The Realme 9i will be on sale early on Saturday, January 22, ahead of its official first sale on January 25. On January 18, the company launched the successor to its Realme 8i smartphone in India. The Realme 9i is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 SoC and sports a triple rear camera setup. With a 6.6-inch display and a 90Hz refresh rate, the smartphone is powered by a 5,000mAh battery and supports 33W charging.
Realme 9i price in India, availability
The Realme 9i price in India is Rs. 13,999 for the base 4GB + 64GB storage configuration and Rs. 15,999 for the 6GB + 128GB version. The smartphone will be available in Prism Black and Prism Blue.
The company will hold an early sale on its website and Flipkart at 12 pm IST on Saturday, ahead of its first official sale on January 25.
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Early Sale on https://t.co/HrgDJTHBFX & @Flipkart at 12 PM, 22nd Jan. First Sale at 12 AM, 25th Jan.
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— realme (@realmeIndia) January 20, 2022
Realme 9i specifications
The dual-SIM (Nano) Realme 9i runs on Realme UI 2.0, based on Android 11. The smartphone features a 6.6-inch full-HD+ (1,080×2,412) display with a refresh rate of 90Hz and a touch sampling rate of 180Hz. The Realme 9i runs on an octa-core Snapdragon 680 SoC under the hood, coupled with up to 6GB of RAM that can be expanded with Dynamic RAM Expansion (up to 5GB) that’s set to arrive in a future update.
Realme 9i features a triple rear camera setup consisting of a 50-megapixel primary camera with an f/1.8 aperture lens, a 2-megapixel portrait camera with an f/2.4 aperture lens, and a 2-megapixel macro camera with an f/2.4 aperture lens. With an aperture of f/2.1, the smartphone is equipped with a 16-megapixel IMX471 selfie camera. The Realme 9i comes with 128GB of UFS 2.2 storage, which can be expanded to 1TB via a microSD card slot.
Realme 9i offers 4G LTE, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS/ A-GPS, and a 3.5mm headphone jack on the connectivity front. It is equipped with an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, as well as a side-mounted fingerprint scanner. Realme 9i is equipped with a 5,000mAh battery that can be charged at 33W over USB Type-C. It measures 164.4×75.7×8.4mm and weighs 190 grams.