In the US, TCL is best known for its affordable TVs, but this year, Company tries to broaden his horizons with the release of three new phones and an exciting new teaser for the hybrid Fold ‘n’ Roll concept.
According to the TCL 20 SE and TCL 20 5G Announced at CES earlier this year, TCL is adding the TCL 20L, TCL 20L + and TCL 20 Pro 5G to its portfolio, with North America getting the TCL 20S instead of the 20L +.
Starting at $ 229, the 20L is the most affordable of the three new TCL phones, and comes with a 6.67-inch FHD + display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, and four rear cameras (48 MP main, 8 MP ultra-wide, 2 MP macro and a 2 MP depth sensor).
The 20L also comes with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor and a large 5000 mAh battery, and unlike many more premium handsets, the 20L (along with the 20L + and 20 Pro 5G) also features a good ole 3, 5mm audio jack and a microSD card reader, which are certainly useful inclusions.
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Going to $ 269 will get you to the TCL 20L +, a slightly upgraded version of the standard 20L with a higher-resolution 64MP main camera on the back, but with the same Snapdragon 662 in it, in addition to 6GB of RAM and 256 GB storage as standard.
A few other special features on the 20L + include TCL’s Backlight Selfie and Super Night mode and the companies new Circular Polarization Display technology, which is specially made to let you see the phone display clearly while wearing sunglasses. If we’re being honest, I haven’t come across many phones struggling with polarized lenses, but it does happen from time to time, mostly on budget devices, so while this tech isn’t exactly a game-cpendant, it’s a handy bonus for general usability.
TCL has not yet disclosed full details for this the 20S for people in the US, Canada, and Mexico, but TCL said the telephone will have a similar design and price to the others in the line-up
Finally there is the TCL 20 Pro 5G, which starts at 549 euros and has a number of premium features, including a luxury design, 6.67-inch FHD + AMOLED display, 48MP rear camera with OIS and a Snapdragon 750G chip that supports sub-6 GHz 5G.
Additional features that set the TCL 20 5G Pro apart from its more affordable siblings include a 32MP selfie camera that supports HDR, built-in Qi wireless charging, and TCL’s NXTVISION 2.0, which enhances the display’s richness of color and accuracy. features an AI-powered visual enhancer to spice up your mobile videos.
W.Although TCL’s three new phones look solid and have solid specifications for the price, TCL also teased one more device that could be a look at a future phone, or possibly TCL’s upcoming foldable phone, what the company said will arrive sometime before the end of the year.
TCL’s Fold ‘n’ Roll concept is designed to present a flexible display that can be manipulated in multiple ways on one device and looks like the ultimate smartphone / tablet hybrid, which can unfold from a typical candy bar-molded handset into a large tablet-sized device, before the screen unfolds fully to reveal a 10-inch display with a proper widescreen ratio for watching movies.
Unfortunately, TCL has no plans to sell the Fold ‘n’ Roll concept, but the device does serve to advance the company’s ongoing research into devices with flexible screens, with TCL’s ultimate goal to release an ‘affordable’ foldable phone by the end of 2021. Whether that means a price tag of $ 1,000 or less is still unknown, but with devices like the Galaxy Z Fold 2 is still going for $ 1,800 (even after a recent $ 200 price cut), every effort to make foldable phones cheaper sounds good to me.
The TCL 20L, 20L + / 20S and 20 Pro 5G will go on sale tomorrow in select parts of Europe, with pricing and availability in the US expected to be announced sometime later this spring.