Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Best Do-it-all $400 phone!”.
This video is sponsored by tcl, so most people know tcl from like these guys, the the tvs they’re everywhere. You can’t go into a costco without seeing tcl tvs, they’re they’re great uh they’ve been making phones for a while, usually under different names, alcatel blackberry to name a few, but recently they’ve been putting their own tcl stamp on their phones. We took a look at the first, i know fruits. If you want to call it of that with the tcl 10 series, they were really good phones but they’re back with, i think the peak of the 10 series it’s a partnership with verizon, it’s called appropriately. I guess the tcl 10 5g uw.
It combines the stuff that tcl is really good at like displays with sort of the processing power of qualcomm. It’S got. The 765g chip inside with six gigabytes of ram for 400. tcl is going to be good at anything. In this phone, like it’s got to be their displays, so it’s an lcd display it’s fhd, plus at 6.53, inches 91 screen to body ratio with a hole, punch camera, and it’s a really good i’ll see this point. I don’t know how else to say: colors pop blacks, despite not being oled, look really black, there’s plenty of brightness.
It is a very good display, not just a good display for a 400 phone. It’S a good display for pretty much any phone. That’S out there and you’d expect that again from tcl, so the build of the phone is also really nice and i’m gon na stop short of calling it premium feeling, but it does not feel at all. Like a budget phone, i mean that as a huge compliment to the phone there’s, a nice weight to it doesn’t feel like cheap plastics were used. It makes me happy. We kind of moved away from budget phones feeling really cheap to sort of 400 ish phones that now have a premium feel and if you catch it in certain light, there’s kind of a prism effect on the back. I like it, it feels really good i’d. Still probably put in a case to protect it uh, but the phone looks and feels more expensive than it is powering.
This phone is now seems like a ubiquitous chip. It’S in seemingly every phone out there, it’s qualcomm, 765g, it’s the same processor, that’s in the flagship, pixel, the same processor, that’s in the oneplus nord! We are seeing this processor get used over and over again for really good reason. Uh, it is extremely capable now, if you’re gon na benchmark it against the latest 865 you’ll see a difference in those benchmark numbers, but in real use cases you’re not going to see drastic differences, especially now and tcl, is also giving it six gigs of ram, which Would give it more like headroom, as you use the phone sort of past that 12 month mark, but if you’re worried about social media multitasking playing back video chrome, whatever it might be, you’ll have no issues.
No slowdown, no stutters whatsoever with the 765g battery was a super pleasant, surprise uh. It is a giant battery. It’S 4 500 million powers. You combine that with the power and efficiency of the 765 g. You got a nice like mix in the bowl recipe for delicious battery life and that’s obviously extra important, because this phone supports every flavor of 5g all right, so this phone is verizon. Verizon’S big 5g push is ultra wideband. It’S like the really really fast version of 5g, where you can get multiple gigabits down um, but they sometimes only work on different street corners. It’S really good for outdoor stadiums. It’S not the kind of 5g necessary you’d want inside of your home.
It doesn’t have the best wall penetration. This also supports that flavor of 5g, which is called sub 6., and i think 5g is still very much in its infancy. I think 5g. We have right now it’s really not going to be what 5v is going to be 12 months from now. But if you want a phone, that’s going to be more future proof. This is a really good option and you are getting those flagship features. You know 5g just came to the iphone, for you know, a thousand dollars plus pending, which version you get. You are still getting 5g on a phone now, that’s 400! So that’s the general specs there’s actually a lot more in here. Uh 128 gigabytes of storage, which is awesome to have, i think, you’d expect 64 to be standard, not the case. Expandable storage also really nice to have here.
It’S got a rear, mounted fingerprint reader, which i think is probably the sweet spot right now for those it works really well, it was quick. I had no trouble with it and something i don’t get to save very often headphone jack, you actually plug in a legit pair of headphones on here uh. On the camera side, there are three of them: it’s a wide ultra wide and a macro, flanked on each side by led flash. So there’s there’s two led flashes on here, so the main shooter is 48 megapixel and it’s fine.
It is a let’s say, good enough. Camera to do what you would need to do if there was anywhere on this package, where you can say there were sacrifices made for price. I think it would probably be camera, but it’s not to say it is a bad camera by any stretch of the imagination. Just don’t come in here expecting, let’s say, pixel level photos, but if you’re shooting in optimal light, indoor or outdoor, your pictures will look very good and certainly very good for social media or like a zoom call or something. Obviously, technology moves like a blazing pace. It goes crazy fast, but i don’t think that speed is any more apparent than on sort of the lower end of the price thing. What you’re getting for 400 bucks would have been a flagship phone a year ago, and these sub 500 phones no longer are, quite frankly, garbage phones.
You are getting six gigabytes of ram 128 gigabytes of storage, really good screen a processor that is used in much more expensive phones, there’s very little sacrifices that were made to get to that price point. Tcl has got economies of scale with their displays since they make you know so many of them that’s how the price can get down, and it’s really nice to see, and i commend tcl for competing at this end of the spectrum. Instead of releasing a 1400 phone, you know that may be trying to compete in very crowded waters. This is a really good phone at a really good price, and if you want a phone, that’s going to work really well for you get guaranteed software support. You happen to be on verizon.
I think you owe it to yourself to look at the tcl. 10. 5G uw .