Realme V30 Review: specs and features, camera quality test, gaming benchmark, user opinions and photos

Realme V30 is a smartphone with major compromises

Sometimes manufacturers of smart phones go to great lengths in order to reduce the cost of a gadget and transfer it to a different price segment. But how difficult it is to find the line after which the savings are unnecessary. Unfortunately, the hero of today's review belongs rather to the category of unsuccessful products, the reduction in price of which only negatively affected the attractiveness for the end user.

The appearance of the novelty is quite simple, although it can not be called bad. A rather stylish block of photomodules and small screen frames are opposed to cheap plastic case and the absence of a fingerprint sensor. The 6.52-inch IPS display is also a mixed bag. A good level of brightness and accurate color reproduction are side by side with a modest HD + resolution, an ordinary 60 Hz refresh rate. The oleophobic coating is extremely weak, which reduces the comfort of working with a mobile assistant.

It is not easy to find fault with the performance of the technical characteristics. The MediaTek Dimensity 700 CPU is not the latest chipset, but this solution, together with 4GB / 6GB / 8GB of RAM and the Mali G57MC2 video core, provides support for 5G networks, the responsiveness of the Android 12 interface, and the successful launch of many resource-intensive games. Some projects (for example, World Of Tanks Blitz, Call Of Duty) will please with stable gameplay at medium graphics presets, others (Genshin Impace, Undecember) - only at minimum settings. 64/128/256GB is allocated for storing applications and other multimedia files. All three versions of the internal storage can be supplemented with microSD cards. Another important component of the current Android device is autonomy. Its worthy values ​​of 9-10 hours of active screen time are achieved by a 5000 mAh battery. But the charging power of 10W is frankly disappointing.

Controversial emotions awaken 13 and 2-megapixel main cameras. Mediocre sensors without optical stabilization do not impress even with daytime shots, in which noise and loss of detail are sometimes noticeable. Evening shots in 99% of cases come out simply terrible. There are no NFC contactless payments and stereo sound, and there is no FDD-LTE B7, without which 4G operation in some cities of Europe and the CIS is virtually impossible. As a result, the low price tag did not become a salvation for the device with a significant number of critical flaws.