Realme GT 2 Pro confirmed, will be powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

(Pocket-lint) - As is customary during Qualcomm's big yearly summit, smartphone makers travel implicit themselves to denote that they person 1 of the archetypal phones to beryllium powered by the latest 8-series Snapdragon processor. 

Oppo has announced its adjacent flagship volition diagnostic the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, and present Realme - its sibling institution - has besides revealed it volition beryllium doing the same. 

Realme's apical tier flagship telephone for 2022 volition beryllium the GT 2 Pro, and it volition diagnostic the newest 8-series level from Qualcomm. 

In its property release, the institution states that its adjacent all-powerful telephone "will beryllium named realme GT 2 Pro arsenic the archetypal Pro merchandise successful realme GT bid and the astir premium flagship of realme to date". 

The Realme GT 2 Pro has already leaked, with a plan looking akin to that of the Huawei-made Nexus 6P.

With the cameras connected the rear housed successful a sheet that protrudes each the mode on the back, it's surely going to look antithetic to what's connected the marketplace astatine the moment. 

Those cameras are claimed to see 2 50-megapixel sensors (one primary, 1 ultrawide), portion the 3rd camera is said to beryllium an 8-megapixel telephoto zoom. 

As for different specs, the details are scarce, but it is suggested the telephone volition diagnostic a 120Hz refresh complaint 6.8-inch show connected the front. 

As it stands, it sounds precise akin - spec omniscient - to the existing Oppo Find X3 Pro, and could beryllium a rejigged mentation of that telephone sold astatine a little price. 

Pricing is ever cardinal to Realme, with its smartphones ever undercutting its Oppo and OnePlus cousins. The merchandise day is unknown, but it's apt to beryllium authoritative astatine immoderate constituent successful the archetypal fractional of 2022. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 1 December 2021.