{"id":9758,"date":"2018-05-26T13:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T13:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journal.hovatek.com\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2018-05-26T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T13:24:30","slug":"rumors-of-a-tecno-spark-2-surface-android-oreo-go-edition-face-unlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/rumors-of-a-tecno-spark-2-surface-android-oreo-go-edition-face-unlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumors of a Tecno Spark 2 surface: Android Oreo (Go Edition) + Face Unlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two weeks after Itel announced their first Android Oreo (Go Edition) powered device, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/itel-announces-the-itel-a32f\/\">Itel A32F<\/a>, Tecno is rumored to be preparing to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/order.php?brand=tecno&amp;model=spark2\">Tecno Spark 2<\/a>. I&#8217;ve not been able to find an official statement from Tecno so this is pretty much <em>word on the street<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/itel-partners-with-google-to-launch-android-oreo-go-edition-phones\/\">Android Oreo (Go Edition)<\/a> is lightweight and optimized to run on low end smartphones. In a price-sensitive market like Africa, Go Edition is a perfect blend between cheap Smartphones and Security; little wonder Itel and Tecno are looking to secure the low income market segment.<\/p>\n<h3>Tecno Spark 2 core specs<\/h3>\n<p>Below are the rumored specifications of the upcoming Tecno Spark 2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Android Oreo 8.1 (Go Edition)<\/li>\n<li>6 inches 18:9 Display<\/li>\n<li>1GB or 2GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>16GB ROM<\/li>\n<li>8 MP front camera<\/li>\n<li>13 MP back camera<\/li>\n<li>Fingerprint sensor<\/li>\n<li>Face Unlock<\/li>\n<li>Mediatek\u00a01.3GHz Quad-Core processor<\/li>\n<li>3500 mAh battery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>My thoughts<\/h3>\n<p><strong>IF<\/strong> the above info eventually checks out then it might sell pretty well but (like Itel A32F), the absence of 4G LTE could be a reservation for specs-aware potential buyers. Tecno is notorious for not pushing version updates (except on the Camon C8 &amp; Phantom 6 Plus) so if you hope to taste Android Oreo on your Tecno phone then prepare to buy another.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering for a while now when next we&#8217;ll see a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/how-soon-can-we-expect-a-qualcomm-soc-come-back-on-tecno-phones\/\">Qualcomm Snapdragon powered Tecno phone<\/a> since Mediatek has temporarily pulled out of the Flagship System On a Chip (SoC) race; their recent announcement of the MediaTek Helio P22 mid-range SoC being further confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not this rumor is true, time will tell<\/p>\n<h4>Would you buy the Tecno Spark 2?<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two weeks after Itel announced their first Android Oreo (Go Edition) powered device, the Itel A32F, Tecno is rumored to be preparing to launch Tecno Spark 2. I&#8217;ve not been able to find an official statement from Tecno so this is pretty much word on the street. Android Oreo (Go Edition) is lightweight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[255,351,115,643],"class_list":["post-9758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-android-oreo-go-edition","tag-face-unlock","tag-tecno","tag-tecno-spark-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}