itel S16 Pro Review : a Budget Phone with Quality Features

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2020-10-26
Jide Mbaka

The itel S16 pro smartphone, which will be released soon in early November 2020, has a range of exciting features and specs, such as Notch 6.6-inch Full Screen Display, 8MP camera, stylish and fashionable design ,etc. Let’s take a sneak peek into the phone’s features before we explore all its capabilities:

itel S16 Pro Key Features

  • 6.6'' HD+dot-notch Display
  • 8.3mm Super Slim Design
  • 2GB of RAM
    32GB of built-in storage(up to 128G)
  • Android 10 OS
  • Camera: Rear: 8MP Main Camera+2MP Macro Camera+Depth Sensing; Selfie:8MP Main Camera
  • 4000mAh Li-polymer Battery (non-removable)

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itel S16 Pro Specification

Display

6.6“ HD+ Dot-notch FullScreen  

1600*720  

Size

166*75.9*8.3mm

Camera

Rear: 8MP Main Camera+2MP Macro Camera+Depth Sensing

Selfie:8MP Main Camera

Processor

SC7731E Quad-core 1.6GHz

Memory

2GB RAM + 32GB ROM(Up to 128GB)

Battery

4000mAh

System

AndroidTM 10 (Go Edition)

Network

2G: 900/1800 MHZ

3G: 900/2100 MHZ

4G LTE:B1/B3/B7/B8/B20

Others

Face Unlock + Fingerprint Sensor

Colors

Gradient Green/Dark Purple

Accessories

Charger, Battery, USB Cable, Earphone, Protect Cover, TP-Film

 

6.6” HD Dot-Notch Screen Design

Thanks to the 6.6-inch dot-notch FullScreen display and 8.3mm Super Slim Design, the itel S16 Pro sports an epic fashionable style.

The brilliant 6.6-inch fullscreen, dot-notch design of the S16 Pro dazzle customers, with the phone’s HD display delivering vivid colors and clarity on screen. You can even use this smartphone conveniently as a mini-cinema and mini-pad to enjoy intense gaming and movie-watching activities.

 

 

Elegant and Stylish Design 

This new Android phone has a high screen-to-body ratio, which is pegged at 90%. This means it features a narrower bezel in comparison with smartphones from other manufacturers.

Narrow bezel brings about a large display, expanding things you could see on your device screen. Plus, the itel S16 Pro, with the dot-notch fullscreen, optimizes its already spectacular visual effects.

With a Gradient Green body, using this smartphone brings you closer to nature, allowing you to assert yourself in a soft yet unique way. The S16 Pro in Gradient Green has a superior look and feel with Mate AG Glass.

Still on the design: Compared with the traditional phone design, the S16 Pro sports a Unibody Design, which produces an ultra-slim and portable experience.

8.3mm Extremely Slim Design

The itel S16 pro series comes with an attractive and elegant appearance due to the 8.3mm Super Slim Design, which is even 0.3mm thinner than the itel P36 series.

The S16 Pro’s smoothed curves fit in your hand perfectly, which means you can use the screen effortlessly with one hand.

The latest series is also available in various colors. Further, the back cover’s radial texture produces a refreshing look and feel.

itel S16 Pro Camera

The itel S16 pro smartphone is equipped with 8MP AI Triple Rear Camera and 8MP selfie camera. The primary cam improves the quality of your pictures and allows you to take fully focused shots instantly in all kinds of lighting. 

In addition to this, the 2MP Marco cam and the depth-sensing cam lets you capture moments with crystal-clear and high-quality photos, whenever you want and wherever you’re.  

The depth-sensing unit estimates depth and distance in a bid to take your smartphone photography to a whole new level.

AI Selfie Smartphone 

Thanks to AI Face Beauty 3.0, the latest S16 pro series recognizes your facial features, skin tone, as well as lighting environment. With this capability, they can add beauty effects specifically tailored to suit your individual facial features, which ultimately allows you to showcase your unique natural beauty in a variety of lighting environments.

Furthermore, AI Bokeh effect in the AI Triple Rear Camera lets you capture a fantastic moment, and the effect can give you portrait and blur backgrounds. Bokeh Effect ensures that the S16 series AI Cam delivers photos with layers.

AI Portrait HDR is also another feature of the camera setup of the S16 series, which allows the cam to catch shadow & light softly and naturally. In this mode, both the selfie and rear cameras can capture more details, which upgrades how you shoot pictures at backlit.

To further ensure you get to enjoy the best of photography with the S16 Pro, both the rear and selfie cams offer nine different selfie filters and twenty-one AR stickers. These provide you with a varied and exciting AI shooting experience, where every single selfie and photo you take will be unique.

Huge 4000mAh Battery (with AI Power Master)

The S16 Pro has a solid battery life, which guarantees you long hours of uninterrupted usage. Here are the battery specs:

  • Battery: 800hours (Standby with SIM card)
  • Phone Call: 25hours (3G); 32hours (2G)
  • Music playing: 35hours
  • Video watching: 7hours

All in all, the itel S16 Pro is a decent smartphone with a range of interesting specs and features. It’s a budget device, with its Notch 6.6-inch FullScreen Display, stylish and fashionable super-slim design, and 4000mAh being the highlights of its specs.