Google AI Plus FREE for 3 months on new TECNO and Infinix phones

If you bought a TECNO Spark 50 or an Infinix HOT 70 since the middle of May, there is a paid Google subscription sitting unclaimed on that phone. Three months of Google AI Plus, the plan Google otherwise charges KES 900 a month for, thrown in with the hardware.

You would not know that because neither company has properly mentioned it. On June 3rd, TECNO and Infinix put out near-identical announcements from Hong Kong. Both described where the offer applies with the same phrase: “select markets”. But neither local branch has posted about it since, and we have not found a statement from either.

Google publishes the offer terms on its own Google One site, one page for TECNO and one for Infinix, and those pages name every eligible country. There are 140. Kenya is on both, alongside Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. Burundi, South Sudan and the DRC did not make it.

What three months of AI Plus actually buys you

Google runs three paid AI subscriptions. AI Plus is the entry one, under AI Pro at KES 3,700 a month and above the free Gemini everyone already has. On Google’s Kenya page it costs KES 900 a month. We covered it when it first reached Kenya in September 2025 at an introductory KES 500.

The AI half is straightforward: roughly double the usage limits of free Gemini before it throttles you, 200 credits for Flow (Google’s video generation tool), bigger allowances in NotebookLM for turning your own documents into study notes and audio summaries, and Gemini inside Gmail to draft and summarise your mail.

The storage half is what most people will actually feel. A free Google account gives you 15 GB shared across Gmail, Drive and Photos, and that is the number behind the “storage full” notification that stops your photos backing up and eventually stops your email arriving. This offer hands you 2 TB, about 133 times as much.

Which phones qualify

Google’s page lists these devices from TECNO: the SPARK 50, SPARK 50 5G, SPARK 50 Pro, SPARK 50C, SPARK 50S, SPARK Go 3, SPARK Go 4, CAMON 50, CAMON 50 Pro, CAMON 50 Ultra 5G, CAMON Slim, CAMON Slim 5G, POVA 8 5G and POVA Curve 2 5G.

On the Infinix side Google lists the SMART 20 and SMART 20 5G, NOTE 60, NOTE 60 Pro, NOTE 60 Ultra, NOTE Edge, GT 50 Pro, HOT 70, HOT 70 Pro 5G, and the XPAD 30 Pro tablet.

Plenty are already on Kenyan shelves. The Spark 50 landed at KES 15,999, a phone we were blunt about at the time. The NOTE 60 Pro arrived in March at KES 41,999.

To get the Google AI offer, the phone must have been bought between 14 May 2026 and 6 June 2027, and you must redeem by 6 June 2027. TECNO says the offer reaches its handsets through an update that began on 25 May. On either brand, you claim it in the Gemini app or the Google One app.

But you need to have a working card

Here is the condition that turns this from a giveaway into something you need to think about. Google will not start the trial until you attach a working payment method to a Google Payments account.

At the end of the three months, you will be billed. Automatically, on the payment method you attached, at the standard monthly price for your location, every month until you cancel. Cancelling during the trial does not cut your access short, so the safe move is to cancel early and keep using it to the end.

Remember, this trial cannot sit on top of a Google One plan you already hold. Google’s terms say that redeeming it while something else is running revokes the existing plan, no matter how much time was left. Anyone who grabbed the AI Pro month at KES 0, or a student on the 12-month AI Pro grant Google gave six African countries, would be swapping down. It is also closed to anyone on a higher tier and to family members who are not the plan manager.

Transsion, which owns TECNO, Infinix and itel, sells close to half the smartphones in Africa but has been losing ground in Kenya to Samsung and Xiaomi. Attaching a subscription worth at least KES 2,700 to a KES 15,999 phone is cheaper than cutting the price by that much, and Google buys paid-tier signups in a market where KES 3,700 a month is a hard sell.