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Budget smartphones Product Test

So which phone shouldyou buy?That

depends how muchyou’ve gotto spend.

Anyone with a budget of more than £150

would dowell to push the boat out and get

the Realme 3 Pro. This aggressive Europe-

wide launch is clearly designedto carvea

namefor the company with a spectacular

phoneat a very reasonable price.

Don’t despair ifyou can’t afford such

luxury, however. As long asyou don’t mind

usingVodafone’s pay-as-you-go network,

you can pick up the Smart V10for a very

reasonable £105. It may not offer quite

enough power to play the same games as

phones thatcost hundreds of pounds more,

but it performs amazinglywell for the price.

Realme

3 Pro

paired with a choice of either

4GB or 6GB of memory.

As you’dexpect, the V10

was the slower of the two in

our benchmarktests, scoring

867 in Geekbench 4’s

single-processortest and

2,510 in the multi-coretest.

The Readme, on the other

hand, scored 1,441 in the

single-coretest anda

whopping 5,824 in the

multi-coretest. That’s very

fast for a phoneat this price.

Graphics performancewas

similarly divided. In the

GFXbench GL Manhattan 3

test, the V10 produced 9

frames per second (fps)

onscreen and 5fps offscreen.

The Realme 3 Pro managed

29fps onscreen and 33fps

offscreen.This means the V10

is finefor simple 2D games

withstandard graphics, while

theRealme 3 Pro shouldcope

with all but thevery latest

and most demanding titles.

Battery life andcamera

The Realme 3 Pro hasa

powerful 4,045mAh battery

so you’dexpect itto lasta

long time. Infact, it lasted 15

hours and 34 minutes in our

battery run-downtest. The

performance capabilities of

the processor and screen

clearly take theirtoll, because

that’s only a little longer than

theVodafone model (15 hours

and 12 minutes) despite the

OUR VERDICT

FEATURES HHHHH

PERFORMANCE HHHHH

EASE OF USE HHHHH

VALUE FOR MONEY HHHHH

VS

cheaper phone’s less powerful

3,400mAh battery.

The V10 chargesover a

micro-USBconnection instead

of theRealme’s USBType-C

port.This limits how quickly

the V10 canrecharge, while

theRealme 3 Pro can go

from no chargeto 100% in

less than 90 minutes.

The camera is oftena

neglected part of budget

smartphones, but that’s not

the case here. Each phone has

tworear cameras.The V10

has a 13-megapixel model

coupled with a 5-megapixel

depth-sensing lensfor better

portraits, while theRealme 3

Pro has a 16-megapixel

camera with a 5-megapixel

depth sensor.

Both cameras take good

picturesfor theirrespective

prices.The difference between

themwas morestark when

comparing the video cameras

• the 3 Pro can handle 4K
  resolutionat 30fps, or 1080p
  at 60fps, whereas the V10tops
  outat 30fps and 1080p.

PRODUCT INFO

Realme 3 Pro

Price:€199 (around

£178)for 64GB;

€249 (around £223)

for 128GB

Buy fromRealme:

bit.ly/real482

SPECIFICATIONS

■64GB or 128GB of memory,

upgradeto 256GB via microSD slot

■16 megapixels camera

■ColorOS 6.0 based on Android 9.0

■157 x74 x 8.3mm; 6.3in screen

■172g

Subtle lines sweeping from top to

bottom givetheRealme 3 Pro astylish

two-tonecolour finish