Tecno’s Phantom X2 Pro telephone has a pop-out portrait lens for ‘pure’ bokeh | Engadget

Many smartphones lately supply synthetic bokeh of their portrait images modes, however with the assistance of a retractable digital camera, you’ll be able to obtain true optical bokeh with out lacking any edges. Chinese model Tecno is now bringing such a function to its newest flagship machine, the Phantom X2 Pro 5G, which packs a “world-first” pop-out portrait lens. This is just a bit over two years after Xiaomi confirmed off a retractable 120mm-equivalent extensive aperture lens, but it surely by no means left the prototype stage.

Tecno’s intriguing portrait digital camera has a 50-megapixel decision with a comparatively massive 1/2.7-inch sensor and 1.28um pixel measurement. Optically, this 2.5x zoom lens gives an f/1.49 aperture, 65mm focal size and 18.9cm depth of subject. When you turn to portrait mode within the digital camera app, you’ll be able to see (and listen to) the portrait lens bodily come out on the again of the telephone. This is complemented with Tecno’s “self-developed” beautification mode with upgraded make-up settings — as much as three faces are supported in every picture. 

I had an opportunity to shoot some portraits with my Phantom X2 Pro 5G earlier right now, and excluding the aggressive pores and skin smoothing, my topics have been fairly happy with the pure bokeh, optimized brightness and nearly non-existent distortion.

There’s extra on this amusingly massive digital camera island. The 50-megapixel principal shooter makes use of Samsung’s 1/1.3-inch GNV ISOCELL 3.0 sensor, which gives 1.2um pixel measurement and is supported with an f/1.85 aperture. You’ll additionally discover a 13-megapixel ultra-wide angle digital camera close by, in addition to a 32-megapixel entrance digital camera on the opposite aspect of the telephone — within the type of a punch-hole close to the highest of the curved 6.8-inch AMOLED display screen (2,400 x 1,080 decision, 120Hz refresh fee; Gorilla Glass Victus).

The Phantom X2 Pro 5G is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 9000, which is a 4nm octa-core processor — much like the quicker Dimensity 9000+ present in ASUS’ ROG Phone 6D collection. It additionally packs 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage, together with a beneficiant 5,160mAh battery with 45W quick charging help. While this telephone lacks an IP ranking, an organization rep claimed that the retractable portrait lens is waterproof and dustproof — the inside of the lens is seemingly sealed, and likewise with the connection between the lens and the physique. Still, it is most likely finest to keep away from the water while you’re carrying this machine.

Tecno’s new telephone runs on a custom-made Android 12 system dubbed HiOS 12, which options an AI gallery with face recognition and enhancing features, together with some productiveness instruments (built-in translator, file scanner with textual content and PDF conversion and many others.) and a connection pace optimization engine. Tecno added that its machine handed TÜV Rheinland’s fluency take a look at over a 36-month simulation, that means its storage reminiscence efficiency should not deteriorate a lot (learn: fragmentation) throughout the identical interval in actual life; however we’ll take this declare with a pinch of salt for now.

Tecno will initially be launching the Phantom X2 Pro 5G in markets together with India, Nigeria, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Turkey, and the Philippines from the tip of December, and it will attain over 60 markets globally later (we’re ready for particular particulars on Western markets). The machine might be obtainable in “Stardust Grey” and “Mars Orange,” with the latter that includes an eco-friendly again cowl composed of plastics recovered from the shores across the Indian Ocean. Tecno claims that this “Eco-Friendly Edition” reduces carbon emissions by roughly 38 % when in comparison with virgin plastics, “with each individual cover producing an estimated 2.4g fewer emissions on average.” 

If you handle to return throughout a Phantom X2 Pro, the asking worth is round $930 (based mostly on the three,499 Riyal price ticket in Saudi Arabia), which might be troublesome to justify for simply some pure bokeh. There’s additionally the Phantom X2 which is round $215 cheaper and appears very related, but it surely solely has 8GB of RAM and lacks a retractable portrait digital camera; you will as an alternative get a 64-megapixel principal digital camera and a 2-megapixel depth digital camera, together with the identical 13-megapixel ultra-wide digital camera and 32-megapixel entrance digital camera because the Pro mannequin. The orange choice can also be changed by a “Moonlight White” design.