On Monday, Realme launched its new smartphone, ‘Realme 3’ in India. At the event, the company announced that Realme 3 Pro will launch in April with a tagline of ‘Speed Awakens’.
The latest smartphone sports a Dewdrop Notch Display, Dual Rear Camera Setup, MediaTek Helio P70 SoC, 4230 mAh Battery and much more.
Top Highlights of Smartphone:
The main highlights of the smartphone are 3D Gradient Back and 4230 mAh Battery.
Realme 3: Price in India, Sale Date and Launch Offers
- Realme 3 price in India is Rs. 8,999 for the 3GB RAM/32GB internal storage variant and Rs. 10,999 for the 4GB RAM/64GB internal storage variant. These prices are valid for the first 1 Million customers.
- The smartphone will be exclusively available for purchase via Flipkart and select offline stores starting March 12 12 PM-noon. It will come in Dynamic Black, Radiant Blue and Black colour options. The Radiant Blue colour variant will be available starting March 26.
- The company has also introduced an iconic case available at Realme online site and Flipkart for Rs. 599.
- Launch offers an instant discount of Rs. 500 for HDFC bank card users, telecom offer from Jio which include benefits worth of Rs. 5,300 on Flipkart and 20% MobiKwik cashback on realme website.
Realme 3: Specifications and Features
Now coming to the specifications, Realme 3 sports a 6.2-inch Dewdrop Notch Display with 19:9 aspect ratio and HD+ (720×1520 pixels) resolution. Based on Android 9.0 Pie on the top of ColorOS 6.0, the phone runs on 2.1GHz octa-core MediaTek Helio P70 processor with Mali-G72 GPU. It comes with 3GB/4GB RAM options. The smartphone has the support of Dual-SIM (Nano+Nano+microSD).
In optics, there is a dual rear camera setup, the first camera includes a 13MP with f/1.8 aperture and the second camera includes a 2MP depth sensor. On the front, there is a 13MP sensor with f/2.0 aperture. The phone has an LED flash on the back.
When it comes to storage, the smartphone comes with 32GB/64GB internal storage and microSD card support upto 256GB. Connectivity suite of the smartphone includes Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, IR (Infrared) blaster, 3.5mm headphone jack and micro-USB port. The sensors on board the handset are accelerometer, digital compass, gyroscope, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor and rear-facing fingerprint sensor. Realme 3 battery capacity is 4,230mAh (10W default charger bundled in-the-box). The handset measures 156.1×75.6×8.3mm and weighs 175 grams.
The smartphones pack a lot of features which are listed below:
- The smartphone has a Dewdrop Notch display with 88.3 percent screen-to-body ratio, 450-nits of brightness, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection.
- Camera features include PDAF, Nightscape mode, Hybrid HDR, Chroma Boost, Portrait Mode, scene recognition.
- Front Camera features include AI Beautification, HDR and AI Face Unlock.
- Riding Mode feature which blocks unnecessary calls and notification but allows you to set up important numbers for calls.
- Sports Card on AI board for real-time scores updates.
- Camera2 API supports which can be used by many users to install Google Camera Mod.
- The smartphone also comes with unlocked bootloader.
Author’s Opinion
The Realme 3 is a budget smartphone which is priced under 10k segment. The 3D gradient design of smartphone looks good but it is not glass as seen on Redmi Note 7. The battery capacity is very impressive but the company made a direct comparison of 4,230 mAh battery with 5,000 mAh battery on Galaxy M20 and Zenfone Max Pro M2.
Talking about the competition in this price range of around 10K, the real competitors of this smartphone are Redmi Note 7, Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2, Samsung Galaxy M20, Realme U1, Realme 2 and Asus Zenfone Max M2. So, the competition in this price range is good enough.
If compared with the competition, the smartphone is not offering anything special, the display is not Full-HD+ which almost every competitor is offering, there is no USB Type-C port or fast charging support which is available on both Galaxy M20 & Redmi Note 7. The camera department is where we have to test a little bit.
Overall, We don’t recommend Realme 3 to buy in this price range. However, at the time of writing this article, our first recommendation will be Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 (Flash Review).
Note: These are my initial impressions of the smartphone. For Full Flash Review, Stay tuned with our Instagram Page.
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