Realme 2 review: Diamond-cut budget hero with a 4230 mAh battery.
The diamond-back disruptor.
Realme 2 helped launch Realme as a budget disruptor in India — a diamond-cut light-catching back, big 4230 mAh battery and aggressive sub-$150 pricing that undercut Redmi and built the brand's early momentum.
01Display
58/10058/100 trails the 63-point cohort average for budget phones of 2018.
02Camera
54/10054/100 trails the 56-point cohort average for budget phones of 2018.
03Performance
50/10050/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2018.
04Battery
78/100At 78/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among budget phones of 2018 — 7 points above the cohort average.
05Build
58/10058/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2018.
- Eye-catching diamond-cut back at $150
- 4230 mAh big battery
- microSD + 3.5 mm jack
- Snapdragon 450 slow
- 720p only
- Mono speaker
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 84-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .