With the Pova 7, Tecno took a web page out of Nothing’s e book with the Delta Mild Interface, a triangular strip of sunshine with 104 LEDs. Now the corporate goes to the subsequent stage with the Alive Matrix Show. It is a small dot-matrix show within the third “lens” of the digicam island (there’s just one precise digicam on there, regardless of appearances).
The brand new Tecno Pova 8 is an improve over the Pova 7 in some respects, however a downgrade in others. It has a bigger 8,000mAh battery (up from 6,000mAh). TÜV SÜD has examined the cellphone and located that it lasts 2 days on a single cost. That’s not all – the battery is rated for over 2,000 cycles (sustaining not less than 80% of its unique capability), which works out to six years of use.
The battery has 45W quick charging and may go from 1% to 50% in 35 minutes. Reverse charging at 10W is an possibility too. Nonetheless, the 30W wi-fi charging assist of the earlier cellphone has been eliminated.
And that isn’t the one cutback. The Pova 8 launches with the Dimensity 7100. Whereas this chip was introduced in January, making it newer than the Dimensity 7300 of the earlier mannequin, it truly makes use of an older semiconductor node – TSMC 6nm as an alternative of 4nm.
The chipset has a 15,000mm² sheet of graphite to unfold the warmth. The Dimensity 7100 is related to 8GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB of UFS 2.2 storage. Tecno says that the cellphone has been tuned to ship secure 90fps gameplay on widespread titles like Honor of Kings and Cell Legends: Bang Bang.
The triangular digicam island on the again seems to have three lenses. Nonetheless, solely a kind of is an actual digicam – it has a 50MP Sony Lytia 600 (1/1.95”) sensor with 2x in-sensor zoom and an AF lens. The “lens” beneath that’s the Alive Matrix Show. The opposite digicam on board is the 13MP selfie module.
This lives on the 6.76” IPS LCD, which has a 144Hz refresh charge and 1080p+ decision. The show has a 240Hz contact sampling charge and Moist & Oily Finger Contact Recognition 2.0. The cellphone runs HiOS 16 (Android 16) out of the field.
Tecno Pova 8 in Arc White, Graphite Black, Helios Orange and Echo Inexperienced
The Tecno Pova 8 shall be accessible quickly in Arc White, Graphite Black, Helios Orange and Echo Inexperienced. Like its predecessor, the cellphone is rated IP64 (dust-tight, protected in opposition to water splashes).