TCL 30XL Unlocked Cell Phone, 6.82 inch Vast Display, 5000mAh Battery, Android 12 Smartphone, 50MP Rear 13MP Front Camera, 6GB RAM 64GB ROM, US Version, Dual Speaker, LTE 4G Phone, Night Mist

TCL 30XL Unlocked Cell Phone, 6.82 inch Vast Display, 5000mAh Battery, Android 12 Smartphone, very good phone for the cost. I am not a user of this type of phone and sent it back to the maker. while I it and tried to use it. I found it to be well made and very good at what and whom it was made for, but I got stared with apple iPhone and prefer that type phone and found one in my local area and purchased a used in very good condition and have not looked back. mo new used phone is an 11 pro max which should lasd me for 3 years until Apple no longer needs that phone.

I have had this phone now for a month or so, I am very impressed. Interestingly, my wife's newer iPhone $1,000.00 + .....has nothing over the TCL 30, nothing except her battery runs out very quickly. I own and operate a tree service, phones don't last very long around me. This phone has been a solid performer right out of the box.Excellent 3 plus day battery life, speaker is clear and loud, super fast on internet and had more than ample storage.I read reviews for days before choosing thisTCL 30, so far, it's the best smart phone I have ever had. Very Impressed, Extra Happy too. The money I saved, I bought a new chainsaw......

I just got the phone a couple of days ago but have been using it constantly and putting it to the test a lot in the last 48 hours. It feels really nice in the hand and has a fairly premium feel to it despite it being very budget friendly. Love the large screen. The facial recognition and fingerprint sensor are perfect... they both work really well and i have not had any trouble with either one. It's got android 12 which is cool and fun to use. I love that you can take a picture using the fingerprint sensor... excellent idea and makes it so much easier than having to worm your thumb around to hit the button on the screen .. esp. with a large phone like this. Lots of little extras that you can discover if you spend some time playing around with it. The downside is that it is a bit on the slow side. It definitely does lag when opening apps .. some apps take longer than others. Scrolling thru Twitter and Instagram is bumpy at best. Other applications on the phone like settings, contacts, email, messages, etc, seem to scroll just fine. But not a super quick phone if that is what you are looking for. That said, you can get used to pretty much anything and for the money this is a pretty solid device. I've had two other TCL phones and liked them both very much. This one is my favorite size-wise, but the other two models had faster processors. Screen colors are pretty nice. Photos aren't bad. The camera seems improved over the TCL 20s which is the other model i own. Not a point and shoot camera - you have to take at least a couple of shots to get it perfectly clear and focused, in my experience. All in all fairly pleased with it. Early days so time will tell but as of right now it's not bad. Battery life is great. With moderate use you will definitely get a full day and then some.

THIS product works well. It is easy to use an seems reliable.

I currently have a Samsung Note 9, which was released in 2018 (it is relevant to this review, I promise), but I'm not happy with the direction Samsung is going with their newer higher end phones (taking away expandable storage, taking away some sensors, etc) so I was looking to get a feel for a new phone company.We currently have two TCL TV's that we love so I decided to give TCL a try. I am testing a new unlocked TCL 30XL (2022) outside on a sunny day right next to my Note 9. Right off the bat, it's very hard to see the screen on the 30XL when I'm standing in the sun and have the screen at 100% brightness. If this was the only issue, I could possibly deal with it by adjusting how I use the phone, but it's not the only issue.The biggest problem I have with this phone is my connection speed. I have made sure to adjust every setting the same that I can on the 30XL and Note 9. I even migrated all of my settings from that phone. I'm on Verizon network with what is a very good connection on the Note 9. I've tested my speed a dozen times in 6 different positions while connected to only mobile data and I'm averaging about 48 Mbps on the Note 9 and 0.02 Mbps on the 30XL! It's almost a non-existent connection. I'm swapping the sim card each time and checking the speed with the other phone as soon as I get the sim swapped while holding them in the exact same position. Both phones are 4G and say that in the bar. It has nothing to do with the sim and nothing to do with Verizon. All controllable parameters being equal, it's hard to believe that a phone 4 model years newer would run a data connection so much slower. It makes me believe there might be something wrong with this particular 30XL.The fingerprint reader is hit and miss on this phone. The speed of the phone switching from app to app is noticeably slower than the Note 9. Even typing on the phone feels a bit glitchy, like when I want to delete a couple sentences and hold down backspace/delete on my keyboard, it doesn't delete the letters and words smoothly, it doesn't feel like it can keep up and then all of a sudden it's deleted a bunch of words into the next sentence. I use the same keyboard on my Samsung, and this does not happen. I know this isn't a perfect comparison, it's what I have to work with. The perceived feel of a phone while it's processing is an important part of the overall experience.Maybe if I was able to splurge on one of TCL's higher end phones this wouldn't be an issue? I just didn't feel like I could get their higher end phone at the moment, and wanted to test out the company before potentially switching to them full time. I don't know if this phone is a lemon in more ways than just the mobile data speed?The phone does feel good in the hand, the screen size is good, and battery seems to last better than the Note 9 (which does still have it's original battery). If it wasn't for the phone feeling like it lags while processing, I'd consider getting the same replacement phone to see if the unusable mobile speeds are just a bad unit. As it is, I don't think I can try another 30XL, even for the great price.My significant other is wanting to switch from Samsung also. I was hoping I could recommend TCL, but right now I couldn't. I will have to return this phone. I'm not sure what direction to go from here, but we use our phones for so much online stuff nowadays that there's no way to keep a phone that doesn't do online stuff well, not to mention one that doesn't switch from app to app without a lag since everything is done using apps now.

I used to have a TCL 20s. This is only slightly taller than that, despite the 'XL' name. The internal specs are similar, but the OS and ram are better. Power button, thumb print scanner, are separate and the power button is raised now. Making it hard to distinguish it from the volume button by touch. The assistant button is gone, which I found really handy on the 20s. Overall, its only an OK model.