realme C67 review – Taking the budget champion up

The realme C67 is to take certain things to something further with their budget level phone towards something that matches with the modern needs. Since we have done the unboxing and introduction, we will do slightly deeper on what it has to offer.

Unboxing

Who is this for ?

Basically some one who needed more than the basic smartphone offering, snaps adequately good still pictures while at the same time comes with a bigger storage and multiple apps can run together. Light gaming is possible too with a whole day of usage over activities like social media and streaming with the phone. While then, data usage is important for the user by just using through 4G connectivity, which is still a standard around the globe.

Design

The design of the realme C67 is a mix of current realme series lineup mashed together with a slimmer body profile at just 7.59mm thickness, thinner than the realme C55, another C series lineup which launched previously as well. The back does not look like a budget phone at all, with a classic looking camera island placement and the back is further refined with a 20nm-thick three-color gradient coating process that brings a different light effect. This gave a color changing tone when shine to a light source, giving it a flowing light effect when showing off.

The realme C67 is offered in 2 colors, the Sunny Oasis and Black Rock, both of the color will still retained the shiny rings that is surrounding the camera setup, but the Sunny Oasis is still the cheerful among all while the Black Rock is practically still have shines like stars like in the skies, yet still a safe color to choose for the most part.

Rest is remain a standard with USB C port, 2 microphone for communications and noise cancellation, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and finally a set of stereo speakers located one as down firing and another at the speakerphone. The realme C67 is IP54 protection against dust and water splashes.

Display & Audio

To keep up with the average consumer needs, realme C67 puts in a 6.72 inch 1080×2400 90Hz display that can peaks up brightness up to 950nits, which is viewable on bright places and covers up to 91% screen to body ratio. For the most part colors and contrast are good enough for day to day glance and usage, yet still comfortable to watch on if you like to watch a couple of drama episodes on it, good enough to keep up with minimal screen tearing on fast pace frames, still pretty good for a budget phone despite not as deep colors on AMOLED screen, but still it gets the acceptable quality. Despite all these, the realme C67 is L1 widevine certified for DRM based streaming apps, which allows you to watch all your movies in HD quality.

Audio wise, you get a stereo speakers which can be loud with acceptable clarity with good treble but slightly lack of bass which is pretty much expected and not really a total downside. While being a budgeted device, realme still retained OReality Audio, allowing pre-configured audio scenario selections which pre-tuned for Music, Movie or Gaming mode, if not USB C audio plug in support and Bluetooth TWS audio connection is still there for you, should you need it.

Camera

Now here comes the camera, the main sensor is the Samsung S5KHM6 108MP camera followed by a 2MP depth sensor. Besides that, the main sensor has a 6P lens as well with 9 in 1 binning on images taken.

As one of the realme C67 main selling point, the camera can do a great job in capturing images, whether in normal mode or the Hi-Res 108MP mode in day time, which where surrounding lights becomes the support in detecting and able to portray images quite accurately with no distortion or much loss in colors. Zooming the picture under 108MP mode is still properly represented with close to no losses in quality and good dynamic range. Within the camera options there is a street photography mode which brings new filter mode also, which gave a deeper tone on colors. The DIS and EIS mode further assist in stabilizing your video recording and images snapped, at least these two features will make it up on the missing OIS, which is a good effort as implementing OIS may just increase the cost of the phone. The portrait mode in the front 8MP lens and the rear lens works business as usual blurring the backgrounder quite nicely. Night time, that is another story, while where there is light source, it works well enough, while in slightly darker area, a substantial noise were exhibited while zooming on the images in both during capture and after capture will result in some blurriness.

1080P 30FPS is the maximum video recording you can get which still holds pretty well even moving fast during recording and no problem on this so far during the course of the review with exception of minor drop in framerate but hardly noticable.

Performance, Interface, Benchmarks

The realme C67 is equipped with a slightly dated Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 Octa Core SOC which is still a popular choice among brands in keeping the cost low, which still be able to deliver multi-app operation with good power efficiency which can last you one whole day when used moderately with it’s equipped 5000MaH battery capacity. Recharging back to full on the supplied 33W SuperVOOC will get you back on track in less than 1.5 hours which is acceptable on this segment. There is a 360 NFC embedded in the phone, allowing easy, hassle free tapping through payment terminal or NFC cards that supports contacts pretty easily. 8GB of DDR4 RAM with 256GB of internal storage is mostly efficient on day to day use but if that is not enough, Dynamic RAM expansion up to another 8GB is there while storage expansion up to 1TB is possible with MicroSD card expansion.

Gaming over this phone works good and well so long you know what you are expecting, most games from shooters such as CoD mobile or MOBA like Mobile Legends game well with good sustaining in framerate, heavier games such as Genshin Impact may just need to lower down the graphical settings and capping frames to 45FPS in order to have an acceptable gameplay while then, this also helps in controlling the temperature level. With that said, majority of the fast paced eSports mobile game is well optimized on this phone.

Lastly, the realme C67 came with Android 14 and a lighter version of realme UI which implements more of the standard Android 14 features with a few realme UI stuff inside it, so no themes customisation that it is understandable in order to keep the device running smooth, and I do not consider it much of the downside, however the is a new Mini Capsule 2.0 which is like Apple’s Dynamic Island, with new notification mode control such as displaying music with swipe over to next track, weather display, event alerts and step counter, making it slightly more interactive and functional compare to the previous version.

Benchmarks are here and just for reference purposes, reflecting acceptable multi-core scores and overall, nothing unusual so far.

Technical Specifications

Verdict & Conclusion

The realme C67 is a phone that pretty much focuses on the above average essential within the 4G budget phone segment, while the price tag of RM799 may not be the cheapest 4G phone in the market, this is compensated with the common adequate configuration and a camera that allows you to take a nice day shots and a smooth display that you still can scroll through with one hands and lastly the Sunny Oasis design that looks quite nice and matches towards the youthful vibe, hence if you need a phone that does all your not too intensive app needs, or otherwise a good candidate as a secondary phone for work purposes as well.