Tecno Pova 2

Tecno Pova 2 in Kenya

Tecno Pova 2 price in Kenya is Ksh 22,500. It has a 6.9-inch Full HD+ screen with a 180Hz touch sampling rate and has a Side-mounted fingerprint sensor. It runs on the MediaTek Helio G85 processor with up to 6GB of RAM, 128GB storage and works on the HiOS based Android 11. It has a quad rear camera setup where a 48MP primary camera along with a 2MP depth sensor, 2MP macro lens, and 2MP AI camera with quad-LED flash. on the front side has an 8MP punch-hole front-facing camera with dual-LED flash.

Tecno Pova 2 price in Kenya and specs

Price in Kenya	Ksh 22,500
Processor	Octa-Core MediaTek Helio G85 12nm processor (Dual 2GHz Cortex-A75 + Hexa 2GHz 6x Cortex-A55 CPUs) with up to 1000MHz ARM Mali-G52 2EEMC2 GPU
RAM/Storage	4GB LPDDR4x  RAM with 64GB internal storage / 6GB LPDDR4x  RAM with 128GB internal storage expandable up to 256GB with microSD
OS/UI	HiOS 7.6 based on Android 11
SIM	Dual SIM (nano + nano + microSD)
Rear Cameras	48MP (f/1.79 primary) +  2MP (4cm macro) + 2MP (depth) +  2MP (AI Lens), Quad LED flash
Front Camera	8MP front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture, dual LED flash
Features	Side-mounted fingerprint sensor, 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
Dimensions	173.32 x 78.78 x 9.62 mm
Display	6.9-inch (1080 x 2460 pixels) HD+ Dot-in display with up to 480 nits brightness
Connectivity	Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, GPS/ GLONASS/ Beidou, USB Type-C
Battery/Charger	7000 mAh battery with 18W fast charging

Launch

This phone, Tecno Pova 2 phone has a 173.3 x 78.8 x 9.6 mm dimension and weighs about 198 grams. It is also a Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) smartphone that uses Nano-SIM and has a dual standby. On the front is a hole-punch display wherein the selfie camera hides. Its back panel has a quad-camera module on the right-hand side. As for the fingerprint scanner, there is a side-mounted one on the power button.

Tecno Pova 2 comes in the colors Polar Silver, Power Blue, and Dazzle Black. It makes use of the micro USB Type-C 2.0, USB On-The-Go connector, and has a 3.5 mm jack. The phone also has Bluetooth 5.0, A2DP, LE, and GPS  with A-GPS, GALILEO, BDS. It also supports Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, hotspot. As for FM radio, the same is has it on board. Visit this product’s official website by following the highlighted link.

Network

The Tecno Pova 2 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 Pova 2 has an okay display panel that measures 6.9 inches, 113.1 cm². It is an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen that supports 16M colors and multi-touch. This display has a decent 1080 x 2460 pixels resolution and an equally decent 389 PPI density.

As for the selfie camera, it is inside that hole-punch at the top center of this display. This phone’s build is plastic with a Glass front, plastic back, and a plastic frame. Pova 2 makes use of a 480 nits (typ) brightness for its display and has an 82.8% screen-to-body ratio.

Platform

A phone platform is the hardware/software environment for tablets, smartphones, and other portable devices. Tecno Pova 2 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. It was released on September 8, 2020. Also powering the Tecno Spark 8 is an Octa-core (2×2.0 GHz Cortex-A75 & 6×1.8 GHz Cortex-A55), MediaTek Helio G85 (12nm) chipset. This version of Android it runs is based on HIOS 7.6.

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 in 2020 in the MediaTek Helio G80 with a clock speed of up to 950 MHz. Tecno Pova 2 comes with 64GB of internal storage with 4 GB of RAM. You also get a storage option of 128GB with 6GB RAM.

Battery

Tecno Spark 8 has a respectable Li-Po 5,000 mAh, non-removable battery. It is a lasting battery given its 5,000 mAh capacity. It also has a fast-charging 18W.

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