Realme Malaysia is churning out the
teasers for the upcoming Realme C11 – a gaming phone on a budget and the first
to use the yet-to-be-announced MediaTek Helio G35 chipset. The company revealed
some details on the chipset, but they were not what we were hoping for.
It’s a 12nm chip, same process node as the
Helio G70 used in the Realme C3. However, the octa-core CPU in the G35 will use
the old Cortex-A53 cores. While the post claims a maximum clock speed of 2.3
GHz, single core performance won’t be inspiring unless there are big Cortex-A7x
cores in there. The G70 has two A75 cores, for example, plus six A55 cores,
which are already faster than the A53 (18% higher single-threaded peformance,
up to 38% faster in floating point and SIMD code).
Another teaser post is claiming a “bigger
battery” without offering a point of reference. Presumably it’s the C3, which
has a 5,000 mAh battery. However, rumored specs from yesterday claimed that the
C11 will also have a 5,000 mAh battery.
There's another post with a short teaser
video. The phone will be unveiled on June 30 at 11AM and there will be a
livestream for those who want to watch. And note that while it’s Realme
Malaysia doing the teasing, the event should be about the global launch of the
C11. The Realme C-series has been quite successful – since its introduction in
late 2018 the affordable line-up has reached 13 million users.
