Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This New Smartphone Will NOT Melt Your Wallet…”.
Okay, so we’re gon na focus on two of the wide variety of phones that tcl is talking about, releasing right now. Well, they’re, not talking about, i mean they’re. Talking about the release. Tcl sent us everything that they’re doing for the next decade. That’S a joke! This is their current lineup actually, but it equates to five different phones, tcl 35g tcl, 30 plus tcl, 30se tcl30 and tcl30e.
I feel like just creating a puzzle of some kind. It’S uh quite the thing here. So what we have here is two ends of the spectrum for the tcl30 series. This is the plus model, and this is going to retail for 199 euros on the other end of the spectrum. This is the e model, and this is 139 euros. Obviously, you’re gon na get some more perks. If you step up and go for the plus model, get the 50 megapixel camera you get a different chip inside you get a much different finish on the outside of the device. Comparatively you get an extra camera unit on the back.
Both of them still maintain your headphone jack, but the plus model puts it on the bottom, whereas the e model puts it at the top. Here, your fingerprint scanner is on the back of the device over here. It is in your power button, so, as you can see, the displays are kind of comparable, though you do get a more aggressive sort of modern screen to body ratio on the plus model.
This is the brighter of the two displays, especially as you begin to get off access, as you can see right there as far as the phones. I look at both of them representing a value proposition that i don’t typically see on the channel looking at stuff. That could be like a thousand dollars.
Not here, 199 euros still gets you something. That’S a relatively modern looking package with a 50 megapixel camera, a 5 000 10 milliamp hour battery fast charging up to 18 watts. I’M gon na open up uh some youtube here and maybe pick a video, and so we can hear the sound and see what video looks like. I did. The uh a shot of ginger and lemon get out of here. Look at most green lighting. It’S actually not mono. Look at that exterior scratches no way, that’s a stereo sound on one side’s, a little higher on the other, it’s a little bit lower on the other model. I don’t know how uh they’re going going to approach this. This just looks like it has an earpiece.
Maybe some audio will come out of there. The manager came up, he said. Excuse me, sir. You talk to you for a second okay. I was like yeah. Okay, go ahead, he’s like that order that you made you never made it.
We didn’t make it all right, so stereo is obviously better and just the sound quality in general is better on the plus model. I’M not surprised, it is a price difference. Now. Camera would be the other department where you might be curious about performance, and this model the plus model, actually has quite a wide selfie camera. That’S the differentiator here from the standard tcl30. So if i go ahead and click on the one x, i actually get this really wide capability on the selfie camera.
So, as you can see here like, i could fit many people into this selfie frame by default. It’S just at this 1x setting. But if you want it, you can back out to there now. This is obviously some kind of digital crop on this model and the regular tcl 30 for that matter, and many in the lineup, when you click on the one x, you can go to 1.5x, but you ultimately end up with a crop getting in closer. You can’t get wider on any of these other cameras, so that’s a little bonus with the plus model. If you can get the extra 60 euros go for the plus model right here, the display is nicer. Uh. The speakers are nicer. Obviously the spec is nicer. It’S a little bit snappier and the cameras, so then, on the rear. When we, when we flip around to the rear, we have this 50 megapixel on the main camera.
The other two cameras are probably not gon na blow you away. As far as like two megapixel macro and a two megapixel depth, but this is the one that matters: anyways, you’re, sort of stock, uh camera that that’s going to be on by default. I’Ll show you what you can expect here: performance wise by bringing out the plant.
We’Re talking about a phone here, 199 euros check it out automatic hdr engages, and we get this uh pretty detailed and vibrant green artificial plant world famous. We can also pull in the tim hortons cup, real quick, see what reds look like on here. This is gon na, be sufficient detail now, obviously, i’m not shooting in 50 megapixel mode. Few actually will that’s inside of your settings. If you just happen to want it, you can see it’s 12 megapixel by default up to 50 megapixel high pixel is what they call it. That’S just going to give you a little bit more crop capability afterwards, but you’re going to have much bigger file sizes.
As far as video quality is concerned, you have up to 1080p nine all right. We are now recording some video and you are hearing the microphone. I’M gon na take a sip of this uh coffee here and then i can put it back in frame we’ll see how the autofocus deals with it and then mo will also say hi to you in 1080p. Now, if we switch over to the more budget model and we bring back our same plant, we will get a nice little comparison of what happens at different budgets boom 1x. Now the ai portion of the camera realizes immediately that this is a plant now the photo is definitely usable here, but i can tell immediately it’s not at the same caliber as the plus model.
What have we discovered here today? Probably what you already expected, you can get a better phone for 199 euros than you can for 139 euros. What you’re, getting at either price point is a huge improvement over the way things used to be, and both of them are fairly modern feeling packages at their subsequent price points. But my impression here is that if you can step up to the plus model, this is kind of a more of a sweet spot from a price to performance ratio.
You got the better display. You still got the big battery. I mentioned. You have uh some fast charge in there uh 5010 milliamp hour battery. To be more specific, i like this application. As far as the fingerprint scanner goes, you also have face unlock in here, so you can have one of those slightly more versatile unlock scenarios in which you can have both face, unlock, enabled and fingerprint.
Now a lot of this has to do with preference as well. So side mounted versus rear mounted, you don’t see a lot of rear mounted anymore. I never minded it though. I’Ve used devices as my daily devices in the past, with the rear mounted fingerprint, and i’m fine with that as well. This just so happens to be where your thumb lands, so you’re kind of there anyways you can see. My index doesn’t necessarily go right to where the fingerprint scanner would be around there, so that movement might be a little bit more deliberate. It’S a personal preference thing whether or not you like your fingerprint scanner to be here versus on the back but they’re. These are typical, tried and true technologies, they’re both really easy ways to unlock the phone so and by the way uh. We do have extra camera units here. I don’t know how much use you’re gon na get out of them since they’re two megapixel, but it might be worth super macro here. We go tiny little text. Why not on the cup? So it gets us really close to smaller objects. What’S curious about this is sometimes, if you just switch over to the high megapixel camera with, and then you digitally crop.
Sometimes you can even get a better close-up, we’ll see if it’s possible here. You know what i actually think i think on this on this device, i’m using the 50 megapixel camera. I didn’t even put it in the full pixel mode and still with a crop you’re getting real nice detail.
If you can steady your hand, what does this all mean? Well, it means you can get. We can get better phones today in 2022, at lower prices, that’s the bottom line, 199 euros 139 euros and all types of varieties in between you have the regular 30 model. The 30 plus model you have the 5g model which is coming out shortly. If you want even faster connectivity.
The e model that i’m holding right here, an se model, there’s a tco 30 at different price points at like every 20 to 30 to 50 euro interval. So, there’s something for everyone, depending on what spec you want like, for example, if you don’t want the ultra wide selfie on the plus model, you can get the regular tcl 30 for a little bit less, like 179 euros, actually 20 euros less. So it’s really kind of like a pick and choose scenario where your budget can dictate how many features you want to get like almost like a la carte. What the hell does a la carte, actually even translate to on the card in the cart. Did the waiter come with a cart and, and you would pick the items you would want right like how did it originate a la carte yeah right? So the cart comes up and you don’t have to even look at the menu. They just show you everything they have and then they show you the cart and and the cart’s always going around it’s like, but the car.
Oh cart is card like carte blanche. The menu like blank check, cart blanche, white card francaise. Can we just get a translation of a la carte by the card? The literal meaning of the french phrase is by the card. There’S no cart.
Obviously the opposite of a la carte is a table de hot meal served at a fixed price, wow. Okay, you get your own selection, whatever you want, as opposed to a fixed menu where everybody who sits down gets like a variety. Have you ever eaten a fixed menu before? If you go to like a wedding or something it’s not a la carte anyway yeah. This is like a menu.
Tcl has created a menu so that you can have the a la carte experience at intervals of, as mentioned 20 to 30 to 40 euros across the entire lineup. But this one’s probably the sweet spot. That’S the tcl 30 plus and look at it in this beautiful atlantic blue. I actually you know what i want to mention one more thing: i realized i didn’t do this in the demonstration.
I said when you have the fingerprint scanner on the side. Your thumb nicely rests there. Here’S the other thing if you’re, on your opposite hand, if you’re left-handed, because some people are left-handed and they don’t they don’t.
You know, i would never naturally demonstrate it, but you just enroll your middle finger and it lands on the exact same location and it’s totally comfortable. So whenever i have a side mounted fingerprint scanner, that’s what i do. I register this finger and my right thumb and it is no problemo no problemo. Today’S episode has been sponsored by the power cloud from iswift 65 watt high speed charging charge it all at once. This can charge up to six devices at the same time.
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