Realme 13 Pro+ Review: Best Camera Phone in Its Segment?

The Realme 13 Pro series is here, and I’ve been using the

Now, the telephoto camera. Last year’s 12 Pro+ surprised us with its periscope telephoto sensor, and the new 13 Pro+ has upped things. Photos taken at 3x are full of details with great colour saturation and good contrast. You can also get a natural bokeh using this sensor. Below, you’ll find some photos taken using the telephoto camera.

Portrait photos also look great on the telephoto camera, with skin tones once again being very close to natural. I used the telephoto much more than the main camera. It also does a good job at night, with not much to complain about. You will see some noise once you start going above 3x zoom, but till that point, the photos are still pretty good, with lots of detail, nice dynamic range, and good white balance. Check out some portrait shots below. 

The ultra-wide camera on the phone is fine, and although it can produce good images during the day, it’s not so great in low light. While there is a macro mode that uses the ultra-wide sensor, it can’t really focus all that well when held close to objects. It is a usable camera, though.

Selfies from the phone are decent as well, but not in low light conditions. The HDR isn’t that great and you’ll find plenty of sharpening happening in the photos.

Finally, video performance. The phone does a good job with video in both 4K and 1080p resolution when using the main rear camera, but stabilisation is not that great. Even the telephoto camera produces similar results. Both cameras max out at 4K 30fps, whereas the ultrawide only does 1080p 30. There’s an ultra-steady mode available on the phone, but it only works at 1080p 60 and produces good results. The dynamic range in 4K resolution is good, with very little noise. Colours and white balance are also good.

Realme 13 Pro+ Battery and Sound: Pretty good

• Capacity – 5,200mAh
• Charging – 80W
• Speakers – Dual stereo

I was quite surprised with the battery life on this phone, especially since the older model also performed really well in our independent battery test. The Realme 13 Pro+ comes with a larger 5,200mAh battery that lasted an impressive 32 hours in our HD video loop test. Once again, this test doesn’t equate to real-life usage, but rest assured, you can certainly binge-watch at least two entire seasons of The Boys without having to charge up your phone. With normal usage that involved watching YouTube videos, scrolling on Instagram, making a couple of calls, texting, using the camera, and about 45 mins of gaming, the phone consistently lasted over a day with screen-on times of over 7 hours.

The battery life is impressive on the phone

 

Charging is also quick, thanks to the 80W fast charger included in the box, but it doesn’t really peak out at 80W. We managed to charge the phone from 0 to 100 percent in under 1 hour 10 mins.

The Realme 13 Pro+ comes with a dual speaker stereo setup, with the bottom speaker delivering most of the volume. The phone does get pretty loud, and there’s some bass as well. These are a good pair of speakers.

Realme 13 Pro+: Verdict

I’d totally recommend this phone to anyone looking to buy a good camera phone under Rs. 35,000 over all its competitors. And the Realme 13 Pro+ has plenty to fight off. There’s the Redmi Note 13 Pro+ 5G (Review), the recently launched OnePlus Nord 4 (Review) with its metal build, the performance powerhouse Poco F6 (Review), the Samsung Galaxy A35 (Review), and the just-launched Motorola Edge 50. All of these devices offer something more in other departments, but when it comes to cameras, nothing really matches up to the Realme. In some cases the camera also performs better than phones that cost more than Rs. 50,000.

However, like I said, if you want a phone mostly for camera performance, then the Realme 13 Pro+ is the easy recommendation. Apart from the great cameras, you also get plenty of AI features, a good display, loudspeakers, and a great design. It’s a great phone overall and definitely the best camera phone in the segment.