Realme C3 (Review) was launched at an initial price of Rs 6,999 earlier this year, but now its price has been increased to Rs 8,999, which Narzo 10A (Review) is very close to, which was declared for Rs 8,499 in May, but now it is being sold for Rs 8,999 after the price hike and this price is just Rs 1,000 more than the new Reality C111. Due to all this, customers can get confused quite easily and we can make this confusion for you Realme c11 Have brought review of Here we have tested this phone in every way, so that it becomes easy for you to take a decision whether you should buy Reality C11 or not.
Realme C11 Price in India, Specifications
Realme C11 has been launched with only 2 GB RAM and 32 GB storage, priced at Rs 7,499. Reality has given a new MediaTek Helio G35 chipset in this phone, which is the budget processor of MediaTek’s gaming series. Apart from this, the new Realme C11 smartphone matches Realme C3 and Narzo 10A. In this, you get a very similar 6.5 inch (720×1600 pixels) HD+ display and 5000 mAh battery.
The primary rear camera has a 13 -megapixel sensor, while both other phones have a 12 -megapixel primary sensor. This seems to be a slight improvement, but the aperture falls from F/1.8 to f/2.2, which means that the new phone cannot take as much light in exposure as the Reality C3 and Name 10A. The front camera remains the same with 5 megapixels and F/2.4 aperture.
It is a dual-SIM device with VoLTE support. It only supports single-band Wi-Fi, but is Bluetooth version 5. You get all the normal sensors including compass and gyroscope. Storage can be increased to 256 GB using microSD cards in a dedicated slot. A minus point is that like Realme C3, there is no fingerprint reader in it.
Realme c11 design
As far as the budget phone is concerned, we feel that Reality C11 looks quite good. This is similar to other budget reality phones. The screen has a thin bezel on the side, but a quite thick chin is found at the bottom. Waterdrop notch is available above.
In the phone you get rich green and rich gray options to choose. The body is made of plastic. The rear is given a texture, which increases its grip and becomes easy to catch. The back gets a square camera module unlike the camera module of the other realmy phone, which has only two cameras sets. The volume buttons are set above the power button on the right. The company has also used micro-USB in this budget phone. We feel that now the company should move beyond this. The downward 3.5mm audio sockets and single speakers are also available at the bottom.
It weighs 196 grams and thickness is 9.1 mm. Realme C11 is relatively heavy. We found one hand use a bit difficult, but the back panel with texture does not allow this phone to slip from the palm. It does not look like an expensive phone, but its build quality is solid. However, we liked if we had a good glass protection in the front.
Realme c11 performance, battery life and software
Being an entry-level smartphone, Realme C11 gives you a chance to run all Android apps easily, but the experience is not always fantastic. Many times I found that in simple works like awakening the phone with standby and opening the app drawer or task switcher, the phone also has a slight leg. Light-felled lag app was also seen during launching, scrolling photos in gallery or during multitasking, but it did not draw our attention. It is disappointing that its usage experience was not smooth.
If you are fond of playing some strong games that come nowadays, then you have to increase your budget slightly. PUBG Mobile Default runs in the most low graphics settings of the game and despite this, the gameplay was filled with lots of glitter and lag. However, the PUBG Mobile Lite goes well. Like PUBG Mobile, the smartphone struggled a lot in running Asphalt 9: Legends. Overall, gaming experience was not very good, but the good thing is that at least the phone was not hot.
Given the price of this phone, the screen is quite good. The colors look good and the viewing angle was also good. The video looks fine, but the speaker’s performance was not good. Music pricks and we found that the dialogues were also not clean.
Battery life is excellent. The phone is with a low-end processor and 5000mAh battery. The phone gave 28 hours, 25 minutes in our HD video loop battery test. With daily use, a lot of audio and video streaming, some camera usage and a small gaming session, took out one and a half days very easily in a charge.
Realme’s software is generally a problem-free. We did not have trouble with advertisements or spam notifications, except for some “news” articles pushed by Realme UI browser. The phone gets a chrome on the homescreen, so there was no need for this browser at all, but the disappointing thing is that we could neither disable it nor uninstall. Realme UI stock looks and behaves like Android and has some customization including themes.
Realme c11 cameras
Realme C11 includes some modes like panorama, time laps and slo-mo and Realme claims that the C11 night mode is the first for this price segment. Like other apps, the phone is not able to load the camera app quickly.
The quality of the photo was somewhat disappointing, although we also have to keep its price in mind. Still let us tell you that the camera was not able to mold the colors well and the lack of details in the photographs also felt clear. Flowers and leaves do not look natural in every shot and we also saw C11 battling for exposure.
The background looks blurred in portrait shots, but the exposure was poor. There is no way to set the blur’s level before or after taking the shot. Whatever we took-up, they came out surprisingly well. Overall, the photos look quite good on the phone’s screen and you can slightly increase and crop it.
When it comes to low light, Realme C11 actually struggles. Many of our shots were very bad, although some work was worth running. The phone had trouble locking the focus and after a slight activity, we had to tap on the screen and lock the focus again.
Night mode made a major change, but it could not make every shot better. The phone still had trouble focusing, and the results also come a little cropped, so you have to pay some attention to the frame composition. Night mode shots provide better contrast and the bright parts involved in the frame come sharp. On the other hand, lack of details in low light areas clearly appeared. Noise (donations) also appeared in the pictures.
Verdict
After a long discounts given by smartphone brands and cuts at the price, now we are watching the cost growing in the market. The prices of many models have increased only a few weeks after the launch, which means that customers will have to do a lot of calculations and comparisons again before deciding to shop. It is quite disappointing that Realme C11 smartphones are more expensive and less powerful than Realme C3 and Realme Narzo.
We certainly like better performance and it is also clear that 2 GB RAM is insufficient. The experience of using C11 was not smooth, but you will be able to run most of the apps of your need. The camera performance is average.
It is still a decent phone as compared to other phones coming in the entry-level segment. However, if you can spend a little more, you can take Realme Narzo 10A instead. In addition, you can wait for Xiaomi’s upcoming Redmi 9 series, or also move to the recently launched budget model of Samsung, Infinix and Honor.