TCL 598 Review: specs and features, camera quality test, gaming benchmark, user opinions and photos

TCL 598 - even more cameras!

It is not the first time in the history of a smartphone market when we can observe the competition between companies in the capacity of a technical parameter. Unfortunately, all in this world has a limit. We have convinced in this fact on examples of resolution of displays (redundancy of 2K and 4K), of the amount of RAM (no growth performance from 6GB/8GB), now it is time of cameras. The hero of today's review has four photomodules, but is it the only competitive advantage? 

Of course the company could not leave their flagship without an impressive appearance. The metal ergonomic slimline housing with rounded corners, "combined" eyes of excellent 13-megapixel cameras and a fingerprint scanner, a pleasant texture of the back cover - in the aggregate all the above mentioned points create a really beautiful and original device. In accordance with the existing standards the IPS-screen of a phablet has a diagonal in 5 and a half inches and FullHD-resolution. Image clarity, overall brightness and contrast are significantly higher than average level. 

The use of the Mediatek Helio X20 processor can be regarded as a controversial moment, because it does not always demonstrate a smooth gameplay of demanding titles cause of the lack of optimization. However, together with 4GB of RAM and the Mali T880MP4 videochip such a decision is still seriously superior to, for example, MT6755. 64GB of ROM means the opportunity to storage of tens of films and thousands of music files. 

In addition to already mentioned above decent main modules the device boasts a double front camera, consisting of 8 and 5 megapixel sensors. The manufacturer declares incredible selfie with magnificent color reproduction and minimum noise. But there are a fly in the ointment. The battery in 3030mAh guarantees only 4-6 hours of active screen time. 4G-surfing will reduce this figure even much more. In general the device came out though not an ideal, but extremely competitive for its price. It is really worthy rival for LeEco cool1, Xiaomi Redmi Pro.