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
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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
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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