Tecno Phantom X2 Pro review: First phone with a retractable portrait lens.
The retractable-lens phone.
Phantom X2 Pro put a genuinely retractable optical-zoom lens — like a tiny compact camera — into a smartphone, paired with Dimensity 9000 and Sony IMX766. Tecno's most innovative camera flagship and a credible halo phone for Africa.
01Display
86/10086/100 trails the 90-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2022.
02Camera
82/10082/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2022.
03Performance
86/10086/100 trails the 89-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2022.
04Battery
84/10084/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2022.
05Build
82/10082/100 puts it above the 80-point average for flagship phones of 2022.
- First phone with a retractable optical zoom lens
- Dimensity 9000 + IMX766 main
- Curved AMOLED + vegan leather
- HiOS niche outside Africa
- Heavy 202 g
- 45W charging modest
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 11-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .