Price: $199.99 - $154.99
(as of Jul 05, 2024 02:29:01 UTC – Details)
The TCL 30XL works with most major…
Customers say
Customers like the display of the cellular phone. They say it’s clear, vivid, and huge. They also like the size, and value. However, some customers dislike the sound quality. Opinions are mixed on quality, charging, battery life, and performance.
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Allen Doss –
Pros and cons
I like the phone all together, but if your playing high speed games it likes to freeze. If you get it and it keeps saying you don’t have cell phone signal when you know you have it. Then just turn off the phone and turn it back on and it will work. I used it with my old sim card from another android phone and it worked. I don’t know if you can change to a different service after that and it work or not. You might be able to use straight talk one month and then change to Verizon. I don’t know; but the first service you put on the phone is what you might have to always use. Everyday use stuff like listening to music, Facebook, Google; and other things people might do everyday is alright. It’s just a everyday use phone nothing special. The graphics are in the older style that I like. Something to think about it’s used for the simple things in life not all the big movie streaming and stuff people do now. It’s a great budget phone and durable. I weld 12 hours a day ;and it plays music all day. Without going dead or messing up. I like that it’s cheap so if you mess it up. Then you can just buy a new one without busting the bank. Just think about what you want! Cheap and reliable or expensive and constantly worried about messing it up; or breaking the bank to get a new one. If you want simple and easy this is it. I think it’s one of the best cheapest phones you can buy.
sazara –
This is a great phone if you don’t mind a little sluggishness
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.
James M. Hryb –
No more dropped calls! AMAZING reception.
Cons,The screen is not pure inky black and has poor side viewing.The cameras are not world class.Feels sluggish at times.You need high sensitivity, low impedance headphones to get the most out of the 3.5mm headphone jackPROsThe screen gets BRIGHT, and when looking at the phone head on, it is vivid and clearThe camera app is intuitive, easy to use, and pro mode is a bunch of fun… for me anyway!after 3-4 hours of updates, disablingremoving bloatware and unwanted programs, the phone feels responsive and I’m able to play hill climb racing 2 without any hiccups.As a phone goes, everyone says my voice is clear, not much low end in the ear speaker from the other person, but it goes loud and it is clear, same goes for the stereo speakers at the bottom, speakerphone works well, there is no time warp delay, or hearing yourself when you call.I believe I have actually upgraded my phone, as a phone. My note 20 ultra 5g SUCKED as a phone constantly dropping calls.This phone feels premium in the had and the cameras are protected by the thinnest of phone cases. the clear included case works perfectly fine!______________________________________________________________________________I am very happy with it, overall.10/10 FOR PRICE/PERFORMANCEwould recommend this phone to anyone who does not care if things are INSTANT. I think they used SLOW lpddr, paired with slow mmlc 64GB creating a unique bandwidth problem. The pages scroll much better after things are loaded. (I’m using the phone for texting, conference, and yep, phone calls all are instant with no lag whatsoever, same with home-screen/phone/settings navigation all really smooth)