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Announcement. Realme C33 is a modest smartphone for India (but photosensor debut)

In India, a budget smartphone Realme C33 has appeared on sale. Nothing interesting, except for the curious appearance and one other little thing. Well, so ... Not that very interesting, but at least something.

The main camera of the smartphone uses a sensorHynix Hi-5021S. And, it seems, this is the first use of this sensor in smartphone cameras. Although nothing is certain. Often, manufacturers simply forget to tell us such trifles. Or even shuffle sensors from one batch of smartphones to another.

The Hynix Hi-5021S is pretty fresh.As far as I could unearth, it dates from the fall of 2021. Resolution 50 MP. The matrix size is 1/2.55″. Those. this is one of the smallest matrices for fifty-fifty cameras. Competitor for the super popular Samsung ISOCELL JN1 sensor. Those. if earlier you meet a cheap smartphone with a 50 MP matrix - well, then there is JN1. But now it's not so clear cut.

We return to the smartphone.

The Unisoc T612 chipset, so in AnTuTu we are waiting for around 200 thousand points. 3 or 4 GB of RAM, from 32 to 128 GB of permanent memory. At the same time, the permanent memory is quite fast - UFS 2.2.

The screen is simple. Diagonal 6.5 ″ (102 cm²), low resolution 720 × 1600 (270 ppi). There is no increased refresh rate, but the sensor polling rate is overclocked to 120 Hz.

The battery is standard, 5000 mAh. Charging is slow, 10W.

The front camera is quite simple, 5 MP. The rear camera is double, but the second module is purely for show - something with a resolution of 0.3 MP. Well, the first module, as I said, is 50 MP.

From good. There is a side fingerprint scanner, a standard audio output, a separate slot for a memory card.

From bad. No NFC. Morally obsolete Micro-USB and single-band Wi-Fi.

Realme C33 is worth, of course, inexpensive. ₹8999 (₽6840, $112) and ₹9999 (₽7600, $125) for the 3+32 and 4+64 GB versions, respectively. How much the older version 4 + 128 GB will be sold has not yet been announced.

Key Features of Realme C33:

ScreenS-IPS, 6.5″, 102 cm², 720×1600, 270 ppi, 60 Hz, 120 Hz, 16M colors, touch, capacitive, multi-touch
IronUnisoc T612
1.82 GHz, 2 x Cortex-A75, 6 x Cortex-A55, Mali-G57
MemoryRAM 3-4 GB, ROM 32-128 GB, Micro-SD up to 1 TB, LPDDR4X, UFS 2.2
Mobile Internet LTE
HSDPA, HSUPA
Edge
Mobile networksLTE Bands 1,3,5,8,38,40,41
UMTS Bands 1 (2100), 5 (850), 8 (900)
GSM Bands 2 (1900), 3 (1800), 5 (850), 8 (900)
Battery Li-Pol, 5000 mAh, charging 10.00 W
Dimensions164.2 x 75.7 x 8.3 mm
Weight 187 g
Rear Camera: Dual, Flash, Auto Focus

- 50 MP, Hynix Hi-5021S

- 0.3 MP
front camera: 5 MP, SmartSens SC501CS, no flash, no autofocus
NavigationGPS, GLONASS, Galileo
OS Android 12, realme UI S Edition
Sensors Accelerometer, Approach, Illumination, Fingerprint Scanner (Side)
USBMicro v2.0

George Kiselyov