Realme is the fastest-growing smartphone brand in the world right now due to its feature-packed smartphone offerings with aggressive pricing. And it appears that the brand has no plans of slowing down as it is rumored to launch a mid-range smartphone with a OnePlus like Alert Slider on it.
According to a MySmartPrice report, noted tipster Yogesh Brar has informed on Realme testing a device with an Alert slider on it. He adds that this device will debut as soon as April 2022. For those unaware, the alert slider is a physical slider that enables users to switch switches between ringer and vibrate mode, just like the iPhone. In the Android space, it was made popular by OnePlus which has provided the functionality on almost all of its smartphones.
Realme sharing this feature is not that surprising as both Realme and OnePlus come under the BBK Electronics group from China. And as we know, companies under BBK electronics often share their technologies like OnePlus and OPPO now sharing the same codebase and Hasselblad camera tuning in their flagship devices.
It would be interesting to see what other features the alert slider-equipped Realme smartphone will bring and how much it will cost. As we know, OnePlus does not provide an alert slider in their OnePlus Nord CE devices like the recently launched OnePlus Nord CE 2 5G which launched at a starting price of Rs 23,999 in India and €349 in Europe. So if Realme is able to provide the upcoming smartphone around this price segment with decent specs, they might even be able to steal some of the OnePlus customers away.
Compared by price, Realme currently offers the Realme 9 Pro Plus at a similar price point of Rs. 24,999 ($333). The device features a 6.43-inch AMOLED display with FHD+ resolution and a 90Hz refresh rate. For selfies, it has a front camera of a 16-megapixel front camera, and its rear-mounted camera island has an OIS-assisted 50-megapixel Sony IMX766 primary camera, an 8-megapixel ultrawide sensor, and a 2-megapixel macro camera.
The device is powered by the Dimensity 920 SoC and ships with 6GB LPPDR4x RAM (8GB variant available) and 128 GB UFS 2.1 storage (256GB variant available). The device houses a 4,500mAh battery that supports 60W rapid charging.
An interesting feature of the Realme 9 Pro+ is the hear-rate sensor, which can be accessed through the in-display fingerprint scanner. The device offers other features like a vapor chamber cooling system, X-axis linear motor, 5 GB of virtual RAM, Android 12 OS with Realme UI 3.0, dual speakers, a 3.5mm audio jack, and a Light Shift Design.
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