TCL seems to be making every other bit of tech these days, so why not a few extra smartphones? The company has quietly launched its K70 budget phone lineup. How quietly? There appear to be three of them in the series, but details are available for only two.
The details appeared on a Thai website, confirming the existence of TCL’s K70 and K70 Power Android handsets. The starting price, converted from bahts to rands? About R6,700 for the Power variant, which gets its suffix from its larger battery capacity.
K70: The Budgetmaker
Both smartphones use MediaTek’s Helio G100 Turbo chipset, which doesn’t go so far as to confer 5G connection speeds on the pair. It’s 4G all the way. Both also use a 6.8in 720p display with support for 120Hz refreshes. The Power version ships with either 4GB or 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, with a microSD slot for the data-hoarders out there. A 6,500mAh battery with 33W wired charging is where the ‘Power’ tag comes from.
The rear camera is a singular 50MP effort, with the apparent second sensor slot being “a helper”, according to GSMArena. TCL has given its phone an IP64 rating, Bluetooth 6.0, and NFC, so it’s fairly well-featured as sub-R7,000 phones go.
The stock version of the handset, it seems, only ships with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The battery is smaller, at 5,200mAh, but that’s still a shade better than most of Samsung’s stable. Camera details for this one aren’t known, since it’s only confirmed via a user manual on TCL’s website.
The third phone? That would be an even more budget SE model (Apple would like a lawyerly word, TCL), which apparently features just 64GB of storage. When that’ll turn up in full is, for now, a mystery.
