realme 9 review: A 90 Hz AMOLED budget realme with a 108 MP camera.
AMOLED on a strict budget.
realme 9 brought a Super AMOLED and a 108 MP sensor to $240 — both rare at the price — on the steady Snapdragon 680. The 4G ceiling and modest charging were the trade. For a sharp screen and a big-megapixel sticker without spending up, it landed.
01Display
74/100At 74/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among budget phones of 2022 — 9 points above the cohort average.
02Camera
64/100At 64/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among budget phones of 2022 — 7 points above the cohort average.
03Performance
50/10050/100 trails the 53-point cohort average for budget phones of 2022.
04Battery
78/10078/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2022.
05Build
68/10068/100 puts it above the 62-point average for budget phones of 2022.
06Value
70/10070/100 puts it above the 67-point average for budget phones of 2022.
- Super AMOLED + 108 MP at $240.
- 178 g and 7.99 mm — slim, light.
- 33 W charging, microSD + jack.
- Strong industrial design.
- Snapdragon 680 + 4G ceiling.
- Two filler lenses.
- Single speaker, Wi-Fi 5.
- realme UI ads.
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 188-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .