Feels like only last year, when all we expected from and wanted out of a phone under 15K was ‘basic’ specs, ‘at-least SOME’ fast-charging, a half-decent camera performance and just the ability to run a game like PUBG would be considered extraordinary. Well, plot twist. It WAS only last year that we were getting exactly this from a phone under 15K. But then, came Realme. Cut to 2020, we have a phone that has a 90Hz refresh rate screen, a total of 5 cameras, a near-flagship gaming experience and a battery that tops up fully in under an hour. All of this, at a price of Rs 12,999! Is the Realme 6 really the budget phone we’ve all been waiting for or is there a catch? That’s exactly what I’m going to answer in this review.
Realme 6 Build Quality and Design
The Realme 6 was supposed to be the successor to the Realme 5, but as the pricing suggests, it’s clearly not. And that reflects in its design philosophy as well. Gone is the diamond-cut, plasticky-feeling back design. We’ve got a glossy back finish this time around, almost feeling like Glass. The glossy back looks swanky, but is a major fingerprint magnet, not unlike a lot of other phones of today. It’s still a big phone, and with ~200g of weight packed in a ~9mm body, using both your hands while using this phone is advisable. The fingerprint scanner has now been moved to the side, integrated into the power button, and I’m just going to say it once more that THIS is the most sensible and intuitive placement for fingerprint scanners on phones.
Talking about changes, you get a Type-C port at the bottom instead of the micro USB, one of the biggest -ve on the Realme 5. What hasn’t changed is the fact that you get a triple card slot, so the phone can take two 4G SIMs and a microSD card. Really, the only gripe I have with the Realme 6’s design is that the camera arrangement on the back, looks a bit stale now, as it has been carrying over on every Realme phone since the Realme 5 series, but then, that’s more of a subjective thing anyway.
Realme 6 Display and Multimedia
The front of the Realme 6 has also been thoroughly refreshed. It s