Tecno formally launched the Spark 30 lineup with two telephones, vanilla and Professional, becoming a member of the Spark 30C from early September. The Spark 30 has a black and yellow Bumblebee variant, whereas we now current you the Spark 30 Professional in Optimus Prime colours – Pink, Blue, and Silver.
The cellphone comes with an adapter, charging cable, and wired earphones, which is a good retail bundle, however right here go our impressions of its efficiency as soon as taken out of the field.
The Spark 30 sequence is for budget-conscious customers who nonetheless need some pleasure, nay, spark, from their telephones. The Professional model packs a 6.78″ AMOLED show with Full HD+ decision and as much as 120 Hz refresh charge. We love that it comes with an under-display fingerprint scanner, which works rapidly and reliably.
The Transformers Theme brings customized wallpaper and icon designs to the Spark 30 Professional, and they’re undoubtedly one thing. They won’t be to everybody’s style, however if you’re shopping for a cellphone with its again trying like Optimus Prime, certainly you’ll admire if the entrance additionally seems like a Transformer.
Tecno did put a 13 MP selfie digital camera contained in the punch gap, however the circle additionally serves as a hub for notifications. It’s referred to as Dynamic Port and is enabled within the Particular Operate menu via Settings. Similar to Dynamic Island on iOS, it epxands to indicate you notifications for incoming calls and notifications, charging standing, media participant, and even some suggestions.
The corporate got here a good distance in sprucing its custom-made interface, and regardless of its many further options, it now not feels disorganized. There are Floating Home windows, which permits for some multi-window expertise; Sensible Panel brings shortcuts to the desktop with a single swipe from the facet, and there may be additionally Recreation Mode and Youngsters Mode for various use-case eventualities.
UI Options
Tecno is so pleased with its AI improvement that it introduced it twice in 2024 – as soon as in Barcelona throughout MWC and once more in Berlin throughout IFA. The Spark 30 Professional is among the first telephones with HiOS having the Tecno AI out of the field, together with a Gemini-powered voice assistant referred to as Ella.
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We examined the AI assistant, and its efficiency is alright – nothing extraordinary. It will probably reply questions and maintain a dialog. It is rather necessary to not count on any magic from the Spark 30 Professional, particularly offline, as a result of the Helio G100 chipset is considerably restricted when it comes to processing energy to deal with the seven billion adjustable parameters which are inside Gemini.
Tecno Spark 30 Professional has a digital camera island on the again with at least 4 separate circles, however just one is for the 108 MP digital camera, which is the one usable shooter.
Tecno Spark 30 Professional digital camera samples
There’s a quad-LED flash on the again, and we now have to understand Tecno implementing a dual-LED flash on the entrance, embedded within the high bezel. Tecno Spark 30 Professional has an IR blaster positioned on the digital camera island.
Tecno Spark 30 Professional portrait: 1x • 3x
Tecno Spark 30 Professional selfie: With LED flash • With out LED flash
We did say there are wired earphones within the field, so there’s clearly a 3.5 mm audio jack. The Spark 30 Professional additionally has FM radio, NFC, twin nano-SIM + microSD card tray, and a USB-C port for as much as 33W wired charging.
All these options in the identical cellphone make the Spark 30 Professional a particularly engaging gadget, and that is earlier than contemplating that it has a 5,000 mAh battery inside a 7.4 mm physique.
The Spark 30 Professional is designed for markets the place 5G connectivity will not be so widespread; the cellphone has 4.5G, which is LTE Superior. It does have pre-installed AI options, which is an enormous promoting level for Tecno and why some would possibly choose this cellphone over the Poco M6 Professional or the Galaxy A15, regardless of these telephones having extra cameras or higher uncooked efficiency.
We now have to recollect Tecno is a powerful participant in Africa and Southeast Asia, and that is the place we count on to see the Spark 30 Professional carry out effectively. This month it ought to attain markets like Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya, the place the cellphone is predicted to value round $200 for the 8/128 GB model, and about $220 for the 8/256 GB possibility.