Itel is one of the leading smartphone producers in Africa and Ghana as a whole. From gradually transitioning from feature-phones to smartphones, Itel has indeed worked on securing a name for its brand in the African space.
The Itel S15 is one of Itel’s products released in 2019. It was first announced in August 2019 and made available publicly the same month.
The Itel S15 is a beautifully-designed phone with body dimensions of 5.66 x 2.85 x 0.37 inches. It has a net weight of roughly 153g and has a plastic frame. Its front and back are covered with scratch-resistant glasses.
The phone’s display is a 6.1 inches IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with screen resolutions of 720 X 1520 pixels. It runs on the Android 9.0 operating system and UniSoC Spreadtrum SC7731E chipset. Its infrastructure is backed by a quad-core CPU of 1.3GHz each. It also uses the ARM Mali T820 MP1 GPU.
Memory and Camera
The Itel S15 has a great camera quality as compared with other previously released Itel phones. Its main or rear camera has double lenses of 8MP and 0.8MP respectively. It supports Autofocus, continuous shooting, digital zoom, geotagging, panorama, HDR, touch focus, face detection, white balance settings and has a single-LED flash. The phone’s camera also produces video of 720p@30fps quality.
Its secondary or selfie camera on the other hand is the real bomb! It comes with a 16MP single lens and produces video of 720p quality.
Memory capacity for this phone is also a huge plus. It has an external memory card slot which supports memory cards of up to 32GB. Its internal memory comes in 32GB and 16GB variations. The RAM also comes in 1GB and 2GB variations.
Battery and Other Features
The Itel S15 smartphone uses a removable Li-ion battery which carries charges of up to 3000 mAH. It does not support quick charging nor fast charge. Its call time endurance is rated as 23 hours while standby and music play are rated as 360 hours and 25 hours respectively.
Some other features of the S15 include Bluetooth 4.0, USB 2.0, Wifi, Wifi-direct, hotspot, GPS, FM radio, fingerprint reader, accelerometer, proximity and compass.
Price And Where To Buy In Ghana
To buy the brand new version of Itel S15 in Ghana, you should prepare a budget between GHS 350 and GHS 410. If you want to acquire a slightly used version, then you may want to consider between GHS 250 and GHS 300. You can check out the brand new version here.
Some other alternatives you may want to check out with the same budget are listed here.
Conclusion
Itel is one of the cheapest yet quality phones available on the Ghanaian market. With as low as GHS 300, you can get for yourself an itel smartphone. You don’t need to spend a fortune on acquiring a smartphone, especially if you don’t need any special features for economic purposes. So, the Itel S15 is a great phone for anyone trying to use a smartphone that costs GHS 400 or less and still provides good specifications and quality.
You may also want to check out the Samsung S7 Edge.
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