Realme C35 Review: The BEST budget smartphone of the year?!

The realme c35 is a great budget phone. The relne c35 is one of the best budget. Camera phones of early 2022 packing a 50 megapixel main camera that takes surprising pictures during the day or night and punching above its weight in the software and performance areas too. Some might find the design and display lacking, but thats forgivable. When you consider the price of the device pros, plus good main camera, plus surprisingly low price plus long lasting battery cons, doesnt feel great in the hand no ultra wide camera display is a little dim. Realme has proven itself to be the brand to watch in 2022. With its gt2 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, and it comes in at a low price. The relne c35 sits among the companys super low end line of devices handsets that arent. Usually anything to write home about something that could be said about the c31 2, which launched alongside the c35, but this higher end phone while still being supremely affordable, is a staggeringly accomplished phone for the price youre paying the rel me c35 will easily find its way Onto our list of the best cheap phones and the main reason for this is its 50 megapixel main camera.

It uses sonys mx766 sensor, which appears in a fair few handsets right now, in particular realme devices and its wonderful for low light photography. The realme c35 captures lots of color and light in well lit or night time scenes pushing it ahead of most other budget phones, sure it doesnt bat in the same leagues as the samsung galaxy s21 ultra, but its surprising enough to be able to make out whats In pictures, given the performance of other budget mobiles, its just a shame that the handset doesnt offer more theres, no ultra wide camera, nor an array of modes that you might expect, such as a portrait mode on the front facing camera or a document scanning tool. However, at this price you cant expect the moon. We were surprised by how snappy the realme c35 felt in use, especially on seeing a unisock processor mentioned on the specs list. These are typically rather weak and the fact that budget devices are usually noted for their sluggish performance. The real me feels just fine for everyday use, whether youre jumping between apps or scrolling, through social media, sure youre unlikely to have a great experience playing top end games. But this device isnt aimed at those for whom gaming is a priority, as is the case with the majority of budget phones. The realney c35 will last a long time between charges closer to two days than one in our experience and sure charging isnt particularly fast.

But how many affordable devices offer that from the pictures in this review, youll have noticed that the realme c35 is definitely a distinctive looking phone sporting, a shiny green hue. That relmy calls glowing green its available in a black version too. While we found it attractive, whether or not you will depends on your tastes, however, since the c35 is fairly large with angular flat edges, the handset isnt very comfortable in the hand, every complement weve, given the realme c35, has been followed by a qualifier or minor criticism. However, these negatives are super easy to overlook. Given the phones price, the relme is a valid alternative to low mid range mobiles, one that punches well above its weight. In fact, it should be the first port of call for anyone looking for a new phone at this price price and availability comes in 64 gigabytes and 128 gigabytes storage versions starts at 149 pounds roughly 200 260 australian dollars not on sale in the us. The realme c35 went on sale in april 2022 and was unveiled alongside the more affordable c31. The handset was released in the uk, but not the us or australia. The former isnt a surprise since relmy doesnt sell its phones in the us, but well likely see it show up in australia at some point in the near future. The handset costs 149 pounds roughly 200 dollars, 260 australian dollars for 64 gigabytes storage and 169 pounds around 220 dollars; 300 australian dollars for 128 gigabytes storage.

For those who take a lot of snaps, we recommend the latter. A small price increase for double the storage is a good deal. The price makes the c35 the most expensive realme c phone weve seen. Nevertheless, it remains more affordable than anything from the companys main line of numbered devices or most rivals from xiaomis redmi or motorolas. Moto g lines, design eye catching green color angular design feels rough in the hand. Usbc port, headphone jack side mounted fingerprint scanner from afar. The realme c35s bright glowing green hue might catch your eye. That is, unless youre looking at the black version of the handset. Instead, up close, this is a more standard. Looking phone with a usb c port and 3.5 millimeters headphone jack along the bottom volume locker 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 in the hand. The phone proves a little annoying. Its generous size and flat edges create quite an angular device which isnt particularly comfortable to hold in the hand as such wed recommend picking up a case display 6.6 inch fhd lcd screen good for price looks a little dim. We were surprised by the c35s fhd 1080 by 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 wed like on occasion, not often, but sometimes we experienced issues viewing the screen in brighter settings. Cameras 50mp main camera is good for colorful and bright snaps macro and depth sensor, but no ultra wide or telephoto selfie camera is fit for purpose. A highlight of the realme c35 is its main camera. This 50 megapixel f, slash 1.8 unit, uses the sony imx 766 sensor present in quite a few phones and its surprisingly competent its 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 its one of instead of too little issues. Firstly, the other cameras are lacking theres, a two megapixel f, slash 2.4 macro and 0.3 megapixel f, slash 2.8 depth sensor, but neither adds much to the equation. Wed have liked to see an ultra wide camera to deliver some versatility.

Secondly, the lack of hdr or anything even resembling it in the ai department makes similar colors look indistinguishable in certain shots. If you head into the camera apps list of modes youll find a fairly well rounded selection, including knight pro and panorama. However, there are one or two notable absences: theres no document scanning mode and you cant actually take portrait shots with the front facing camera. The selfie snapper itself is an eight megapixel f, slash 2.0 camera and its totally fit for purpose, taking photos that are bright and clear, but dont expect generous levels of detail or nuanced color, reproduction or a portrait mode, as weve already mentioned, while were used to a Degree of discrepancy with the realme c35, the difference was pronounced. At least the results were better rather than worse. Video recording goes up to 1080p at 30 frames per second, which is fit for purpose. Any footage captured for social media performance and specs performance and specs unisak t616 chip with four gigabytes ram runs well for the price for g. Only connectivity, the brains of the realme c35 operation, is a unisak tiger, t616 chipset. If you know much about mobile tech, the name unisak will likely evoke thoughts of sluggish and stuttering phones, but we didnt 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 thats budget phone, quick as opposed to premium phone quick.

But in our tests the real me neither crashed nor felt too slow to use this isnt a phone for gamers. However, top end games will struggle to run on this phone. So dont 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 pokemon. Go though youll be fine. The phone comes with four gigabytes of ram and either 64 gigabytes or 128 gigabytes of storage. If you want your phone to see you through some time with quite a few apps installed, wed recommend opting for the latter. The c35 is only a 4g phone, but at this price that shouldnt be a surprise. Software 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 youre on the main menu app drawer or swipe down from top quick settings list, plus theres, actually less bloatware or pre installed apps than we normally see. Note that android 11 isnt, the newest version, as of the realme c35s release, most phone brands, are a little sporadic at updating their budget.

Mobiles so well have to wait and see if realme continues to support the device battery life. Five thousand milliamp hours battery lasts for a day easily and sometimes for two 18 w charging is fairly slow. The realme c35 comes with a big five thousand milliamp hours battery. As such, the combination of lcd 60 hertz screen and the lack of 5g connectivity resulted in the c35 being one of the longest lasting smartphones, weve tested recently the phone easily waltz 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 isnt fast. It will take you over an hour to power the phone up to full.