"The horizontal camera bar has officially become the design language of 2025-2026, and Realme just joined the party with the Realme 16. Five months after Apple's iPhone Air established the aesthetic last September, here comes a mid-range contender wearing the same silhouette like a fashion trend that jumped from runway to high street. The visor-style execution skews closer to Honor's Magic8 Pro Air, complete with that clean horizontal sweep across the top of the phone."
"Calling this phone "Air" anything requires some creative interpretation. The iPhone Air sits at 5.6mm thin, Honor's version checks in at 6.1mm, and the Realme 16 lands at 8.1mm. That's practically chunky by comparison, though the 7,000mAh battery inside explains the extra millimeters. At 183 grams, it still feels reasonable in hand despite housing enough power to outlast most flagships by a full day."
"What's more interesting than the mirror is the engineering required to make it all work. Squeezing a 7,000mAh battery into a body this manageable is no small feat, and it points to some clever internal packaging, what Realme calls an "Aircraft Structure layout" using high-density graphite battery tech. This is the kind of practical innovation that matters in the mid-range space, where two-day battery life is a legitimate killer feature."
Realme 16 adopts a visor-style horizontal camera bar and embeds a circular rear selfie mirror with a halo flash inside the camera module. The phone measures 8.1mm thick and weighs 183 grams, accommodating a 7,000mAh battery that targets roughly two-day use. Internal packaging uses an "Aircraft Structure layout" and high-density graphite battery technology to compress capacity into a manageable body. The design enables framing selfies with the superior 50MP rear camera. The handset achieves IP66, IP68 and IP69K ratings, delivering unexpectedly high ingress protection for a mid-range device.
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