Realme 11 Pro+ review

For one more yr at the moment, Realme is again with the launch of handsets from considered one of its most emblematic households of mobiles, the collection that evolves yearly with the numbering growing by yet one more digit.

There are two fashions arriving on the European and worldwide markets, costing €399 for the most cost effective mannequin and €519 for the costliest, which is the one we’re reviewing beneath.

Design and construct

• Premium design
• Light-weight
• Tremendous-fast fingerprint sensor

As a style of what we’ll see from the Realme 11 Professional+, it’s price noting that considered one of its foremost property is the design that the model has prioritised on this new growth of a mid-range cellphone with very premium touches.

We are saying this as a result of the again of the cellphone has a really premium really feel, with a vegan leather-based end (the mannequin reviewed right here in ‘dawn beige’ tones), providing a nice really feel that emulates actual leather-based very nicely, eliminating the presence of fingerprints and providing a sure resistance to the passage of time.

It’s a cell phone prepared for use with no case. Realme performs with the fold of the white stitching and golden tones that begin on the backside and cross from prime to backside the set of cameras as if it had been a beam of sunshine.

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The impact is exceptional, along with the truth that the association of the digital camera bump could be very central giving the cellphone higher stability whether it is positioned on a flat floor.

Each the entrance glass and the again are barely curved, each surrounded by a gold-coloured body that makes the cellphone stand out visually from afar. All of its quantity and energy buttons are on one aspect, leaving the opposite aspect utterly free.

The fingerprint sensor is built-in into the underside of the show, whereas the dual-SIM slot and USB-C connector are situated on the backside. There are additionally audio system on the highest and backside bezels of the cellphone, making certain Dolby Atmos stereo sound.

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In comparison with conventional fingerprint unlocking, Realme claims to have mixed an improved system that gives higher adaptability to the atmosphere for those who use it in low temperatures, within the warmth and even with a moist finger now that the recent climate is right here. The velocity of response and reliability was nice in my use.

Lastly, it’s price mentioning that the Realme 11 Professional+ doesn’t exhibit any type of IP certification to ensure water or mud resistance, which is to be anticipated contemplating the value vary it’s in.

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In case you’re on the lookout for a cell phone that provides ensures, you’ll must go for the equally priced Google Pixel 6a with IP67 water and mud resistance. Try our up to date rating of the very best mid-range telephones you should buy.

Show and audio system

• 6.7-inch curved AMOLED panel
• 2412 x 1080p FHD+ decision
• 120Hz refresh fee
• Twin Atmos stereo audio system

The cellphone has a screen-to-body ratio of 93.65%, which provides you an concept that you just’re taking a look at an all-screen system with hardly any bezels, not even these extra widespread ones that emerge from the underside of the display.

The entrance selfie digital camera is centred on the prime, permitting notifications and very important working system info to be displayed on both aspect of it, with out interrupting the important thing viewing space.

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On the brightness stage of the Realme 11 Professional+, it’s price noting the trouble made by the model to dim the show and preserve probably the most correct color tones in any state of affairs, whether or not in low mild or when the solar’s rays are shining on it.

Thus, when the display brightness drops beneath 90 nits, the cellphone switches from conventional DC mode to PWM dimming so as to preserve an enhanced show whereas avoiding unfavourable affect on the consumer’s eyes.

The 120Hz refresh fee is just as anticipated, with clean and fluid animations.

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The audio system are offset to the body of the cellphone’s display and handle to emit excessive sound energy, albeit with their limitations. They sound loud and clear and deal with bass nicely, the results of their equalisation carried out along side Dolby Atmos, however don’t count on superb sound.

Efficiency and specs

• Dimensity 7050 5G processor
• 12GB RAM + 12GB dynamic
• 360-degree NFC
• Matrix System 2.0 antennas

The cellphone makes use of the Dimensity 7050 chipset which contains a 6nm manufacturing course of and consists of two clusters, in order that the 2 foremost Cortex A78 cores run at 2.6GHz, whereas the opposite six lower-powered A55 cores clock right down to 2.0GHz.

This makes the Realme 11 Professional+ a really environment friendly cellphone (as we’ll see within the battery life part), making certain efficiency that’s as much as the duty at hand, whether or not it’s dealing with social networking and productiveness apps, or typical gaming.

It’s a mid-range cellphone, let’s not overlook, however that doesn’t cease it from providing a beneficiant 12GB of RAM, expandable by way of dynamic RAM to an additional 12GB, a determine that it captures from its storage and which permits it to ship Cinebench multi-core values above most of its opponents.

As soon as we run the battery of benchmark assessments , which permit us to match its outcomes with these of the opposite smartphones, we see that graphics-wise it is usually capable of deal with video games with a reasonably acceptable fps fee with 23fps in Vulkan or Automotive Chase, and reaching 56 fps in Manhattan 3.1.

The outcomes are very a lot on a par with the Samsung Galaxy A54 which performs very nicely for the same worth, and with the Nothing Cellphone (1) which prices much less however has an excellent Snapdragon 778G+ processor.

So it’s clear that the processor is one space the place Realme has chosen to be a little bit extra conservative, integrating a chipset that’s cheaper than comparable Snapdragons, however investing that cash in different areas similar to pictures and battery life.

Cameras

• Largest aperture sensor in its worth vary
• Focal size f/1.69
• Constructed-in Autozoom operate

Talking of cameras, we come to probably the most thrilling factors of the brand new Realme 11 Professional+. Not like its smaller sibling, the 11 Professional, the ‘plus’ tag implies that it has notable variations in a number of areas, together with pictures.

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This cellphone has a 200Mp ISOCELL HP3 sensor with Superzoom that may detect autofocus info in each the vertical and horizontal planes. Consequently, Realme claims that is its greatest digital camera cellphone so far. We’ll see how true that’s.

Recall that the corporate has beforehand put out fashions just like the (larger priced) GT 2 Professional at launch, and whereas that cellphone has higher general efficiency, its cameras are outclassed on a lot of fronts.

Realme appears to have labored its digital camera suite in order that the principle digital camera provides as customary and in auto mode as much as 4 totally different zoom ranges to play with out of the field (0.6, 1x, 2x and 4x).

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In case you select to power the digital zoom, the cell can attain the 20x stage (not very helpful in any case because of the stage of noise that’s picked up). In any case, as you possibly can see within the captured photos, the main points are very considerable, as proven by the statue of Velázquez posing on the gates of the Prado.

I’m very happy with the white stability and colors supplied by the Realme 11 Professional+ digital camera, reflecting on the display fairly faithfully a detailed approximation of what my eyes are literally seeing in actual life.

On brilliant, clear days, the pictures seem very vivid however with out deviating from actuality or burning out sure tones, one thing that’s instantly noticeable in reddish objects or sunsets.

We took benefit of one of many cloudy and wet days that June has left us this yr (with a thunderstorm included) to place its lenses to the take a look at and we discovered the extent of element to be stunning.

I’ve talked about this in earlier smartphone opinions and it’s one thing I search for when testing cameras; the truth that all of them preserve a homogeneity in tonalities, no matter whether or not you utilize the large angle, the principle digital camera, or the telephoto lens (the latter will not be represented right here).

The pictures I used to be capable of take of the Ministry of Agriculture constructing, situated subsequent to Madrid’s Atocha Station, are a transparent reflection of how nicely the Realme 11 Professional+ performs, though I did discover that the seize and publicity time in automated mode is longer than with different telephones just like the model’s Realme GT 3.

Focusing is quick and correct, without having to repeatedly faucet the display to get a greater end result, and it takes full benefit of the bigger sensors to make pictures sharp and stuffed with element whenever you zoom in on the image.

Nevertheless, the wide-angle digital camera is of decrease high quality, so you’ll inevitably discover that the looks of noise is extra seen than when utilizing the principle digital camera. Additionally it is doable to make use of it for close-up capturing with a macro mode that has room for enchancment, but additionally finds stability in focus.

Inside the principle menu, Realme has included a ‘Excessive Decision’ mode with which we will fluctuate between the 200Mp supported by the sensor, or decrease the standard to 50Mp which is already adequate to get massive prints with out shedding high quality.

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The crop proven by the selfie pictures can also be on the top of the very best in its vary, providing with a 32Mp digital camera a top quality that could be very near compete face to face with probably the most premium telephones of a better worth.

Battery life and charging

• 5000 mAh battery
• 100W charger included
• Distinctive energy administration
• No wi-fi charging

With a high-capacity 5000mAh battery inside, the Realme 11 Professional+ additionally differs from its smaller 11 Professional sibling on this part in that the charging velocity is quicker on the one underneath evaluate right here.

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Included within the field is its cable and corresponding adapter to ensure as much as 100W of charging velocity, which allowed us to cost the cellphone in lower than half-hour (28 to be precise), in addition to reaching 56% in simply quarter-hour.

Along with this excellent news, with the PCMark benchmark we managed to achieve 15 hours and 38 minutes, far surpassing the Galaxy A54 that capped at 10 hours and 57 minutes, or the ten hours and 49 minutes of the Pixel 7a of very comparable worth.

In actual life, benefiting from the truth that on this event we had the cellphone on mortgage for about 20 days earlier than this evaluate, I used to be in a position to make use of it day by day, which allowed me to be pleasantly stunned by how effectively its battery and Dimensity processor performs.

Making a typical use of communication apps, social networks and different duties similar to answering emails whereas concurrently shopping the net, the cell arrived on the finish of the day with a cost that usually exceeded 60%.

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In case you occur to be an actual battery eater with video games and intensive use purposes, similar to Tik Tok, bear in mind that you’ve the SuperVooc S quick charging system as an ally. Nevertheless, the Realme 11 Professional+ doesn’t embody the potential for wi-fi charging.

Software program and updates

• Realme UI 4.0
• Primarily based on Android 13
• 2 years of updates (3 of safety updates)

For the launch of the GT 3, Realme had deployed the newest model of Realme UI 4.0 on Android 13, so the newest model of Google is current on this cellphone too.

As we’ve talked about up to now, there’s an fascinating GT mode that you could activate in particular conditions similar to enjoying video games with the cellphone, which is activated routinely so as to get further efficiency.

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Wanting again on the GT 3 mannequin launched earlier this yr by Realme, we miss the LED notification system that this cellphone has on the again, which could be very helpful in your day-to-day life so that you don’t miss vital messages or app notifications.

In any case, we already know that the corporate is an knowledgeable in such a implementations, testing in every product vary with capabilities that may be progressive and that may captivate the tip shopper.

Worth and availability

The really helpful retail worth of the Realme 11 Professional+ direct from Realme with a configuration of 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage is €519. Nevertheless, throughout its launch interval till 30 June, the value is decreased to €469.

You’ll find them with three totally different finishes on the again, both the ‘Dawn Beige’ with vegan leather-based supplies, or the extra conventional ‘Oasis Inexperienced’ or ‘Astral Black’, probably the most traditional of all of them.

You possibly can at all times go for the extra economical regular mannequin, however we anticipate ‘as a spoiler’ till we publish the ultimate evaluate , that the lens system chosen for its cameras is of inferior high quality, and that its battery charging expertise stays at 67W, a determine that isn’t unhealthy both.

Verdict

The corporate’s trump card for its new Realme 11 Sequence lies in boosting the photographic part. Maybe within the 11 Professional mannequin the corporate manages to make notable advances (we’ll have to attend for that evaluate), however within the Professional+ it undoubtedly manages to make a giant splash.

Now we have earlier than us the corporate’s cellphone with the very best set of cameras you’ll find so far, and evidently on this event, inflating the figures to combine a 200 MP Samsung ISOCELL HP3 sensor with SuperZoom is an actual success for the model.

This digital camera package deal is properly wrapped up in an excellent cell design, in addition to wonderful battery life so you possibly can get pleasure from outside pictures with out having to fret about working out of cost, for which you can also make use of its 100W system.

If we had to enhance one thing in regards to the new Realme 11 Professional+ it wouldn’t be the display, because the AMOLED kind and 120Hz refresh fee are greater than sufficient to be among the many greatest in its vary.

The one factor that could possibly be revised is the processor. Though as we’ve seen, the Dimensity 7050 5G is as much as the duty, players are more likely to miss a barely larger refresh fee in video games.

In any other case, it’s a implausible cell phone that, among the finest in its worth vary.

Specs

• 6.7-inch curved AMOLED display
• FullHD+ show with 2772 x 1240 decision
• Brightness of 500 nits (most 1200 nits)
• 124 Hz refresh fee
• Dimensity 7050 5G processor
• Mannequin with 12 GB RAM + 512 GB storage
• Cameras:
  • Most important Samsung ISOCELL HP3 200 MP SuperZoom
  • SuperZoom, f/1.69 focal size with OIS + EIS
  • 8 MP f/2.2 extremely wide-angle
  • 32 MP entrance selfie digital camera
• 5000 mAh battery
• Twin 5G, Bluetooth 5.3 and NFC connectivity
• 100W SuperVooc S charging
• Twin Stereo Dolby Atmos audio system
• Realme UI 4.0 working system with Android 13
• Dimensions of 161.6 x 73.9 x 8.2 mm
• Weight of 183 grams

This text initially appeared in Spanish on Tech Advisor Spain.