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pcl the only way for me to know if your product is a good value is for me to

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know the price and the closest thing i have to a price for the 20 pro 5g

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is this article from last month in pc meg where it is

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apparently 549 us dollars

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or 549 euros so i guess we're gonna go

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based on that one of the big features here today is of course that tcl has

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deleted the concept of the camera bump

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so you can see the entire device is

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completely flat back front i remember it was not

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that long ago that you had to pay like a thousand us

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dollars almost to get a phone that i mean

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was basically exactly this shape with

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these features something like a galaxy six uh edge or more accurately the s6 edge

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plus since i think the 6.67 inch OLED display is closer in size to that one

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the screen kind of wraps around the edge of the two and a half d

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or whatever you want to call it curved glass but i think tcl has actually done

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a pretty good job of the size of the dead zones here so you can see

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the screen actually ends just as the curve kind of starts so that way

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when you're grabbing onto the phone with your meat hooks there's a much slimmer

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chance of the skin kind of mushing at the edges and accidentally pressing or

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swiping to another display screen or whatever else the case may be

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unlike that device though in spite of the lower price the specs

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are a lot more modern so it's pretty middling for a modern flagship with a

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snapdragon 750 g processor six gigs of RAM 256 gigs of storage

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but that's also more than

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most people will need because and when i say most people i don't mean tech

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enthusiasts out there i'm talking like my uncle you know just got a new phone

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and he literally uses it as a telephone

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more than he could ever need you can quote me on that

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you got your sim removal tool you got your guide

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rapid quick start guide no there it is in english on the other side you got

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your charger so i believe it supports up to 18 watt fast charging and let's see if

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they've included this doesn't look like a fast charger it'll do 12 volts one and a half amps

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yep okay so there's your 18 watt charger included in the box

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type c to type a cable and it'll actually do up to

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15 watt wireless charging which is something that's a bit of a new feature

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in these more budget oriented phones what i'm trying to figure out right now

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is what the heck tcl means by super bluetooth connect up to four

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devices i think what they're talking about is um bluetooth 5.1 or 5.2

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which each of which have some new operational modes

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it's 5.1 yeah so that's that's probably

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what their branding is super bluetooth interesting no that

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seems to be a 5.2 feature so i wonder if this is one of those cases where they've

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got 5.1 certified hardware but they've managed to get 5.2 features

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running on it we've seen that kind of thing in HDMI standards before i don't pretend to be

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an expert when it comes to bluetooth standards but it there's

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circuit to get 20 off and free shipping another thing that's really nice to see

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is like a value phone for whatever reason you end up with more features than you

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do on higher end phones from a certain

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point of view so on the bottom we find our sim tray

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and would you look at that you got your sim you got your

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micro sd freaking love it

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and then check this out bam headphone

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jack ir emitter it's like what year is it

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it's almost like all those features that existed on phones before could be

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integrated into modern phones for next to nothing and still

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hit a reasonable price point wow others

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could learn a thing or two get this it even has fm radio apparently so we'll be

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listening to the radio ladies and gentlemen you got to put in headphones

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as an antenna look at that finding all the local stations got that

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qmfm got that jrfm a little bit of country just got to get

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the gotta find the rate oh don't want to touch that cable how's

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our sound on this puppy oh no amplified earpiece speaker

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well something had to give actually for that matter i don't think it has

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officially any kind of waterproof rating either does it with that said

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it did have a gasket around the sim slot so i suspect

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it's one of those things where they're not paying for the certification

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but it probably has some water resistance because

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the thing about consumers is even if the phone is not

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rated as being water resistant they will still try to rma a phone that they like

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water damage so it's in phone manufacturers best interest

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even if they don't have a rating to have it have some water resistance

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the reason that haptic motor doesn't feel as good doing this as it did when i

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was typing when i was typing it felt pretty darn good for a budget phone not

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that this is strictly speaking a budget phone more of a mid-range phone

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let's check the speed of the fingerprint reader i'm expecting it to be fine it's a little slow but it's

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fine yeah well yeah but samsung's is really slow and

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i've been taking crap for years for saying that samsung's fingerprint sensor

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is not fast and it's still not fast i'm

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sorry one of the key features of this phone is of course its 700 nit peak brightness

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display and certification for netflix HDR not

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mind-blowing like some of the new apple or samsung devices but

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more than competent and i gotta say this might be an unpopular opinion but i am a

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big fan of the skinny tall displays it's not

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great for certain types of content like if you're the kind of person who's scrolling on facebook

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you end up watching 16x9 videos of this like little tiny

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sliver of your display but if you watch movies on your phone

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which i do or if you scroll text content a lot which i also do

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the taller display is for me anyway better than the wider one

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of course we should probably talk about the camera a little bit so 48 megapixel

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main shooter with three additional ones so what is it like

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2 megapixel depth 5 megapixel macro and then i think it's like a 16

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megapixel ultra wide yep that's uh that's a cell phone camera

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all right colors are a little muted and uninspiring

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and i can tell that it's not just the display being crap because the display

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is not it looked great in spider-man that's tcl's

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expertise i would expect them not to screw that up remember their background

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is like tvs and stuff right right so there's our ultra wide lens

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managed to identify that andy is wearing a black shirt and not

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a gray one here lttestore.com that mousepad's a little more vibrant in the

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in the ultrawide just record me some video oh yeah the

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color is super unexceptional i mean it is a challenging situation

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because it's like into the light but even this is like yeah it's not great

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it's always like that when you're not buying putting pretty much an you know

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iphone or like a top tier phone where you'll get that inconsistency in the

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color science between the different lenses which are of course completely

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separate cameras nothing else wow that's a lot of

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glass splinters that could end up in my finger selfie camera actually

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stand out like dang that's

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no like weird stupid smoothing or anything like that like that's for

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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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subscribe to ShortCircuit for more videos like this one looks like

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from a just fit and finish and overall feature

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standpoint tcl has a winner on their hands here

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so good job guys and good job you guys for making it to the end of the video