Tecno Camon 30 Premier review

26 April 2024


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Anonymous, 30 Apr 2024Not buggy but stupidly planned out ""features&quo... moreUnfortunately the aggressive battery optimization bug is still there. One can mitigate it a little in the settings, but you can't get rid of it. It's very annoying and making apps misbehave and stutter.

    Good battery, decent enough speakers, fast charging, nice design (tho feels like a Vivo X90/X Fold 2 copy but it still looks premium at least) and my god those cameras.

    The Find X5 Pro used to have a 1/1.56" camera, the JN1 is used as a UW cam in the X100 Pro and the telephoto is bigger than Samsung and Apple's flagships' telephotos (except for the S24 Ultra now ofc). In terms of hardware this is killer. If Tecno had the option to turn down the sharpening, noise reduction aggressiveness and saturation then this would've been the new benchmark for midrange cameras or at least would go hand in hand with the Xiaomi 13T and the Vivo V30. They have a mature looking processing pipeline, didn't expect that, just some tweaks and this could look even more mature and look amazing.

    Good job Tecno, the display looks great due to its bezels tho the brightness isn't inspiring, at least it's an OLED. More competition is always better tho I wonder why all manufacturers need to go and make a heavy skin like just have a light-ish skin with more features like Oneplus used to have, easy to update and still have features.

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      JimmyTheGreatest, 28 Apr 2024Potato, The MiUI/HyperOS is way, way less buggy than it ... moreNot buggy but stupidly planned out ""features"" that only the fanboys stand behind. The biggest, most annoying one I still remember and why I ditched their phones is the notification tray wiping after unlocking/relocking the phone.
      Other notable bugs are more things that simply show they aren't the best at coding, for example, the hyper aggressive battery optimization will disable alarms overnight, yes this is with battery saving turned OFF. Another is not being able to disable your alarm while it's going off.
      The fact this phone company has been around this long and the devs still can't fix these problems just shows that they really have no interest in bug fixing, just releasing more "features".

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        • 29 Apr 2024

        Very poor detail in so called 3x optical zoom,

          -, 29 Apr 2024Tecno Poland: I can't find it.

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            Rucci, 29 Apr 2024Good to know. Anyway, we can't buy it in EU.Tecno Poland:

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              • 29 Apr 2024

              Good to know.
              Anyway, we can't buy it in EU.

                IgorS, 28 Apr 2024I don't mean some random person selling you things, bu... moreThe labor cost in Eastern Europe is much lower than its Western counterpart. I heard that some people/businessmen/shop owners in Eastern Europe make money by importing Chinese phones cheaply, manually install some custom ROM on them and then resell the phones in the EU. I don't buy these phones even if they're sold buy "registered stores" in Eastern Europe/India/China, because I simply don't trust custom ROM. If money disappear from my bank account while banking in such phones, my bank/insurance company won't compensate me. Not that there's much money in my account to be stolen in the first place, but rather the bureaucracy and the massively associated paperwork that follows is the problem. It's a headache and waste of time to report such fraud to the police. At the end of the day, I won't get my money back, because it was my own fault to bank in an insecure software/ROM.

                Just because a store is registered doesn't necessarily mean they know what network bands their phones support. The owners of these shops are usually salesmen, not engineers. And it's actually costly and time consuming to return a phone. Needless to say they might refuse to refund me, because there's nothing "wrong" with the phone.

                  potato4k, 28 Apr 2024Well, nice one Transsion. They are continuously killing Xia... moreAnother vague comment. How is HyperOS "buggy"?

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                    JimmyTheGreatest, 28 Apr 2024Can I trust a seller selling imported Chinese phones from h... moreI don't mean some random person selling you things, but registered stores where you can have you money back in case of problems.

                    As I said, my Infinix Zero X Pro was brough from Infinix store in Aliexpress and took around 2 weeks and a few days to get it at my home. Everything came in perfect condition, box sealed, global ROM, all accessories and stuff.

                    The thing is, Tecno closed it's official store in Aliexpress and no other authorized revendor has their phones anymore. Also, for the average price of Tecno Camon 30 Premier, you will end up finding other phones with better specs, even some flagships.

                      IgorS, 28 Apr 2024I imported my Infinix Zero X Pro from China to Brazil and i... moreCan I trust a seller selling imported Chinese phones from his basement in Eastern Europe??!! It's like you import Vodka from someone brewing it in his basement in Bolivia...

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                        JimmyTheGreatest, 27 Apr 2024The PROBLEM is that we can't buy it in the EU. So we&#... moreI imported my Infinix Zero X Pro from China to Brazil and it works fine since then. You just need to make sure the phone has support to the internet bands in your country and find a reliable phone store or seller.

                          potato4k, 28 Apr 2024Well, nice one Transsion. They are continuously killing Xia... morePotato,

                          The MiUI/HyperOS is way, way less buggy than it used to be. You have to actively look for the bugs in order to find them. An "average" user won't notice them. But I do not disagree with you.

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                            potato4k, 28 Apr 2024Well, nice one Transsion. They are continuously killing Xia... moreKilling xiaomi? It's possible that it's Samsung, Lucky Samsung is still on the market because it's the only non-Chinese Android brand that still has a high market share.

                              TonyLuna97, 28 Apr 2024Someone knows anything about Tecno's software updates?... moreTranssion is no different than most Chinese OEMs a few years back. We can simply look at updates on Oppo/Xiaomi mid to low end a few years ago. 2 years at best, if ever. Transsion is doing the same thing, giving the best band for the buck in hardware while the likes of Xiaomi are getting complacent.

                                Well, nice one Transsion. They are continuously killing Xiaomi.
                                I'm predicting Transsion will overtake Xiaomi in 2 to 3 years. 4 years of updates on Xiaomi means nothing when MiUI/HyperOS is buggy and has nothing special.

                                  Someone knows anything about Tecno's software updates??
                                  It's a great smartphone if we consider the specifications for the price and the range: it would be a shame that this phone doesn't have minimum 2 years of OS updates and 3 of security patches (although the ideal is 3 years of OS updates and 4 of security patches)
                                  To make the investment worth it

                                  And I hope the brightness problem will be fixed with some update, as well as better control of the stereo speakers (they're Dolby Atmos, for God's sake)

                                    Anonymous, 27 Apr 2024Somehow you gave it the same score as the Fisher Price toy ... moreYeah?

                                      Mills, 27 Apr 2024For 400 euros, this smokes every phone in the price bracket... moreIf only it had better update support.

                                        Wow what a solid phone. The West could really use a phone like this, but unfortunately we're either stuck with flagships or average mid-rangers.

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