Tecno will launch the POVA 5G smartphone on February 8 in India. The company will unveiled the device as its first 5G-enabled smartphone in the country. The landing page of the phone is now live on Amazon India. The listing has confirmed some of the key specs of the device.
Tecno POVA 5G key specifications
Under the hood, the Tecno POVA 5G will have the Dimensity 900 chipset. The phone will carry support for 11 5G bands. The device will come equipped with support for dual 5G SIM slots and Wi-Fi 6. For an enhanced gaming experience, it will feature the Panther Gamer Engine 2.0 that reduces heat, power consumption and frame loss rate, and improves image quality.
The 5G phone will be backed by a 6,000mAh battery that supports 18W charging. The company claims that it can offer 3 hours of playtime by charging only for 15 minutes. It will take around 33 minutes for the battery to gain 50 percent battery juice from the scratch. It will come preinstalled with HiOS 8.1 UI based Android 11 OS.
The other specifications of the phone are already known since it debuted in African markets in December 2021. It has a 6.95-inch IPS LCD FHD+ display that offers a 120Hz refresh rate. The Dimensity 900 SoC is coupled with 8 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128 GB of UFS 3.1 storage. It comes with 3 GB of virtual RAM.
There is a 16-megapixel camera on the front for selfies. Its back panel has a 50-megapixel main camera, a 2-megapixel lens, and an AI camera. It is equipped with a side-facing fingerprint scanner.
Tecno POVA 5G price in India (expected)
Transsion India CEO Arijeet Talapatra had said in December that POVA 5G will be priced between Rs 18,000 (~$241) and Rs 20,000 (~$267) in the country.
A 16-megapixel camera sounds great, and I can rely on the mediatek chipset.