Realme Q3 review: unrivaled performance in its class, a model of the best smartphones under 1,000 yuan

What is the most difficult thing for a painter to draw? It is not flying dragons and fierce tigers, but kittens and puppies. This is common sense.

Because dragons and tigers are not common, they can be drawn in any style. However, we are very familiar with cats and dogs that can be found everywhere, and we can tell something is wrong if there is a slight mistake.

Similarly, for the R&D design team, what price range of mobile phones is relatively easy to make? The answer is flagship phones! The budget is there, and there will be no big problems if you pile up the materials.

Which mobile phone is the most difficult to make? The 1,000-yuan phone is the most difficult. This is because the starting point of users' demand for products determines a paradox - although the budget is limited, users will definitely want as many functions and performance as possible.

During the product development phase, how to choose among the many functions of a mobile phone for the layout of a thousand-yuan phone? This has become a very profound subject, involving market research, user psychology, competitive product analysis, supply chain management and many other high-tech subjects.

How difficult is this? If you are careful, you will find that many thousand-yuan phones in the Chinese market actually have some of the features of flagship phones - for the sake of users, manufacturers really work hard.

It is against this backdrop that realme returned to the fiercely competitive Chinese market. In just over a year, with its superior performance and unique trendy design, it achieved a good sales volume of one million in the Q2 series. What does this mean? Last year, only about 60 million mobile phones were sold in the Chinese market.

A performance model in the 1,000-yuan market

Taking advantage of the residual heat of the Q2 series, realme has launched the realme Q3 series of mobile phones with all-round upgrades. The Q2 series has already gained a double harvest of market and users. It can be predicted that if nothing unexpected happens, the realme Q3 series will top the "1,000 yuan phone king" in advance and will surely become a regular on the major sales rankings in the same price segment this year. Because it can be said responsibly: Q3 has no rivals in performance at the same price.

Realme Q3 is a 1,000 yuan phone equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G. It adopts holographic fantasy color trendy design, 120Hz variable speed gaming screen and 5000mAh large battery are its main selling points. In addition, 30W smart flash charging and 48 million streamer portrait triple camera are also cross-level existence that cannot be underestimated.

From the appearance point of view, the realme Q3 has still polished its own characteristics within the conventional design framework. In particular, the futuristic holographic fantasy design on the back makes young users who are keen on socializing stand out in the crowd.

Let's change to a slightly darker environment to see the colorful words "Dare To Leap" on the back cover.

Under the light of different angles, the back cover of realme Q3 will show a rainbow-like color change. Although this is not high-tech, we can see from it how the realme product team does its best to strive for "bright spots" for users, and shows the trendy design highlights of the product in a way that is closer to the aesthetics of young people.

The rear camera of Realme Q3 still uses the classic three-camera layout, equipped with a 48-megapixel ultra-clear main camera + a 2-megapixel 119° ultra-wide-angle lens + a 2-megapixel macro (supports 4cm ultra-close focus) lens to form its imaging system.

Generally speaking, at the price of one thousand yuan phones, users don’t actually have too high expectations for their photography capabilities, but the realme Q3 can really break through your inherent perception of the imaging performance of one thousand yuan phones.

Judging from the outdoor samples, the image quality of the Realme Q3 is completely unlike that of a thousand-yuan phone. The picture is rich in details, the color performance is accurate, and the contrast between light and dark is clear. Whether in a backlit environment or through glass, the layering of the picture is displayed at a high level.

In the indoor lighting environment, the realme Q3 performs like a leapfrog, with orderly depth of field, attractive colors, clear details, and extremely natural transitions of the picture, with almost no heavy smearing feeling.

Portrait capability is a highlight of the real me Q3 imaging, and the streamer portrait mode is one of its features. As a shooting method for professional portraits, ordinary people used to need to learn subject lighting and "slow shutter" techniques and use professional cameras to have a chance to shoot. This time, the real me Q3 "brazenly" added this portrait mode, which simulates professional shooting techniques through algorithms. No debugging is required, and you can directly take a moving portrait work by just shooting.

When shooting night scenes, the Q3 not only ensures accurate color presentation, but also improves color saturation in a layered manner, making the overall picture closer to reality.

Although macro is not the main feature of Q3, as can be seen from the macro picture of the sweater, its strength is actually a plus. For daily use by ordinary users, such expressiveness is not only sufficient, but it can even bring great value for money when photographing flowers, plants and insects.

Based on practicality, comprehensive and balanced performance

Although the Snapdragon 750G is not Qualcomm's flagship, its performance is not outdated for a thousand-yuan phone. Moreover, as a "subversive" product launched by Qualcomm at the end of last year, its performance is even better than the higher-end Snapdragon 765G. It is also a routine operation to challenge the 768G in some projects.

In AnTuTu's running score, the realme Q3 using this SoC scored nearly 410,000 points. The performance is acceptable in the same price range. After all, the two A77 cores of the 750G with a main frequency of 2.2GHz are really not vegetarian. Even after half a year, this SoC, which is in its prime, is still the mainstay of the thousand-yuan machine.

Specifically speaking of games, after running a round of QQ Speed, the smoothness of the screen can be said to have surpassed the performance of most thousand-yuan phones.

In addition, thanks to the Realme Q3's VC liquid cooling configuration, after a series of running points and games, its battery and CPU temperatures can be controlled within the warm range.

The realme Q3 uses a 120Hz variable-speed gaming screen, which can intelligently switch between 45Hz, 60Hz, 90Hz, and 120Hz, and supports a 180Hz touch sampling rate. As a thousand-yuan phone, it is indeed a downgrade of mid-to-high-end configuration. Compared with competing products, even if the price is three to five hundred yuan more, such a screen will be difficult to provide to users.

In terms of specific performance, this 6.5-inch LCD screen not only takes into account a smooth experience and power-saving battery life, but its own quality is also remarkable. The picture expression is outstanding enough, and the colors are accurate and close to nature.

The realme Q3 is equipped with a 5000mAh large battery, and with the two power consumption optimization methods of "all-scenario intelligent power saving" and super power saving mode at the system level, it can boldly release excellent performance and make the battery life longer. And with the support of 30W smart flash charging, the realme Q3 still generously gives a full configuration when many mobile phones no longer come with charging heads. As we can see from the figure below, the charging efficiency of the realme Q3 is sufficient for daily use, and the power can be increased from 44 to 63 in ten minutes.

summary:

While flagship phones are everywhere and competing with each other in terms of firepower, the thousand-yuan phones are still the main price range in my country's mobile phone market. There used to be a saying that "whoever gets the thousand-yuan phone will win the world". From a practical point of view, this statement is not an exaggeration. After all, in this price range, for brands, it is not only a matter of technical strength but also of conscience. Whoever is more considerate to users is more likely to gain users' favor for the brand. Judging from the powerful real me Q3, the real me Q3 series is indeed a surprise and cross-level trendy hit.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.