Itel P55

For photography, the itel P55 features a 50MP AI dual rear camera setup. For selfies and video calls, there's an 8MP camera.The daylight photography results are pleasing, with vibrant colours and a sufficient amount of detail. HDR and ultra-HD modes also offer sharp pictures and are useful for taking images of static objects or views. The details tend to get softer around the borders of the images, and there is a noticeable loss of detail when zooming in. Selfies work quite similarly, providing a good output in daylight conditions and striking a balance with facial details, though the skin tone may appear slightly washed out. In low light, however, the smartphone tends to capture blurry images with a significant amount of grain, even with the dedicated Super Night mode enabled. Taking images at night or in places with low light proves challenging and requires a few attempts to achieve satisfactory results.  

The Unisoc T606 processor powers the itel P55 and comes paired with up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Through MemFusion technology, the initial 8GB of RAM can be further expanded, allowing for a total of up to 24GB (basically an additional 16GB of virtual RAM support).The dynamic RAM does not make too much of a difference when it comes to general usage, but for resource-intensive tasks, especially gaming, there's some improvement evident.The smartphone performs well for day-to-day usage and general browsing scenarios, and it can even double as a casual gaming device at times. Here are some benchmarks:I managed to play BGMI at HD resolution and High frame rate settings, although the gameplay experience is significantly better at lower resolution and offers a better frame rate. Talking about software, the smartphone features Android 13 with itel's custom skin on top pre-installed. The OS is quite easy to get used to and offers some nice animations.While the software does come with some pre-installed apps, thankfully, most of these third-party apps can be uninstalled.There's also a dynamic island-style feature that pops up for face unlock, call background, charging reminders, and more. Unlike Apple's dynamic bar, this feature is not interactive and is only available for a select few actions.The handset comes with a bunch of other special features tailored for different use cases, such as a game mode for gaming sessions, a dual app function for accessing multiple accounts on the same handset, a video assistant, and more. There are also some useful features, such as auto call recording and a Game Space app to enhance gaming performance. The Game Space app also comes with health reminders that alert you if your gameplay time exceeds two hours of continuous playing or 4 hours of accumulated game time. 

A 5,000mAh battery with 18W fast charging support powers the itel P55, and I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed by the battery performance of this device.I binge-watched multiple YouTube videos, played some games, did a lot of general browsing, and made some substantially long calls. At the end of the day, the device still had around 19 percent of its battery left in the tank, which is quite impressive. The P55 scored an outstanding 19 hours and 55 minutes on the PCMark battery test. This indicates that even with intensive usage, the handset should easily last an entire day.In terms of charging speeds, the handset takes around 2.5 hours to achieve a full charge from 0-100 percent. The charging speed could have been faster, but it is offset by the impressive battery backup.