The Tecno Camon 17 price in Kenya is Ksh 18,300. The phone comes with a 6.8-inch 1640 x 720 px display with a 90Hz refresh rate, 48MP main camera, on the front, it has an 8MP selfie camera, MediaTek Helio G85 chipset with 4GB of RAM, and a 5,000mAh battery. You also get a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and 128GB of built-in storage that’s expandable through the microSD slot. The Camon 17 Android Smartphone runs on the MediaTek Helio G85 (12nm) processor with Mali-G52 MC2 GPU.
Launch
Tecno Camon 17 from 2020, 2021, May 04 comes in colors Frost Silver, Deep Sea, and Tranquil Green. It was released having a micro-USB connector, a 3.5 mm jack. The phone also has Bluetooth version 5.0, A2DP, LE, and GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS. It also supports Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot. As for radio (FM), it does come with it. Visit this product’s official website to learn more.
Network
The Tecno Camon 17 smartphone supports four network technologies. These are GSM, HSPA, and LTE. HSPA extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunication networks using the WCDMA protocols. LTE is a standard for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices and data terminals, based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA technologies.
Global System for Mobile Communications is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to describe the protocols for second-generation digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets.
Display
Now, let us take a look at the display this phone has to offer. Everyone loves a good display on a phone for obvious reasons. Namely, the display is the one part of a phone you will ever interact with. Tecno Camon 17 has an average display panel that measures 6.6 inches, 105.2 cm2. It is an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen that supports 16M colors and multi-touch. This display has a decent 720 x 1600 pixels resolution and an equally fair 266 PPI density.
As for the selfie camera, it is inside that hole-punch notch at the top right corner of the display. This phone’s build is plastic with a Glass front, plastic back, and a plastic frame. Tecno Camon 17 display has an 83.6% screen-to-body ratio. What’s even more interesting about it is that it supports a 90Hz refresh rate and 450 nits (HBM) birghtness. You may also want to see Camon 16 Pro smartphone.
Platform
A phone platform is the hardware/software environment for tablets, smartphones, and other portable devices. Tecno Camon 17 runs on the Android 11 operating system. Android 11 is the eleventh major release and 18th version of Android, the mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google. Also powering the Tecno Camon 17 is an Octa-core (2×2.0 GHz Cortex-A75 & 6×1.8 GHz Cortex-A55), MediaTek Helio G85 (12nm) chipset.
Under the hood, it also brings a Mali-G52 MC2 GPU. The ARM Mali-G52 MP2 (or G52MC2) is an integrated mid-range graphics card for ARM-based SoCs (mostly Android-based). It was introduced mid 2020 in the MediaTek Helio G80 with a clock speed of up to 950 MHz. The phone comes with 128 GB of internal storage with 4/6 GB of RAM. You do get to expand the Camon 17 storage using a dedicated micro SD slot (dedicated slot).
Cameras
There are four cameras on Tecno Camon 17. They are made up of a main 48 MP, (wide), PDAF, 2 MP, f/2.4, (depth), and a third camera. Its main feature is Quad-LED flash, panorama, HDR and it can shoot video up to [email protected] with the main camera, and [email protected] with the selfie. Speaking of the selfie, on Camon 17 there is a single 16 MP shooter.
Battery
Tecno Camon 17 has a respectable Li-Po 5,000 mAh, non-removable battery. It is a lasting battery given its 5,000 mAh capacity. Here’s what is interesting, this phone does support fast charging 18W so you don’t have to juice it up for long periods of time.
