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TL; DR
- TCL is launching three phones in the US, all within the TCL 20 series.
- The 20 Pro, 20S, and 20 SE start at $ 190 and go up to $ 500.
- TCL doesn’t have US carrier partnerships for the series, so the phones will be available unlocked on Amazon.
That changes today. Three phones from TCL’s latest mid-range / budget smartphone family are now available to US buyers. Unfortunately, we don’t get all five phones, but the three we do get range from decent mid-range to ultra-budget devices.
TCL 20 Series in the US: What You Need To Know
The headliner is the TCL 20 Pro. Priced at $ 500, this phone is the highest quality in the range. It has a 6.67-inch curved AMOLED display with a resolution of 2,400 x 1,080 and HDR10 playback support. There is a centered display cutout for the 32 MP selfie camera and a fingerprint scanner under the screen. It has a quad lens camera on the back, wireless charging, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G chipset under the hood (which supports 5G connections) paired with 6GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage.
Next up, we have the TCL 20S for $ 250. In other parts of the world it ended up as the TCL 20L Plus. Despite the name change, the two phones are identical. This means that it has a 6.67-inch LCD flat display with a resolution of 2,400 x 1,080 pixels. It has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, a quad-lens camera on the back and a 16-megapixel selfie camera in a centered display section. The budget-conscious Snapdragon 662 powers the phone, which means no 5G support for it. It’s paired with 6GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage.
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Finally, we have the TCL 20 SE, which we first saw at CES. For the low price of $ 190, you get a 6.82-inch display with a low 720p resolution. It runs on last year’s Snapdragon 460. There’s a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, quad lens camera array, and 4GB of RAM under the hood.
All three phones are available on Amazon in an unlocked form. The two non-5G phones support most GSM-based networks (T-Mobile and AT&T). The TCL 20S also works with Verizon. The TCL 20 Pro is 5G-capable, but currently only works in T-Mobile’s 5G network. It will work on AT & T’s 4G network and will eventually work on Verizon’s 4G and Sub6 5G “in the coming weeks”.