The TECNO brand is not new to our market and has been occupying normal smartphones of the middle price segment with good skills in Russia for quite a long time.
If you choose a gadget according to the “price-quality” criteria, then TECNO smartphones require attention. It is not surprising that the manufacturing company falls into the top ten smartphone manufacturers and makes smartphones with good features at affordable prices, which is evident in their popularity in countries ranging from India to Russia.
I got a new TECNO POVA 3 smartphone in my hands: a powerful 7000 mAh battery, a screen with an actual frequency of 90 Hz, a smart filling, and all this for 18,990 rubles. It seems that the best smartphone in touch under 20 thousand found? Let’s figure it out.
Appearance
The body of the smartphone is made of plastic, the back panel is matte, fingerprints are not protected on it. In the center there is an additional decorative element in the form of a glossy strip, and in the blue version of TECNO POVA 3, a backlight is built into this strip. The silver version of the smartphone of this luxury is required for incomprehensible fullness.
This glossy strip stretches slightly over the body, so that if you put your smartphone on the table, the cameras will not come into contact with the surface. But the strip itself perfectly collects fingerprints and small scratches, so it’s better to immediately hide the gadget in a transparent silicone case, since it is included in the kit.
In addition to the case, the TECNO POVA 3 box contains a 33W charger and a USB-C cable. In my test copy, there were also wired headphones, but for the Russian market they will not be included. But in the smartphone itself has a 3.5mm jacknostalgic smile.
The front side of the device meets a large diagonal FHD + 6.9 inches and extraction of 2460×1080 pixels.
The screen matrix is IPS, so the image fades at an angle, but not exactly, the magnification parameter of 500 nits is reached, and this is quite a comfortable level for an image under the bright rays of the critical sun.
The front camera at the top of the screen is almost invisible and captured 8 MP. There is a dual camera on the back, where the density is a 50-megapixel module with f / 1.6 aperture and one auxiliary “eye” with 2 megapixels. Also under the cameras is an AI module.
TECNO POVA 3 dimensions 173.1×78.5×9.4mm, weight – 230 grams. In the hand, the device lies comfortably, it does not seem heavy and easily fits into almost any pocket.
The case also has physical volume keys, a power button, a built-in fingerprint scanner and several slots: one for two nano SIM cards and a separate slot for a micro-SD memory card with a capacity of up to 512 GB.
Also, TECNO POVA 3 can amplify stereo speakers that produce loud sound without extraneous wheezing. You can even hear it from the inside pocket of the jacket, so you definitely won’t miss the calls.
Filling and features of TECNO POVA 3
Inside the smartphone, an eight-core Mediatek Helio G88 processor is installed, consisting of two Cortex-A75 with a frequency of 2 GHz and six Cortex-A55 with a frequency of 1.8 GHz. A separate ARM Mali-G52 MC2 processor is responsible for the graphics.
TECNO POVA 3 comes to our market with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal memory. One of the main advantages of this gadget is that this price category of the 7000 mAh battery is huge by the standards of other smartphones. There are 3 managers on one charge of POVA with an easy study of two days, if you do not abuse resource-intensive games.
And if you like to skip one or two rinks in PUBG or CoD mobile, the smartphone will please you with slow discharge: according to personal impressions, one rink in the royal battle eats up about 7% of the charge, which is a very good indicator.
The smartphone is generally focused on gamers: among several pre-installed applications there is a proprietary Panther Engine 2.0 engine. If you run the same PUBG through it, then get the processor power optimized for the game, get a stable frame rate for playing with maximum comfort.
The included 33W charger charges the smartphone from zero to 100% in about 90 minutes. Half an hour of charging charges the gadget up to 45%.
The powerful battery even allows you to use TECNO POVA 3 as an external battery for other devices and accessories. You can easily charge from your smartphone using the USB-C headphone cable or another smartphone.
Sample photos of TECNO POVA 3
With natural daytime exposure and without zoom, the photos are quite clear and detailed. As with all smartphones from the Middle Kingdom, all pictures are processed by default with emissions “beautifier” – someone likes it, and someone can open this add-on.
If you use even the weakest, double, the quality of perception is already beginning to resolve issues. Although you can still say that the smartphone photographs good money.
Clever blurring of the portrait expression of a good expansion with its own problem, given that the photo was taken in motion and never staged.
But taking pictures against the light on TECNO POVA 3 is not excluded: it is clear that HDR demonstrates image stretching, but it still turned out dull:
The smartphone also shoots videos in a maximum resolution of 2K at 30 frames per second.
As for me, with photography, POVA 3 has risen to the level, the main thing is not to abuse the zoom and not expect a miracle from shooting at night.
Conclusion. Really great device for the money.
TECNO POVA 3 is really worth the money considering what you get:
▪️ large clear screen
▪️ mandatory battery
▪️ adaptation for resource-intensive games
▪️ fast charging
▪️ stereo sound
In addition, the smartphone is equipped with NFC, so you can use contactless payment via Mir Pay. Add Bluetooth 5.0, support for Wi-Fi 2.4 or 5 GHz, VoLTE, and it turns out that POVA 3 is perfect for both teenagers who are fond of mobile gaming and adults for whom long acoustics and a large screen are important so as not to strain their eyes.
I remind you that today TECNO POVA 3 costs 18,990 rubles, and you are unlikely to find an alternative for this money that would have the same characteristics. Therefore, it is recommended to look at this smartphone as a working gadget or game console.
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Source: Iphones RU
