Realme 7 5G

Price: £279 (inc VAT) from fave.co/3nC1T4O

The Realme 7 line has pushed the envelope in terms of what you can expect from an affordable phone; with the standard 7 serving as a brilliant budget option, while the higher pricing of the 7 Pro edges it into the mid-range tier, equipped with some notable tricks to grab your attention.

While these devices staked their claim as noteworthy budget offerings back in October 2020, Realme actually had a third member waiting in the wings, in the Realme 7 5G.

While COVID and its effects on the company’s supply chain meant that the 7 5G wasn’t ready to launch alongside its siblings, it’s no less potent a mix of impressive hardware at a low price – Realme’s bread and butter.

Despite the name, the Realme 7 5G isn’t just the base Realme 7 with a snappier modem, albeit with understandable similarities. It required a wholly different chipset in order to support such speeds and is one of the first phones through our reviews gauntlet toting MediaTek’s Dimensity 800U chip.

So the question now is whether this remixed Realme is as much of a steal as its brethren.

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