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TECNO Phantom A Review

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First Impressions The first thing one notices about the TECNO phantom A is its huge screen. It comes with a five inch 1280 by 720 screen which is a catch for those who love huge phones. The screen is sufficiently clear and sharp compared to similarly priced phones. However, on unlocking the phone, one notices considerable lagging which does not go away. Somehow after fitting this phone with a 1 GHz dual core processor and 1 GB of RAM, TECNO forgot to include a reasonable graphics processor. The phone barely manages to run android Jellybean 4.1.1. It lags in many places including navigation and launching applications. Just for comparison purposes, the galaxy S, a phone produced way back in 2010 with a 1 GHz single core processor and 512MB of RAM can comfortably run Jelly Bean, smoothly and with no lags. This means that the Phantom A lacks a good graphics processor to manage graphics intensive applications, including the OS (Jelly Bean). The next thing one notices about the phone is i