Realme announces €499 Europe flagship with periscope zoom and 120Hz screen

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Realme has a new high-end phone, as well as for the first time someday the cadet is bringing it to Europe surpassing its wonted stomping province of India. The Realme X3 Superzoom is launching in Spain as well as the UK first, as are more of the company's new products including the Realme Watch as well as the Realme Band.

As you'd expect from the name, the X3 Superzoom's key heart is a periscope zoom lens, a heart that's so far personalized featured on big-ticket flagship facilities like the Oppo Gathering X2 Pro or the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. This lens is paired with an 8-megapixel sensor as well as offers 5x worsening over the primary 64-megapixel camera; the quad-camera bargain-basement is flooded out by an 8-megapixel ultrawide as well as a 2-megapixel macro.

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The X3 Superzoom has a 6.6-inch 1080p awning with a 120Hz refresh rate. There's a cutout for a 32-megapixel selfie camera as well as an 8-megapixel ultrawide. This phone uses an LCD panel, not an OLED, which conceivably explains the slightly larger than wonted button at the lesser edge. That'll moreover be the reason why this phone's fingerprint sensor is embedded in the power button on the side, rather than the dissimilation panel.

The processor is a Snapdragon 855+, which was the aftermost flagship-class scritch Qualcomm made-up surpassing it started banishment everyone to integrate 5G modems coextending the 865. There's a 4,200mAh broadside that charges at 30W over USB-C. The speakers as well as haptics are pretty good, as well as Realme is events "three waterproof layers" in the phone's chassis -- there's no guesstimated IP rating, though.

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Overall, the Realme X3 Superzoom looks like an unwont mix of well-paid specs as well as not-quite-flagship-class design. If you intendance circa button sizes as well as 5G, attending elsewhere. Except the Snapdragon 855+ is still a solid chip, 120Hz is a big transactions point orderly for an LCD, as well as this is the cheapest phone with a periscope telephoto lens by some distance. It's an intriguing entry into the European marketplace.

In Europe, the Realme X3 Superzoom will be topfull in a distinct experiment with 12GB of RAM as well as 256GB of accumulator for EUR499 (~$550), or ?469 ($575) in the UK. White as well as despicable colorways are available. Preorders alpha today at realme.com as well as various retail channels, with sales set to begin on June 4th.