The successor of last year Tecno Phantom 5 will be available in 50 countries all over the World. Tecno is here with two new device to be added to the phantom series, these includes Phantom 6 and Phantom 6 Plus. The Phantom 6's are the first attempt of Tecno at building a phablet-sized smartphone and they end up with a monster of a phone.
Tecno Phantom 6 features a big 5.5 inches display screen and furnished with full metal body design and fit well into a pocket. Inside it, is an octa-core processor clocked at 2.0GHz coupled with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The storage is expandable and can accept sd cards of up to 128GB in capacity; although you will have to sacrifice one SIM slot to take advantage of this.
Coming to the cameras, Phantom 6 comes with 13 Mega Pixel and 5 Mega Pixel Camera's with led flash for taking sharp and bright pictures. The front-facing camera is a 8 Mega Pixel unit with bright led flash.
As for connectivity, users will get 4G bands, dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth v4.0, GPS, and a microUSB port at the bottom.
The smartphone is running on Hios with Android 6.0 Marshmallow on board. Powering it all is a 2700mAh battery which is still manageable for a budget smartphone like Phantom 6.
Tecno Phantom 6 – Specifications, Features & Price
| General Information | |
| 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
| 3G Network | WCDMA:900/2100 |
| 4G Network | LTE |
| SIM | Dual SIM (Micro SIM + Nano Sim) |
| Availability | September, 2016 |
| Design, Display & Dimensions | |
| Dimensions | 151.5 x 75.5 x 6.15mm |
| Display | 5.5 inches, 1080 x 1920 pixels, 401 pixels per inch (PPI) |
| Type | Amoled capacitive touchscreen |
| Colour | Champagne Gold |
| Protection | Gorrilla Glass 3 |
| Sensor | gyroscope, Accelerometer, Proximity and distance sensor |
| Weight | – |
| Memory & Hardware | |
| Card Slot | microSD, up to 128GB |
| Internal | 32GB |
| Android OS | Android 6.0 marshmallow with Hios |
| Processor Type | 2.0GHz Octa-core Mediatek MT6755 |
| Processor Name | Helio p10 Processor |
| Graphics Processor | Mali-T880Â GPU |
| RAM | 3GB |
| Connectivity | |
| 2G | UP/Down link, Support Edge Up&Down link |
| 3G | UP/Down link 50/150 Mbps |
| 4G | Yes |
| WI-FI | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot at 2.4GHz/5.0GHz |
| Bluetooth | v4.0 |
| GPS | Yes, AGPS |
| NFC | No |
| USB | USB Type C |
| Multimedia | |
| Loudspeaker/Audio | Boom maxx-enhanced rendition |
| Music Support | mp3, aac, aac+, eaac+, amr, wb-amr, midi |
| Video Support | mpeg4, h.263, h.264 |
| FM Radio | Yes |
| Camera | |
| Primary/Back | 13MP and 5 Megapixel, up to 4128 x 3096-pixel pictures with autofocus, Night mode, superpixel mode, 4X Zoom mode, HDR,watermark, panorama, 50MP fusion imaging, slow motion mode, dual-LED true toned flash |
| Video | 1080p@30fps |
| Secondary | 8MP, up to 2592 x 1944-pixel pictures with Flash |
| Battery | |
| Capacity | 2700mAh Li-Ion battery |
| Standby | over 2 days |
| Talktime | – |
| Price | around $250 |
Amazing device. The dual camera and slim body makes it a darling. I’d like to say Tecno got it right.
Yes, the device is just cool and have amazing features.