Realme C20 review: Ultra-budget entry phone with 5000 mAh.
First-phone essentials.
Realme C20 sat at the absolute bottom of the C-series — a sub-$85 essentials phone for first-phone buyers, with a big battery and stretched-out spec sheet for the price.
01Display
56/10056/100 is one of the weaker display results among budget phones of 2021 — 9 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
42/10042/100 is one of the weaker camera results among budget phones of 2021 — 15 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
40/10040/100 is one of the weaker performance results among budget phones of 2021 — 12 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
78/10078/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2021.
05Build
50/10050/100 is one of the weaker build results among budget phones of 2021 — 11 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
- Sub-$85 with 5000 mAh
- microSD + 3.5 mm jack
- Trusted Realme branding
- Helio G35 slow
- 720p + single 8 MP cam
- No fingerprint sensor on some variants
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 147-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .