Tecno Kenya Launches Camon 19 Series and Spark 9 Series

TECNO KENYA ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF CAMON 19 SERIES & SPARK 9 SERIESBy Wanjiku Thuku

The CAMON 19 Series will offer incredible night-time photography features & the SPARK 9 Series will redefine selfie and iconic design for Gen Z

TECNO, a global premium smartphone brand, announced the launch of its CAMON 19 series & SPARK 9 Series at Ole Sereni Emara Hotel in Nairobi on Monday evening this week. The colorful yet prestigious event marked the first joint official release of TECNO Mobile Kenya devices and was attended by heavyweights in the corporate, showbiz and media industry that is joy kendi, nick Mutuma, grace ekirapa, Maureen waititu and Bridget shighadi as well as the Safaricom digital marketing manager-Victor Mumo amongst many other top celebrities and media personalities, bloggers, and social media influencers. It was a night full of pomp, color, fashion show courtesy of Mochez Modelling agency (which was quite a pleasant surprise and a beautiful sight to behold with exquisite Avant garde/haute couture gowns worn by the gorgeous female models), music, food, and cocktail drinks plus brilliant minds from the technology world as it was hosted by the popular yet respected media personality-Mark Masai. Special guests like Caroline Kioko spoke about her experience in shooting short films in 48 hours that were showcased at the Cannes Film Festival held in France recently using the Camon 18/19 series of smartphones as well as Thandiwe Mairu who is a famous Kenyan photographer who also gave deep insight into this particular camon smartphones series in line with her career and how it has shaped her perspective on the Tecmo smartphones technology based around the main camera settings that worked to her advantage. Few other corporate clients gave speeches on the excitement around this camon series as several people in the audience got awarded with smartphones and trophies based on the criteria of true salesmanship, partners, sponsors, investors, and some bloggers like Diane nthurima Mukami and two other people who won merchandise from the audience during the ongoing raffle. The special guests were then treated to a sumptuous three course dinner at the old wing of ole sereni hotel at the ground floor which overlooks the Nairobi national park as they collected their gift hampers from the ushers as they dined and whined at their own leisure. There was also TECNO has also announced that it is among the first to make Android 13 beta available on its latest CAMON 19 Pro 5G. The CAMON 19, CAMON 19 Pro as well as the SPARK 9 series will have android 12.

CAMON 19 Series

The CAMON 19 series designed for young fashionistas, it is designed to overcome the traditional challenges associated with photography in nighttime and low-light conditions with style, with such features as a 64MP bright night portrait photography technology and the industry’s slimmest 0.98mm bezel. The phone will also feature the RGBW color filter sensor technology, which adds a white sub-pixel to the existing universal RGB configurations to enable light intake to be enhanced by 30 percent.

Peter Shi, Brand Manager, TECNO Mobile Kenya, said “We’re very proud to introduce the TECNO CAMON 19 series & SPARK 9, we continue to reinforce TECNO’s commitment to exploring more possibilities in the fusion of technology, innovation, and design.”

TECNO CAMON 19 recently partnered with 48 Hour Film Project - Nairobi Chapter. This was a continuation from last year’s partnership with the CAMON 18 series, the film that won last year's competition had an opportunity to go to the 75th Cannes Film Festival were the team represented the Nairobi Chapter as well as TECNO CAMON 19 series.

CAMission is coming back alongside the launch of the CAMON 19 series. This year it will be bigger and better, it will be done in Sub-Saharan Africa, with each country doing the competition amongst themselves and then together with other African countries. CAMission will focus on Portrait Master, and we want this time the participants to focus on telling the African story through their lens. The campaign is to promote African photography and videography using a mobile device.

The CAMON 19 series will partner with Artcaffe Group to give experience to their existing customers of the new CAMON 19. Consumers of Artcaffe will have an opportunity to experience the True-tone Night Portrait Mode of the CAMON 19 in select outlets. The campaign will run for a period of a month after the launch of the device.

SPARK 9 Series

The SPARK 9 Series will be dedicated for the Gen Z. Equipped with 32 MP super clear selfie shooter and trendy eight-angles edge 8.42mm lightweight and slim body, TECNO SPARK 9 Pro brings the users more premium experience to express self-concept and stylish design to let them be on the cutting edge of fashion. SPARK 9 Series will bring the fully upgraded front camera to break the boundary for your self-expression via selfie technology.

Pricing & AvailabilityThe CAMON 19 series will come in three variants CAMON 19, CAMON 19 Pro and CAMON 19 Pro 5G. The 5G model will be out a month after launch. The prices will be KES 23,499 for CAMON 19, KES 33,799 for CAMON 19 Pro, KES 41,599 for CAMON 19 Pro 5G. The SPARK 9 series will come in SPARK 9C - KES 15,599, SPARK 9T KES 19,799 & SPARK 9Pro KES 20,899. Visit any TECNO branded shop, Safaricom to get to experience the new device. Order online through MASOKO, JUMIA & KILIMALL.

With the spirit of "Stop at Nothing", TECNO aims to encourage users to explore unlimited possibilities. TECNO is today's new generation of smart phone brand with elegant artistic design and contemporary cutting-edge camera technology.