The Realme 11 Pro+ does something most other cheap phones can't. It delivers on the promise of its specs, and shows what cheap phones should be like.
Realme is showing the way forward for cheap phones, and although the new Realme 11 Pro+ isn’t perfect, it’s ambitious and interesting in a way low-cost phones very rarely are.
Related The chassis is plastic, and I’m not a fan of its gold color, but it definitely stands out — while the tapered edges aren’t so sharp that it ruins the ergonomics. It reminds me of flagship phones from a few years ago, like the OnePlus 9 Pro and the Huawei P30 Pro, and I’m pleased Realme hasn’t just chosen to copy popular designs from Samsung and Apple.
Putting an optical zoom or periscope telephoto camera on a phone increases the price, and this is an interesting way to offer a desirable feature without pushing up the overall cost. Anyone who has used a normal digital zoom knows the feature isn’t very good, so does Realme’s promise of lossless zoom photos stand up under scrutiny?
Even the 4x is decent, and it’s amazing I’m saying this about a phone at this price point. It’s a credit to Realme that it has come up with a way to add such a desirable feature to a cheap phone. I’ll come back to the other cameras in a later section, but don’t expect them to match the 200MP camera’s ability.
The rest of the specification is decent too. The 6.7-inch OLED screen has a 120Hz refresh rate, a 2412 x 1080 pixel resolution, and HDR10+ certification. There’s also 12GB of RAM, 512GB of storage space , NFC for Google Pay, and 5G connectivity. You can even buy a version with 1TB of storage space. Finally, and the part I’ve hated about the Realme 11 Pro+ the most, is the automatic brightness. It’s obsessed with keeping it at the lowest setting and will quickly lower it whenever it has the chance. It’s very annoying, and I repeatedly wonder why I can barely see what’s going on, despite increasing the brightness manually so often. The screen itself isn’t very bright generally, and outside in sunlight, it’s not especially visible.
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