![]() You can of course, turn off the notch from the Settings menu, and you’ll have the usual space a 6-inch display offers. Having said that, videos will adapt to the notch by letterboxing from all sides. As a result, the rest of the screen is left entirely for the content you’re watching. The extra 0.2-inches that the notch offers is used to house the status bar icons. The display also juts out of the body making it more vulnerable to cracking when dropped. Despite that, there are significant bezels at the bottom and thin ones around the sides. But is it really that disruptive? You do get a larger 6.2-inch IPS LCD panel that takes up 88.8 percent of the body. Realme claims that the Realme 2 caused a disruption it its price segment by introducing a notch. The Realme 2, as a result, stands out for its premium design, in the budget segment. Up front is also an unspecified version of Corning Gorilla Glass. Realme does provide a TPU case in the box for added protection. It still retains smudges and fingerprints and will crack if dropped from a considerable height, for example, from ear-height. Well, it does reflect to show the angular cuts in the design, but that’s more or less the same as last time. Realme claims 2.5D nanoscale composite materials make up the rear panel and is supposed to give one a sense of space when held against light. I’ll delve deeper into them later in the review. The same advantages and flaws that all notched phones have are all applicable here. The notch itself is fairly wide and houses the front camera, proximity sensor and the earpiece. Because of the notch, the screen now takes up 88.8 percent of the body. Realme 2 made it possible by bringing the infamous notch to the budget segment. Despite being the same size, the Realme 2 offers lot more screen real estate up front. The camera unit and the fingerprint sensor are lined with silver accents, making it one of the more premium looking devices in that price range. The Realme 2 has almost the same dimensions as the Realme 1, only that it’s a little thicker because of the larger battery. Additionally, there’s now a fingerprint sensor at the back. The glass-based diamond-cut back panel is now offered in other colours as well. The Realme 2 retains most of the design cues from the Realme 1. Armed with a dual camera at the back, and finally a fingerprint sensor, the Realme 2 does come across as a more wholesome proposition than the first one, but is that all there is to it? Let’s find out. Yet, there are some significant additions that can pose a challenge to Xiaomi’s recent onslaught of devices in the budget segment. Well, choice or no choice, the Realme 2 looks a lot like the debutant from the outside, and the innards are now more in-line with what the competition offers. In his opinion, the Realme 2 will complement the Realme 1 and offer more choice to the consumer. Realme’s CEO Madhav Seth wants to drill down the fact that the Realme 2 isn’t a successor to the first one. ![]() In its second attempt at making a budget smartphone, the newly-formed company has toned down the expectations a bit, and delivers an experience that is at par with other budget devices in that price segment. In the price range the brand debuted at, it didn’t have a spec-heavy rival, and that made a big difference. Oppo’s sub-brand Realme that was introduced in the Indian market earlier this year was more or less well received.
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