Posted by TECNO’s 2015 Phantom smartphone – their flagship – arrived MobilityArena.com this morning. The packaging is really beautiful, but the phone itself and the accessories are superb. Everyone who has seen and held it here have been wowed. I am not allowed to publish certain images or give out certain info, but here are a few things I can share.
- Like I mentioned earlier, it is a beautifully crafted smartphone and metal-clad too. It is even better in the flesh than I had thought.
- The display is flat out superb! I am talking about Nokia-grade, Apple-grade, quality. It is 480
PPIDPI. - The phone also has a refined custom UI from TECNO. This is by far the most beautiful user interface from TECNO. Unfortunately, I am not permitted to share photos of this yet.
- There are surprise features on the phone that I am not allowed to mention, so… *seals lips*
My unit had a System Update available when I connected it, and I am running that already.
The official launch is this Wednesday and I have an invitation to the event on my desk. Expect my detailed hands-on as soon as the launch happens, followed by a review later. In the meantime, here are two teaser photos that I took. Sorry guys. I can’t share anything more than these.
This is really something, if you ask me. In the invitation, TECNO describes it as “the best smartphone of the year 2015”. That is a serious claim, and we shall have to see how that turns out. For now, we wait for the launch and the price. No?
Founder of MobilityArena. Yomi’s journey in mobile started in 2001. Besides obsessing over mobile phones, he also started creating WAP sites (early mobile-friendly websites created with WML). He began writing about phones in 2004 and has been at it since then. He has owned over 200 devices, from Symbian, Palm, PocketPC/Windows Mobile, BlackBerry/BB10, webOS, Windows Phone, Firefox, Ubuntu Touch, to Android, iOS, and KaiOS operating systems.
“best smartphone of the year 2015”
looks quite good, but haba, that’s a very bold claim
I think the screen specs don’t tally. 1920×1080 at 5.5inch amounts to 400ppi.
1920×1080 at 5inch amounts to 440ppi
The other specs are quite premium, looking like a great device, I hope this gets updated to Android M.
EmmaEdeh,
I got the 480 figure from both utility apps I ran on the device. Checking again, they actually say “dpi” not ppi.
I’m seeing DOL….Is that Dolby sound. If it is then i’m very impressed.
Omonaija,
Yup; that’s Dolby… 🙂
Not looking bad physically,if I must say so..
I think both apps may be wrong. I ran cpuz on a GS4, its says 440PPI / 480DPI, and its a 5 inch phone. If both apps are reading 480DPI then they must be reading wrong as the screen is 5.5inch.
Looking forward to your hands on
Just realised OEM’s usually set the DPI themselves, so the apps didnt read them wrong. My bad. 🙂
Hmmmm, Mr Mo, any idea how much this will cost before the final launch?
Phone doesn’t look bad at all but lets see what they have to offer at the official announcement
Dolby speakers that long? This phantom looks like it’s gonna be one hell of a loud stuff.
Don’t we all! Saw on Nairaland saying something about it receiving OTA updates though.
i dont think so, considering that samsung and apple like to claim other worldliness. Tecno can lay claim to this title all they want.
whats so special about it having dolby sound?
phantoms are the most expensive tecno phones so this should be bordering 60 k
With speaker grills that long it better pack some punches,but then the audio software quality also matters..
If its more than 48k, honestly, they stand no chance. As far as im concerned, Tecno should be affordable.
By the way, is that large bezels i’m looking at or it’s just the angle/picture quality???
pretty uninspiring design… right now what they need to do is to win back their mid range market share which infinix has stolen from them… flagships wont help in addressing that….
Chinedu,
Infinix and TECNO are not competitors. Infinix is targeting the budget market while TECNO is targeting the premium market.
TECNO will not be trying to take back anything from Infinix. This game is being played according to the script.
Looks like a ruggedie. Thick.
OK Tecno, let’s do this. Bring on the heat and make Samsung execs squirm in their seats!
Samsung is not gonna squirm for once Samsung will only squirm for Apple sorry to say Tecno will never reach that Level.. Samsung and Apple are Flagships i’ve never seen a Non-African using Tecno.
that will never happen