Realme has been launching smartphones out there aggressively in 2021. We acquired the brand new Narzo 30 collection final month and the Realme X7 collection proper earlier than that. Now, the corporate has introduced within the new Realme 8 collection of smartphones. There are two fashions, the Realme 8 Professional and the Realme 8, and these are the successors to the Realme 7 Professional and the Realme 7 respectively. These new smartphones have been launched at beginning costs of Rs. 17,999 and Rs. 14,999 respectively. I acquired my fingers on the Realme 8 Professional, and listed here are my first impressions.
Realme 8 Professional worth and variants
The Realme 8 Professional is priced at Rs. 17,999 in India for the bottom variant which has 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The opposite variant has 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage and is priced at Rs. 19,999. There are three color choices for the Realme 8 Professional: Infinite Blue, Infinite Black, and Illuminating Yellow.
The Realme 8 Professional is available in a brilliant yellow field identical to older Realme smartphones. It sports activities a giant 6.4-inch AMOLED show with a full-HD+ decision and an in-display fingerprint scanner. It has a 16-megapixel selfie digicam within the high left nook and skinny bezels on the edges. I discovered this smartphone to be lighter than the present common, tipping the scales at 176g. It is also solely 8.1mm thick.
I discovered the button placement to be comfy on the Realme 8 Professional. The facility and quantity buttons are on the correct, and are straightforward to achieve. On the left, the Realme 8 Professional has the SIM tray with two Nano-SIM slots and a devoted microSD card slot. It has the three.5mm audio jack, main microphone, USB Kind-C port, and speaker on the backside, whereas the highest solely has the secondary microphone.
The again of the body is curved in the direction of the perimeters to make the Realme 8 Professional comfy to carry. Realme’s brand is printed in panorama, and its tag line “Dare to Leap” is plastered throughout the again, which you would possibly or may not like. The again panel has a textured end whereas the textual content is shiny and actually stands out. I favored the textured sample on the again because it helped preserve fingerprints off the machine. Realme does provide a case within the field.
Talking of stuff you get within the field, I used to be stunned to see a 65W SuperDart charger bundled with the Realme 8 Professional since it is just able to charging at 50W. That is higher than getting an underpowered charger, particularly in the event you share chargers between units. The Realme 8 Professional has a 4,500mAh battery which appears small in comparison with what among the different smartphones on this worth vary are packing.
Digital camera {hardware} is the most important change on the Realme 8 Professional. It packs a 108-megapixel main digicam, in addition to an 8-megapixel ultra-wide angle digicam, a 2-megapixel B&W digicam, and a 2-megapixel macro digicam.
The Realme 8 Professional is powered by the identical Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G processor that additionally powered the Realme 7 Professional (Evaluation). That is not all, you get 6GB and 8GB RAM choices but once more, whereas storage additionally stays unchanged at 128GB. Given the very comparable core {hardware}, I am not anticipating an enormous distinction in efficiency between the 2 units.
When it comes to software program, this telephone comes with Realme UI 2.0 on high of Android 11, and was working the February Android safety patch after putting in an replace which was already ready on the time of unboxing. Realme has customised the UI however hasn’t gone overboard, so it nonetheless feels clear and simple to make use of. I did discover numerous preinstalled apps together with Fb, Snapchat, and Flipkart, however these might be uninstalled in the event you do not intend to make use of them.
After utilizing the Realme 8 Professional for some time, it does really feel as if the corporate has targeted primarily on digicam enhancements. The pricing is extra aggressive than that of the outgoing Realme 7 Professional, which makes this machine much more attention-grabbing. It is going to be going proper up towards the model new Redmi Observe 10 Professional and Redmi Observe 10 Professional Max, which additionally has a 108-megapixel rear digicam. So must you improve to the Realme 8 Professional? Keep tuned to Devices 360 for the complete evaluation to search out out.