Realme C11 2021 - smartphone test for economical.Costs less than PLN 400

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Realme C11 2021 - construction quality and convenience of service

Stylistically, the smartphone draws handfuls from older Realme models - C11, C21, Tool 30A or 7I.The front panel of the device is therefore filled with a large, 6.5-inch LCD screen with a HD+ class resolution (720 x 1600 pixels) with a classic notch on a single front tear-shaped camera.

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The back, made of plastic, creates a whole with a side frame and has a very characteristic of the cheap Square Square Section of the main camera and adding elegance and the reflected reflected light microwzór.The manufacturer, of course, did not forget about a large, clearly visible logo.

However, don't let anyone confused this square camera section.This time we get only one (standard) module with a resolution of 8 megapixels and a single, diode lamp illuminating the stage.

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On the right side of the Realme C11 2021 housing, we will see the switch (located at a comfortable height) and slightly above it volume control.At this point, we already know that a cheap Realme smartphone does not have a fingerprint reader.

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In turn, the SIM card drawer went to the left side of the housing.As befits a cheap device, it will accommodate both two Nano SIM cards and a microSDXC memory card.

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The top of the Realme C11 2021 housing is completely empty, while at the bottom there are: 3.5 millimeter minijack headphone jack, the only microphone grill and USB 2 socket 2.0, however, in the less and less popular, older standard USB standard.The main, single speaker is located at the bottom of the back panel.

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The smartphone works under the control of Android 11 in a slimmed (also in terms of the number of settings), intended for the weaker performance of the edition of GO edition and already at the first contact with Realme C11 2021 in the eye, the weak crack of the user interface is caught - a large number of functions remained in English.This allows that we are dealing with a device intended for Asian markets, which only by accident, as part of supplementing market deficiencies, went to Europe.Such suspicion is also confirmed by an unusual, more associated with the standards of the Indian market equipment, but I will write more about it in a moment.

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In the set with the phone we get: 10 W charger, USB cable and card drawer.This time there was no more budget for even the simplest silicone case.

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Realme C11 2021 - technical specification, performance, battery

By constructing the C11 2021 model, Realme probably dusted boxes in the oldest part of its components.An archaic, still from 2018, works in the smartphone housing.(i.e. from the year of the brand's uprising) Chipset Unisoc/Spreadttrum SC9863A (4x Cortex-A55 1.6 GHz + 4x Cortex-A55 1.2 GHz + GPU IMG8322), which is made in the lithography of 28 nanometers.Let me just remind you that the weak MediaTek Helio G25 chipset are produced in the process of 12 nanometers, and the flagship currently Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 - 5 nanometers.

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Realme C11 2021 also has only 2 GB of LPDDR4X and 32 GB of very slow memory, even for the EMMC 5 standard.1 memory for data.An old chipset also means that a clear Wi-Fi card (802 will have to be enough for us.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth module 4.2, and the low price of the device suggests that this time there is nothing to count on the presence of the NFC module.

It will sound a bit fun at the moment that the older, classic Realme C11 had a better MediaTek Helio G35, 3 GB of operating memory and the standard Android edition, i.e. the manufacturer instead of improvements, this time, he served us a specific deterioration of parameters.

This is the detailed technical specification of Realme C11 2021, its serious rival Realme Store 30A (here you will find a test) and the cheapest in the stable Xiaomi model Redmi 9A (link to test).

	Realme C11 2021	Realme Narzo 30A	Redmi 9A
Chipset	Unisoc SC9863A (28 nm)	MediaTek Helio G85 (12 nm)	MediaTek Helio G25 (12 nm)
Pamięć operacyjna	2 GB	3 GB lub 4 GB	2 GB
Pamięć dla danych	32 GB (EMMC 5.1)	32 GB lub 64 GB (eMMC 5.1)	32 GB (eMMC 5.1)
LTE/5G	tak / nie	tak / nie	tak / nie
Dual SIM	tak	tak	tak
Gniazdo karty pamięci	tak	tak	tak
Ekran	6,5 cala, LCD, 720 x 1600 pikseli, 269 ppi	6,53 cala, LCD, 720 x 1600 pikseli, 270 ppi	6,53 cala, LCD, 720 x 1600 pikseli, 269 ppi
Ochrona ekranu	szkło	szkło	szkło
Czytnik linii papilarnych	brak	tak (na tylnym panelu)	nie
Karta Wi-Fi	jednozakresowa, 802.11 b/g/n	dwuzakresowa, 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac	jednozakresowa, 802.11 b/g/n
Lokalizacja	GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou	GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou	GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou
NFC	nie	nie	nie
Bluetooth	4.2	5.0	5.0
Akumulator	5000 mAh	6000 mAh	5000 mAh
Ładowarka w zestawie	10 W	18 W	10 W
Ładowanie indukcyjne	nie	nie	nie
USB	2.0, Micro USB	2.0 typu C	2.0, Micro USB
Port podczerwieni	nie	nie	nie
System operacyjny	Android 11 Go Edition	Android 10 (realme UI)	Android 10 (MIUI 12)
Aparat - moduł standardowy	8 MP, f/2.0, AF	13 MP, f/2.2, PDAF, ekwiwalent ogniskowej 26 mm	13 MP, f/2.2, PDAF, ekwiwalent ogniskowej 28 mm
Aparat - moduł szerokokątny	nie	nie	nie
Aparat - moduł tele	nie	nie	nie
Aparat - inne moduły	nie	do pomiaru głębi sceny	nie
Aparat przedni	5 MP, f/2.2, FF	8 MP, f/2.0, FF	5 MP, f/2.2, FF
Gniazdo słuchawkowe/głośniki	tak / mono	tak / mono	tak / mono
Wymiary i masa	165,2 x 76,9 x 9,3 mm (9,9 mm z wystającą optyką aparatu), 193 gramy	164,5 x 75,9 x 9,8 mm, 205 gramów	164,9 x 77,1 x 9 mm, 196 gramów
Materiał obudowy (rama/tylny panel)	plastik / plastik	plastik / plastik	plastik / plastik
Wodoszczelna obudowa	nie	nie	nie
Cena	399 złotych	449 złotych (3 GB / 32 GB)	459 złotych

Realme C11 2021 is a phone for patients.It works noticeably slower than today's basic class smartphones (apart from the Helio G25 Redmi 9A chipset, which is located at a similar performance level).You have to wait a while for everything.This smartphone is also not foreign to cutting the interface, the inability to install more demanding applications, such as ASPHALT 9 games, as well as memory management problems.For example, launching the battery test from the PCMARK 2 application.0 ended after a moment of work of the smartphone with a filter overflow and a complete loss of the responsiveness of the smartphone, which was available to about 100 MB of free operational memory at its disposal.In this situation, the most effective solution of the problem was the restart of the device.In terms of performance, Realme C11 2021 is therefore a smartphone exclusively for little -demanding people who do not plan to use resource -consuming applications and will satisfy the function of telephoning, checking the mail, review your favorite websites and see what interesting friends on their social profiles published interesting.This does not mean, however, that with Realme C11 2021 in the hand we will absolutely not play games.The title Brawl Stars and even PUBG Mobile worked without any problems, although in the latter case the temporary cutting of animations is inscribed in the nature of the game.

This is how the results of Realme C11 2021 in popular benchmarks look like.You can see that in terms of efficiency it refers to the competition only with the cheapest Redmi 9A (MediaTek Helio G25), but even he has a more efficient memory for data and this can be seen when installing the application in the Realme C11 2021 memory.If we were dealing with the older Realme C11, it would fit somewhere at the level of Redmi 9C results.

When browsing the charts, I suggest you pay attention to the performance of the Sister Realme 30A tool, which...It costs only PLN 50 more than C11 2021, but recently it is getting harder to buy it.According to Realme, however, this is only a temporary lack of 30A tools on the market.

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The built -in smartphone battery has a capacity of 5000 mAh, which in practice is enough for about 2 days of moderate work.However, it is difficult to predict exactly whether and to what extent the problems mentioned earlier in memory management, which in the margins prevented the battery test in the PCMARK 2 application.0, may affect the performance of the power system in specific scenarios.

The 10 W W Loader included in the set supplements the energy in the smartphone battery in about 2 hours and 40 minutes, i.e. choosing Realme C11 2021 We clearly go back functionally to the night charging mode.It is also worth remembering that the smartphone has an older type of micro USB socket, so it's better to remember to take a USB cable with it - holders of stronger models with USB -C sockets will not support us with their cables.

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Realme C11 2021 - screen and quality of the displayed image

Cheap phone is also a popular class screen.Realme used in the C11 2021 6.5 -inch LCD panel with HD+ class resolution (720 x 1600 pixels, 269 ppi), which displays only the standard gamut of SRGB colors and does not support HDR content (though Android itself - yes).The phone is also compatible with the basic level of Widevine L3 security, which means that streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+) will display on the screen C11 2021 SD quality videos (480p).

It is also slightly disappointed in the fact that the manufacturer has left the screen settings in English.It is true that for many people it is no longer a barrier, but...It would be better to take care of the Polish user if the product is officially introduced to the market.

The phone screen can work in two modes - the default Automatic Contrast (automatic contrast) and additional Increased Contrast (reinforced contrast).In the first one, we also get the possibility of changing the color of colors to warmer or reduce than the standard.

Automatic Contrast mode

In this mode, the C11 2021 screen reaches a little impressive brightness of 370 cd/m2 (no automatic brightness conquest in strong existing lighting), which means that on a sunny day the image displayed on the LCD screen will not be very well legible.The contrast coefficient is 1285: 1 (black point 0.288 cd/m2), and the color reproduction error average Deltae 2000 - 3.09, which is not so bad.The color tone turns out to be a bit too cool (6936 K).In this mode, in the color setting, we can modify the color of colors to warmer (Warm), but then we will fall into another extreme - too warm tonation (white temperature 5759 K).Therefore, it is better to stay with the standard setting, unless we mainly work with a smartphone in the evening and night.In such a situation, warmer colors will be healthier for our eyes and a biological clock.

Foto: Piotr Kwiatkowski/Komputer ŚwiatGamut kolorów oraz wykres temperatury bieli w skali jasności dla domyślnego ustawienia Automatic contrast

Increased Contrast mode

Looking at Gamut, the contrast coefficient (1295: 1) and similarly cooled color tone (white temperature 6978 K), as in the Automatic Contrast setting, it could be considered that after changing the mode, nothing changes, and especially the contrast marked in the name.Meanwhile, the manufacturer strongly conquers the saturation of blue and greenery in it - to such an extent that we will not see the difference between the saturation of these colors in 75 percent.and 100 percent.We will organize organoleptically, therefore, that these colors are now stronger, better saturation, but it also means a significant increase in distortion of color loyalty - the average Deltae 2000 error increases to 4.61.Therefore, it is difficult to recommend to anyone using this setting.

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Realme C11 2021 - cameras and quality of photos and videos taken

The low price of the smartphone, of course, affected the quality of the cameras used.In the main section we will find only a standard module with a resolution of 8 megapixels (f/2.0, AF), of course without optical, but also without digital image stabilization.The module is supported by a single diode lamp illuminating the stage and...A large inscription AI Camera.

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The front camera is also a single, wide -angle unit with a resolution of 5 megapixels (f/2.2, ff) placed in a droplet notch.

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Similarly to the screen settings, the camera application has not been fully polished correctly.People familiar with photography will of course not have a problem with it, but...They are unlikely to reach for Realme C11 2021.The rest will have to experimentally work out functions such as aperture (Virtual Degree), i.e. the value of the virtual aperture in portrait mode, which affects the strength of the background blur effect in the photo.

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Daily photos

Pictures from the C11 2021 camera taken in good lighting in their existing quality resemble images from wide -angle modules of better smartphones.While the exposure parameters used should be considered good, the quality of registered details is only correct, and everywhere emerging electronic sound for...undesirable.For the needs of occasional holiday photos and at this price, the device is not bad.

Foto: Piotr Kwiatkowski / Komputer ŚwiatDaily photos z aparatu Realme C11 2021 (kliknij, aby powiększyć)

Digital zoom

The smartphone camera allows us to use digital approximation if necessary.At the starting resolution of 8 megapixels and a rustling matrix, however, do not expect too much from the digital zoom.With each growing number before Iks, the quality of the details decreases noticeably and the electronic noise intensifies, but for watching on the smartphone screen approximation of 2x, and even sometimes 3x we can still smuggle.

Foto: Piotr Kwiatkowski / Komputer ŚwiatDaily photos z zoomem cyfrowym (od lewej) 2x, 3x i maksymalnym 4x (kliknij, aby powiększyć)

Night photos

The Realme C11 2021 camera has no dedicated night mode.It remains for us to trust the car in such moments.And let's be honest - they will not be outstanding night frames, because they lack the details.However, we can always count on electronic noise everywhere in the photos.In addition, it is also uncommon to burn in bright areas.However, as illustrative photos for a less demanding photographer and on the phone for PLN 399 they will really go - I expected it to be worse.

Foto: Piotr Kwiatkowski / Komputer ŚwiatNight photos z aparatu Realme C11 2021 (kliknij, aby powiększyć)

Bokeh effect

It is a bit harder for photos with a virtual BOKEH effect.The C11 2021 camera during its creation can only use program techniques and copes well mainly in very obvious portrait scenes.Slightly less unambiguous flowers or grille in the foreground are not enough for activation of software that adds a blur effect.

Foto: Piotr Kwiatkowski / Komputer ŚwiatZdjęcia z dodanym programowo efektem bokeh (kliknij, aby powiększyć)

Video section

The maximum resolution of the recorded video is the basic Full HD / 30 FPS.Similarly to photographing, this time the Realme C11 2021 camera does not spoil us with the quality of the details, but I was more bothering when filming the lack of any stabilization of the image.Even minimal hand vibrations are immediately transmitted in a way visible to the image.It is also possible to see a jumping change in exposure parameters (image clarity) and it is better to avoid using the zoom (the quality of the details begins to decrease avalanche).

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Realme C11 2021 - test summary

Let's say openly, Realme C11 2021 is a basic class smartphone, for very little demanding users who are primarily looking for a phone, and extra want to check the mail, browse the Internet and entries of friends on social networks.The smartphone will also cope with some games (with less demanding even quite well), but with 2 GB RAM and technically outdated graphics system more demanding titles due to lack of hardware compliance will not even appear in the Play store.

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Someone will say that a cheap phone could be expected.Probably yes, but the specification of Realme C11 2021 is noticeably weaker than its predecessor (Realme C11).Costing only PLN 50 more Realme 30A (link to the test) in every respect beats Realme C11 2021 and in this case more than definitely worth adding this amount (it's a pity that it is quite difficult to get it now).The comfort of work will be completely different.

I am also not able to accept the problems of Realme C11 2021 with release of operating memory (I hope it is a mistake that will disappear with the next update), embarrassingly slow memory for data and such a lot of sloppiness in the user interface translations.This last ailment should not take place - the low price in the case of a well -known manufacturer does not explain it at all.Therefore, probably more willing than after Realme C11 2011 I would even reach for Redmi 9A (similar performance, see test), which unfortunately clearly went up since its premiere and is now more expensive than Realme C11 2021 by all PLN 60.

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