The main focus of Realme’s MWC debut was undoubtedly its new GT 2 Professional flagships, nonetheless, the corporate did additionally tease the existence of the Realme GT Neo 3, which is about to function class-leading 150W quick charging, when it launches later this yr.
Whereas the cellphone’s arrival continues to be a couple of months off, among the elementary particulars across the GT Neo Three have already began to emerge. Primarily based on rumours, official info and by trying on the Neo 3’s predecessors, we are able to construct an image of what to anticipate from this latest member of the Neo line.
When does the Realme GT Neo Three go on sale?
Whereas we do not but have a proper launch date for the cellphone, in a press Q&A session after the worldwide launch of the GT 2 and a couple of Professional at MWC, the corporate’s Madhav Sheth confirmed to Tech Advisor that the GT Neo Three will likely be arriving later this yr “within the first half of H2.”
This implies a launch window between July and September 2022, with final yr’s GT Neo 2 first arriving in China in September 2021 and making its approach to markets internationally by mid-November. The unique GT Neo, in the meantime, by no means made it exterior of China however launched within the area in late March 2021.
With this all in thoughts, it could appear the one logical overlap can be that we see the GT Neo Three make its approach to market someday in September, however whether or not that manifests as a simultaneous launch or an preliminary China-only launch is at present unclear.
How a lot is the Realme GT Neo 3?
Even with entries just like the GT 2 Professional pushing the highest finish of Realme’s worth vary even greater, the corporate has all the time prioritised worth for cash as one in every of its merchandise’ key promoting factors.
As such, whereas doubtless being the primary cellphone (until Oppo has one thing to say about it) in the marketplace to boast 150W charging, even with the added value that including such know-how would possibly incur, we anticipate the GT Neo Three to supply aggressive pricing, simply as its predecessors did.
The unique GT Neo (packing a Dimensity 1200, 6GB RAM and 128GB storage) began at simply CNY¥1,799 (roughly £210/€260/US$285/₹21,600/AU$390), whereas the bottom GT Neo 2 (with a Snapdragon 870, 8GB RAM and 128GB storage) value ¥2,499 (roughly £295/€355/US$395/₹30,000/AU$540) in China and €449.99 in Europe.
With the ‘inexpensive flagship’ archetype that the prevailing GT Neo line’s pricing centres round, it stands to purpose that the GT Neo Three has the potential to hit the market from round ¥2,999/€550.
What options does the Realme GT Neo Three provide?
Realme first formally acknowledged the GT Neo Three on the European launch of the GT 2 collection however did not even present imagery of the machine, with solely a single bodily demo at their sales space with developmental {hardware} exhibiting off the cellphone’s forthcoming signature 150W ‘UltraDart’ charging.
#AchievementUnlocked What number of seconds do you suppose was wanted for us to go from 0% to 50%? #realme #UDCA #UltraDart pic.twitter.com/IpKwIg742n
— realme (@realmeglobal)
February 28, 2022
A day later, the corporate additionally confirmed that MediaTek’s newly-unveiled Dimensity 8100 chipset would reside on the coronary heart of the Neo 3. Whereas the Dimensity 9000 is MediaTek’s reply to the likes of the top-tier Snapdragon eight Gen 1, the 8000 collection (at present consisting of the Dimensity 8000 and 8100) operates on a fractionally bigger 5nm die with an octa-core configuration comprised of 4 Cortex-A78 massive cores and 4 Cortex-A55 small cores, accompanied by a Mali-G610 MC6, which depends of ARM’s newest GPU structure.
Between the 2, the Dimensity 8100 helps greater CPU and GPU frequencies, in comparison with the usual 8000, whereas the collection as an entire additionally gives help for WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.Three customary (whether or not these are the specs we’ll see within the Neo Three stays to be seen).
MediaTek steered that the primary telephones working on 8000 collection SoCs may arrive as quickly as March 2022, nonetheless, such a launch window sits at odds with Realme’s personal statements on the GT Neo 3’s launch, implying telephones from rival manufacturers sporting these new Dimensitys will arrive forward of the Neo 3.
Individually, the cellphone has already appeared on Chinese language certification web site TENAA, underneath the mannequin numbers RMX3560 and RMX3562. Primarily based on the itemizing, the Neo Three will reportedly sport a 6.7in 120Hz Full HD+ AMOLED show with an in-display (presumably optical) fingerprint sensor, whereas that Dimensity chipset seems to be set to be supported by as much as 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
Imagery from each the TENAA entry and tipster OnLeaks (in collaboration with Zollege) reveal a brand new digital camera structure in comparison with something we have seen from the corporate’s present portfolio, with what’s reportedly an OIS-supported 50Mp major sensor, together with supplementary 8Mp and 2Mp sensors, whereas on the entrance sits a 16Mp hole-punch front-facing digital camera.
As GT Neo Three rumours and leaks already appear to be rising in frequency, the cellphone may be upon us before we anticipate however till then, we’ll be retaining this function updated; so test again ceaselessly.
