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lately I've reviewed compared and previewed a whole host of great smartphones at mid-range price points my conclusion you can get a heck of a lot these days without needing to pay those flagship prices what about a phone at a real budget price point the real me one is a device from Oppo and partner Amazon India their aims to deliver a great experience for a very modest price indeed starting at 8990 Indian rupees up to thirteen thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees well that's about a hundred and ten dollars to two hundred and seven dollars depending on the setup in terms of RAM and storage that you go for that significantly cheaper than the initial rumor of seventeen thousand nine hundred and ninety that are reported in my initial hands on and I'm very sorry for that so I'm Adamson Itsuki and I'm ash to get hold of this slightly more expensive six gigabyte variant and I thought something a bit different for this review of BT recount a typical day with the real mean one to see whether a 100 or 200 dollar device can do everything I need it to in that typical day and if it can do everything I need it to then maybe it'll be enough for you as well to find out how it fared here's my full review so starting the day with the Oppo VL me one is nice enough I tend to spend my first 10 minutes of the day sitting up reading blogs and checking emails and the screen here is nice and bright with a decent HD resolution of to 169 by 1080 P it's also plenty large at 6 inches and with an 18 by 9 aspect ratio I really appreciate having that kind of real estate on a device this cheap you should probably go without saying though that this is an IPS LCD panel and not an OLED but it is perfectly bright and colorful and had no problems enjoying media on it I would say though the screen feels a little cheap actually I found that my finger would drag when swiping which wasn't a great feeling for an export of cool I'll usually make breakfast and pack a lunch whilst watching YouTube again the screen is perfectly up to this it looks very nice and the sound is actually decent as well although this is a single speaker grill affair down the bottom of course it's loud enough to be heard over a boiling kettle or chopping bread and actually fills the room pretty well it's probably better than a lot of the competition of this price and then I'm often out first dropped my wife off at work with Google Maps doing just fine as a GPS letting us know which traffic jams to avoid and then to set up shop in a cafe somewhere to get a spot of work done later on on we've home and carry on what make actually I have passes by as I roundish my real me one is the interesting polygonal effect on the back of the device this subtle pattern is visible only when it catches the light the right way but it does give the real me one a bit of a unique personality it certainly looks considerably less impressive in real life than it does in press photos and you could achieve the same effect very easily with a decal but hey it's better than nothing and it's definitely preferable to the bland appearance of most budget devices I'm glad this isn't just another black brick I will say that during use the real me ones price is apparent in the build quality this device feels pretty cheap and hollow which is due to the mostly plastic body and it is incredibly light in the way that might lead someone to mistake it for a toy phone at first it's also very by the numbers in terms of design from the front I said in the initial hands-on I would have liked to have seen off their go for the original not design that it showed in early images that went down well like a sack of to be honest but I stand by it not because I like notches I actually agree with a lot of you guys I don't really like them but just because it would have been nice to have something interesting and a bit more flagship II for the front of this otherwise very dull device it's not a beautiful phone by any stretch of the imagination there's no IP rating either as you'd probably expect and I would consider getting a case as it doesn't feel the most durable before I get stuck into work I'll often begin my day by calling my mum my sister or my pilot buddy Nathan who likewise is available during the working week the real me once serves its purpose as a phone with a decent call quality and no issues there from there it's on with work these days I'll actually use my smartphone quite a lot during a typical working day I use it to respond to messages on slack for instance which is a chat app that undred Authority uses I use asana I use email I respond to YouTube comments obviously with its Helio p60 this isn't the most powerful device on the block but is actually more than ample for the vast majority of tasks this has helped a great deal by the pretty hefty six gigabytes of RAM in version the cheapest model only comes with three gigabytes of RAM they're still probably gonna be fine for most uses and six gigabytes is actually really generous at this price point you're on a 10 which I praised for being a great bang for your buck device only gifts four gigabytes in the UK model and that'll set you back 399 pounds switching between apps is breezy navigating the UI is nippy and even multitasking works just fine and is made easier thanks to that larger screen that chipset brings with it a Marley g7 2 MP 3 GPU which isn't a top-of-the-range performant by any means but it's perfectly capable of playing most things on the Play Store you should have no problem with the majority of 3d titles for instance and that's increasingly the story with android gaming there aren't tons of games out there that push devices to their limits and so most things that you want to play on the Play Store you can do even with a cheaper set of hardware so the argument for spending more on a more performant device is getting harder to defend in that respect that said there are some use case scenarios where you might want a bit more power for instance if you wanted to do VR I tried using the real me one to have a go on Google cardboard and it was really slow really laggy and nauseating so if you want to do bi you might want a bit more horsepower if you want to do emulation you might want a bit more horsepower but for most gaming scenarios on Android even this setup should be perfectly fine what makes the Helio P 60 a particularly notable inclusion here though is that it happens to come with a built-in NPU for those of you not familiar with all the acronyms and jargon that's a neural processing unit and bring some onboard AI type features unlocking the real me one is very fast for instance thanks to the affected face detection and apparently the reaction time is nought 2.1 seconds and I can believe that based on my usage the only big bummer there's no fingerprint sensor here and that means I have to use passwords on PayPal like a schmuck I should say at this point that I don't love the UI either is Android 8.1 or EA which is good but it's got the color OS UI layer on top which I don't like as usual any cosmetic imperfections can be eradicated to the fresh launcher it doesn't seem to slow things down too much although it does come with some bloatware and ultimately this will come down to personal preference whether it's a big issue for you or not don't get me wrong this isn't gonna be a buttery smooth performer but it didn't stop me doing anything I wanted to do and that's pretty remarkable really for the price I imagine it'll be the same story for the three gigabyte model as well storage comes in at 32 64 or 128 gigabytes and that's expandable up to 256 gigabytes by an additional SD card slot so that's a lot in total if you want to go all the way often what really is noticeable in a very budget device is the compromises that companies make in terms of the camera so around lunchtime I'll often hit the gym this is when the camera becomes an important feature for me as I'll typically use the selfie shooter to capture my workouts and share on Instagram I have no shame in my line of work I'm called to vlog fairly off and I post to social media a lot so for me it's really important to have a good front-facing camera if a phone doesn't have that then that's a bit of a deal-breaker for me so on the real me one this is the front-facing camera it's 8 megapixels which is fairly generous and as you can see it's after I home about the focusing isn't great doesn't have up my Google image stabilization and it's got the same 2.2 aperture but you know gets the job done and there's nothing wrong with it in fact it's a lot better than the front-facing cameras on lots of slightly more expensive devices in fact the capturing antics in the evening the rear camera is also serviceable it's a single lens setup which these days is actually bucking the trend now but at 13 megapixels it should be capable of capturing some decent detail the aperture is quite narrow though f 2.2 and the photos are distinctly average there are some fun features including the now compulsory portrait mode and some dubious beauty modes but low-light performance is definitely subpar and there are occasions where the photos looked either washed out or a bit soft if you live on social media you may want to look for something little beefier in this regard but it's perfectly capable of handling most everyday requirements and it can produce some nice photos it's definitely better than it has any right to be really by the end of the day the 3410 million power battery still had some juice left in it you can easily make it through a day and a half under moderate to heavy use and this is at least partly thanks to some more AI trickery which is supposed to improve the battery management and I can believe it again from my experiences it has quick charging but plugging in come evening I am forced to get a microUSB cable which is unfortunately one of the backwards-facing compromises here for thirteen thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees then I'm able to work game and take some decent photos it has a unique appearance and even a little AI magic thrown in for good measure that's a very compelling offer and it's hard to imagine how Oppo and Amazon are actually making any money at all from this one is it worth to buy look the plastic build lack of modern features middling processor an average camera mean that this was never destined to be the must-have device of 2018 it's pointless to compare this to current flagships but against other devices in this price category it fares very well it actually offers more bang for your buck sand a lot of similarly positioned Xiaomi devices and it certainly beats the new line of lower end and Nokia's that I recently covered that said those Nokia's and the shammies also have significantly nicer build qualities than this one this does feel quite cheap but if you're willing to cover that up with the sturdy case and in terms of horsepower and features for the money you're paying this is a fantastic option on a budget still I'll be glad to go back to my Galaxy s8 plus though so thanks ton for watching guys I hope you found this video useful and interesting if you did then please leave a like please share it around to help us out immensely and we really appreciate it hit the subscribe button for more videos like this and the notification button if you want to make sure you don't miss any future updates check out the full review in the description down below for more details and of course head over to android authority comm for your source for all things Android