SpecEagle review · Tecno

Tecno Pop 8 review: Rock-bottom entry phone with 90Hz and dynamic island UI.

SpecEagle Editorial·Mar 2024·$75
Overall
38/100
Class rank
#19 of 19
Tier
Budget
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The verdict, up front

Rock-bottom with flair.

Tecno Pop 8 borrows premium-feeling touches — a 90Hz screen and a pill-shaped Dynamic Port notification UI — for just $75, the kind of aspirational-on-a-shoestring design that keeps Tecno dominant in entry tiers.

01Display

62/100

62/100 is one of the weaker display results among budget phones of 2024 — 8 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.

TypeIPS LCD, 90Hz
Size6.6 inches
Resolution720 x 1612 px

02Camera

44/100

44/100 is one of the weaker camera results among budget phones of 2024 — 14 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.

Main13 MP, f/1.8
Selfie8 MP

03Performance

42/100

42/100 is one of the weaker performance results among budget phones of 2024 — 12 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.

ChipsetUnisoc T606 (12nm)
GPUMali-G57

04Battery

78/100

78/100 trails the 81-point cohort average for budget phones of 2024.

Capacity5000 mAh
Charging10W

05Build

54/100

54/100 is one of the weaker build results among budget phones of 2024 — 9 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.

What works
  • 90Hz at $75
  • Dynamic Port UI mimics premium phones
  • 5000 mAh + microSD + jack
What doesn't
  • Unisoc T606 slow
  • 720p, mono, 10W charging
  • Single 13 MP cam

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 19-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .