Chinese electronics giant TCL has announced a new middle-range 5G smartphone known as the TCL Stylus 5G in the U.S. market. Available in a single Lunar Black colorway, the TCL Stylus 5G is priced at just US$258 in the U.S market for it’s sole 4GB+128GB variant.
Starting with the front side of the phone, the new TCL Stylus 5G brings along a large 6.81” IPS LCD display offering a FHD+ screen resolution along with 60Hz refresh rate. One of the key highlight here is perhaps the support for an external stylus which allows users to quickly drop down notes or even doodle on the phone during their free time.
On the imaging front, the TCL Stylus 5G sports a quad-camera setup on the rear side comprising of a 50 megapixels main camera, 5 megapixels ultra-wide camera, as well as a pair of 2 megapixels cameras for macro and depth information. This will be rounded out by a 13 megapixels front-facing camera for selfies and video calls.
The TCL Stylus 5G is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 700 chipset which will be paired with 4GB RAM and 128GB built-in storage which can be further expanded via a microSD card. To keep it’s lights on, the phone draws power from a respectable 4,000mAh battery which carries support for 18W fast-charging.
On the software side of things, the phone is shipped with TCL UI based on Android 12 OS out of the box. Apart from that, other key features also include the presence of a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, 3.5mm headphone jack, as well as a dual speaker system.