tecno is a well known brand when we talk about the budget smartphone segment however now the company aims to expand further and become aggressive in the midrange premium smartphone segment with this same thought in mind tecno launched its latest flagship smartphone phantom x2 pro at an event in dubai we got a chance to spend some time with the smartphone and heres our first initial impressions of the smartphone designthere is no doubt that tecno phantom x2 pro is the one of the prettiest looking tecno smartphones the company has invested a lot in its design which makes it look premium and elegant the sleek tenco phantom x2 pro comes with a curved edge display and curved edge back panel the front is dominated by an fhd display and the rear panel is made of renewable material which makes it stand out in the premium smartphone segment the rear panel offers a different kind of touch feel and it also makes the smartphone comfortable to hold also the different material of the back panel makes it fingerprint resistant the right side of the smartphone is home to the volume rockers and the power button the button part houses the charging port and the stereo speakers while the sim card tray is placed at the top in all the smartphone scores well in the design segment and will be appreciated by many for the same reason displaythe tecno phantom x2 pro sports a 68inch fhd curved display with 1080x2400 pixel resolution the display is protected with a coating of corning gorilla glass vitus on top the display offers 120hz of refresh rate which offered a smooth scrolling experience when we used the smartphone the screen is surrounded by thin bezels on all sides offering a much larger real estate along with this the display also offers wide viewing angles enabling you to enjoy your gaming and binge watching sessions the company claims that the smartphone offers good visibility under direct sunlight but we were not able to test that apart from this the display appears to be smooth and crisp and the colour reproduction was also sharp and accurate hardware and softwarethe tecno phantom x2 pro is powered by an octacore mediatek dimesnity 9000 chipset paired with 12gb of ram and 256gb internal storage the smartphone also offers 5gb of virtual ram support during our initial testing the smartphone performed well without any glitches we also had a smooth gaming and multitasking experience on the tecno phantom x2 pro along with a pretty decent processor the tecno phantom x2 is backed by a fairly large battery the premium smartphone of the company houses a 5160 mah battery with 45w fast charging support the company claims that the smartphone will charge up to 50 in just 20 minutes however we are yet to test this claim as well the dual sim smartphone comes equipped with an indisplay fingerprint sensor and stereo speakers for better sound output coming to the software