Realme X50 Pro 5G hands-on review

Design

The Realme X50 Pro is a really powerful smartphone with lots going on under its hood. But just like the rest of the flagship crop, it doesn't stray apart from the proven formula when it comes to its design. Behold the glass sandwich phone, again!

Well, Realme also realizes that and it sure tried to make the X50 Pro unique and recognizable with the paintjobs. The Rust Red and Moss Green not only look dazzling on press photos but in real life, too. Look at this rusty red X50 Pro we have here?

Realme talked a lot about the new hues. Instead of screaming and flashy colors, this time around the maker wanted "low-key" back and thus it designed these new low-saturation options. The Red Rust and Moss Green were inspired by the mysteries of the outer space, and while this is just a bunch of PR talk, we have to say the new colors work quite well for the X50 Pro.

The Gorilla Glass 5 on the back is heavily processed numerous times to achieve both the low-key light refraction and the matte texture and according to Realme the entire coating process takes 21 days. Well, whatever it took, we are impressed by the X50 Pro rear panel, that's for sure. It's a rare hue adds for a low-key design that's quite attractive.

The Realme X50 Pro display is one of its key features and it is a treat for sure. It's 6.44" AMOLED screen with an oval punch-hole at the top left corner for the dual-selfie camera. The screen has thin bezels, it is quite bright, it can be punchy with the right color mode, and even supports HDR10+.

But that large display also supports 90Hz refresh rate like the Realme X2 Pro. The new Realme UI is 90Hz optimized, and with the powerful Snapdragon 865 chip you will be able to enjoy all types of content in 90fps.

Again, just like on the X2 Pro, the optical fingerprint scanner under the display feels like one of the fastest we've tried, equal to the conventional scanners we used to have on the back of the phones. The sensor lights up with a white light the moment you touch it, and before you know it, you are on the homescreen.

And while we are still talking about the front - here is something that's also invisible to the naked eye - a second speaker. The earpiece now acts as a second speaker and thus the Realme X50 Pro features stereo speakers - the other one is at the bottom of the phone. We played a couple of songs and found the front speaker loudness on par with the dedicated loudspeaker though its bass is far inferior. In spite of the bass difference, the two speakers together sound quite loud, rich and clean.

Moving on to the back reveals the dazzling rusty red that depending on light can look either uniform or like a red aurora. And here is the quad-camera setup, which may have some impressive hardware on paper, but it doesn't make for a huge hump.

The camera setup on the Realme X50 Pro is the same as on the Realme X2 Pro.

The top camera highlighted by two yellow rings is the zoom snapper with a 12MP sensor, F/2.5 aperture, and 2x zoom.

In second place we see the primary camera with a 64MP Samsung sensor and a bright f/1.8 lens. It has a tetracell arrangement, which means four adjacent pixels are combined into one so you get a 16MP photo.

Third is the 8MP ultrawide shooter, which thanks to the PDAF, also can be used as a macro camera just like on the Realme X2 Pro.

And the fourth tiny eye is a 2MP B&W depth sensor. There is also a single-LED flash that's outside the camera deck.

The Realme X50 Pro has a metal frame between its glass panels, and it has this nice matte finish. Thanks to the frame design and shape, plus the rear matte glass, the Realme X50 Pro feels more secure than many of the glass phones we've met.

Handling the Realme X50 Pro was a real pleasure. It is a grippy phone, a beautiful one at that, plus it is quite pocket friendly thanks to its slim profile and normal-sized body despite the large screen.

Unfortunately, the X50 Pro is not waterproofed. It features p2i water-repellant nanocoating on its internals, which should help it survive a drop in water, but it's there as a safeguard in case of accidents involving water and you shouldn't rely on it as if it's a water-resistant phone.