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TCL 30 5G review: Affordable 5G with Dimensity 700 and AMOLED.

SpecEagle Editorial·Apr 2022·$220
Overall
60/100
Class rank
#51 of 188
Tier
Budget
Buy?
Look elsewhere
The verdict, up front

AMOLED 5G on a tight budget.

TCL 30 5G leveraged the company's display heritage to put AMOLED into a sub-$250 5G phone — a value play that built TCL's smartphone presence on North American prepaid shelves.

01Display

78/100

At 78/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among budget phones of 2022 — 13 points above the cohort average.

TypeAMOLED
Size6.7 inches
Resolution1080 x 2400 px

02Camera

60/100

60/100 puts it above the 57-point average for budget phones of 2022.

Main50 MP, f/1.8
Macro2 MP
Depth2 MP
Selfie13 MP

03Performance

60/100

At 60/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among budget phones of 2022 — 7 points above the cohort average.

ChipsetDimensity 700 5G (7nm)
GPUMali-G57 MC2

04Battery

80/100

80/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2022.

Capacity5000 mAh
Charging18W

05Build

64/100

64/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2022.

What works
  • AMOLED + 5G at $220 — rare combo
  • 5000 mAh + microSD + jack
  • TCL's NXTVISION display tuning
What doesn't
  • Dimensity 700 modest
  • 2 MP filler lenses
  • Mono speaker
Cross-shop it against
Redmi Note 10 5G
$199 · score 70/100

How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 188-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .