Tecno Pop 5 Pro

Tecno Pop 5 Pro
Brand: Tecno
Category: Mobiles
  • SoC: Mediatek MT6761 Helio
  • RAM: 3 GB
  • Storage: 32 GB
  • Display: IPS LCD
  • Camera: 5 MP/ 8MP, 2 MP
  • OS: Android 11 (Go edition)

Our Rating

The overall rating is based on review by our experts

6.9 3.5 1
  • Performance 7 / 10
  • Display 7 / 10
  • Design 6 / 10
  • Software 7 / 10
  • Camera 6 / 10
  • Battery 8 / 10
  • Value For Money 7 / 10

Recently, the Tecno announced its mid-ranger device with the name Tecno Pop 5 Pro. The phone will be available in various different colors in the market such as Ice Blue, Deepsea Luster, and Sky Cyan colors with the price of around $114 which can be 8,499 in Indian Rupees for the single 3GB RAM and 32GB inbuilt storage variant. Buy this phone today from the company website, or e-commerce websites like Amazon and Flipkart.

Let’s discuss some key features of this handset:

As we already know Tecno built plenty of big changes in their coming handsets which include design, displays, software of gadgets, and so on. The Pop 5 Pro device comes with 6.52 inches, 102.6 cm2 IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen having 480 nits (peak) maximum brightness and HD+ display with a waterdrop-style notch for an amazing experience. It has a display resolution of 720 x 1600 pixels, a 20:9 ratio with a pixel density of 267 PPI. According to the company, the handset also supports a touch sampling rate of 120Hz, with a 90 percent screen-to-body ratio.

Not only this, the device glass will protect with Glass front (Corning Gorilla Glass 5) with plastic frame and plastic back and has an IPX2 splash resistant which makes the device stronger. The Tecno Pop 5 Pro runs on the HiOS 7.6 based on Android 11 (Go edition). It is powered by Mediatek MT6761 Helio A22 (12 nm) chipset and Quad-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53 processor. It has a spot of PowerVR GE8320 GPU. The Pop 5 Pro offers storage expansion of up to 256GB via a MicroSD card slot.

Coming to the camera part, it packs dual cameras with 8MP (wide), 2 MP (telephoto) at the backside of the phone next to an AI cam helper. Furthermore, the primary camera is capable of 720p@30fps videos. The device has LED flash, HDR, panorama features.

Another side, the selfie camera is a 5-megapixel selfie camera with an f/2.0 aperture lens with HDR video capability. The Tecno Pop 5 Pro consists of Li-Po 6000 mAh capacity with a Non-removable battery. According to the company it offers up to 54 hours of talk time and 120 hours of music playback.

Sensors on the phone have included:

  • Fingerprint (under display, optical),
  • Face unlock sensor,
  • Accelerometer sensor,
  • Gyro sensor,
  • Proximity sensor, and
  • Compass sensor.

Connectivity options include:

  • Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot,
  • Bluetooth- 5.0, A2DP, LE,
  • GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO,
  • FM radio, and
  • USB- USB Type-C 2.0, USB On The Go.

Tecno Pop 5 Pro - Specs

Network

  • 5G Network
  • 4G Network
  • 3G Network
  • 2G Network

Design

  • Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.
    Bar
  • Build
    IPS LCD
  • Colors
    Ice Blue, Deepsea Luster, and Sky Cyan
  • SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.
    Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)

Display

  • Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)
    IPS LCD
  • Size
    6.52 inches, 102.6 cm2
  • Resolution
    720 x 1600 pixels
  • Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others.
    16M Colors
  • Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality.
    269 ppi
  • Touch Screen
    Capacitive Touchscreen
  • Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.
    Glass front with Plastic frame and plastic back
  • Features
    Splash resistant, 480 nits (peak) brightness display

Software

  • Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.
    Android 11 (Go edition)
  • Skin UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface.
    HIOS 7.6

Hardware

  • Chipset Chipset is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming.
    Mediatek MT6761 Helio A22 (12 nm)
  • CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone.
    Quad-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53
  • GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.
    PowerVR GE8320
  • RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.
    3 GB
  • Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.
    32 GB
  • Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.
    Yes, up to 128 GB
  • Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.
    Fingerprint (under display, optical),
    Face unlock sensor,
    Accelerometer sensor,
    Gyro sensor,
    Proximity sensor, and
    Compass sensor.

Camera

  • Primary Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.
    8 MP
  • Depth
    2 MP
  • Video
    720p@30fps
  • Camera Features
    Dual-LED flash, HDR
  • Selfie Camera
    5 MP

Battery

  • Battery Type Battery Type => Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium.
    Li-Poly (Lithium Polymer)
  • Capacity Battery Capacity is a measure (typically in Amp-hr) of the charge stored by the battery, and is determined by the mass of active material contained in the battery. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery under certain conditions.
    6000 mAh
  • Standby Standby Time is the total amount of time that you can leave your is fully charged, turned on and ready to send and receive calls or data transmissions before completely discharging the battery.
    54 hours of talk time and 120 hours of music playback

Connectivity

  • Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices.
    5.0, A2DP, LE
  • Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.
    Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
  • Infrared Infrared connectivity is an old wireless technology used to connect two electronic devices. It uses a beam of infrared light to transmit information and so requires direct line of sight and operates only at close range.
  • USB
    USB Type-C 2.0
  • GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.
    GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO,
  • NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.
  • Headphone Jack