Six point three nine millimetres thick, with a 6,000mAh battery inside. That pairing is the whole pitch for TECNO’s CAMON Slim 5G, which the company announced in Hong Kong on September 7.
Phone makers usually pay for thinness with battery capacity. TECNO says it did not. The company says the slim body is meant to make one-handed use easier, and the design carries over the “swan-neck” curve from the CAMON 50 series, which TECNO says draws on ballet and car design.
Screen and camera
The display is a 6.78-inch 1.5K AMOLED running at 144Hz, with TÜV Rheinland low blue light certification. Three touch features are there for wet conditions: Wet & Oily Hand Touch Recognition 2.0, Rain Touch and Waterproof Case Touch. Think of them as a screen that still listens when your fingers are damp.
The main camera is a 50MP Sony LYTIA 700C with a 1/1.56-inch sensor and optical image stabilization. TECNO adds a closed-loop ball motor for autofocus and combines OIS, electronic stabilization and AI-based shutter processing. Portrait shots come at 24mm, 35mm and 50mm equivalents, and the Universal Tone feature uses a skin-tone database to render different complexions more faithfully.
The odd one is Super-Zoom FlashSnap. You do not have to time the shutter. The AI picks what it considers the best moment on its own, at shutter speeds as fast as 1/11,236 seconds, with up to 2x telephoto snap shooting.
TECNO also launched the Mag Badge, a magnetic accessory with its own battery and a 1.73-inch AMOLED display. Over Bluetooth it shows photos, acts as a remote shutter from up to 10 meters away, previews selfies and switches cameras.
Tough and long-lived
Inside is MediaTek’s eight-core Dimensity 7300e 5G chipset. The phone carries IP66, IP68, IP69 and IP69K ratings, TECNO says it supports underwater photography, and it has passed MIL-STD-810 testing for shocks and drops. TÜV SÜD certified it for 60 months of sustained fluidity, though TECNO’s own source notes that real-world results will depend on updates and use. The software promise is five years of security updates and three major Android upgrades.
On the AI side, AI Snap Poster turns product photos into promotional material, AI Pet Together combines separate photos of owners and pets, and AI LightMaster 2.0 removes shadows, reflections and lens flare. There is also transcription, note-taking, schedule recognition and an AI Healthy Eating tool that estimates calories and nutrients from a food photo.
Finishes are Burgundy Red, Neo Mondrian, Matisse Black, Van Gogh Blue and Rebel Pink. Neo Mondrian uses photochromic technology so a Mondrian-style pattern appears under ultraviolet light, and Van Gogh Blue has a gradient meant to recall The Starry Night.
No price has been given. TECNO says the phone will roll out across multiple markets with local pricing announced separately, and some buyers will get a three-month trial of Google AI Plus with 2TB of storage.
