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On the bright side, battery performance is pretty good, and you’ll be able to clear a full day of usage without issue. You’ll have to make do without wireless charging, but that’s hardly the norm at this end of the market (though the iPhone SE says hi again).

TCL has attempted to justify this as more than an aesthetic conceit by including an Edge Bar software feature. Swipe up or down one edge of the phone, and a little side overlay will pop out, granting speedy access to your favorite apps. The TCL 10 Pro battery seems to underperform for its size, so I tried it out against the Google Pixel 3a XL and Xiaomi Mi Note 10 using Geekbench 4’s battery test. It came out with 5182 points, fewer than the Pixel’s 5344 – even though that phone has a smaller 3700mAh battery. In addition, general image processing isn’t nearly as good as that of Google, Xiaomi or Huawei phones at the price. Fine textures sometimes end up looking “painted”, turning gravel into brush strokes, and fine detail is over-sharpened. Video capture tops out at 4K resolution, 30 frames a second. And, unusually, there are no 60fps capture modes, even at 1080p or below.On Standard mode, the TCL 10 Pro covered 172.3% of the sRGB color space. That translates to noticeably more vibrant colors than the 111.2% iPhone SE, which utilizes an LCD panel. However, the iPhone’s hues were more realistic, as Apple’s phone notched a Delta-E score of 0.20 compared to the TCL’s 0.28 (numbers closer to zero are better). Elsewhere, the AI seemed wholly unable to balance brighter elements, such as the pure white petals of some lilies, making them look like weird garden lamps. And while the 24MP selfie camera takes reasonably crisp shots, it too seems to struggle with bright spots, like the early evening sky or the sun shining off this writer’s (admittedly pale) head. The macro camera does let you shoot ultra-close shots such as this; but the results can be disappointing Relatively low-end camera hardware doesn’t quite do justice to the texture of these petals and the stamen detail Image quality of the ultra-wide camera is decent, too. It uses the 16-megapixel Samsung s5K3p9 sensor (1/3.1 inch). Hardware is less advanced and images tend to display a fine mist of grain across them; but this is only visible on zooming. Day-lit ultra-wide images are entirely usable, and having a second field of view is always welcome. For gaming, we tested the phone with Asphalt 8 and PUBG: Mobile. Load times take a little longer than they do on the Samsung Galaxy S20, but considering that phone costs more than double the 10 Pro, it's easy to get past. Once loaded, we played for a few hours and never experienced any crashes or skipped frames.

There are subtler signs of the TCL 10 Pro’s display quality, too. Curved OLED displays can leave a phone with edges that look dimmer than the rest, but the effect is minimal here. There’s also very minor shift in colour tone when viewed from an angle. Less advanced OLED screens can take on a blue tint when they’re not viewed dead-on. The TCL 10 Pro’s selfie camera uses a high-resolution 24-megapixel sensor, but it isn’t particularly impressive. TCL 10 Pro battery life – Will get you to the end of the day, justOne hour of Netflix streaming, with the brightness set to full, lost us 8%. That’s pretty similar to the Realme X2’s 7%, and significantly better than we got with the Huawei Nova 5T. However, the TCL 10 Pro doesn’t offer 5G, the gorgeous matte-glass rear of the device is too easy to damage, the interface requires some tweaking to get it just right, and camera processing could do with a lighter touch. In addition, the TCL 10 Pro faces strong competition from the Xiaomi Realme 6, which is cheaper.