itel S25 review: AMOLED at $129 — itel's most polished phone yet.
AMOLED for $129 — itel's Africa flagship.
itel S25 brings AMOLED to the $129 tier — the cheapest OLED phone from any Transsion brand. Trade-offs: only 60 Hz, no 5G, and a UNISOC T606 chip that lags Redmi 13C 5G on benchmarks but matches it on real-world day-use.
01Display
70/10070/100 puts it above the 68-point average for budget phones of 2024.
02Camera
50/10050/100 is one of the weaker camera results among budget phones of 2024 — 9 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
42/10042/100 is one of the weaker performance results among budget phones of 2024 — 13 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
78/10078/100 trails the 81-point cohort average for budget phones of 2024.
05Build
58/10058/100 is one of the weaker build results among budget phones of 2024 — 7 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
06Value
80/100At 80/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among budget phones of 2024 — 9 points above the cohort average.
- AMOLED at $129 is rare.
- 5,000 mAh + microSD + 3.5 mm jack.
- 50 MP main camera.
- Lightweight 187 g build.
- Only 60 Hz AMOLED.
- UNISOC T606 is slow.
- No 5G.
- 1-year OS update commitment.
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 223-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .