Realme 5 is scheduled for an August 20 launch

Counterpoint Research has issued its latest smartphone market stats, so let's check it. Globally, Samsung is the world's leader with 21% market share (2% up YoY), followed by Huawei with the Honor brand - 18% (4% up YoY). Apple is third with 12% market share (no change YoY). Oppo is fourth with 9% closely followed by Xiaomi and Vivo,e ach with 8%. Realme takes 3% of the global smartphone market. The rest of the...

5 December 2019

The Realme X2 Pro already had two launches - in China and in Europe. Today is the model's launch in India. Its specs are already known. The smartphone has a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED FHD+ display with a 90Hz refresh rate and 135Hz sampling rate. It supports HDR10 and 100% of the DCI-P3 colour space. The display features a Goodix 3.0 under-display optical fingerprint sensor. The Realme X2 Pro packs a Snapdragon 855 Plus...

20 November 2019

BBK Group is the company behind Vivo, Oppo, OnePlus, Realme. According to the latest quarterly report by Counterpoint Research, 20% of the volume market share was held by those four brands in Q3 of 2019. For comparison, the leader - Samsung has 20.6% volume market share. It is followed by Huawei with 17.6% and Apple with 11.8%. Vivo, Oppo and Realme are also in the top 10 list.

13 November 2019

Realme has decided to expand outside China and India and has launched three of its latest smartphones in Europe. The specifications of all three are way too familiar, so we won't repeat them here. You can check them out in detail in the corresponding model pages: Realme 5 Pro specifications Realme X2 specifications Realme X2 Pro specifications Pricing and availability Realme 5 Pro - €199, October 18 Realme X2...

15 October 2019

With so many smartphones launched by one and the same companies lately, it is very difficult to distinguish them from one another. Realme X2 Pro is one such example. The brand that was meant to offer affordable mid-range smartphones seriously stepped in the higher mid-range realm with its latest models. The heavily teased Realme X2 Pro looks and feels a lot like OnePlus 7/7T. It has a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED FHD+...

14 October 2019

Realme X2 has just been announced in China. This handset employs a combination of 2.5D curved Corning Gorilla Glass for the front and a 3D curved Gorilla Glass 5 for the back. The frame around them is made of aluminium alloy. The front of the device is adorned with a 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080 x 2340. The unit uses a COF bonding technology and has a brightness of around 500 nits. The...

24 September 2019

Realme has unveiled on Weibo the main specifications of the Realme X2 which will be announced tomorrow. It looks like this is a re-branded Realme XT 730G, which will debut in India in December. In addition, it also looks identical to the Oppo K5 which is about to be unveiled as well. The only difference is the Realme branded back instead of the Oppo one. Let's go through the Realme X2 specifications. The Realme X2...

23 September 2019

Oppo has recently announced three new fast-charging technologies. One of them is the VOOC Flash Charge 4.0, which will debut on the upcoming Oppo K5. TENAA has listed a new Oppo model with code name PCNM00, which is most like the Oppo K5. It looks like this model is very similar to the upcoming Realme XT 730G. At least, both devices share one and the same rear cameras (64MP+8MP+2MP+2MP) and are powered by one and...

23 September 2019

This September is one of the busiest Septembers in the smartphone market ever. The brands are not many but they launch device after device. One of them is Realme. In the past 30 days, the brand has announced the Realme 5, Realme 5 Pro, Realme Q, Realme XT and teased the Realme XT 730G, which will arrive in December. It has now announced that the Realme X2 will be unveiled on September 24th. The handset will have a...

17 September 2019

Realme has just announced the Realme XT and partially took the wraps off the Realme XT 730G which will be officially presented in December. The Realme XT is adorned with a 6.4-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED display with a Corning Gorilla Glass 5 and 515 nits brightness. The display uses COF packaging tech which allows keeping the bezels at minimum. On the back, the model has a 3D curved Gorilla Glass 5 and employs Hyperbola...

13 September 2019

The Realme India CEO, Madhav Sheth, has announced on Twitter that the company will launch the Relme XT on September 13th. Based on several leaks we have managed to compile unconfirmed Relme XT specifications. The model will feature a 6.4-inch AMOLED display with an FHD+ resolution and an in-display fingerprint sensor. It will be powered by a 4000 mAh battery with VOOC 3.0 support and performance will rely on a...

7 September 2019

Realme Q has been announced today and it now can be confirmed that this is the Realme 5 Pro for the Chinese market. The two models are identical in terms of hardware and design. The main differences is in the UI and more specifically some typical apps that are used locally. In China, Realme Q costs as follows: CNY 998 for the 4GB+64GB variant, CNY 1198 for the 6GB+64GB version and CNY 1498 for the 8GB+128GB...

5 September 2019

Realme Q is expected to arrive this Thursday, September 5th. The model already has a special page on Oppo's event's website which has published four promo posters of the device. The first is about quality and unveils that the handset will survive a drop in boiling water at 100°C and drops from 1.8 meters. The second and third confirm what Realme has already teased - a Snapdragon 712 chipset and a 48MP Sony IMX586...

2 September 2019

After announcing that a new series of Realme smartphones will be announced on September 5th, today, Realme unveiled that the first Realme Q model will have a Snapdragon 712 chipset. During the announcement, we expect to see the Realme Q, Realme XT, Realme 5 and Realme 5 Pro for the Chinese market. [UPDATE]: Another Realme post on Weibo also confirmed that the Realme Q will have a 48MP main shooter.

29 August 2019