Introduction
Oppo’s sub-brand Realme was announced Realme 5 Pro in August. Realme 5 Pro was unveiled as a successor of Realme 5. In terms of design, Realme 5 and 5 Pro are identical, but the Pro version has upgraded specs. The Realme 5 Pro has Crystal Green and Sparkling Blue color options and offers three RAM options and two ROM options. The phone has a $190 price tag for sole model 4GB of RAM and 64GB native storage, 6GB of RAM, and 64GB ROM model costs $210 price. The last high-end variant 8GB of RAM and 128GB ROM variant is available for a $240 price tag.
Design and body material
The Realme built this device with a plastic frame, and the front panel is coated with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for safe from scratches.
In terms of dimension, it measures 157 x 74.2 x 8.9 mm, and its weight is 184 grams. The back of the phone has a vertically shaped quad-camera setup for photography and fingerprint reader as well. The LED flash is placed at the right side of the camera setup, and the bottom has offered loud-speaker grille, USB-C port, and 3.5mm audio jack. Realme 5 Pro has a power button on the right side while volume rockers and dual SIM tray on the left side as well. It offers water-drop notch on the front panel, and the earpiece grille is just above the notch.
Display
Oppo Realme 5 Pro has a slightly small display size than Realme 5, and it offers a 19.5:9 aspect ratio out of the box. The phone features a 6.3 inches IPS LCD that can support FHD+ resolution with 1080 x 2340 pixels. Along with 409 PPI density, it offers an 83.6% screen-to-body ratio for the best viewing experience.
The company promises a maximum brightness of 450 nits, but the phone’s screen exceeded as we measured 512 nits at the far-right end of the bright scrubber. In our display test, it provides a better viewing experience with the screen’s contrast ratio of 1875:1 under direct sunlight. We also measured the minimum brightness of 2.1 nits and an average deltaE of 5.5 scores. There is a Color Temperature Adjustment option, so you can set Default, Cooler (middle position), and Warmer at the extremes.
Battery life
The Realme 5 Pro has 4,035 mAh battery capacity that can support up to 20W for rapid charging. The Super VOOC 3.0 charger can charge 50% only in 30 minutes, and a full charge takes about 80-90 minutes. In our testing, the phone gets 100h excellent endurance rating, and we can watch videos up to 14h. It can do about 26h of 3G Talk Time, and you can web browsing about 16h as well.
Software (ColorOS 6 based on the top of Android 9 Pie)
The phone runs the latest Oppo’s layer ColorOS 6 based on the top of Android 9 Pie and offers some different designs of toggles. In terms of authentication, it offers Face unlock feature and fingerprint sensor on the rear panel. As we know, the fingerprint sensor security is much better than the Face Unlock feature. Switches down from the front, it offers different toggles like– Wi-Fi, Mobile data, Mute icon, Bluetooth, Flashlight, Calculator, Boost, Night Shield, Realme share, Airplane Mode, Location Services, Auto-rotate, Quiet theme, Power saver and Google Assistant. In the “Fingerprint, Face & Passcode” option, you can add fingerprint and Face and also enable a Lock-screen password. The phone has a side-way bar, and you can resize the windows and swap the two apps. Unfortunately, there is no option for Dark Mode. Of course, it has a standard set of tools. There is a Phone Manager for handling memory cleaner functions, app permission and encryption, Virus scanning, and other things for optimizing the device. Along with Game Space mode, you can handpick which notifications to pass through when you are playing games, and you don’t want to be interrupted. The Realme 5 Pro offers essential media apps like – Gallery, Music Player, File Manager, FM radio, and Compass.
Performance and Benchmarks
Realme 5 Pro draws power from the Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 Chipset, which is constructed on a 10nm Octa-core processor. The 712 SoC is 10% boost over the SDM710-powered Realme 3 and Realme X. Realme placed a copper foil, a graphite sheet, and aluminum to lead the heat away from the chipset and the phone offers Adreno 616 GPU (2x2.3 GHz Kryo 360 Gold & 6x1.7 GHz Kryo 360 Silver). Realme 5 Pro gets different scores in the following ranks.
GeekBench 4.1 (multi-core)
The phone gets 6106 scores.
GeekBench 4.1 (single-core)
Realme 5 Pro gets 1913 scores.
GFX 3.1 Manhattan (1080p off-screen)
Realme 5 Pro gets 27 scores.
GFX 3.1 Car Scene (1080p off-screen)
Realme 5 Pro gets 15 scores.
AnTuTu scores
Rear camera setup (image quality test)
Realme 5 Pro has a vertically shaped quad-camera setup on the rear panel for photography. The primary camera uses the widespread 48-megapixel Sony IMX 586 sensor with f/1.8 aperture. The primary sensor optimized the daylight shoots with HDR mode and also optimized the low-light photography with Realme’s Nightscape. The ultra-wide camera has an 8MP sensor with f/2.2 aperture and 119-degree FOV. In the quad-camera setup, the phone has two more sensors – 2MP dedicated macro lens with f/2.4 aperture and 2MP depth sensor for best portrait photography experience.
The macro lens can focus from as close as 4cm away, so you can get close to your subjects. Unfortunately, you can’t record videos with macro and ultra-wide sensors. In-camera setting, it provides different toggles - Food, snow, pets, sunsets, grass, among other scenes, are detected mostly correctly. The camera app also offers three major modes – Photo, Portrait, and Video, and you can swipe between those. The Chroma Boost is an advanced HDR mode that can provide better color saturation images in the Dynamic range. You can capture pictures between 1X, 2X, and 5X zooming options. In the expert mode, you can explore ISO in the 100-6400 range and shutter speed in the 1/8000s-16s range. Realme 5 Pro provides pretty images at Dynamic range in the daylight theme, and the phone offers HDR and Portrait mode as well. You can record 4K videos at 30fps while FHD videos at 30/60/120fps and slow-motion videos at 960fps.
Front camera
The Realme 5 Pro has a 16MP sensor for taking selfies and live video recording. The 16MP sensor has an f/2.0 aperture and 1.0µm pixels. There are all sorts of beatification enhancement options like skin smoothing and eye enlargement and face thinning etc. and you can capture beautiful images with HDR mode. The phone also offers portrait mode, and it provides stunning images with natural skin tones, and colors are rendered nicely, and the Dynamic range is reasonably wide. You can record FHD videos at 30fps.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Quad camera setup (48MP primary sensor) at a reasonable price
Massive battery capacity 4,035 mAh with 20W fast charging support
Both (rear and front) camera setups provide impressive Portrait shots
4K video recording option
Cons
Plastic body frame
The macro and depth sensors can’t record videos
We can’t record 4K videos at 60fps