While it hasn’t published it on its official site, Tecno has sent out the new Camon 17 to retailers in Kenya. You can’t have one yet, but you can pre-order it – here’s what you’ll get if you do.
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At first glance, it is not a straight upgrade over the Tecno 16. For starters, it has a smaller 6.55” screen, down from 6.8”. It’s still a 720p+ class display (though with 20:9 aspect ratio). The selfie camera (still living in a punch hole) has an 8MP sensor (down from 16MP).
The Mediatek Helio G85 is a mainstream ARM SoC for smartphones (mainly Android based) that was introduced in 2020. It is manufactured in a 12 nm FinFET process and integrates 8 CPU cores.
Tecno Camon 17
It has a slightly more powerful chipset than the previous generation, a Helio G85. The Mali G52 MC2 GPU runs at a higher clock speed as do the six A55 CPU cores, while the two A75 cores are the same. You get the same 4 GB of RAM, but double the storage is doubled to 128 GB. Also, this one comes with Android 11 and HiOS 7.6 out of the box.
Moving on, the camera on the back now stars a 16MP ultra wide-angle module. Even the Camon 16 Pro and 16 Premier had only an 8MP ultra wide (the vanilla 16 had none). However, the main camera is demoted to a 48MP sensor (down from 64MP on the 16-series). A 2MP helper module rounds off the trio.
The new model has a 5,000mAh battery, same as before, and we’re not seeing any mentions of fast charging. Like its siblings, this is a dual-SIM phone with 4G LTE connectivity.
The Tecno Camon 17 can be found at an online retailer in Kenya (follow the Source link). The store was also kind enough to send us some hands-on photos of the phone:
Tecno Camon 17 live photos
It will cost KES 22,800 ($210/€175) and if you want one, you can pre-order a unit with a KES 2,000 down payment. For comparison, the Camon 16 is KES 19,400, the 16 Pro is KES 20,500 and the 16 Premier is noticeably more expensive at KES 27,800.
Reader comments
- XRM
Very stunning look!And i love the big display..the camera is also awesome.
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We compared two 8-core processors: MediaTek Helio G95 (with Mali-G76 3EEMC4 graphics) and Helio G85 (Mali-G52 MP2). Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
- Performs 3.6x better in floating-point computations
- Shows significantly better (up to 54%) AnTuTu 8 score – 300K vs 195K
- Better instruction set architecture
- Higher GPU frequency (~11%)
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarks| CPU | 97589 | 74145 |
| GPU | 86889 | 34415 |
| Memory | 56527 | 42573 |
| UX | 59351 | 40577 |
| Total score | 300436 | 195524 |
| PUBG Mobile | 51 FPS [Low] | 43 FPS [High] |
| Call of Duty: Mobile | 38 FPS [Ultra] | 40 FPS [Medium] |
| Fortnite | 27 FPS [Low] | 21 FPS [Low] |
| Shadowgun Legends | 57 FPS [Low] | 49 FPS [Low] |
| World of Tanks Blitz | 48 FPS [High] | 51 FPS [Medium] |
| Genshin Impact | 27 FPS [Low] | - |
| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 52 FPS [Ultra] | 46 FPS [Ultra] |
| Device | Realme 7 1080 x 2400 | Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 1080 x 2340 |
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Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Helio G95 and Helio G85| Architecture | 2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76 6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55 | 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75 6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Frequency | 2050 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8-A |
| Process | 12 nanometers | 12 nanometers |
| TDP | 5 W | 5 W |
| GPU name | Mali-G76 3EEMC4 | Mali-G52 MP2 |
| Architecture | Bifrost | Bifrost |
| GPU frequency | 900 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Execution units | 4 | 2 |
| Shading units | 64 | 32 |
| FLOPS | 195.8 Gigaflops | 54 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 32 Bit | 2x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | - | 13.41 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 10 GB | 8 GB |
| Neural processor (NPU) | Da Vinci | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 | eMMC 5.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2520 x 1080 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 64MP, 2x 24MP | 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 2K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS | 2K at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP9 | H.264, H.265, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 7 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 600 Mbps | Up to 300 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 100 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
| Announced | September 2020 | April 2020 |
| Class | Mid range | Mid range |
| Official page | MediaTek Helio G95 official site | MediaTek Helio G85 official site |
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