Realme simply launched its 14 Pro telephones in India, they usually include a celebration trick: the telephones can change colour within the chilly. That’s along with a triple digital camera flash and a triple IP score that ought to shield the cellphone from excessive water situations.
Both the Realme 14 Pro and 14 Pro Plus share the color-sensitive tech, although it’s restricted to the pearl white variations, with purple and grey fashions caught on one awful colour. Co-designed with Danish studio Valeur Designers, the pearlescent telephones embrace thermochromic pigments that begin out as white, however choose up blue hues when the temperature drops beneath 16 levels Celsius (about 61 levels Fahrenheit), reversing because it warms up once more.
Realme says that the colder the temperature, the sooner the cellphone will change. It’s even potential to create short-lived patterns by solely cooling particular spots, which Indian YouTubers are already having fun with placing to the take a look at.
It does include one meaty caveat within the small print although: “The cold-sensitive color-changing operate will regularly lose impact because of every day use and isn’t a top quality situation.” How lengthy it would final stays to be seen, however even Realme’s personal web site solely guarantees the impact “throughout preliminary use.”
The color-changing design isn’t the one oddity to the 14 Pro collection. The rear cameras embrace three separate flash modules, a design which Realme says “routinely restores pure pores and skin tones in low-light situations.” On the 14 Pro Plus these flashes sit in between three digital camera lenses, although the 14 Pro pulls a little bit of a quick one, together with two rear cameras and a 3rd circle that solely appears to be like like a lens, however is in truth empty.
This can be the newest cellphone to characteristic an IP69 score for cover in opposition to mud and jets of water at excessive temperatures and stress, becoming a member of the OnePlus 13, Moto G Power, and Honor Magic 7 Pro in adopting the stringent normal, which till just lately was restricted to the bulkiest rugged telephones. The 14 Pro can be rated IP68 for submersion in water and IP66, which additionally applies to jets of water however for increased water quantity at decrease pressures and longer distances.
Otherwise, the 2 Realme telephones are typical midrangers. They each characteristic 50 megapixel foremost cameras and middle-of-the-line chipsets, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 within the Pro Plus mannequin and a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 within the Pro. The giant 6,000mAh batteries and 80W charging speeds are nonetheless spectacular, although. Both telephones are out in India now, and begin at ₹22,999 (about $265).
