We noticed Infinix’s GT 10 Professional only a few weeks again, and we now have its sister firm Tecno’s new Pova 5 professional 5G machine. Beginning at a value of Rs. 14,999, the telephone tries to face out with its quirky design and gaming efficiency. Let’s try to discover out if this new 5G machine is price your consideration.
Design: One of many first belongings you would discover in regards to the machine is its completely different trying again, which has a number of RGB LED strips on it that glow up beneath completely different duties (extra on that later). The corporate calls it ARC design. The again additionally homes the twin digicam setup in a relatively distinctive cutout that’s fairly acquainted for Tecno telephones by now. On the entrance, with a thicker bezel on the backside in comparison with different sides, you’ve a 6.78-inch show (20.5:9 facet ratio) that has Panda glass on high for cover and comes with a punch-hole entrance digicam within the center close to the highest.
The fitting facet locates the amount buttons and Energy/lock key close to the center (each keys have little or no journey); whereas the left facet solely has the twin SIM card + microSD card tray close to the highest nook. On the highest, you get one outlet of loudspeakers; and the underside has the three.5mm audio jack, main mic, second outlet of loudspeakers and USB type-C port. The corners of the telephone are curved with its sides being flat. The telephone is made up of polycarbonate and is slightly thicker than most telephones we see as of late, weighing slightly beneath 210 grams and measuring 9mm in thickness. The telephone isn’t slippery in any respect, however some folks might discover it slightly cumbersome. It’s accessible in two colors – Darkish Phantasm (which I attempted) and Silver Fantasy.
Show: The telephone sports activities a 6.78-inch IPS LCD full HD+ (1080×2460) show with refresh charges supported as much as 120Hz. It’s vivid sufficient and usable beneath direct daylight open air. You possibly can count on respectable color replica and viewing angles right here. Full HD movies and high-resolution photos are dealt with simply effectively sufficient with sufficient particulars. Backlight and refresh charges may have been dealt with higher by way of consistency and clean transition, in any other case, this isn’t a foul show.
Digicam: You get a twin digicam system on the again – 50MP (f/1.6) most important digicam and a 0.8MP portrait digicam. The primary digicam can take respectable portrait photographs at 124MP by default. Count on detailed however typically over-sharpened photographs even in daylight at instances with an excessive amount of smoothening of faces and battling dynamic vary. 50MP mode gave higher outcomes by way of colors and particulars nevertheless it does go away that AI retouch really feel, too. The digicam app is just not very fast to open and take photographs nevertheless it’s fairly simple to get round completely different digicam choices and modes. On the entrance, you get a 16MP (f/2.0) digicam, which may take well-focused photographs and carry out okay by way of colors offered no magnificence modes, even within the tremendous gentle mode, it may give photographs ok to your social media use.
Efficiency and software program expertise: Pova 5 Professional is provided with MediaTek’s Dimensity 6080 chipset (as much as 2.4Ghz octa-core processor, Mali-G57 MC2 GPU), 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB uMCP storage. It runs on HiOS 13.1 (no factors for guessing what that title sounds loads like) primarily based on Android 13 with the June safety patch. The software program’s feel and appear are very very similar to XOS that we noticed on the Infinix GT 10 Professional. It’s a customizable and feature-loaded pores and skin the place you may have twin apps, reside translation with Ella, strive new themes from the theme retailer, or play YouTube movies as audio within the background. There are a lot of apps pre-installed on the telephone, most of which may be uninstalled, however what was shocking to see is getting slightly pop-up on the backside asking if you need to reinstall a type of pre-installed apps that had been uninstalled. This appeared completely pointless. Swiping high down from the left provides you notifications; whereas from the best provides you shortcut tiles. There’s an added shortcut within the dropdown pane that permits you to shortly swap between 5G and 4G with one faucet and is useful at instances. I discovered the telephone to be sufficiently responsive by way of dealing with a number of apps and switching between one and one other. It will probably drop frames now and again. You possibly can count on to play a sport like BGMI with frames per second at about 40. The telephone not often heats up and even then nothing an excessive amount of. I did discover the telephone switched off randomly when sitting idle, as soon as each 203 days, which was odd, however I couldn’t repeat it since there was no set sample to it.
Battery life: Powered by a 5,000mAh battery unit, the telephone comes with a 68watt quick charger within the field (you additionally get primary a clear protecting case), which isn’t widespread for this value vary, so credit score to Tecno for bundling it. The telephone lasted a day 7 out of 10 instances, and didn’t present any bizarre battery drops. You possibly can count on to cost the telephone from 1 per cent to full in about 70 minutes.
Different bits: So far as 5G connectivity goes, the telephone does satisfactorily, latching on to 5G wherever accessible for more often than not. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS efficiency are additionally nothing to fret about. High and bottom-facing loudspeakers are nearly okay by way of loudness for watching movies and taking part in video games, however they don’t essentially sound distorted at greater volumes. Name and voice high quality with the in-ear speaker may have been slightly louder nevertheless it’s nearly okay for open air and noisy environments. You possibly can customise the LED backlight for notifications, calls, gaming, startup, charging and even music playback
Verdict: The Tecno Pova 5 Professional clearly is a combined bag of a tool. It has some efficiency points and a few questionable software program decisions taken, whereas offering a very good gaming expertise and connectivity as a smartphone. For a funds of round Rs 15,000, you is likely to be higher off with the likes of the Realme 11x however For those who’re anyone who may need a quirky-looking Android telephone which you could play high-end video games at medium settings, the Pova 5 Professional is a good possibility to take a look at.
