely flat back front i remember it was not that long ago that you had to pay like a thousand us dollars almost to get a phone that i mean was basically exactly this shape with these features something like a galaxy six uh edge or more accurately the s6 edge plus since i think the 6.67 inch OLED display is closer in size to that one the screen kind of wraps around the edge of the two and a half d or whatever you want to call it curved glass but i think tcl has actually done a pretty good job of the size of the dead zones here so you can see the screen actually ends just as the curve kind of starts so that way when you're grabbing onto the phone with your meat hooks there's a much slimmer chance of the skin kind of mushing at the edges and accidentally pressing or swiping to another display screen or whatever else the case may be unlike that device though in spite of the lower price the specs are a lot more modern so it's pretty middling for a modern flagship with a snapdragon 750 g processor six gigs of RAM 256 gigs of storage but that's also more than most people will need because and when i say most people i don't mean tech enthusiasts out there i'm talking like my uncle you know just got a new phone and he literally uses it as a telephone more than he could ever need you can quote me on that you got your sim removal tool you got your guide rapid quick start guide no there it is in english on the other side you got your charger so i believe it supports up to 18 watt fast charging and let's see if they've included this doesn't look like a fast charger it'll do 12 volts one and a half amps yep okay so there's your 18 watt charger included in the box type c to type a cable and it'll actually do up to 15 watt wireless charging which is something that's a bit of a new feature in these more budget oriented phones what i'm trying to figure out right now is what the heck tcl means by super bluetooth connect up to four devices i think what they're talking about is um bluetooth 5.1 or 5.2 which each of which have some new operational modes it's 5.1 yeah so that's that's probably what their branding is super bluetooth interesting no that seems to be a 5.2 feature so i wonder if this is one of those cases where they've got 5.1 certified hardware but they've managed to get 5.2 features running on it we've seen that kind of thing in HDMI standards before i don't pretend to be an expert when it comes to bluetooth standards but it there's clearly a precedent for it this video is brought to you by manscaped their performance package kit has everything you'll need to stay groomed from head to toe it features their lawnmower 3.0 waterproof trimmer with skin safe technology as well as their weed whacker ear and nose hair trimmer for those tricky to reach areas for a limited time you'll get the kit plus two free gifts the shed travel bag and manscape's anti-chafing boxer briefs so don't wait go to manscape.com circuit to get 20 off and free shipping another thing that's really nice to see is like a value phone for whatever reason you end up with more features than you do on higher end phones from a certain point of view so on the bottom we find our sim tray and would you look at that you got your sim you got your micro sd freaking love it and then check this out bam headphone jack ir emitter it's like what year is it it's almost like all those features that existed on phones before could be integrated into modern phones for next to nothing and still hit a reasonable price point wow others could learn a thing or two get this it even has fm radio apparently so we'll be listening to the radio ladies and gentlemen you got to put in headphones as an antenna look at that finding all the local stations got that qmfm got that jrfm a little bit of country just got to get the gotta find the rate oh don't want to touch that cable how's our sound on this puppy oh no amplified earpiece speaker well something had to give actually for that matter i don't think it has officially any kind of waterproof rating either does it with that said it did have a gasket around the sim slot so i suspect it's one of those things where they're not paying for the certification but it probably has some water resistance because the thing about consumers is even if the phone is not rated as being water resistant they will still try to rma a phone that they like water damage so it's in phone manufacturers best interest even if they don't have a rating to have it have some water resistance the reason that haptic motor doesn't feel as good doing this as it did when i was typing when i was typing it felt pretty darn good for a budget phone not that this is strictly speaking a budget phone more of a mid-range phone let's check the speed of the fingerprint reader i'm expecting it to be fine it's a little slow but it's fine yeah well yeah but samsung's is really slow and i've been taking crap for years for saying that samsung's fingerprint sensor is not fast and it's still not fast i'm sorry one of the key features of this phone is of course its 700 nit peak brightness display and certification for netflix HDR not mind-blowing like some of the new apple or samsung devices but more than competent and i gotta say this might be an unpopular opinion but i am a big fan of the skinny tall displays it's not great for certain types of content like if you're the kind of person who's scrolling on facebook you end up watching 16x9 videos of this like little tiny sliver of your display but if you watch movies on your phone which i do or if you scroll text content a lot which i also do the taller display is for me anyway better than the wider one of course we should probably talk about the camera a little bit so 48 megapixel main shooter with three additional ones so what is it like 2 megapixel depth 5 megapixel macro and then i think it's like a 16 megapixel ultra wide yep that's uh that's a cell phone camera all right colors are a little muted and uninspiring and i can tell that it's not just the display being crap because the display is not it looked great in spider-man that's tcl's expertise i would expect them not to screw that up remember their background is like tvs and stuff right right so there's our ultra wide lens managed to identify that andy is wearing a black shirt and not a gray one here lttestore.com that mousepad's a little more vibrant in the in the ultrawide just record me some video oh yeah the color is super unexceptional i mean it is a challenging situation because it's like into the light but even this is like yeah it's not great it's always like that when you're not buying putting pretty much an you know iphone or like a top tier phone where you'll get that inconsistency in the color science between the different lenses which are of course completely separate cameras nothing else wow that's a lot of glass splinters that could end up in my finger selfie camera actually stand out like dang that's no like weird stupid smoothing or anything like that like that's for better or for worse what i look like i need a haircut and this is a lot of outro in this video subscribe to ShortCircuit for more videos like this one looks like from a just fit and finish and overall feature standpoint tcl has a winner on their hands here so good job guys and good job you guys for making it to the end of the video"}