REALME 10

realme has always set a high bar for bang-for-the-buck smartphones. Now, the new realme 10 offers a performance-packed, value-for-money smartphone for Pinoy tech enthusiasts this coming holiday season.

- GRABRIEL PE

DESIGN

The realme 10 comes in two color designs, Clash White and Rush Black. Ours came in the Clash White variant, and, boy, does it look good.

The Clash White is more of a combination of three colors, orange yellow, blue, and a bit of violet in the middle it resembles a rainbow with the color seamlessly shifting to another.

The realme 10's display is a 6.4-inch FHD+ (1080 x 2400) super AMOLED. It has a 90Hz refresh rate and a 180Hz touch sampling. It's also great to know that the display is Corning Gorilla Glass 5 giving you peace of mind in case you dropped it. While most phones are adopting the 120Hz refresh rate, 90Hz is still good enough.

The realme 10 looks similar to the earlier realme 9 smartphone. The only difference is the camera setup on the 10, which sports only a rear dual-camera setup instead of the 9's triple. Like the realme 9, the realme 10's selfie camera is located at the upper left corner of the display to enable a more immersive gaming experience.

On the phone's left is the sim-card tray and microSD slot (expandable up to 1TB). On the right are the volume keys, and the power button that doubles as the fingerprint reader. At the top of the smartphone is just the microphone hole. At the bottom are the 3.5mm headphone jack, the USB-C charging port, another mic hole, and the single downward-firing speaker.

The phone is ultra-slim, coming in at just 7.95mm thin. Surprisingly, its squarish body isn't difficult to hold, thanks to a much thinner design coming in at just 73.3mm wide.

HARDWARE

Inside the realme 10 is a MediaTek Helio G99 processor. While many would scoff at a MediaTek processor, the Helio G99 is an upgrade from the realme 9's Snapdragon 680. The processor is mated to a Mali-G57 MC2. Our review unit also had 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage.