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Realme's 64MP camera phone, Realme XT, is launching in October
Last updated on Aug 21, 2019, 12:26 am
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Realme's much-anticipated 64MP camera phone will be called Realme XT, the company's India head Madhav Sheth announced yesterday while concluding the Realme 5-series launch.
Interestingly, the event ended with Green Day's famous song Wake Me Up When September Ends, which seems to hint that the camera-centric phone would be announced sometime in October.
Here's all about it.
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From the grapevine
Realme XT rumored to offer an all-screen design
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As far as specifications are concerned, Realme XT will adopt a pop-up selfie camera to allow an all-screen design. An in-display fingerprint sensor is also on the cards.
On the rear, it will pack a vertically-mounted quad lens camera setup with a 64MP main sensor, a wide-angle lens, macro camera, and a depth sensor.
Details regarding the chipset remain unclear as of now.
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Key details
Realme XT will use Samsung's ISOCELL Bright GW1 64MP sensor
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Meanwhile, Realme XT will use Samsung's mighty 64MP imaging sensor that was announced in May this year. Notably, no other mobile camera offers such a high resolution.
Dubbed as ISOCELL Bright GW1, the new sensor measures at 1/1.72 inches and uses 0.8-micrometer (μm) pixels - the same size we have seen on the existing Samsung 48MP ISOCELL Bright GM1 or Sony IMX586 sensors.
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More details
What are the features of Samsung's ISOCELL Bright GW1
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Samsung's ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor uses "pixel-merging Tetracell technology and re-mosaic algorithm" to produce bright 16MP images with 1.6µm pixels in low-light environments and highly-detailed 64MP shots in brighter settings as the larger sensor lets in more light.
The new sensor also supports real-time high dynamic range (HDR) of up to 100dB (standard sensors support 60dB HDR) and 1080p video recording at 480fps.
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Battle
Race to launch the first-ever 64MP camera phone
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We expect Realme to launch the hotly-awaited Realme XT sometime in early or mid-October and ship it before Diwali (October 27).
But Realme is not alone in the race to launch the first smartphone with a 64MP camera. Redmi has confirmed that it would release a 64MP camera phone in Q4 2019 while Samsung is also eyeing an early-October launch.
