At first I was a bit sceptical about this phone as it seemed too good for the price point. Also there were news about the ram management on the 3gb+32gb version being not good. But when the update came out on the 13th of June, I decided to buy it and it was a great decision. This phone offers you so much!
The phone comes with helio p60 chipset which is blazing fast and can do anything to everything pretty smoothly. Normal daily usage is a breeze and the gaming is also really smooth. I didn't face any lags whatsoever even on high end games.
The camera is really great. AI selfies smoothens the skin tones abit but they look great. The normal selfies are so good that it's unimaginable this phone is a budget one. The back camera is great. Catches the details and also the colors really nicely and provides really great pictures. Forget about outdoors, it takes really great pictures indoors even during the night and in artificial lighting condition. There is also the bokeh effect which is decent and does surprisingly well even though this has a single camera. Well the edge detection is a bit on the rough side so that 4star rating on camera.
Regarding sound, I do listen to quite a bit of music on earphones and comparing this to my iPhone earphone music output, this doesn't lose out in any way. The 3.5mm headphone jack sound output is amazing simply, so much so that it can give competition to a premium range phone. The speaker output is decent but the vent is in an odd position which causes a bit of trouble if you are holding the phone to see videos. Thus the 4 star rating.
Battery life is great. It lasts 1.5days easily with moderate usage. With heavy usage it will give a bit more than 1day on the battery life. The AI features really help out here! Also it charges in 2hours time which is pretty okay I would say.
Colour OS has it's strong and weak points. While it's heavy and has some options hidden(like battery standby stats etc), the OS has tons of features that are fun to use. The gestures, the full screen mode, the game acceleration etc etc. There are tons more and if you are not really a hardcore fan of stock android, you will like it.
The phone relies on face unlocking which is fast, accurate and works even in low lighting conditions. Well if it's totally dark like you are in your room with curtains drawn and lights off during the night, then it fails and you need to use the pin. Yes fingerprint is not there but hey I personally find this really easy and comfortable to use.
Build quality is decent and it looks premium with the red and silver variants. The free case and screen guard helps but better get a new screen guard as this one gets dirty very easily.
The display is just awesome. I won't use any other word or explanation than that. It's top quality.
Ah and yes this supports true dual volte. Meaning? Well you can use two jio sims at same time.
What else? Well the sign reception and call quality is also worth mentioning. I am getting signals where I earlier didn't get. Comparable to my iPhone's signal detection strength.
And yes for those who are worried about mediatek processors overheating, let me tell you this doesn't heat even when it's being charged. That should be sufficient to understand what I wanted to say.
I was so impressed I have bought two of this phone. One of 4gb variant(for me) another of 3gb variant(for my mom).
And last but not the least, I got this with 10% off offer from Amazon which made me get the 4gb silver variant at less than 10k and the 3gb black variant at 8k! Also chip in the jio offer and it becomes even cheaper. That's awesome right?
Final verdict: If you are not a hardcore stock android fan and have a budget of 10k to go around with, buy this phone with eyes closed. It will be excellent and the best choice at this date. If you have 11k budget then it's up to you between Asus Zenfone Max pro m1 and this, but personally, after hearing a great deal about the bugs and the poor quality camera on the asus zenfone max pro m1, I will take this on any day. If you have 15k budget then make a choice, but I would go with redmi note 5 pro for the slightly better camera and fingerprint scanner. But remember note 5 pro is most probably not going to get Android P and it still runs on Android N. But this comes with Android O and is guaranteed to get Android P.
P.s. Almost forgot to mention, REALME team is doing a fair job with the android security updates. Just got the second one yesterday (the first one was with the first update which fixed the ram management issue). They also announced that android P is on its way to the realme1!
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