REALME X BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Overview

The Realme X is a new mid-range phone that offers excellent performance. The phone is powered by a Snapdragon Soc and has excellent multitasking abilities. It is one of the best budget devices available in this price range. The in-display fingerprint sensor offers added security. It is one of the first smartphones in this price segment to bring a pop-up selfie camera. The phone has superb specs with strong configuration, a great camera resolution, and a mammoth battery with fast charging. The only negative is that the phone has a non expandable phone memory.

Design

161.2 x 76.1 x 8.6mm

191g

Polycarbonate build

In-display fingerprint scanner

Pop-up selfie camera

USB-C port, Headphone jack

The Realme X, especially the white colorway, is a gorgeous piece of kit. There is a certain elegance in simplicity. Yes, the phone sports a plastic back, but the gleaming white melds into the metal mid-frame and oozes class. It helps that the gently curved back fits comfortably in the palm of your hand.

Like most glossy phones, the Realme X is prone to picking up smudges, but these are easy to wipe off and aren’t very visible. The camera island is mounted centrally and is surrounded by a metal ring that helps with the aesthetic and to prevent scratches, too. There is no fingerprint scanner here: The phone makes of an in-display print reader for user authentication. While the setup process takes a bit long, I found the fingerprint scanner to be one of the fastest around with excellent reliability

The phone isn’t particularly heavy, but it feels appropriately dense to the touch. The power button on the right and the volume rocker on the left both have top-notch tactile feedback and no noticeable wobble. The bottom edge of the Realme X sports a USB-C port, a headphone jack, as well as a grille for the bottom-firing speaker.

Say what you will about pop-up cameras, but I love the expansive displays they enable. The Realme X is no exception and the phone boasts an impressive 91.2 percent screen-to-body ratio. If I had to nitpick, the chin below the screen could have been a bit smaller but it certainly doesn’t ruin the experience.

It wouldn’t be unfair to say that the Realme X takes some design inspiration from the OnePlus 7 Pro, but the location of the pop-up camera certainly isn’t the same. Centrally located, the camera elevates in just 0.7 seconds. Realme put it in the center to allow for more natural-looking selfies. The company claims it has tested the mechanism over 200,000 times, and that it auto-retracts the moment the phone detects a fall. Combined with the sapphire glass top, this should assuage any fears you might have about the reliability of the pop-up camera.