Realme officially took the wraps off their latest smartphone in Vietnam, launching the all new Realme 5i in the country. We first saw the company tease the arrival of this latest Android powered smartphone for Vietnam on the manufacturer's formal Facebook page as well as making a half appearance and revealing some important details on an online retail website in the country. Following that report, earlier yesterday we even told you that, the very same smartphone got listed by yet another online e-commerce retailing website from India, where the Realme 5i is scheduled to land on January 9 as mentioned on the page dedicated for the device. The newest offering from Realme or the Oppo subsidiary will come as an addition to the lineup of devices including the Realme 5, Realme 5 Pro and Realme 5s.
The phone features a polished back with a mirror finish, that is said to be processed from the Germany's leading five-axis radium engraving machine. The 5i is also splash-resistant upto some extend, protecting the phone from liquid damaging the internals, including the screen, back cover and the hardware buttons.
Realme's 5i will be sold throughout the country for a price of about 159.04 US Dollars equivalent Vietnamese Dong. The smartphone already retails in the country through the phone maker's retail partner, FPT Shop, where they promise free nationwide delivery in 60 minutes with 0% installment plans. The company decided to paint the phones in two shades, Blue and Green, as Realme gave us an explanation on what lead them to these choices.
Inspired by energy and hope from the first rays of the sun of the day, our new "Sunlight Pattern" design expresses the enthusiasm and potential breakthrough of the young generation.As seen in the past, we will have the 5i ship with a 6.5" water drop or dewdrop style notch display at 720 x 1600 resolution pixels and a screen display ratio of 89%, all set in an IPS LCD panel protected by Corning Gorilla Glass. Under the hood sits a 11nm based Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 AIE Octa-Core chipset clocked 2.0GHz and Adreno's 610 Graphics Processing Unit. Realme 5i is packed in two variants, a 3GB LPDDR4x RAM model with 32GB of on board storage and 4GB of LPDDR4x RAM adaption with 64GB of internal storage space both expandable via a dedicated microSD card slot upto 256GB.
Now coming to the camera department, we will see a quad camera arrangement on the back with a 12MP primary sensor that consists 6 layers of lenses also toting phase detection autofocus technology, 10x digital zoom, AI light balance and Super Night Shot, with an aperture of f/1.8. The second sensor is an 8MP wide angle 5P lens with 119 degrees of field of view and f/2.25 aperture. The remaining two camera sensors are of 2MP each, fitted for portrait images as well as macro photography. The primary lenses module is also capable of recording 4K videos at 30 frames per second and slow motion videography at 120 frames per second with mechanical anti-vibration. From the front notch, the users are treated to an eight megapixels selfie camera with 5 layers of lenses and f/2.0 aperture. The unit gets juice from a 5000mAh powered battery that can reverse charge and supports 10W worth charging tech integration.
Lastly, the Realme 5i will boot to Android's version 9 Pie with ColorOS version 6.1 on top. Unfortunately you will have to bear the microUSB port instead of the USB Type-C which is highly popular among middle ranged devices these days.