After
tasting huge success with the Realme X and XT, the company is back with yet
another premium mid-ranger, the Realme X2. We are all aware of the recent
competition that’s going on in the mid-range segment responding to which Realme
have launched a plethora of smartphones and flooded the market with almost the
same smartphones but with slight changes. Realme has done the same with the X2,
which is essentially a XT but with a few important changes.
The most important of them all
is the introduction of VOOC 4.0 with the X2. This technology is claimed to 42%
faster than the existing 18W technology i.e., Qualcomm Quick Charge 3. The VOOC
4.0 amounts to a total power output of 30W which is 5 Volts @ 6 Amps. This is
essentially the same WARP charge technology that OnePlus have introduced with
the OnePlus 7 Pro. This technology charges the Realme X2 67% in 30 mins as
claimed by the company.
The second big change is the new
SoC i.e., the Snapdragon 730G which is built on the 8nm manufacturing node.
This SoC is quite optimized for gaming and hence should deliver decent performance
with PUBG and Call of Duty. But don’t expect flagship grade performance. The
SoC is hugely power-efficient and the battery life should be amazing on this
device. The 730G claims to be 12% faster than the 730 but you won’t notice much
of a difference in day-to-day use. This SoC however, has a much better ISP
compared to the QS 712/710 and hence you can expect better camera performance
than the Realme XT.
The third change is the front
snapper. Now you have a 32MP selfie shooter which is not the Sony IMX 616 as
you would expect, but is a proprietary sensor sourced from an unknown vendor.
Henceforth, we are quite skeptical about the selfie performance of the X2 in
comparison to the XT which houses the already trusted and established Sony IMX
471. We can comment on the same after the full testing is complete. However,
there are other mentionable additions such as the new variant with 6GB of
LPDDR4X RAM and 128 GB of UFS 2.1 storage. The day to day performance should be
smooth and lag-free. The higher variant however has 8 gigs of RAM and there is
a dedicated SD card slot on all variants.
The phone has a plastic frame
with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on both sides. There is a 6.4-inch Super AMOLED
panel sourced from Samsung with an under-display fingerprint scanner with a
screen to body ratio of 84.3 percent. There is a Quad camera set-up comprising
of a 64MP Samsung ISOCELL GW1 Bright sensor, an 8 MP Ultrawide snapper with
1.12 microns pixel size and the other two cameras are 2MP sensors for macro and
depth. There is a type-C reversible 1.0 connector which essentially supports
only USB 2.0 speeds. The phone comes with the support of Dolby Atmos for crisp
and clear audio.
The Realme X2 is aggressively
priced in India and starts at 16,999 for the 4GB RAM and 64GB storage variant.
The 6GB RAM and 128 GB storage variant is fairly priced at 18,999 and the 8 GB
RAM and 128 GB storage variant retails at 19,999. In our opinion the base
variant and the top tier variant and excellent value for money options and you
should definitely consider them over the XT. The Realme X falls in a different
category altogether and should not be compared with the X2.