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Realme C35 is an Android 11 smartphone with a 6.6-inch IPS LCD display, a Unisoc Tiger T616 chipset, and a 5000 mAh battery. It has a triple rear camera with a 50 MP main sensor and a 6 GB RAM option.
realme C35 is a light and thin phone with 50MP AI Triple Camera, 16.7cm FHD Fullscreen and 5000mAh Battery. Learn more about its features, specs and pricing at realme.com.
realme C35 is a smartphone with 50MP AI Triple Camera, 16.7cm FHD Fullscreen, Unisoc T616 Processor, and 5000mAh Massive Battery. It supports 18W Quick Charge, 4890mAh battery capacity, and TÜV Rheinland Smartphone High Reliability Certification.
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Realme has proven itself to be the brand to watch in 2022, with its GT 2 Pro and 9 Pro Plus bringing top features to the mid-range market. Now, the company has seemingly set its sights on budget phones, too.
When writing this Realme C35 review, we were surprised by just how much it felt like a mid-range device. It was quick in use, boasted a more attractive design, and captured far better-looking pictures than lots of other phones at this price.
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•Comes in 64GB and 128GB storage versions
•Starts at £149 (roughly $200, AU$260)
•Not on sale in the US
Realme C35 specs
Weight: 189g
Dimensions: 164.4 x 75.6 x 8.1mm
•Eye-catching green color
•Angular design feels rough in the hand
•USB-C port, headphone jack, side-mounted fingerprint scanner
From afar, the Realme C35’s bright Glowing Green hue might catch your eye – that is, unless you’re looking at the black version of the handset instead.
Up close this is a more standard-looking phone, with a USB-C port and 3.5mm headphone jack along the bottom, volume rocker on the left edge, power button with embedded fingerprint scanner along the right edge, and a rectangular camera bump sticking out from its plastic back.
The fingerprint scanner was a little temperamental to use; but we registered the same finger twice, which was a hack that got it to work.
•6.6-inch FHD LCD screen
•Good for price
•Looks a little dim
We were surprised by the C35’s FHD (1080 x 2400) screen resolution, since lots of budget phones opt for HD. It means you can use streaming services or play games at their usual resolution. Measuring 6.6 inches across the panel feels fairly big, with the surface area interrupted up by a small notch.
The resolution is impressive, but less so is the LCD tech and max brightness of just 600 nits. Admittedly, these are features of the price tier, but they do mean colors are less vibrant and the screen is a little dimmer than we’d like.
On occasion – not often, but sometimes – we experienced issues viewing the screen in brighter settings.
•50MP main camera is good for colorful and bright snaps
•Macro and depth sensor but no ultrawide or telephoto
•Selfie camera is fit for purpose
A highlight of the Realme C35 is its main camera. This 50-megapixel f/1.8 unit uses the Sony IMX766 sensor present in quite a few phones, and it’s surprisingly competent.
It’s great for taking in light, which has two benefits: it picks up color well, and also captures more detail in low-light and night settings. Sure, you might not be taking iPhone-level night shots with the Realme, but we found the results surprisingly impressive for a phone at this price.
Thanks to this sensor, the Realme C35 is one of the best budget camera phones around – but it’s “one of” instead of “the” of two little issues.
•Unisoc T616 chip with 4GB RAM
•Runs well for the price
•4G-only connectivity
The ‘brains’ of the Realme C35’s operation is a Unisoc Tiger T616 chipset. If you know much about mobile tech, the name Unisoc will likely evoke thoughts of sluggish and stuttering phones; but we didn’t find the C35 to be too bad.
The handset was fairly quick to navigate, both for simple tasks such as scrolling between menus and when using social media apps and checking emails. Sure, that’s “budget phone quick”, as opposed to “premium phone quick” – but in our tests, the Realme neither crashed nor felt too slow to use.
This isn’t a phone for gamers, however. Top-end games will struggle to run on this phone, so don’t expect to boot up PUBG Mobile, ramp up the graphics to Ultra mode and expect to have a good time. If your gaming habits mainly involve Angry Birds, Candy Crush and Pokémon Go, though, you’ll be fine.
•Android 11 base
•Realme UI laid over the top
•Update schedule is unknown
The Realme C35 runs Android 11, with Realme UI laid over the top. This is mainly a design change, since many Chinese brands like to use their own forks of the popular open-source software. In the case of Realme UI, however, the menus actually look very similar to stock Android.
The result is a clean-looking menu layout, whether you’re on the main menu, app drawer or swipe-down-from-top Quick Settings list. Plus, there’s actually less bloatware (or pre-installed apps) than we normally see.
Note that Android 11 isn’t the newest version as of the Realme C35’s release – most phone brands are a little sporadic at updating their budget mobiles – so we’ll have to wait and see if Realme continues to support the device.
•5,000mAh battery
•Lasts for a day easily, and sometimes for two
•18W charging is fairly slow
The Realme C35 comes with a big 5000mAh battery. As such, the combination of LCD 60Hz screen and the lack of 5G connectivity resulted in the C35 being one of the longest-lasting smartphones we’ve tested recently.
The phone easily waltzed through a day of use, and generally made it well into the second day, too. That included lots of social media, photography and the occasional extra app download.
Charging speed is 18W, which certainly isn’t fast; it will take you over an hour to power the phone up to full. This is a handset for those who charge their devices overnight, not during their morning shower.
- Realme
- Tom Bedford
- tom.bedford@futurenet.com
realme C35 is equipped with 50MP AI Triple Camera, 16.7cm（6.6'') FHD Fullscreen and 5000mAh Massive Battery. Learn more about features and pricing at realme.com.
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