Transsion Holdings continues its global campaign through the Tecno and Infinix brands. Last week, the company introduced a bunch of new smartphones under both brands. We can list the Tecno Spark 7P and the Infinix 10 Play. Now, the company is bringing a new Tecno smartphone for its Camon series, the Tecno Camon 17. As you may expect, this is another of Tecno’s budget-friendly smartphones coming with decent, but modest specifications such as Helio G85 SoC and an HD+ display. Without further ado, let’s dive into the specifications of this handset. The device is hitting Kenya today, but we expect more countries to receive it soon.
The Tecno Camon 17 comes with a 6.55-inch
tall display featuring a top-left aligned punch hole. The panel is of the LCD
kind and offers HD+ (1,440 x 720 pixels) resolution. The good side is that it
offers a 90Hz of refresh rate, making transitions and navigation more fluid. As
we’ve mentioned above, the handset comes with the MediaTek Helio G85 chipset.
This chip has two ARM Cortex-A75 cores clocked at up to 2.0GHz plus six ARM
Cortex-A55 cores clocked at up to 1.8GHz. It also comes with a Mali-G57 MC2 GPU
clocked at up to 1GHz. The phone is paired with either 4GB or 6GB of RAM.
Storage is 128GB no matter the variant you pick, and it also supports microSD
cards.
In terms of optics, the handset has a
primary 48MP primary camera. It is accompanied by a 16MP ultrawide camera and a
2MP tertiary sensor. For selfies, there is a 16MP front snapper that makes the
punch-hole it’s home. The handset draws power from a huge 5,000mAh battery,
that thankfully, has 18W fast-charging. The charging brick is included in the
package as other smartphones in this price range. It also has a 3.5mm headphone
jack, USB-C connector, and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner.
The device runs Android 11 straight out of
the box. Furthermore, Tecno brings its own HiOS layer with distinct visuals and
features. It’s good to see Android 11 here. After all, the Infinix 10 Play
reached India recently still based on Android 10.
The Tecno Camon 17 comes in configurations
– 6GB + 128GB and 4GB + 128GB. The 6GB variant is offered at Ksh 22,799 (US$ 210),
the other variant’s price is yet to be revealed. No matter the option you
select, there are three possible colorways – Frost Silver, Deep Sea, and
Tranquil Green.
