Following the announcement of the Snapdragon 888 mobile platform, realme has announced that it has a new smartphone in development that is codenamed “Race” and it says it will be powered by the new processor.

According to a tweet by the official realme UK account, the realme Race will be one of the first flagships powered by the new premium chipset. This means the phone should launch in January or February of next year.

If you have been following news related to realme then you should know that the codename “Race” wasn’t randomly picked. To the best of our knowledge “Race” is short for “realme Ace”. Yes, Ace. If you remember, we reported back in September that the OPPO Ace series has been ceded to realme.

Alongside the confirmation from realme, a leak has also revealed key details and an image of the phone, and it appears realme will be sticking to the design of the OPPO Ace2.

The leak which was released exclusively to GSMArena reveals that the phone will have the model number RMX2202. A screenshot of the About Phone section of the upcoming device shows that the phone will run Android 11 with realme UI 2.0 on top. It will have 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, though we expect there will be other configurations too. The image also shows that the phone has a Snapdragon 888 processor under the hood.

There is also an image of the phone’s rear and it shows that the realme Race will have four rear cameras inside a round camera housing. Flanking the sensors on the right is an LED flash. The phone has a curved glass back and the design is very similar to that of the OPPO Ace2 that launched in April.

Unfortunately, there are no details of the camera specifications. We also don’t know the screen size, its resolution, and the design. Nevertheless, we already know more about the phone than we did yesterday.

It is also important to mention that since the announcement was made by realme UK, we expect the realme Race will launch in Europe when it arrives next year. We won’t be surprised if it even launches in the Old Continent first before making its way to other markets.

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