The Infinix Smart 5 is a mid-range smartphone that was announced in Nigeria  market. The android phone comes with a tall aspect ratio, a large-sized battery, a triple rear camera, and a large 5000 mAh battery.

Design and Display

The Infinix Smart 5 has a stylish gem-cut-design that creates subtle patterns . The panel is similar to the one on Infinix Hot 9 series and Tecno Spark 5 housing the cameras and fingerprint reader.

It also has a fingerprint scanner and it measures 165.4 x 73.4 x 8.75mm in dimensions. The waterdrop notch on the front houses a 6.6-inch LCD display that offers 720 x 1600 pixels resolution and 20:9 aspect ratio.

The screen has an 86.6% screen-to-body ratio offering a broader view experience.

Camera

There is an 8 MP snapper on the waterdrop notch that features automatic retouching to deliver perfect photos. It also has a dual flash for nice shots in dim light. You will get a new intelligent algorithm to customize your own beauty style such as 3D face improvement and identifies different skin tones to make selfie photos more natural and unique.

The Smart 5 is further equipped with triple rear cameras on the back. It includes an enhanced AI-powered 8MP triple camera that captures clearer, brighter, and more beautiful photos effortlessly at all times.

Hardware and Software

On hardware, the maker equipped the Smart 5 with a midrange Mediatek processor that has an octa-core clocking at a speed of 1.8 GHz. It runs on Go Edition based on the Android 10 operating system out of the box.

The internal storage includes an average of 32GB and 2GB RAM.You can further expand the phone using a micro SDcard up to 64GB. The Infinix Smart 5 packs a 5000 mAh battery that Infinix claims will last up to 4 days. It has a standard version of 10W charging through micro USB cable.

Infinix Smart 5  Specs & Features

• 6.6 inches IPS LCD Display, 720 x 1600 pixels, 20:9 ratio (~266 ppi)
• Android 10 (Go edition)
• Octa-core 1.8 GHz
• 2GB,
• 32gb Built-in Storage up to 64GB Memory Card
• 8 MP + VGA + VGA Triple Rear Cameras
• 8 MP Front Camera with dual flash light
• Fingerprint Scanner
• 5000 mAh  Battery

TECNO CAMON 17 is one of the latest additions to an everlasting list of TECNO phones, and the popular CAMON series focused mainly on photography.

While there are many expensive smartphones out there, TECNO leans more towards manufacturing phones at affordable prices – providing what the end-users need most like a good screen, better cameras, good battery life, friendly software experience, and most especially, optimized overall performance at a price that won’t break your bank.

Being the right successor to Camon 16, TECNO Camon 17 comes with many notable features. This includes 128GB storage, improved camera, larger display, 18W Flash charge, etc.

If this is all you’re looking for in your next smartphone, the TECNO CAMON 17 could be the best choice for you. It comes packed with the MediaTek Helio G85 gaming and battery optimization focused processor, a 6.6″ Dot-In HD+ cinematic display with 90Hz refresh rate that can brighten up to 480 nits, a dependable 5000mAh battery with 18W Quick charge, 128GB of internal storage and 4GB of RAM, a 48MP flagship-level camera, and many more

Stylish Design 

The TECNO CAMON 17 is where you look for a beautiful and outstanding design. From the placement of its rectangular-shaped rear camera, to its colourful back finish, it feel like you’re holding a piece of premium device. Also, this device is designed in a way that makes it comfortable to hold in your palms. Moving to the front reveals the large 6.6″ Dot-in display with the resolution of 720×1600 pixels. The display gets quite bright at 480 nits, this makes it usable in almost every condition.

High Performance

While planning to get a new phone, one of the main priority is getting a phone with notably good performance. Of course, you don’t want to get a phone that keeps you waiting on every task. The TECNO CAMON 17 comes with an Octa-Core gaming processor powered by the MediaTek Helio G85 chipset. In its price range, this phone performs well in day-to-day tasks like playing games, texting, watching videos, etc. Also, its performance is backed up by 4GB of RAM which enhances the overall performance and gives more room for multitasking.

Plenty of storage to play with.

Owning this phone, you’d want to take many pictures, play high graphics games and videos, and download songs and all others, all of which consume lots of storage. With the 128GB of internal storage on the CAMON 17, users are given an ample amount of space to store all their files without having to always clear the storage. Not just that, this phone features a dedicated micro SD card slot where you can easily expand the storage if you ever need more.

Cameras, Stunning Photography

The TECNO CAMON series known for its outstanding performance in photography and the TECNO CAMON 17 is not left out in the game. Even at its price range, the TECNO CAMON 17 comes with a good camera system with lots of functions to play with. This device alone has a total of six cameras which include the flagship-level 48MP quad-camera at the rear, and a 8MP dual-camera at the front.

The Quad-camera setup at the rear consists of a 48MP main camera, 8MP Wide-angle + Macro camera, 2MP depth sensor for perfect Bokeh and portrait shots, an AI lens, and Penta-LED flash. For the selfie lovers, the device now has a 8MP front camera

Powered by TAIVOS (TECNO AI Vision Optimization Solution), this device uses AI to automatically enhance every shot you click on it. Talk of the improved Night Mode, it performs excellently well by reducing over-exposure, compensating with the needed amount of brightness, and boosting the images shot in dark scenarios.

Ultra-Night Portrait mode is another feature on this device. This device makes it possible to take portrait pictures even in low-lightning conditions. Without blowing out the subject with over-exposure, Night Mode 2.0 uses AI to automatically process the portrait details and gives you clearer and brighter portrait pictures.

We will not but mention it’s HIS (Hybrid Image Stabilization) combining the technology of EIS with AIS to provide stable video footage when it’s activated. This could help in scenarios where you don’t have a tripod to shoot your next video. Just enable this mode and be rest assured to get less-shaky footage.

There are just many camera improvements on the TECNO CAMON 17 which are better experienced than told. There are still features that focus mainly on dark-skinned people, AI Beauty mode, Video Beauty, AI Scene Detection, Animoji, HDR portrait, Video Bokeh, etc., all on this device which makes it prove the tag of being a Camera smartphone in its price segment.

Dependable Battery

With all the great features the CAMON 17 has to offer, a good battery is what’s needed to fuel the experience. This device comes with a large 5000mAh battery that could last for about 2 days on normal usage. And unless you’re always on the screen, it’s hard to consume its battery in a day. Also, charging this device is pretty fast. With its 18W Quick Charge, you’ll no longer have to tarry just to juice up the battery.

The TECNO CAMON 17 also features a powerful Battery Saving mode that automatically adjusts the performance and elongates the battery life. With this mode turned on, you could enjoy your phone doing the normal stuff for a longer time without panicking over low battery – especially when you don’t have your charger with you.

Summary

• 48MP AI Ultra Triple Camera
• 6.6″Dot-in
• 128GB ROM + 4GB RAM
• Helio G85 Extreme Performance
• 5000mAh, 18W Flash Charge
• 8MP Front Camera with Dual Flash
• 48MP Triple Rear Camera with Quad Flash
• 90Hz HD+ Display
• HiOS based on Android™ 11

Tecno Pop5 is the direct successor to the older Tecno Pop 4.The device comes in a 6.1-inch HD+ display, with 720 x 1560 pixels resolutions. It has a dewdrop notch overhead housing the selfie camera, and the screen panel is IPS.

Spec wise, the Pop5 is powered by a 1.3GHz Quad-core Spreadtrum SC7731E along with ARM Mali Mali-400MP2 MP1, accompanied with a 1GB of RAM and a 16GB internal storage, expandable up to 64 GB via microSD card.

The device comes with a single 5 MP Main camera at the back, along with a single LED flash. Upfront, there yet another single 5-megapixel selfie sensor with support for AI faceID and face beautification.

The device come with a fingerprint scanner on the rear, and support FaceID as well, but you are only getting 2G/3G only network. It is powered by a 4000mAh and runs Google Android 10 (Go Edition) out of the box.