Categories: Realme C12Reviews

Reasons to Buy & Not to Buy Realme C12

Realme has launched the Realme C12 and C15 smartphones in India. Both phones come with Helio G35 Processor, 6000mAh Battery. Here are Reasons to Buy & Not to Buy Realme C12.

Design & Display

Realme C12 comes with Geometric Gradient Design. It has a Square camera module with Realme Branding. It doesn’t attract fingerprints, comes with a plastic build, The Phone measures 164.5*75.9*9.8mm and Weight: 209g, Phone is heavy, Not usable with a single hand, overall design and build quality is good. It has a 6.5-inch HD+ mini-drop display with an 88.7% screen-to-body ratio, Display produces good colors, Viewing angles is decent, and Brightness is lower. In outdoor conditions, you have to keep brightness at full settings. Overall Display quality is decent.

Decent performance

It is powered by a 2.3GHz Octa-Core MediaTek Helio G35 processor with IMG PowerVR GE8320 GPU. It comes with 3GB LPDDR4x RAM and 32GB eMMC 5.1 storage which is further expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD. Normal use performance is good while playing games or Multitasking phone lags in between, RAM management is average. Realme C12, C15 not for playing games just for Normal use. The overall performance is decent.

Camera

Realme C12 has a 13MP rear camera with f/2.2 aperture, LED flash, PDAF, 2MP B&W lens,2MP macro sensor, and 5MP front-facing camera, Both can record 1080p videos, there is support for nightscape mode. The daylight camera is good, portrait mode, Macro mode is decent, front camera captures decent selfies. The low light camera is average, Nightscope mode doesn’t work properly.

Battery Life

Realme C12 is packed with a 6000mAh battery which can deliver more than one and a half days of battery life with heavy use. In our test, we got around 12 hours of Screen on Time.

No Fast Charging

Realme C12 comes with a 10W Charger in Box which takes more than 3 hours 30 Min to charge the device fully.

Realme C12 comes with a Fingerprint Scanner that works fast. The Speaker output is decent, There is no support for 5Ghz Wifi band.

Realme C12 is priced at Rs 8999. It offers a bigger, Battery, a decent camera, No Fast Charging support, Mediocre performance. Realme C3 offers better performance, Redmi 9 Prime priced Rs 1000 more offers an FHD+ display, better processor, 4GB RAM.