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skywalker240:
that guy must be deluded
putting phantom x with taste in same sentence.

paduzman:
everybody has his means of making profit, it should interest you to know that many people still patronize TECNO and will keep patronizing them, you guys should allow people go for the devices they wish for.

harryodilli19:
The Tecno Phantom X seems like an awesome phone with a good mediatek platform.

harryodilli19:
The Tecno Phantom X seems like an awesome phone with a good mediatek platform.

sunshineV:
he's a mumu man

skywalker240:
Because you're a fan or maybe a marketer,

Think out of the box

Try out other brands, say Vivo, LG, OnePlus, Realme or even Xiaomi

Come back to reality and see that you're abusing the the word "AWESOME"

harryodilli19:
brother i have tried other brands. i didn't say they are not good. just saying tecno is sometimes underrated that's all. doesn't get the spotlight sometimes

skywalker240:
Even at that, it doesn't change the fact that what they're talking is actually the real truth.

atheistandproud:
@skywalker240
@sunshineV
@mrbones
@charisgrace

Inquisitive Universe:
Good morning family.

When you live in noisy Nigeria and you need to create videos, then you have to do it in the wee hours of the morning. When the world is asleep.

I just spent one hour of my life that I'll never get back watching the Tecno Phantom X launch and I was disappointed.

I didn't even finish it to be honest.

I mean Tecno are improving. Once upon a time, they'd have offered us a budget Helio P22 as a Flagship or a P35 max with generic 13MP cameras of which only one was usable. So this is a great achievement for the company.

About 5 years ago, I was a huge fan. I still have my Pouvoir 2 and L9+ boxes at home with me here and I wish them all the best.

I'm on my keyboard crafting a comprehensive post but this is a safe space where we can throw around our thoughts, ideas and first impressions.

5 here for a company that never touches screen protection or protectors is a huge leap.

Big screen, super Amoled FHD+ 90hz display

A11, HiOS 7.6, Helio G95

50MP main camera, 13MP telephoto, 8MP Ultrawide

48+8MP selfies

4700mAh battery with 33W fast charge

These are all decent specs. Good specs even.

The problem is...

They are midrange specs.

I wouldn't like to bore you too much with the specs right now.

Lemme stick with the launch.

Frank Edoho was the presenter. If you watched Silver bird TV between 2004 to 2009/10 (off the top of my head), you must have definitely seen him on the show "Who wants to be a millionaire?"

He looked out of shape and out of practice.

The Tecno manager lady had no idea what she was doing.

So when I saw Miss Techy, I was relieved, a tech person who would come and tell us about the phone...

Boy was I disappointed. ��‍♂️

The launch felt more like a show. It had dancers, a ballerina and a mini orchestra. The focus was on everything but the phone itself.

And this isn't new.

Tecno tends to market their devices as lifestyle items, the way you would market handbags, wristwatches, clothing etc.

It is disappointing.

The only Tech person there had to look at a screen and reading it like an unprepared lecturer to her students.

How did I read the body language? Because I lectured using projectors for two years plus.

The event felt hurriedly rushed.

In the audience, there was no tech person there. Just celebrities. Many of whom were past their sell by date.

If you haven't watched the launch of the original iphone in 2007, then you definitely should make time for it and watch the late Steve Jobs talk about the phone.

To wrap it up, let's look at the price!

228k can buy me a Samsung Galaxy A52 and A72, Redmi-note-10-pro, Poco X3 Pro, Mi 10T, Mi Note 10, an iPhone X series phone and I'll have change to eat at Foodland.

This is the epitomy of overselling what a phone can do and then over pricing it.

Eyanbahose:
all these your shalaye sef

Mohbola:
who is the custodian of the truth?

Eyanbahose:
all these your shalaye sef

sunshineV:
they expose ur almighty phantom now its "shalaye"

Sunkanmiwise:
It's really madness that some people will just come up with trash, if you ask now, the person will say he/she was not paid, that he is just enlightening some people he/she assumed doesn't know anything about phone.

Nah wa ooooooooo

Eyanbahose:
What do you even want? Cos I'm confused

skywalker240:
Trying to help innocent people see the truth in all honesty Sir.

sunshineV:
now that the phone failed in every aspect we should pay 230k cus ''phantom x sounds so cool'' abi?

skywalker240:
Only deluded or uninformed people have taste for mediocrity overpriced, shape with title unmerited

Eyanbahose:
how?

AmadorSays:
no, it's a matter of choice, the design of the Phantom X alone is enough for anyone to fall in love with it

atheistandproud:
@skywalker240
@sunshineV
@mrbones
@charisgrace

Inquisitive Universe:
Good morning family.

When you live in noisy Nigeria and you need to create videos, then you have to do it in the wee hours of the morning. When the world is asleep.

I just spent one hour of my life that I'll never get back watching the Tecno Phantom X launch and I was disappointed.

I didn't even finish it to be honest.

I mean Tecno are improving. Once upon a time, they'd have offered us a budget Helio P22 as a Flagship or a P35 max with generic 13MP cameras of which only one was usable. So this is a great achievement for the company.

About 5 years ago, I was a huge fan. I still have my Pouvoir 2 and L9+ boxes at home with me here and I wish them all the best.

I'm on my keyboard crafting a comprehensive post but this is a safe space where we can throw around our thoughts, ideas and first impressions.

5 here for a company that never touches screen protection or protectors is a huge leap.

Big screen, super Amoled FHD+ 90hz display

A11, HiOS 7.6, Helio G95

50MP main camera, 13MP telephoto, 8MP Ultrawide

48+8MP selfies

4700mAh battery with 33W fast charge

These are all decent specs. Good specs even.

The problem is...

They are midrange specs.

I wouldn't like to bore you too much with the specs right now.

Lemme stick with the launch.

Frank Edoho was the presenter. If you watched Silver bird TV between 2004 to 2009/10 (off the top of my head), you must have definitely seen him on the show "Who wants to be a millionaire?"

He looked out of shape and out of practice.

The Tecno manager lady had no idea what she was doing.

So when I saw Miss Techy, I was relieved, a tech person who would come and tell us about the phone...

Boy was I disappointed. ��‍♂️

The launch felt more like a show. It had dancers, a ballerina and a mini orchestra. The focus was on everything but the phone itself.

And this isn't new.

Tecno tends to market their devices as lifestyle items, the way you would market handbags, wristwatches, clothing etc.

It is disappointing.

The only Tech person there had to look at a screen and reading it like an unprepared lecturer to her students.

How did I read the body language? Because I lectured using projectors for two years plus.

The event felt hurriedly rushed.

In the audience, there was no tech person there. Just celebrities. Many of whom were past their sell by date.

If you haven't watched the launch of the original iphone in 2007, then you definitely should make time for it and watch the late Steve Jobs talk about the phone.

To wrap it up, let's look at the price!

228k can buy me a Samsung Galaxy A52 and A72, Redmi-note-10-pro, Poco X3 Pro, Mi 10T, Mi Note 10, an iPhone X series phone and I'll have change to eat at Foodland.

This is the epitomy of overselling what a phone can do and then over pricing it.

skywalker240:
Trying to make them consider the option that sometimes these brands try to prey on their unawareness and rip them off

Eyanbahose:
but that's where it ends; consideration. Nobody compels them to buy na abi?

thepoweruser:
Adverts, my man.

A big part of why LG's mobile division (sadly) bit the dust was simple: lack of brand recognition caused by poor marketing.

To those who keep saying that, 'A good product does not need advert', well ask LG and Sony how they doing.

I'vd always and will always love LG flagships. Only a handful of phones beat them in audio quality. That ESS Quad DAC could drive even a 1000-ohm headphone! Same audio chip on the V60 is used in a lot of high-end DAPs/USB DACs. And the V50 is prolly the last Android phone with a hardware MQA decoder and proper DSD playback, as long as you don't update it to Android 10.

skywalker240:
Epilogue

Yesterday we read here on Nairaland that a popular mobile phone brand in Africa, Transsion precisely unveiled it's latest device from its flagship line, in an occasional graced with celebrities from Nigeria and some influencers. Am sure we're all aware, so let's move away from that.

Note

This thread was not created to bash, defame or tarnish the image of this brand, but just some observations that should be made known for the public who MAY BE are hoping to buy. so they can get to reason, access and analyze before coming to a concrete decision. This might also be long, just pardon my typos.

There are 3 observations i came across which are very poor considering the fact that we're talking about flagship here, flagships are meant to be a little perfect if that's the right word.

There are a lot of shortcomings on this particular flagship device, but am just going to pick 3 i believe plays an important to determine a Worthy device.

Here are three things I observed

LIKE CAMON 15 PREMIER, LIKE PHANTOM X UNVEILING THE MONUMENTAL DISASTERS

You might be wondering why I said the CAMON 15 PREMIER right?

There are three mistakes that would make this device never be termed as a flagship.

1 A mid-range chipset is meant to be used on a mid-range phone, and

A flagship chipset is meant to be used on a flagship phone that's what notable brands do irrespective of competition from other brands or Target market whatsoever

It's not New to the geeks over here, the Helio G95 chipset falls in the mid-ranger class the higher side though, but it is still termed a mid-ranger you can ask our veterans like atheistandproud or head to the official site of Mediatek and see for yourselves

The Mediatek Helio G95 chipset falls in the mid-ranger and so therefore you are gonna get a mid-range performance come what may.

FIRST MISTAKE

The Tecno CAMON 17pro which is a mid-range phone from Transsion comes with the Helio G95, therefore it's expected to give you a mid-range performance

So what the hell is a mid-range chipset doing in a supposed flagship device??

You can't alter the nature of technology in this particular case, so this flagship would definitely give you a mid-range performance

2 Would Android 13 update be gauranteed?
It's not a hidden fact, over the years Transsion has been known to always overlook this issue on their phones considering the price of this device and expecting Android 13 early January of 2022 would this device be a good buy?

SECOND MISTAKE

Tecno always leave their customers in suspense, in regards to Android upgrades and then at the end of the day, they upgrade to another Android version.

Yes but it's actually by unveiling another device making the customer pay for that one if he/she wants a taste of the latest os update

Tecno did not specify if this device would get Android 13 update neither are we sure it would (suspense) but if a so called flagship device can't even gaurantee Android update then it's really worth it's hype?

3 PRICE

UNVEILING THE SCAM TENDENCIES[/color

If you might recall, back in the year 2019 December (i think so) Tecno unveiled it's flagship device for that year the CAMON 15 PREMIER (which actually was not a flagship if you're talking from the technical point of view)

This device came with an entry level chipset Mediatek Helio p35 precisely

But the shocking thing is that this device was first sold for 95k and then later the price was increased to 115k-120k

Now you're still wondering why I said like CAMON 15 PREMIER LIKE PHANTOM X? relax we're just getting started.

Tecno openly wrote on her site that this device CAMON 15 PREMIER comes with a whopping 64mp Sony camera. The Fallacy

How is picture bining technology possible on an entry level chipset to get to the level of 64mp?

Initially Mediatek stated that the Helio p35 can only support 15mp camera (so I think)

I still remember how we retweeted Zesushvwritter request made to Tecno official Twitter handle requesting for proof of bining technology with the Sony camera, till this day, we never heard any response from them.

[color=indigo]THIRD MISTAKE

Back to the phantom X

If you must know, am yet to see any brand that is retailing a Mediatek Helio G95 chipset device for over 225k, quote me anywhere, I'll pay you in cash, what an unexplainable despicable abomination?

Don't get me wrong, this device comes with some nice features like gorilla glass 5, AMOLED display, 90hz refresh, laser, Ella etc and truly speaking, it's a nice device first of it's kind from this brand

But the main question, what's the worthiness if the flagship performs in the mid-range level?

CAMON 17pro a mid-range phone with a mid-range chipset was retailed for 125k-130k

Phantom X a flagship phone with exact same mid-range chipset is sold for 228k-230k

Bearing in mind that the both of them have same mid-range chipset so same performance is expected, so why in petes name is the phantom X over 100k more expensive?

Who knows the definition of SCAM and a MONUMENTAL DISASTER?

Flamees:
Guy you get talent sha

skywalker240:
Well a lot of folks here does, of which you are aware

Like in those "please suggest a phone" thread created here alot of time

And lastly it will be disappointing to spend months trying to woo an extremely beautiful woman and when at the end of the day she falls for you, you discovered that the extreme beauty was actually the handwork of excessive amount of make-ups Mary Kay, eye lashes, pan cakes etc

You can liking that to the PHANTOM X

Eyanbahose:
in other words, Phantom X isn't a good buy?

skywalker240:
In other words, phantom X is extremely overpriced.