Tecno Phantom X review

This is the techno phantom x a mid-range

a phone that could put techno on the map

outside of their established African fan

base since it's also being released in

certain other markets.

does the phantom x have what it takes to

compete with those heavy-hitting

mid-rangers that we've seen so far this

year.

and will for gsm marina and let's find

out in our full review.

the techno phantom x brings a premium

design of curved glass.

with a sharp aluminum frame and a catchy

gradient finish

the surface has a pinstripe texture

etched into it which doesn't add a whole

a lot of grips

actually but feels interesting and hides

smudges too.

if you want even more grip and

protection there's a cool looking case

that comes in the box

though it doesn't cover the

edges of the phone.

this is probably because of the phantom

x's curved display

it's a 6.7-inch OLED with gorilla glass

5 protection

a 1080p resolution and a fast 90 hertz

refresh rate

also notable here is the wide cutout for

the dual selfie cameras

a 48-megapixel main cam and an 8

megapixel ultra-wide

overall this screen is just okay it has

deep OLED blacks and good sharpness but

we had a few issues with it overall

the wide cutout is a bit distracting

colors aren't very accurate

leaning towards bluish and the

brightness is on the lower side for this

type of display

we were able to measure a maximum of 405

nits with a slider

with no option for an auto mode boost

not enough to be comfortable on a

sunny day

and about the high refresh rate if you

choose 90 hertz it'll work fine across

the UI

and apps but won't adapt to save energy

and if you choose auto mode instead

this dials basically everything

down to 60 hertz

except for the UI, the phantom x has just

a single bottom-firing speaker for your

audio

it did score very good on our loudness

charts but the sound quality are nothing

special

there isn't much bass and you get

distortion at higher volumes

the phantom x does have a 3.5 millimeter

jack for headphones and FM radio support

too

you can wake up and unlock the phone

with an under-display fingerprint reader

and it's reasonably fast and accurate

and there's plenty of space on the phone

too you get 256 gigs of built-in storage

and it's expandable on top of that the

the interface of the phantom x is techno's

own

high os based on android 11. it's not

too heavy of a skin

pretty close to stock android

besides the looks of the icons

there is an app drawer to keep your apps

in and it has a unique aesthetic

one strange quirk is that you can't

swipe down to close it you need to use

navigation controls to get back to the

home screen

ios has its virtual assistant called

Ella

though we didn't find that it offered

much of an advantage over google

assistant

and there is a game mode menu which

provides you better control over

notifications and incoming calls while

you're playing a game

at the heart of the techno phantom, x is

a MediaTek helio g95 chipset

built on a 12-nanometer process it's a

the mid-range chip that was introduced last

year

and in the benchmark charts, it does fall

behind mid-range competitors

running on snapdragon 700 series chips

but it still does a decent job

providing for smooth UI performance and

lighter gaming

it seems to be rather a power-efficient

too the phantom x has a 4700 milliamp

hour battery

and with it was able to score a great

122-hour endurance rating in our

proprietary tests

the phone comes with a 33-watt charger

and charging speed is solid

but not blazing fast we were able to

charge the dead battery to 56 percent

in half an hour all right on to the

cameras

the techno phantom x has three cameras

on the back a 50-megapixel quad Bayer

main cam

a 13 megapixel two times telephoto cam

and an 8-megapixel ultrawide camera

the main cams photos come out at 12.5

megapixels

and the quality is far from impressive

sharpness is okay for the class

and dynamic range is relatively wide too

however

Tecno Phantom X review

a number of our photo samples came out

overexposed or with random blurry spots

here and there

but it's the color rendition that's the

worst offender colors are either muted

or just plain off

with only the occasional photo coming

outright

it's nice to see a telephoto cam at this

price and its two-times zoom shots are

decent

they have enough sharpness and are pretty

good dynamic range colors are vibrant

too

but that isn't consistent with the main

cams rendition

8-megapixel photos from the ultra-wide

cam is lackluster

they're soft with a narrow dynamic range

and washed out colors

at least the distortion correction does

a good job

because the ultra-wide has autofocus it

can also shoot close-up macro photos

these still have those bland colors but

the level of detail here is better than

competitors which employ dedicated

lower res macro cams

for some reason after the sun went down

the main cams performance was much more

impressive than during the day

even in auto mode, there's some image

stacking going on here

and as a result of the processing the

photos are crisp and clear

with good detail and balanced shadows

and highlights

there's good contrast and fairly

accurate colors

if you turn on the super night mode it

will take care of the clipped highlights

around light sources

brighten up the shadows boost the color

saturation

and add some extra sharpness to the quality

is nice but perhaps a bit artificial

looking

zooming with the telephoto cam at night

results in muddy and noisy photos that

have blown-out highlights

and they're lacking in detail there's no

night mode support here

using the ultra-wide cam at night also

results in poor photos which are

extremely soft or even blurry

there's plenty of noise dynamic range is

narrow and colors are dull

and again there's no night mode now on

to the dual selfie cameras

the main one does a great job taking

selfies with excellent sharpness and

detail

wide dynamic range with hdr enabled and

good exposure for the subject's face

the ultrawide selfie cam offers you that

wider field of view you may want in

certain situations

and dynamic range is good however these

photos are soft and lacking in detail

videos can be recorded from the main

a rear camera and up to 4k resolution at

30fps

there is good contrast and wide dynamic

the range however this isn't the sharpest 4k

footage around

the telephoto can shoot only in 1080p

the resolution we like the colors and the

low noise

but the footage looks to be over

sharpened and with too much contrast

the ultrawide cam's 1080p video is also

rather soft and has dull colors

narrow dynamic range and not a lot of

detail there is electronic stabilization

available on all three cameras

and it does a decent job however it only

works at a maximum of 1080p resolution

so that's the Tecno phantom x you get a

great looking glass and metal build

a curved high refresh rate OLED screen

great battery life

and solid charging speed and chipset

performance plus the camera setup is

quite versatile with three cameras on

the back

and two on the front however there are

some things we weren't fans of here

the most notable being that the screen

isn't very bright

plus the camera performance is all over

the place quality-wise

and there are competitors with more

powerful chipsets if you don't mind

those things then the phantom x is a

decent phone.