Tecno's Phantom V Fold, a shockingly inexpensive foldable phone, gets its first glimpse

Tecno’s Phantom V Fold, a shockingly inexpensive foldable phone, gets its first glimpse

Back in December, Tecno, a relatively obscure mobile firm on this side of the globe, stunned us with a pop-out portrait lens on its Phantom X2 Pro flagship phone. The Chinese manufacturer gave us the Phantom V Fold for its MWC showcase today, which happens to be the first horizontally-folding phone powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 9000+ chipset (hello, Oppo Find N2 Flip! ), rather than anything from Qualcomm. This typically suggests that the entry barrier is lower, which is always a positive thing.

 

Tecno's Phantom V Fold, a shockingly inexpensive foldable phone, gets its first glimpse