TECNO POVA: Gaming Beast With Helio G80 Processor at Rs 9,999

Tecno Mobile has launched its newest finances gaming smartphone available in the market and they’re calling it POVA. Some of the important thing highlights of this newest smartphone embrace the MediaTek Helio G80 SoC ticking at the helm, a big 6.8-inch hole-punch show, a humongous 6,000mAh battery with 18W twin IC Flash Charge. Positioned competitively at a beginning value of Rs. 9,999, Tecno POVA seems to be all geared as much as provide good specs and efficiency coupled with a modern design. We spent a while utilizing Tecno’s newest smartphone and these are our impressions from utilizing the gaming smartphone.

POVA sports activities an eye catching design on the rear panel and the smartphone felt rock strong in our arms. This cellphone is obtainable in three completely different colors — Dazzle Black, Magic Blue and Speed Purple. Despite having a big battery inside, the cellphone feels modern and the rounded edges at the again additionally assist in gripping this massive smartphone. The entrance is graced by a 6.8-inch Dot-in show with 90.4% display screen to physique ratio and an HD+ (720×1640 pixels) decision, which is an LCD panel and an excellent one we should add. Viewing angles are good and inside our transient time with the system, we did not have any points utilizing it even underneath direct daylight due to its 480 nits brightness.

Tecno POVA has its energy and quantity buttons positioned on the fitting facet of the cellphone. These buttons are clicky and provide good suggestions. On the left, there is a textured devoted key to summon the Google Assistant. Above that’s the triple slot which options the dual-Nano SIM slots and a separate slot for reminiscence growth by way of microSD. At the underside, you will discover a microphone, a micro-USB port and a 3.5mm headphone jack, whereas the highest stays clean. Moving to the rear is the place you discover the quad-cameras (extra on them in a bit) and the capacitive fingerprint scanner, which turned out to be quick and correct.

A digicam pattern captured utilizing Tecno POVA

In phrases of software program, Tecno POVA runs on HiOS 7.zero based mostly on Android 10. While we’d have beloved to see inventory Android on this smartphone, Tecno’s customized pores and skin has just a few good factors of its personal. Browsing via the UI feels good; animations and transitions are clean. One of the small but helpful options in HiOS 7.zero is while you do the again gesture and maintain it, a small carousel opens up that holds fast actions and allows you to leap to your favorite apps with only a single faucet. The better part is that you could entry it from any display screen.

Talking in regards to the specs, there’s an octa-core MediaTek Helio G80 SoC working the present. There are two variants on provide — 4GB of RAM coupled with 64GB of storage and 6GB of RAM coupled with 128GB of storage. You can even broaden the storage by way of microSD to as much as 256GB. The firm has additionally packed a 6,000mAh battery underneath the hood and also you additionally get an 18W Dual IC Flash charger which is 20% sooner than single IC quick charger bundled within the field for fast charging. It utterly expenses the highly effective battery of POVA in simply 131 minutes.

Another picture shot utilizing the Tecno POVA

During our transient time with the system, we’ve got to say the cellphone carried out fairly effectively. The MediaTek Helio G80 is a gaming optimized processor and it had no drawback dealing with high-end video games resembling Call of Duty and Asphalt 9 with good body charges at excessive settings. The battery is fast to cost contemplating it’s a large one, and even higher it has great endurance. We performed Call of Duty: Mobile (excessive graphics setting) at a stretch for 30 minutes and Asphalt 9: Legends (excessive graphics setting) for about 40 minutes, solely to note that the cellphone’s rear panel barely bought heat to the contact because it has a greater warmth dissipation mechanism and has thermal conductive gel inside. We began taking part in these video games at a 100 % cost, and after greater than an hour of gaming, the battery stage solely dropped by simply 11 %. We’ll reserve our last judgement in regards to the cellphone’s efficiency, software program and battery after we’ve got executed thorough testing, though, thus far so good.

Tecno POVA contains a 16-Megapixel quad-camera with quad flash at the rear. At the entrance, there is a single 8-Megapixel digicam located in a punch gap. For these darkish occasions, there’s additionally twin entrance flash on both facet of the only firing speaker at the highest. We did take just a few photographs and movies throughout our preliminary assessments to seek out out that the cellphone’s digicam carried out fairly decently throughout daylight. There are a number of professional modes accessible in-camera like Macro pictures, evening portraits, Bokeh, AR Emoji, Slow Motion, Video Bokeh, 2K recording and so forth. Something that we could not overlook is the everlasting beautification impact that is utilized by default whereas taking selfies, and there is not even a setting to disable it.

After having used the cellphone for just a few days, we’re fairly pleased with our impression of the Tecno POVA, notably how effectively it performs throughout heavy gaming classes with none compromise in high quality. The giant show is gorgeous for content material consumption, be it for watching movies or just shopping your favorite social media apps. Apart from this, as much as 6GB RAM on the cellphone ensures all of your multitasking wants are taken care of. In our transient time with the cellphone, we did not face any points or slowdowns whereas loading heavy apps and even switching between them. And, whether or not you are an off-the-cuff consumer or an influence consumer, the 6,000mAh battery will be sure that frequent recharges are a factor of the previous.

You can get the Tecno POVA completely from Flipkart, at a beginning value of Rs. 9,999 for the 4GB + 64GB storage variant, whereas the 6GB RAM + 128GB storage variant could be yours for simply Rs. 11,999. Tecno POVA’s first sale is scheduled for 12 pm (midday) on December 11, 2020.