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But this is pretty special because this is the new realme 8 5g.It is here's one I made earlier and this phone starts from just 190 pounds. Which is ridiculously cheap for a 5g phone. So let's get into it and here we are with the famous real me yellow box and the headline specs include this new dimension 705 g chip a 90hz screen a big 5 000 million power battery and also a 48-megapixel triple camera setup now as for the phone itself. We get a good size 6.5-inch screen. I've got the supersonic blue model here. Which is very snazzy looking. There's also a black and it is kind of cool that as the light hits it. You have this almost 3d effect. It is plastic and it picks up smudges fairly easily but I quite like it and actually if I bring in its siblings the standard real me 8 and also the 8 pro. you can see the 5g model. Here is the only one without the big kind of garish dare to leap slogan and also that dual-tone design but which one do you think looks best out of the three now side by side. You can see the 5g model is a little bit thicker and heavier than the other two at 8.5 millimeters. It's about half a mil thicker than the eight and you'll also notice. It looks like a similar quad-camera setup but the top right lens is well actually not a lens at all. It just says ai which is maybe a little bit misleading at first glance elsewhere. We have a fingerprint reader built into the power button a single speaker on the bottom no dual speakers unfortunately but we do have a three-and-a-half mil headphone jack and if I pop this open. You see that we have a three-card tray. So you can pop in up to two 5g sim cards and a micro sd.So you can boost the storage by a further one terabyte for all of your 4k poor family movies.
I've used that joke like three times. Now I've got to stop doing that and then upfront. We have this hole punch cut out for the selfie camera.Which also supports face unlocking but as you can see it is a little bit bigger than the one on the 8 and the 8 pro. It does seem like every decision realme has made with this phone is to make it as aggressively affordable as possible because compared to last year's realme 7 5g on paper at least. This is a bit of a step down last year's phone had 120 hertz faster charging a quad-camera set up but it was 280 pounds at launch although of course since then the 75g has been discounted. So the difference between that and this isn't as significant anymore but if 5g is important to you presumably to make your phone a bit more future proof and you're also on a very tight budget then this is incredible value and it's in part thanks to being one of the first phones to come with MediaTek's new dimension 700 chip. It's a mid-range processor but it's fairly capable to give you an idea. If I bring in the geekbench and the 3dmark results for all three 8 series phones. The 5g actually has the fastest CPU although not by an awful lot and it does also fall behind the standard realme 8 helio g95 in the graphics department but still, it ran call of duty smoothly on medium-high settings although Kenshin impact
.which is to be fair one of the most demanding games on mobile right now was playable but with the occasional frame drop and stutter however the entry-level model of the 85g comes with just four gigs of ram and 64 gigs of storage which is kind of understandable. I suppose given the price but it is weird to see a 5g phone with just four gigs of ram. They're usually kind of mutually exclusive because generally, you expect a 5g phone to be quite high spec but this is kind of flipping that on its head I think. I would probably pay a little bit more and getting this with six gigs of ram just makes it a little bit more future-proof especially maybe. If you are buying this for its future-proof 5g capabilities and then you can always just drop in a micro sd as well to expand the storage overall. It felt fast and that was helped by the latest android 11 and realme UI 2 software. Which I do quite like and there are tons of customization options but what helps to make this feel faster is the 90-hertz refresh rate screen. So here we are again kind of having to balance and make a decision between whether you want an AMOLED 60 hertz screen like you to get on the standard realme 8 or a 90-hertz LCD that we have on the 5d model personally I think. It's more valuable to have a 90-hertz refresh I think. You see that more often than you do an AMOLED screen. This does give you better contrast ratios better view angles but if you're using this at a reasonable sort of straight-on angle. You're not using it.
You know from the side and you're not you know just concentrating on the black bars around the video is generally in the day-to-day. You can't tell that much difference and it still looks good. It's IP and we have up to 600 nits of brightness. So it's easily usable outside but what do you reckon would you rather go 90hz LCD or 60hz AMOLED. We would all love both in an ideal world but the benefit of having a 90-hertz refresh and 180-hertz touch sampling is the phone feels much more responsive. You can choose to keep it at 90 hertz all the time but I like to keep it in auto mode. So it adapts based on the app and should therefore save you a bit of battery. We don't have 5g here yet. So I can't test just how fast it can get and also the impact on the battery life although. We do have some 5g battery setting modes built-in but in my experience generally using this with 4g and wi-fi I'm getting to about 11 p.m with 30 remaining. Which is pretty good and also one hour of youtube at 50 brightest used eight percent of the battery life. So the battery life is good although if you are using 5g that will have an impact on that as well but the downside is the charger. We get this 18-watt charger in the box which is a downgrade from the 30-watt charger. We get with the real me eight or even last year's real me seven 5g had 30 watts charging so um a bit of a strange choice going down to 18 here again I guess. It's cost-saving. Now let's talk about this camera and a bit sadly. We have lost the ultra-wide lens which uh. We get on the 8 and the 8 pro but we do still have a 48-megapixel main camera plus a macro lens and also a black and white portrait lens. Which is designed to improve the quality and also the bokeh of portrait shots. You do of course have to adjust your expectations for a phone that costs just 180 pounds but I think on the whole it does a good job. You can shoot in the full 48 megapixels.
If you want the highest resolution. There's also a pro mode. If you wanted to tinker and the ultra macro although as usual, these traction macro lenses don't add a whole lot of value in my opinion. We do get a decent night mode though. Which works with both the rear and the selfie cameras. This is always good to see although low light photos can still be a little bit noisy and it does struggle with dynamic range having said that I think again given the price. It's good enough as a quick point and shoots and I do also quite like the selfie camera. It can lack a little bit of sharpness and detail but the exposure and the colors look good and this is with all the ai beautification modes turned off although perhaps. I should have kept them on and so that is the new realme 8 5g the good stuff well. We're getting incredibly cheap 5g uh good battery life that triple card slot with MicroSD dual sim 5g 3.5 mil headphone jack. Which is nice I think. It looks pretty good as well and of course that 90-hertz screen. So all in all a pretty good all-around phone with a ridiculously affordable price downside well it's LCD uh. There's no ultra-wide camera and also bizarrely. We've had a downgrade in the charging speed but overall.If you want a solid dirt-cheap 5g phone. While there are a couple of compromises.
You can't get much better than this although. If you're not that bothered by 5g just yet and frankly I still don't know. If it's essential, especially at this price point then I'd recommend going with the standard realme 8. It's only 60 hertz but we do get an AMOLED screen the helio g95 chip is better for gaming.We also get a high-resolution 64-megapixel camera and an ultra-wide lens along with an in-screen fingerprint reader and also faster charging my only feedback is that the difference between the seven and the eight series perhaps isn't as clear-cut as it should be. It's a little bit complicated. Now if you fancy checking this out for yourself. if you fancy an upgrade but what do you reckon would you be tempted to buy this and also do you think. It's worth having 5g at this price point or well is it just a bit of a costly extra
I've used that joke like three times. Now I've got to stop doing that and then upfront. We have this hole punch cut out for the selfie camera.Which also supports face unlocking but as you can see it is a little bit bigger than the one on the 8 and the 8 pro. It does seem like every decision realme has made with this phone is to make it as aggressively affordable as possible because compared to last year's realme 7 5g on paper at least. This is a bit of a step down last year's phone had 120 hertz faster charging a quad-camera set up but it was 280 pounds at launch although of course since then the 75g has been discounted. So the difference between that and this isn't as significant anymore but if 5g is important to you presumably to make your phone a bit more future proof and you're also on a very tight budget then this is incredible value and it's in part thanks to being one of the first phones to come with MediaTek's new dimension 700 chip. It's a mid-range processor but it's fairly capable to give you an idea. If I bring in the geekbench and the 3dmark results for all three 8 series phones. The 5g actually has the fastest CPU although not by an awful lot and it does also fall behind the standard realme 8 helio g95 in the graphics department but still, it ran call of duty smoothly on medium-high settings although Kenshin impact
.which is to be fair one of the most demanding games on mobile right now was playable but with the occasional frame drop and stutter however the entry-level model of the 85g comes with just four gigs of ram and 64 gigs of storage which is kind of understandable. I suppose given the price but it is weird to see a 5g phone with just four gigs of ram. They're usually kind of mutually exclusive because generally, you expect a 5g phone to be quite high spec but this is kind of flipping that on its head I think. I would probably pay a little bit more and getting this with six gigs of ram just makes it a little bit more future-proof especially maybe. If you are buying this for its future-proof 5g capabilities and then you can always just drop in a micro sd as well to expand the storage overall. It felt fast and that was helped by the latest android 11 and realme UI 2 software. Which I do quite like and there are tons of customization options but what helps to make this feel faster is the 90-hertz refresh rate screen. So here we are again kind of having to balance and make a decision between whether you want an AMOLED 60 hertz screen like you to get on the standard realme 8 or a 90-hertz LCD that we have on the 5d model personally I think. It's more valuable to have a 90-hertz refresh I think. You see that more often than you do an AMOLED screen. This does give you better contrast ratios better view angles but if you're using this at a reasonable sort of straight-on angle. You're not using it.
You know from the side and you're not you know just concentrating on the black bars around the video is generally in the day-to-day. You can't tell that much difference and it still looks good. It's IP and we have up to 600 nits of brightness. So it's easily usable outside but what do you reckon would you rather go 90hz LCD or 60hz AMOLED. We would all love both in an ideal world but the benefit of having a 90-hertz refresh and 180-hertz touch sampling is the phone feels much more responsive. You can choose to keep it at 90 hertz all the time but I like to keep it in auto mode. So it adapts based on the app and should therefore save you a bit of battery. We don't have 5g here yet. So I can't test just how fast it can get and also the impact on the battery life although. We do have some 5g battery setting modes built-in but in my experience generally using this with 4g and wi-fi I'm getting to about 11 p.m with 30 remaining. Which is pretty good and also one hour of youtube at 50 brightest used eight percent of the battery life. So the battery life is good although if you are using 5g that will have an impact on that as well but the downside is the charger. We get this 18-watt charger in the box which is a downgrade from the 30-watt charger. We get with the real me eight or even last year's real me seven 5g had 30 watts charging so um a bit of a strange choice going down to 18 here again I guess. It's cost-saving. Now let's talk about this camera and a bit sadly. We have lost the ultra-wide lens which uh. We get on the 8 and the 8 pro but we do still have a 48-megapixel main camera plus a macro lens and also a black and white portrait lens. Which is designed to improve the quality and also the bokeh of portrait shots. You do of course have to adjust your expectations for a phone that costs just 180 pounds but I think on the whole it does a good job. You can shoot in the full 48 megapixels.
If you want the highest resolution. There's also a pro mode. If you wanted to tinker and the ultra macro although as usual, these traction macro lenses don't add a whole lot of value in my opinion. We do get a decent night mode though. Which works with both the rear and the selfie cameras. This is always good to see although low light photos can still be a little bit noisy and it does struggle with dynamic range having said that I think again given the price. It's good enough as a quick point and shoots and I do also quite like the selfie camera. It can lack a little bit of sharpness and detail but the exposure and the colors look good and this is with all the ai beautification modes turned off although perhaps. I should have kept them on and so that is the new realme 8 5g the good stuff well. We're getting incredibly cheap 5g uh good battery life that triple card slot with MicroSD dual sim 5g 3.5 mil headphone jack. Which is nice I think. It looks pretty good as well and of course that 90-hertz screen. So all in all a pretty good all-around phone with a ridiculously affordable price downside well it's LCD uh. There's no ultra-wide camera and also bizarrely. We've had a downgrade in the charging speed but overall.If you want a solid dirt-cheap 5g phone. While there are a couple of compromises.
You can't get much better than this although. If you're not that bothered by 5g just yet and frankly I still don't know. If it's essential, especially at this price point then I'd recommend going with the standard realme 8. It's only 60 hertz but we do get an AMOLED screen the helio g95 chip is better for gaming.We also get a high-resolution 64-megapixel camera and an ultra-wide lens along with an in-screen fingerprint reader and also faster charging my only feedback is that the difference between the seven and the eight series perhaps isn't as clear-cut as it should be. It's a little bit complicated. Now if you fancy checking this out for yourself. if you fancy an upgrade but what do you reckon would you be tempted to buy this and also do you think. It's worth having 5g at this price point or well is it just a bit of a costly extra
Realme 8 5G detailed specifications
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Build: |
OS. |
Android 11 OS |
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UI. |
Rea lme UI 2.0 |
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Dimensions. |
162.5 x 74.8 x 8.5
mm |
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Weight. |
185 g |
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SIM. |
Dual Sim, Dual
Standby (Nano-SIM) |
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Colors. |
Blue, Gray |
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Frequency; |
2G Band. |
SIM1: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
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3G Band. |
HSDPA 800 / 850 /
900 / 1900 / 2100 |
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4G Band. |
LTE band 1(2100),
3(1800), 5(850), 8(900), 38(2600), 40(2300), 41(2500) |
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5G Band. |
5 G SA/NSA |
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Processor; |
CPU. |
Octa-core (4 x 2.2
GHz Cortex-A76 + 4 x 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55) |
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Chipset. |
MediaTek MT6833 Dimensity 700 5G (7 nm) |
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GPU. |
Mali-G57 MC2 |
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Display; |
Technology. |
IPS LCD Capacitive
Touchscreen, 16M Colors, Multitouch |
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Size. |
6.5
Inches |
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Resolution. |
1080 x 2400 Pixels
(~405 PPI) |
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Extra Features. |
90Hz, 480 nits
(typ), 600 nits |
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Memory: |
Built-in. |
128/256 GB Built-in,
8 GB RAM, UFS 2.1 |
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Card. |
micro SDXC (dedicated
slot) |
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Camera: |
Main. |
Triple Camera: 48
MP, f/1.8, 2 6 mm (wide), PDAF + 2 MP, f/2.4, (macro) + 2 MP, f/2.4, (depth),
LED Flash |
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Features. |
Geo-tagging, Phase
detection, HDR, Panorama, Video (1080p @30fps) |
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Front. |
8 MP, f/2.0, 26 mm
(wide), Video (1080p @30fps) |
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Connectivity: |
WLAN. |
Wi-Fi 802.11
a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hot spot |
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Bluetooth. |
v 5.1 with A2DP, LE
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GPS. |
Yes + A-GPS support,
& GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, QZSS |
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Radio. |
FM Radio |
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USB. |
USB Type-C 2.0, USB
On-The-Go |
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NFC. |
Yes |
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Data. |
GPRS, Edge, 3G (HSPA 42.2/11.5 Mbps), 4 G LTE-A,
5 G capable |
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Features: |
Sensors. |
Accelero meter,
Compass, Fingerprint (side mounted), Gyro, Proximity |
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Audio. |
3.5 mm Audio Jack,
MP4/H.264 player, MP3 /WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player, Speaker Phone |
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Browser. |
HTML5 |
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Messaging. |
SMS(threaded view),
MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM |
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Games. |
Built-in +
Downloadable |
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Torch. |
Yes |
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Extra. |
24-bit/192 kHz audio,
Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, Document viewer, Photo/video
editor |
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Battery: |
Capacity. |
(Li-Po Non
removable), 5000 mAh |
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- Fast charging 18 W
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