If you’re looking for one of the cheapest phones, chances are you’ll find it with the Realme 10. We won’t know for sure until we get a full review of it, but the new phone certainly has some promising specs on paper and sounds like a major upgrade over the Realme 9.
Highlights include a 90Hz AMOLED screen, slim design, large battery, and improved power. But there’s more to this phone.
Below you’ll find all the key details about the Realme 10, including the release date, price, and every significant spec.
Realme 10 release date and price
The Realme 10 was announced on November 9, 2022, and is now available in Italy and Poland, with the rest of Europe to follow.
The company hasn’t specified which countries it will be, but the UK is likely to be one of them, since the Realme 9 is sold there. We don’t expect to see the Realme 10 in the US or Australia, though.
As for prices, it starts at €279 (about $280 / £245 / AU$430), but we don’t expect exact conversions for other regions. Still, this is certainly an affordable phone.
Realme 10 design and display
The company claims that the Realme 10’s design was inspired by “particles traveling at the speed of light.” In practice, this means that it can choose “Clash White” or “Rush Black”, but these are not pure white and black – both contain a touch of color, with little white dots scattered all over them.
The phone measures 159.9 x 73.3 x 7.95 mm and 178 grams, which the company notes is the thinnest Realme phone ever offered for the global market. It has a hole-punch camera on the front and two large camera housings on the back, as you can see in the pictures in this article.
The Realme 10 may have a plastic casing, but the company didn’t specify. Water resistance is also not mentioned, but that’s not surprising.
On the screen side, the Realme 10 has a 6.4-inch 1080 x 2400 Super AMOLED display with a refresh rate of 90Hz, a brightness of up to 1000 nits, and Gorilla Glass 5 protection. Those specs are the same as the Realme 9’s screen, but we were impressed with the phone’s display in our review.
Realme 10 camera and battery
The Realme 10 has a dual-lens camera on the back, an aspect of the phone that sounds less impressive, and while its 50MP f/1.8 main camera has reasonable specs, it’s only 2MP f/2.4 in black and white (i.e. a single color) camera.
Not only that, but the Realme 9 actually has a triple-lens camera – including a 108MP primary sensor – so the Realme 10 could be a downgrade here.
That said, Realme claims its new phone offers an enhanced night mode that reduces noise and a shutter speed that’s 121 percent faster than the previous model. There’s also a 16MP f/2.45 camera on the front.
For the battery, Realme comes with a 5,000mAh power pack, which is a nice but fairly standard size. This supports 33W charging, which Realme claims can charge the phone from zero to 50 percent in 28 minutes. There’s no mention of wireless charging, but we wouldn’t expect it at this price either.
Realme 10 specs and features
Inside the Realme 10 is a MediaTek Helio G99 chipset, a fairly low-end but modern one, paired with 8GB of RAM. However, the phone also allows you to use the storage as virtual RAM, up to 16GB.
The company claims the phone’s gaming performance is strong for the price, such as you can play PUBG Mobile at 40fps in Balanced mode.
There’s a choice of 64GB, 128GB, or 256GB of storage, and a microSD card slot — though those versions may not be available in all regions, and this is only a 4G phone, so the one major thing missing here is 5G.
As for features, the Realme 10 has a 3.5mm headphone port, an “UltraBoom” speaker that promises high-resolution audio at 200 percent volume, and it runs the company’s Android 12-based Realme UI 3.0.
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Hazel Yu