Review: Tecno Stands Tall With Newly Launched Phantom X

August 16, 2021
Tecno Phantom X

By Ashemiriogwa Emmanuel

Ergonomics, they say, is all that matters. This has played out as Tecno Mobile, one of the leading Chinese mobile phone manufacturers, recently launched its first premium flagship smartphone called the Phantom X.

The Hong Kong-based brand debuted its latest device on July 1 with a boast to have met the pursuit of beauty in design, a big leap in camera performance, as well as improved and extraordinary specifications to compete with the top phones from other brands.

In terms of design, the new Phantom X features a three-dimensional (3D) borderless screen by having the screen continue to bend at the edges, up to 70° of an angle. Given this, Tecno has created an unbounded visual experience where images and videos bend off the side of the phone into infinity.

In addition, the phone uses this unique arc design at the right angle of 36.5° to fit perfectly in the user’s hand and then a 6.7” display at the side which makes it a relatively good device option for consuming media.

The backside of the phone was designed with the new innovative silk glass back cover which, for the record, was created based on a series of complex tests and manufacturing procedures, resulting in the silky, glass sparkle of the back cover.

Down to the camera performance, Tecno incorporated up to three sensors in the making of the back camera in order to allow users to create a powerful photography experience on the Phantom X by adopting an industry-leading 50MP Ultra-Night Camera with a 1/1.3-inch ultra-large sensor.

This, as specifications indicated, is pretty much better compared to phone cameras with a 108MP camera with a 1/1.5-inch sensor, as the latter can not take in 33 per cent more light from the environment.

The front camera of the device also has dual sensors to capture large images that bring out the best details of selfies. It supports super-high-resolution images, with a 48MP sensor which indicates that selfies taken with the device will have the same quality as many other back-facing cameras.

Again, smartphone users who rely heavily on mobile phones will be able to take full advantage of Phantom X large storage capacity of 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, as well as the powerful battery which has a large 4700mAh capacity and requires 30 minutes of charge to get up to 70 per cent battery life.

However, a major downside of the new Tecno flagship, which most tech-savvies have observed, is that it has only a single bottom-firing speaker. This signals a possibility for an average or less performance in its audio quality.

Despite this, Phantom X has caught people’s attention as the hottest new smartphone in the market this summer. It has attracted the attention of global technology media, receiving rave reviews and high ratings in reports from platforms like Android Authority, Android Headlines, GSMarena among others.

While the solidly built phone is considered to be reasonably priced, its availability status in Nigerian markets has not been confirmed yet. However, one can preorder the Tecno Phantom X  as it is expected to cost around $555/€470 which is equivalent to about N283,050.

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