Posted by TECNO and Infinix fans are often squabbling over bragging rights. Many times, the face-offs include performance, price and solidity of their favourite brand’s smartphones. Today, we bring you a fight that qualifies as “iyalaya anybody”. We pit Infinix’s latest flagship, Zero 3, against TECNO’s golden boy, the Phantom 5.
Here are the performance specifications of each phone and the test results:
| TECNO Phantom 5 | Infinix Zero 3 |
| Build: All metal; looks much better, feels more solid | Build: Plastic |
| Security: Fingerprint scanner | Security: no scanner |
| Display: 5.5 inches, 1080 x 1920 pixels | Display: 5.5 inches, 1080 x 1920 pixels |
| MediaTek MT6753 Octa-core 1.3 GHz | Mediatek Helio X10 Octa-core 2.0 GHz |
| 3 GB RAM | 3 GB RAM |
| GPU: Mali-T720 | GPU: PowerVR G6200 |
| Android 5.1.1 Lollipop | Android 5.1.1 Lollipop |
| Quadrant: 21,415 | Quadrant: 21,454 |
| AnTuTu: 33,669 | AnTuTu: 44,200 |
| GeekBench: 611 single-core, 2,737 multi-core | GeekBench: 586 single-core; 3,184 multi-core |
| Camera: 13 megapixel with LED flash | Camera: 20 megapixel with LED flash |
| N69,500 | N46,000 |
In summary, the Phantom 5 has the better build, premium feel and look, as well as the benefit of much better audio quality and a fingerprint scanner. However, the Zero 3 matches it in some areas and outguns it in terms of performance and price advantage. We haven’t tested the cameras, but on paper, the Zero 3’s camera pips the Phantom’s. Over to you: let’s have your opinions and conclusions. Which of these two would you fly with, and why?
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Infinix Zero 3 beats it, nothing more to say
I will go for the Tecno phantom 5. Tecno promised an update.
And also because of its premium feel
Infinix Zero 3, after a cost-benfit analysis it’s difficult to justify spending 23,500 more for a fingerprint scanner and “premium feel”. also the Zero 3 has a more faster (dare i say more powerful?) SoC which is reflected in the benchmarks. better camera is unimportant to me, but it’s still a plus for the Zero 3
I think I will pick the Phantom 5 over the zero 3 though the specs of later looks good on paper but hate the design concept being adopted
Would have gone for the Infinix Zero 3 specs and price wise but that design concept is awful,can’t imagine using such an ugly device,so the Phantom 5 is it for me..
Hard to justify but I guess thats what premium is all about.
The winner is clear.though hard to say for some,but i think Zero 3 beats P5 hands down if not for the old fashioned design
I will definitely go for the Phantom 5 because it is sleek.
And also because Tecno is a trusted brand.
The specs of the Phantom 5 are clearly better
Yes, that is true