Tecno Camon 20 Premier is the upgraded version of last year’s Camon 19 Pro, and it offers more than just an attractive design.
With its budget-friendly price tag, this smartphone is a pleasant surprise for smartphone enthusiasts who are looking for great hardware without breaking the bank.
Tecno has recently become an increasingly successful company. What began as a largely localised business targeting developing countries in Africa has since expanded rapidly and continues to enter new markets.
Tecno Camon 20 Premier, which was launched in May, is a smartphone that showcases Tecno’s growing success as a company.
The Camon line has become one of their flagship offerings in their budget-targeted portfolio.
The Chinese company is one of the biggest surprises of the year, after launching several impressive smartphones one after the other.
Recently, the company unveiled its Tecno Camon 20 Premier 5G model, featuring several new imaging features. The phone comes with a stylish design, and pure aesthetics but also an affordable price for what it’s offering and is considered by the manufacturer as one of their biggest hits of the year.
The Camon series brings large screens and batteries, with a good camera experience and satisfying performance on the cheap. The Camon 20 Premier 5G is no exception. The Premier model, as the name suggests, represents the best Camon offers.
Design and Display
It’s an impressive mid-range phone, available Serenity Blue (the color option I had) and Dark Welkin color variants. According to Tecno, the phone features the company’s puzzle deconstructionist design inspired by the relevant genre of postmodern architecture. It’s worth noting also that its unique design claimed the Muse Design Award for 2023.
This phone is surely not for gamers, nor for the business aficionados. It’s a mid-range device with impeccable design, that packs the MediaTek Dimensity 8050 chipset. It comes with 8GB of RAM that can be expanded by a further 8GB using expandable RAM.
Featuring an octa-core CPU with four performance Arm Cortex-A78 processors with peak speeds of 3GHz, and powerful nine core GPU, the chip offers supreme gaming with reliable, fast FPS in top titles.
This processing power is fueled by ultra-fast quad-channel memory and dual-channel UFS 3.1 storage. Obviously don’t expect it to let you play graphic-intensive games. However, it can let you play PUBG and call of Duty, reducing the graphics settings and dropping the frame rates.
According to Tecno, all its Camon phone lineup is made for shooting photos and videos. One of the main attractions of the Tecno Camon 20 Premier 5G is its camera system. On the back we find a main 50MP lens packing the company’s innovative technology of RGBW. By replacing the “green” array solution in the traditional RGGB color filter with a “white” one, the RGBW sensor allows more light to be captured.
Memory Options
Camon 20 Premier 5G comes with 8GB RAM + 512GB of internal storage, but there’s also microSD slot support that can beef up your storage if you wish. It also packs Android’s latest memory fusion (virtual memory extension) gimmick that can increase its memory up to extra 8GB of RAM – taking space from the storage.
It’s always nice to see a budget friendly phone packing a large battery (5000 mAh) with support for 45W fast charging speed. This means that it can fully charge the device in just under 50 minutes – impressive time for the category.
If you value cameras (photography and videography) more than performance, then the Tecno Camon 20 Premier 5G is for you. But, if you value performance over cameras (that is you, love, playing games), then you might want to look the way of other phones with better performance.
Tecno provides two color options namely Dark Welkin and Serenity Blue for its CAMON 20 Premier 5G, Camon 20 Pro 5G and Camon 20 Pro.
Camon 20 is retailing at Sh26,999 (8+256), while the Camon 20 Pro: will go for Sh30,999 (8+256) and the Camon 20 Pro 5G at Sh39,999 (8+256). Camon 20 Premier 5G is being sold for Sh50,999 (8+256).
At the same time, Safaricom is offering customers who buy the 5G-ready Camon 20 Pro 5G and Camon 20 Premier 5G a 5GB 5G data bundle redeemable via the mySafaricom app.
