Tecno Pova 8 debuts with Alive Matrix Display and an 8,000mAh battery

Tecno launched the Pova 8 last week, but there's also a Pova 8 Pro coming soon, as revealed by certifications dating back to last month. Now, the Pova 8 Pro 5G has been spotted in the Google Play Console. This process has outed the frontal image of the device which you can see below. The listing has revealed the fact that the phone is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 SoC, paired with 12GB of RAM. The Pova 8 Pro will launch running Android 16. It has a touchscreen with 1208x2644 resolution. According to those aforementioned certifications, the Pova 8 Pro has a 6,500 mAh...

This is the brand-new Tecno Pova 8, and it brings a design-first approach to the lower midrange segment. But first order of business, what do you get in the box? Pova 8 ships with a clear silicone case, a 45W charger and a USB-C cable. Now that we have that covered, we can go over the phone’s key feature – the Alive Matrix Display. It’s a tiny LED status display, which occupies its own cutout in the triangular camera island. With 104 individual LEDs, it can quickly alert you for incoming notifications but that’s far from the only useful bit. Similar to the Nothing Phone (3)...

The Pova 8 is Tecno’s brand-new offering in the mid-range. It has a new design, a massive high-capacity battery, but everything else remains similar to the previous model. Priced a lot higher and marketed as a mid-range smartphone, can it attract buyers with its new Alive Matrix Display? Read on to find out.

With the Pova 7, Tecno took a page out of Nothing’s book with the Delta Light Interface, a triangular strip of light with 104 LEDs. Now the company is going to the next level with the Alive Matrix Display. This is a small dot-matrix display in the third “lens” of the camera island (there’s only one actual camera on there, despite appearances). The new Tecno Pova 8 is an upgrade over the Pova 7 in some respects, but a downgrade in others. It has a larger 8,000mAh battery (up from 6,000mAh). TÜV SÜD has tested the phone and found that it lasts 2 days on a single charge. That’s not all – the...