Review on TCL Unlocked Android Smartphone Charging Cell Phones & Accessories and Cell Phones by Ryan Carter

Pros: Not loaded with bloatware Has two flashlights Allows bluetooth connection to 4 devices and has a sync feature to sync 4 speakers Plenty of space to download and App load time is decentTCL has some nice options for ringtones and notifications. Cons: Leaves a lot to be desired at this price point even with the 90 dll discount. The headphone jack is vacant so while you're using the old 3.5mm jack you become useless as there's nothing left in the jack. Validated against other devices using the same cable. Others have mentioned the unreliability of the fingerprint reader, it's true that it's not as accurate as one might expect. I had to add 3 different fingerprints of the same finger to have a slightly higher probability of accuracy, but even then it's still not as good as a dedicated button. There is no way to turn off the shutter sound in a screenshot, even when you enter the system interface. putting it there and turning it off proved useless. Muting requires the use of a third-party screenshot app, but now you can't map that action to a smart button like you can with the built-in screenshot tool. To clarify, you can associate a third-party screenshot app, but not the actual action to take a screenshot. For some reason, live wallpapers keep reverting to static wallpapers even if you use the built-in ones. It works for a while and then you'll randomly find that it's reverted to a static wallpaper without doing anything. Ram has 6GB, which you think is enough, but even after the initial setup, you only have half of that to work with. for your running applications, so the operating system consumes at least half of it in most cases. It just seems a bit inefficient and misleading. Streaming quality - depends on the original video. I used Wi-Fi with a download speed of over 250MB and YouTube videos, ads from various apps and across the web all looked sharp. But watching short videos on iFunny or Snapchat was of poor quality. I did a direct comparison with a 6 year old Motorola g2 Force and both over WiFi and there was a clear difference even with the added video software in the TCL phone while gaming. Camera Quality - Others have mentioned that the camera isn't as good as other cameras, both rear and front cameras, and I tend to agree. It's not the best, but it's not the worst either, just sums it up. (Update in 3 months: This may be due to the latest tcl software update, but the front and rear cameras are garbage now. They show running vertical lines when you try to take a photo or video, and they also appear when you they record It seems to be a small processing issue that hasn't happened until recently, post the latest ABY OS update.) Battery Life - Although the battery is a bit bigger and newer than my 6 year old phone, it lasts about same duration. I run about the same number of applications at the same time, if not less. Perhaps this is due to the inefficiency of the operating system, so there is no real control over it. All in all, I knew in advance what I know now, I wouldn't spend more than 299 euros on a TCL 10 Pro and would probably choose a different make and model. . It's not the worst phone, but it has issues and at its current price point, it's not worth buying compared to its direct competitors.