Just like the Motorola Razr 40 or the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5, the Phantom V Turn opens up at the brief aspects, so it’s harking back to vintage turn telephones from the 2000s. There’s a spherical duvet show at the entrance, referred to as “The Planet” by way of the producer, round which the cameras are organized in a radius. This makes for a novel glance, but if working the outer show you’re all the time at risk of having your finger into the cameras on the backside and soiling them with greasy marks.
There are two colour variants: Mystic Break of day and Iconic Black. The telephone is roofed with imitation leather-based, which has a haptically noticeable perforation in some puts in our black take a look at instrument. The lilac variant may be coated with imitation leather-based, however there’s a contrasting stripe and a metal pin at the again.
The Tecno Phantom V Turn is a couple of grams heavier than different turn telephones, however it has a pleasing slender design that matches smartly within the pocket. The steadiness seems excellent to start with contact, reasonable twisting does no longer impact the telephone.
We adore the hinge, which may also be opened rather simply with one hand and assists in keeping the display solid in lots of positions. Thus, the telephone can be utilized for pictures in half-open mode like with a tripod. Sadly, splitting the display for a couple of apps does no longer paintings that smartly.
There are 256 GB of speedy UFS 3.1 mass garage and eight GB of running reminiscence onboard, which is a superb configuration, particularly for the reason that Phantom V Turn is meant to price 699 Euros in Europe and is thus less expensive than the comparability units. NFC is put in, however sadly, the USB-C port is handiest hooked up internally consistent with the USB 2.0 same old, so symbol output and quicker information transfers are not to be had.
WiFi 6 is the quickest supported WLAN same old, and the Phantom V Turn achieves respectable switch charges of between 588 and 877 MBit/s in our take a look at with the reference router Asus ROG Rapture AXE 11000. This implies you can not totally make the most of a gigabit Web line, however it generally achieves relatively excellent information throughput. Comparability units just like the Galaxy Z Flip5 or the Razr 40 give a boost to WiFi 6E and will thus get right of entry to the fewer occupied 6 GHz band, which leads to considerably upper Wi-Fi speeds.
The Tecno Phantom V Turn is a 5G smartphone that has sufficient frequencies to be used in another country. Alternatively, there could be issues in some international locations, for the reason that turn type isn’t a global telephone with all globally used bands. The reception was once excellent in our roughly 2-week take a look at segment within the inner-city house, however there have been occasional dropouts.
The telephone ships with Android 13, and the producer customizes the interface with its personal HiOS 13.5. The safety patches are from June 2023 and are thus older on the time of trying out.
The touchscreen at the within may also be operated very reliably and helps a polling charge of as much as 360 Hz. Nice: The instrument permits customers to regulate the sensitivity of the operation, as an example when scrolling, to private personal tastes. The outer display may be touch-sensitive. Easy widgets may also be accomplished right here, which can be utilized to take selfies or glance up appointments within the calendar, as an example.
The fingerprint sensor is built-in into the standby button at the casing’s proper. It now and again has issues spotting scanned arms accurately, however unlocks the telephone relatively temporarily when known.
Two cameras and a flash module are discovered at the again. At the one hand, that is the principle lens, which has a answer of 64 megapixels, however generally handiest takes photos with 16 megapixels and thus makes use of greater pixels with a better mild yield.
The principle digicam takes moderately colourful photos of shut items with respectable main points and a rather artificial-looking bokeh impact. The encompassing symbol additionally seems relatively wealthy in main points total and is easily brightened. The principle digicam additionally does a good process in low mild and excessive contrasts, although a noticeable graininess temporarily turns into visual in darker spaces.
Movies may also be recorded in a most of 4K answer and at 30 fps. The image seems sharp, the short autofocus and the precise brightness adjustment are convincing. Alternatively, a noticeable graininess is instantly visual in much less mild.
The wide-angle lens on the again takes relatively excellent snapshots, by which you’ll additionally acknowledge some main points. Alternatively, different high-end telephones be offering a lot more dynamics in shiny and darkish spaces.
One benefit of the folding mechanism and the second one display is that you’ll additionally take selfies with the principle digicam. Alternatively, a selfie digicam may be hidden in a punchhole at the major display. It resolves with 32 megapixels, but in addition most commonly handiest makes use of 1/4 of the answer. The ensuing selfies are pleasant with a good stage of element and nonetheless be offering slightly of drawing even in darker spaces.
The internal AMOLED display in 22:9 layout makes use of a longer Complete HD answer and will dynamically regulate its body charge between 1 and 120 Hz. Thus, energy may also be stored when viewing a picture or textual content, whilst clean scrolling is imaginable with none issues.
Relating to brightness, the Tecno Phantom V Turn does no longer have to cover with its display both: 797 cd/m² with all-white as the typical most brightness is a good price, particularly since a luminosity of as much as 954 cd/m² is measurable on smaller surfaces.
Sadly, we found out PWM flickering at the AMOLED display, so touchy customers will have to take a look at the display ahead of purchasing the telephone. The display achieves a good colour replica, however in particular robust hues deviate slightly extra from the optimal than within the comparability units.
The entrance spherical display is in response to AMOLED era and has a answer of 466 x 466 pixels. The utmost refresh charge of the display is 60 Hz.
Size collection with fastened zoom stage and other brightness settings
Relatively new MediaTek Dimensity 8050 is used because the SoC, however its technical specs correspond to the already older Dimensity 1300. With actual high-end processors like within the Galaxy Z Flip5, the SoC can not stay up relating to efficiency, however you continue to get an overly clean machine in on a regular basis use. The diversities are extra visual in very difficult programs.
Particularly in graphically difficult methods, akin to rendering in 4K, the Tecno Phantom V Turn is slower than its opponents with a high-end SoC. Web surfing is speedy on our take a look at instrument, photographs are loaded temporarily and are generally to be had whilst scrolling. The reminiscence may be speedy, however the reminiscence controller can not totally make the most of the utmost pace of the flash modules.
There’s a noticeable warmth buildup beneath an extended load because of the slender case of the telephone. Alternatively, this doesn’t impact the SoC; the efficiency is continuous at a excessive stage within the 3DMark pressure checks.
The stereo audio system of the turn telephone can get moderately loud, however they sound unpleasantly treble-heavy at most quantity. This improves slightly when the sound power is diminished, however the audio system by no means sound truly excellent. Alternatively, exterior audio system or headphones may also be hooked up by means of USB-C or Bluetooth. This works easily, and there also are a couple of formats for wi-fi sound transmission with SBC, AAC, aptX, aptX HD, LDAC, and LHDC V3 and V5.
There isn’t that a lot room for the battery within the foldable case, so you must be content material with 4,000 mAh as battery capability. The telephone is thus on par with the contest and too can supply a good runtime for the product class with virtually 10 hours in our WLAN take a look at. You will have to be capable to get in the course of the day with out charging if you don’t use the telephone for too difficult actions. The utmost charging energy is 45 watts, this means that the battery is complete once more in slightly below 1 hour.
If you wish to have an enormous entrance show in your turn telephone and absolute most sensible efficiency, you’re going to most probably must spend greater than 700 Euros. Alternatively, those that favor to save cash gets a forged selection within the Tecno Phantom V Turn: The principle digicam takes excellent photos and may be versatile because of wide-angle give a boost to. Due to a strong hinge, the telephone may also be stabilized in lots of positions and will thus be used for gazing movies or positioned at the desk like a digicam with a tripod.
The spherical entrance show can handiest display a couple of widgets, however it’s totally enough for elementary knowledge or as a viewfinder for the digicam. The telephone has a excellent production high quality and sufficient efficiency for on a regular basis use. The battery existence is inferior to in standard telephones, however the Phantom V Turn recharges relatively temporarily.
Alternatively, some issues trouble us: The telephone does no longer totally make the most of the excessive pace of its UFS 3.1 garage, the audio system don’t be offering a in particular excellent sound, and the protection patches are slightly older. The fingerprint sensor additionally proved to be rather unreliable in our take a look at.
As Tecno’s first turn telephone within the West, the Phantom V Turn cuts relatively a excellent determine: High quality major digicam, shiny AMOLED, and solid hinge. All that is to be had at a lower cost than the established festival.
The highest canine amongst turn telephones is no doubt the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 which provides much more energy and has already dropped in worth. It’s lately to be had at amazon.de ranging from 829 Euros. The Motorola Razr 40 additionally handiest provides a small entrance show and a few benefits like eSIM give a boost to and DC dimming.
The Tecno Phantom V Turn isn’t but to be had in Europe on the time of trying out, however will have to quickly be introduced on the producer’s worth of 699 Euros.
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