Realme 11X 5G: Price in India
The 6GB + 128GB storage variant of Realme 11x 5G is priced at Rs 14,999, while its 6GB + 128GB storage variants are being sold for Rs 15,999. With the start of the festive season, we can expect some offers on this phone. The phone is available in Purple Dawn and Midnight Black color variants.
Realme 11x 5G: Design and Display
Realme 11x 5G comes with a boxy design. It does not seem much heavy or inconvenient to catch a smartphone with a thickness of 7.9 mm and 190 grams. Its body is made up of polycarbonate, but Reality has done a good job with Finnish. An attempt has been made to give glass finish on the back panel and despite being polycarbonate, the frame seems to be made of aluminum. We had its purple don color variant for review, which gives glitter and extremely bright blue shade on the back panel, which changes the color between blue and purple when the light falls. On a particular angle you will see a ‘S’ pattern made of lines. The good thing is that even after glossy glass finish, it is easy to grip and it does not easily slip by hand.
Realme 11X 5G has a large circular ring in the back, with two small camera ring and one LED flash fit. The module is raised slightly above the panel. Volume rockers and power buttons are placed in the right part of the frame. The power button acts as a fingerprint sensor and was faster and accurate to unlock the phone. There is a triple slot tray in the left part of the frame, with a microSD card with two SIMs and storage can be increased by 1TB. Type-C charging port with a speaker grill at the bottom has been given a secondary microphone for a 3.5 mm audio jack and a 3.5 mm audio jack. The single bottom firing speaker was sufficient loud, but the sound quality average. During the calling, the microphone did well to remove the outer voice. Overall, Realme 11x is 5G strong and durable feel. Its build quality is good. However, everyone’s choice and opinion can be different about large circular cameras.
Realme 11X 5G gets a 6.72 -inch IPS LCD display, which is equipped with a refresh rate up to FHD+ (1080 x 2400 pixels) resolution and 120Hz. Its screen-to-body ratio is around 86.6% with thin bezels on the side and relatively thick chin in the bottom. Despite being IPS LCD, the display produces good colors. However, there is a light blue tint on the screen, which can be warmed or balanced by changing color temperature settings. It has a Widevine L1 certificate to stream HD content, but does not get HDR support. At the same time, with the brightness of 550 NITs, the display indoor was enough bright, but in direct sunlight I had difficulty reading text several times.
Realme 11X 5G: Specifications and Software
Realme 11X 5G octa-core 6Nm mediatik dimensity runs on 6100+ SOC, with RAM and 128GB UFS 2.1 storage added to 8GB. It has been claimed to include 95G bands. The connectivity option in the phone includes 5G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.2, GPS/ A-GPS.
Realme 11x 5G works on Realme UI 4.0 based on Android 13. After the first boot you will get plenty of blotwlair. Apps cannot be uninstall in bulk, which means you have to uninstall them one by one. The good thing is that most apps can be uninstall and some can be disabled. Realme UI is filled with customization options. It also had some special features, such as split screen, flakes window, smart sidebar, kid space and simple mode for senior citizens. Apart from this, the RAM management could have been a little better, as I found that the apps in the background were not mostly active for a long time. However, a good thing is that Realme is promising two years of OS upgrade and three -year security updates to users.
Realme 11X 5G: Performance, Battery
Realme 11X 5G performs good performance in everyday common usage. Mediatik Dimensity 6100+ is a competent chipset, which did not give me any kind of problem in medium to heavy usage. The smartphone scored 10405 in PCMark’s Work 3.0 Test, which was above average. Keeping the BGMI game and some social media apps minimizing in the background, I strengthened OTT content in it and the phone handled it without any trouble. Talking about the benchmark score, Realme 11X 5G secured 726 and 1931 points in Geekbench’s single-core and multi-core tests respectively. At the same time, it got a 430589 score in AnuTu, which was around other smartphones in this range.
At the same time, Realme 11x 5G did not disappoint me even in casual gaming. Graphics demanded game default settings like BGMI had set on HD graphics and high frame rate. The game in this settings was average reaching 45 FPS and ran without any stutter or leg. At the same time, Asphalt 9 default was on medium graphics settings, but during the gameplay I saw FPS stuttering, but it did not spoil the game experience. The 240Hz touch sampling rate claimed here also helped improve the experience of these games. Thermal throttle was also handled by Realme 11x 5G.
Realme 11x 5G did not disappoint me even in the case in battery backup, but I was expecting a little better result. Battery supported the day with a film with about half an hour of gaming, spending a few hours on social media and finishing a film at HD resolution in OTT platform, but a little longer gaming session and a little more time on Instagram and YouTube Even before it was, I had to put the phone on charging. In our HD video loop test, Realme 11x 5G ran 11 hours xx minutes, which was less than average. The phone box gets a 33W charging adapter, which charged the battery in about 30 minutes in 0-50% and 1 hour 10 minutes.
Realme 11x 5G: Cameras
Realme 11X 5G provides dual rear camera setup, which includes 64-megapixel Ov64B primary camera. The camera can give you some of the best shots in the daylight. In good lighting, there are plenty of details in pictures and photos appear sharp. Exposure and contrast were also accurate and the dynamic range was also good. Although colors were slightly boosted in most of the pictures, the photos were worth sharing on social media directly without editing. It also gets a 64MP mode, which gives you better results, but with large file size. However, there was not much difference between bind photos and full resolution photos here. If you want to save storage space, I would advise you to take pictures in normal mode itself.
The setup lacks telephoto lens, which does not exist in most phones of this price range, but the primary camera supports 2x zoom, which can give you some zumd-in results similar to the telephoto. It gave me some shots, which had enough details. Although some photos had hedge effects, it went out of basic editing.
The results were mixed in indoor lighting. In good artificial lighting, the camera gave good shots, which had good contrast and exposure, as well as there were plenty of details. But once again, here too, the red and green colored it with camera and the skin tone was also a little more bright. However, almost all photos were directly shared on social media. There was a decline in quality with the low light. The pictures contained noys and some parts were over sharp. However, the app has a night mode, which works to improve the result to a great extent. It worked to remove noys from the shots, but the detail loss was seen on zoom.
Portrait mode performs accurate edge detection in good lighting and generates some good shots. However, it came many times the skin washouts and there was a slight shortage of details. At the same time, in artificial lighting, the camera was struggling to identify the edges of the subject.
Realme 11X 5G has an 8-megapixel front camera, which can give you some good selfies in a good lighting condition. The good thing was that the skin tones came to the front camera. The background had a natural blur and the details were also rich. However, this camera struggled quite a lot with the low light. The photos had noys and some photos had a relatively more bright skin tones. However, all the results were worth sharing on social media without editing.
It disappointed me in the case of video recording. Both main and front cameras can record at maximum 1080p@30fps and the results were average. The video was not stable and the dynamic range was also not good.
Overall, the Realme 11x 5G camera system performs well. In terms of price, it gives excellent daylight performance. However, there is a need for a slight improvement in low-light camera performance.
Realme 11X 5G: Verdict
Realme 11x 5G There is a budget-friendly 5G phone, which gives the best build quality, a competent camera system and a vivid display experience at its price. I missed the stereo speakers in it, but the single bottom firing speaker was enough to enjoy the movie inside a room. The battery gives a relatively slightly lower backup, but the 33W fast charging works to charge the device quickly. At the same time, there is no IP rating in the phone, which is present in some models in the competition.
In total, Realme 11X 5G is a good option for those who buy a budget-friendly device at an initial price of Rs 14,999. However, if you can compromise slow charging and average low-light camera performance, then it will come at a lower price Infinix Hot 30 5G There is also a good option, which also gives you extra perks like long battery life, stereo speakers and IP53 ratings.
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