![]() ![]() The white onions topping the tacos look sharp and clean in each shot and the side of pickled carrot is a vibrant shade of orange. We start off well with this photo shot indoors at a local taqueria, where both phones capture the bright colors of my three-taco combination platter. If the TCL 30 V can match the output of this slightly more expensive phone, you figure your photo needs will be in good hands. If you've read Tom's Guide phone reviews before, you'll know we think that dedicated macro cameras don't serve much of a purpose other than to inflate a phone's camera count, and the TCL 30 V's version will not be forcing us to rethink our position.īut let's focus on the more useful lenses first, comparing the TCL 30 V's efforts to the photos captured by the Samsung Galaxy A42, a Verizon exclusive from a year ago that's still available for just $60 more than TCL's phone. ![]() Other lenses making up the triple camera array include a 5MP Super Wide shooter with a 115-degree field of view and a 2MP macro camera. The phone's main camera is a 50MP wide-angle shooter with an f/1.9 aperture. But you should at least expect competent photos, and on that front, the TCL 30 V largely delivers, though with some glaring omissions. When you shop for phones in the less-than-$300 range, you're tacitly accepting the notion that the best camera phones are beyond your budget. (And save power it does, as we'll get to below.) TCL 30 V 5G review: Cameras The TCL 30 V features a standard 60Hz rate, but a Smart Refresh State mode can downscale the refresh rate automatically to save power. Some recent budget phones tout faster refresh rates - the Moto G Stylus offers a 90Hz display, for example. (Numbers closer to zero are more accurate.) At least TCL's colors were more accurate, with its Dealt-E score of 0.23 beating out the 0.27 rating we recorded for Motorola. ![]() The Moto G Stylus, which also features an LCD screen, tallied results of 127.8% and 90.4%, respectively, and that's nobody's idea of a colorful display. In Vivid mode, the TCL 30 V captured 121.7% of the sRGB color gamut and 86.2% of the more demanding DCI-P3 gamut. Bright colors like the red panda in Turning Red seemed vivid enough on the TCL 30 V screen, but darker scenes like a concert in Girls5Eva looked dim and indistinct, even with the singers' bright outfits. I've been more impressed with Nxtvsiion on TCL's AMOLED phones, as it didn't seem to make much of a noticeable difference on the TCL 30 V's LCD panel. The TCL 30 V includes the company's Nxtvision features, which can adjust contrast and colors in real time to take full advantage of the phone display's wide color gamut. When using the TCL 30 V, I found I needed to crank brightness all the way up to make out details on the screen, and I wound up disabling adaptive brightness so the phone wouldn't dim when I returned to it later. The OnePlus Nord N20 5G and Moto G Stylus (2022) - two phones in the TCL 30 V's price range - outshone it at 567 and 560 nits, respectively. Using a light meter, we measured the peak brightness for the TCL 30 V 5G at 420 nits, with adaptive brightness turned off. If only the screen could be brighter when you do that, though.
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