Tecno Camon 20 Pro

The Tecno Camon 20 Pro 5G is marketed as a camera-centric smartphone. The handset ships with a triple camera setup at the back, which comprises a 64MP RGBW (G+P) main sensor. This main sensor is equipped with a large f/1.65 aperture lens and OIS, which is said to enhance light sensitivity and improve lowlight performance. Additionally, the setup includes a 2MP depth sensor and a 2MP macro unit. The performance remains satisfactory as long as you don't plan to use the cameras with AI. The AI feature enhances colours, resulting in unnatural-looking images and a loss of details and dynamic range. While some may find the resulting pictures appealing for social media, I personally preferred the Camon 20 Pro camera performance with the AI feature turned off. The images looked more balanced, with sharp details on the smartphone screen, realistic shades, and well-preserved highlights. In low light, cameras tend to introduce some noise, but the exposure to details remains acceptable. The phone has a dedicated night mode for the main 64MP sensor, which, like any other smartphone, smoothens out the details at the expense of reducing graininess.Up front, the Camon 20 Pro 5G packs a 32MP snapper in a punch-hole setup. The sensor is capable of capturing decent selfies with good detail and skin tones in daylight. However, indoors or in a dimly lit environment, the details appear soft, and the colours appear a bit pale. While the portrait mode on the smartphone adds a nice blur effect in the background, the edge detection could have been better.

The Tecno Camon 20 Pro is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 8050 SoC, which features a 6nm manufacturing process and a clock speed of up to 3GHz. I did not face many issues with the smartphone while performing day-to-day tasks. The handset even handled multitasking and gaming well. I was able to play BGMI with ‘HD' graphics and a ‘High' frame rate without any stutter or frame drop issues. The game remains playable even after increasing the graphic settings to ‘HDR' and the frame rate to ‘ultra'. However, the handset heats up a bit under strenuous loads. The Camon 20 Pro performance throttled up to 74 percent of its maximum performance, which is a tad low.On the benchmarking tests, the handset netted respectable scores. It secured 6,05,882 on AnTuTu, and on Geekbench, the Tecno smartphone scored 837 and 1,953 points in single-core and multi-core tests. The phone comes with a couple of RAM and storage options: 8GB+128GB and 8GB+256GB. The storage is further expandable with a microSD card up to 512GB. Apart from this, the Camon 20 Pro has an in-display fingerprint scanner, which works exceptionally well, swiftly unlocking the device with ease.Talking about the software, the Camon 20 Pro runs Tecno's custom HiOS 13 skin atop Android 13 out of the box. The skin comes with its own share of bloatware, most of which you can't uninstall, as well as notifications. Be that as it may, HiOS 13 has all the functions and abilities that you would expect from other custom Android skins. It boasts call recording, screen recording, dark mode, One Hand mode, theme store, Peek Proof, and similar to Apple and Xiaomi phones, separate shades for notifications and quick settings panel, among other things.

The Tecno Camon 20 Pro has a decent 5,000mAh battery on board. It scored 10 hours and 42 minutes on the PCMark battery test, which is respectable. Depending on your usage, you can enjoy 5 hours or more of screen-on-time. The phone managed to last nearly a day, with my usage involving browsing, social media, Gmail checking, and video streaming. As for the charging speeds, the handset takes anywhere between 70 and 75 minutes to fully charge from 0-100 percent using its 33W fast charger.