Realme 8 Pro : Is it worth buying?

 

Credit: Realme

Realme has launched a brand new  Realme  8 Pro.  Realme has been teasing this hyping it up and it's finally here so what's new in the Realme 8 Pro ? what are the upgrades it brings over the  Realme 7 Pro? how does it compare to the  Redmi Note 10 Pro Series? Is it worth buying?

 Design:

Realme 8 Pro is another very sleek phone, it's just  8.1 millimeters thin and it only weighs 176 grams which are pretty good compared to, say a Redmi Note  10 Pro Max which weighs 190g. Another thing I noticed is this the back  here, there's this big bold dare to leap branding and I think this is a very divisive design language some people will like it some people will not. I don't think there's a middle ground here now I'm not a big fan of this design but it's a very subjective thing. Now another thing to note here is that  the phone has a plastic body, compared to the  Redmi Note  10 Pro and the Pro max come with glass backs. we have the infinite blue variant which I think looks cool and it has this sans stony sort of finish. there's  an  in-display fingerprint scanner which is very fast. There's the dual sim plus micro is the dedicated slot and there's a headphone jack at the bottom and as for the speakers, there's only one single speaker right at the bottom there are no stereo speakers.

 Display:

 The front of the Realme 8 Pro comes with a super AMOLED display it's a 6.4-inch panel with FHD plus resolution  1000 nits of max brightness dc dimming support and a usual 60-hertz refresh rate. Now to be perfectly honest a higher refresher AMOLED would have been better since the competition now brings that, but I'm glad that it's not IPS LCD.  The AMOLED panel here seems pretty good so far it's bright and nice it's vibrant and in typical amulet fashion, the blacks look great also thanks to AMOLED.

 Camera:

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The big  upgrade in the Realme 8 Pro  is obviously on On the camera front let me  just talk about the camera specs  now the phone comes with the 108 megapixels Samsung HM2 sensor with the f  1.8 aperture smart ISOCELL  and 9:1 pixel binning. Now this is  obviously the big highlight but there's  also the 8-megapixel ultra-wide angle  lens and a couple of 2 megapixel cameras. what's interesting about the Realme  8 Pro is that it brings a number of cool  camera features  first up there's 3x in sensor zoom which  uses the 108 megapixel sensor to capture  zoomed 12 megapixel images  and here's a 1x and 3a zoom shot side by side and I think  3x zoom shot is pretty good.

 Performance:

 Let's talk about the performance now so the Realme 8 Pro does not bring an upgrade on the specs front here there's a snapdragon 720G with up to 8 GB of ram and 128 GB of storage. Snapdragon 720G is not an upgrade but it's  not a bad thing too because the 720G is  a good performer and it's close to what  you get with the 732G on the Redmi Note 10 Pro  Max.

UI:

The good thing about the  Realme 8  Pro is that it brings the latest  software on board  I mean unlike the Narzo 30 Pro or the   Realme x7 it has  Realme UI 2.0 on top  of Android 11,  so get all the latest features as for  the pre-installed apps along with the   Realme apps you get Facebook Flipkart  amazon and Snapchat and that's pretty  much it so yeah not a lot and they can  be uninstalled 

 

Battery:

when it comes to the battery the Realme 8  Pro has the same 4500 mAh battery. The phone supports 50 watt  super dart charging  which is kind of a downgrade because the  Realme 7 Pro supported 65 watt super dart  charging, so strangely the Realme 8 Pro actually  comes with a 65 watt charger in the box  but it only charges at a max 50 watts, it's still faster than the  competition because it charges the eight  Pro to 100  in around 46 minutes.

Connectivity:

Carrier  aggregation is an important thing and  the good thing is that Realme 8  Pro it does support carrier aggregation  which is great because Realme X7 didn’t. Since it comes with Snapdragon 720G, It doesn’t support 5G, It's not a big deal though.

 

The Realme 8 Pro seems  like a good  all-round smartphone it has an AMOLED  display 108-megapixel main camera with  lots of cool camera features  a sleek and light design and I'm  positive about the performance and the  battery and charging speeds.  However, it's not perfect, the back is plastic, the display is 60 hertz there's,  no stereo speakers and these are important factors because there is some tough competition in the form of the Redmi Note 10 Pro and the Pro max. If you like Realme UI than Miui, then you can consider buying this.

 

Pricing:

Realme 8 Pro  starts at Rs 17,999 for 6GB+128GB.