Review of the advanced 5G smartphone - Realme X50

New leaders will certainly emerge in the new year. One of the strongest contenders for the vacant position of the main brand in the telecommunications industry is newcomer Realme, which started its journey in 2018. In a short time, the company managed to present smartphones with record sizes and characteristics, but what will surprise us with the new Realme x50? Let's find out about all the hidden advantages and the smallest disadvantages of this model right now!

About the brand

The Realme brand, even despite active promotion around the world, still remains a dark horse for Russians. For comparison, Xiaomi or IPhone in the CIS are found in the hands of every second passer-by. Meanwhile, the uncertainty of "realmi" is due to the policy of the company, which receives the bulk of its profits from India and China. For Russians, this is a huge disadvantage, since most high-quality and inexpensive smartphones are not even supplied to the country. According to the last calculations in the CIS, the amount for Realme varies from $ 150 to $ 300 (about 10-20 thousand rubles).

Perhaps, in 2020, manufacturers will expand the market for the European part of the mainland.

Doubts immediately creep in, how in a year and a half a small company has grown to a giant global network? Realme is a sub-brand of Oppo, which consistently supplies the necessary resources and material support to its brother.

Appearance

Users will be able to find out complete and reliable information about the materials and chips of this smartphone in January, after the official presentation in China. Now we can only guess what the coating consists of and from which side to expect cracks on the screen.

As of December, even the exact dimensions of the smartphone are unknown, however, based on the fashion of recent months and the screen diagonal, which amounted to all 6.6 inches, we can conclude that in 2020 we will have a new "over-the-phone" or "under-tablet". Following the same logic, we assume that the coating of the novelty will also be far from cheap plastic, but at least durable aluminum or tempered glass (if you're lucky).

In the first case, a big disappointment awaits us, since the back panel is decorated with bright gloss, which in tandem with flimsy materials, in addition to beautiful overflows, will also show greasy fingerprints. With glass and aluminum, the situation looks much more rosy, the more they are less susceptible to scratches and falls. A vertical row of cameras is located strictly in the center of the case, which means that a fingerprint is transformed into an optical one (via a sensor).

Things are much more mysterious with the display. Perhaps the protection graph will appear after the official release, but at the moment the screen does not have either a protective glass or an oleophobic coating, and for flagships this is a particularly painful topic. Following the latest trends, manufacturers have endowed the Realme x50 with a bezel-less display. The front camera has moved to the upper left corner and is a small oval cutout underneath.

Equipment

Everyone who wants to buy a new product was very lucky, since recently Chinese brands began to pack in a box and a branded transparent phone case.The rest of the package bundle remains the same: usb-cord, adapter, clip for sim-card slot, coupon and certificates, instructions.

The brand decided to keep the number of colors secret, so far only one is known - blue. According to our observations, Realme usually released smartphones in no more than 3 colors, so there is no point in hoping for rare combinations.

Specifications

Screen

As mentioned earlier, the novelty is deprived of special protection. For its size - 6.6 inches, every scratch is significant, but let's move away from the negative. Screen resolution in x50 - 1080 x 2400 pixels, in an aspect ratio of 20: 9. The pixel density is high enough (399 ppi), which subtly hints that the flagship belongs to the luxury segment.

This point of view is confirmed by the powerful Super Amoled matrix, available only to truly good devices. Its main advantages include high brightness, no glare, economical charging consumption (extremely important for large smartphones), and good color rendering. Videos and pictures on the smartphone are displayed brightly both in the sun and at dusk, without unnecessary glare. What you need for a mini-cinema on a trip!

This model also features a screen refresh rate of up to 90 Hz.
It has much fewer drawbacks, of which: fragility, PWM effect (screen flickering impairs vision), as well as rapid fading of blue LEDs.

operating system

Finally, we move on to the part that clearly demonstrates why Realme will very soon catch up with Xiaomi in terms of product quality and sales. The smartphone is preinstalled with the latest version of Android - 10.0. The fact of its presence already puts the x50 on a par with the best smartphones of the year. This operating system has many benefits. For example:

• Compared to the 9 (pie) version, the processes have noticeably accelerated. The main menu works stably even with strong overloads;
• Manufacturers have improved desktop navigation and introduced gesture controls;
• Google services have also undergone changes (not only Apple does have a pocket assistant);
• Themes and widgets have been modified, the settings have been significantly simplified;
• The age-old problem of Android with memory and updates has found an interesting solution in the top ten. Especially important apps will be updated in the background, factory cache cleaner apps have been improved to free up memory.
• Fixed bugs related to messengers and pop-up notifications.

To help version 10, the brand sent an exemplary novelty - ColorOS 7. She saw the light at the end of November. The shell implements advanced methods of customizing the workspace, as well as a large-scale research on the topic of colors that have a bad effect on vision. Based on the results, application icons were created so that the eyes of users were most comfortable. Similar technologies can be found in already released Honor products.

The main advantage of ColorOS7 is speed. It instantly opens the camera and in a few seconds determines the required mode for shooting.

Filling

The trump card in the sleeve of the Realme x50 is the powerful Qualcomm 765G processor, made using 7nm technology. Experts don't hesitate to equate its performance with the luxury Snapdragon 855.However, the peculiarity of the 765 is the presence of artificial intelligence and 5G.

At the moment, the technology is raw and almost never used in the world, which means that in 2020 the active promotion of high-speed networks will begin and we should get ready.

Manufacturers have tried to implement rare features, such as video playback in 4K HD quality. In games, the speed has been increased by 20% compared to previous models. According to the developers, Realme x50 easily loads heavy 3D games (in particular, shooters), such as World of Tanks and Pubg 9. At the same time, the phone body practically does not heat up. It was possible to reach such heights due to 8 nimble cores Kryo 475 Prime, Kryo 475 Gold and Kryo 475 Silver, producing frequencies up to 2 Hz. Between themselves, they share a stable display of the system and the game. Naturally, it was not without support from the Adreno 620 video processor.

Autonomy

I would like to praise the phone for its compliance with fashion and user requests, but it copes with the column "autonomy" very badly. About 16 centimeters in length and 8 in width of a bright screen, it is difficult to provide 4000 thousand mAh, no matter how hard Realme x50 tries. Its energy would be enough for 14 hours of active use of applications, the Internet, as well as 32 hours of standby time. At full brightness, it plays video for no more than 10 hours. Only one BUT separates the novelty from the failure - the fast charging function, which allows you to charge the phone twice as fast.

Camera

Once again, to make sure that Realme is a global brand, we are helped by the magic numbers that the cameras of the x50 model have been awarded. The total has reached a record 108 megapixels!

The main camera consists of a block of 4 sensors. The main one shoots in a resolution of 60 megapixels (remember, realmi were the first to introduce a phone with this value back in 2018). Of course, manufacturers have implemented the latest 2018-2019 novelties in it, for example, widescreen 16: 9 shooting, straight from Hollywood films. As for night photos, the proven f / 1.8 aperture has already proved itself in other models. Together with flash, it helps you capture memorable moments in the right light and focus. It is followed by a 13MP secondary camera with 5x optical zoom and a 130mm lens for 4K video recording. The remaining two 8 MP and 2 MP are traditionally given for panorama and macro, respectively.

As for the front camera, the developers have seriously worked with it, because the quality of the selfie is 16 megapixels, while the aperture was chosen not the most primitive (f / 2.0), but a bearable f / 1.2. The combination of characteristics gives a juicy photo with more than a million shades.

Despite its excellent values ​​in many aspects, additional memory has not received the brand's attention. The flagship supports memory cards with a maximum of 128 GB, while there is no separate SD-card slot.

Advantages and disadvantages

• Large screen;
• Beautiful appearance;
• Presumably metallic;
• Optical fingerprint;
• Latest design trends;
• Silicone case as a gift;
• Bright and economical matrix;
• Smart processor;
• Latest Android version;
• Fast charging function.

• Presumably no screen protector;
• Small battery capacity;
• Lack of an additional slot for a memory card.

Where and for how much to buy

At the moment, there is not even an exact release date, so there is no need to talk about a purchase. The smartphone will arrive in Russia with a delay and in limited quantities. Judging by the characteristics, the flagship belongs to the premium segment, which means its price will vary from 20 to 40 thousand rubles.