realme P4x Review: One of the Strongest Budget 5G Specs Sheets Right Now

The P4x wins by being much stronger on hardware than its price suggests.

That is the easiest way to understand this phone. The realme P4x is not trying to be a camera-first showpiece or a design-led lifestyle phone. It is much more direct than that. It wants to overwhelm this budget with battery size, a better-than-expected chip, a proper FHD+ panel, and a few nice quality-of-life extras that make daily use feel less cheap.

That does not mean it is complete. This is still a phone with a basic secondary rear camera, no NFC, and an 8MP front camera that tells you exactly where realme saved money. But as a value-first battery-and-performance phone, the pitch is very solid.

7000mAh is the headline number, but the real win is that the phone is not one-dimensional because of it.

A 7000mAh battery is enough to pull attention on its own, and fairly enough. This is the sort of phone that should be able to go much harder than the average sub-Rs. 20,000 device without stressing you. The validated sheet also lists 45W charging and a full charge in around 90 minutes, which means realme at least made sure the refill story stayed respectable.

That matters because huge batteries can become annoying if charging lags too far behind. Here, the phone looks like it understands the balance well enough. You are buying it to charge less often, but not to suffer every time you do need to plug in.

The Dimensity 7400 Ultra is what turns the P4x from "interesting" into "actually strong value."

The Dimensity 7400 Ultra is simply a better story than what many buyers expect under Rs. 20,000. Paired with UFS 3.1 storage, the P4x looks meaningfully more capable than the budget 5G phones that rely on slower chips and weaker storage just to get through the spec sheet.

This is important because it means the phone is not just a battery tank. It should actually feel fast enough in normal use, heavier multitasking, and even some gaming, which is exactly what buyers want when a phone starts positioning itself as a hardware overachiever.

The P4x proves that an LCD does not have to feel apologetic if the rest of the panel is done right.

Yes, this is an LCD, and yes, AMOLED still carries the glamour. But the P4x is doing enough elsewhere to stop the LCD label from sounding like automatic defeat. A 144Hz refresh rate, FHD+ resolution, and 391ppi density mean the screen should feel sharp, fluid, and perfectly usable for daily media and reading.

That does not make it better than a good AMOLED. It just means this is not one of those phones where LCD immediately becomes the whole reason to say no. The panel still feels thought-through.

The main camera is fine. The rest of the camera story is clearly secondary.

The rear setup is 50MP + 2MP, which tells you the main sensor matters and the second one mostly exists to complete the shape of the camera module. The selfie camera is just 8MP, which is enough to keep the phone from being a creator-first buy.

The surprising part is video. According to the validated row, the P4x records 4K at 30fps, which is a genuinely useful extra at this price. That gives the phone a little more credibility than the still-camera sheet alone might suggest. Still, this is not a phone you buy because the cameras are special. You buy it because they are good enough not to undermine everything else.

The glass-back touch helps, but the real practical wins are the small things.

The P4x uses a glass + plastic back construction, which is a nice little quality cue at this price. The phone is not light at 208 grams, but for a 7000mAh device it is still easier to excuse.

More importantly, the day-to-day quality-of-life list is decent: Wi-Fi 6, stereo speakers, expandable storage, and IP64. The omission of NFC is still frustrating, but the P4x otherwise does a good job of not feeling stripped down.

The support story is ordinary, which is probably the most boring part of the phone.

The phone runs Android 15 with ColorOS, and the validated support promise is 2 years of OS updates plus 3 years of security updates. That is fine, but not a reason to choose the phone over a rival.

So the software story is simple: current enough out of the box, ordinary enough over time. The hardware is doing most of the work here.

The short version.