Realme 12 Professional+ assessment – GSMArena.com exams

Introduction and specs

The mid-range smartphone phase is off to an amazing begin this 12 months. The brand new midrangers appear to be getting new, stronger digital camera setups, nicer chipsets from Qualcomm, and even higher shows. The Realme 12 Professional+ continues to be catching up, and the most important improve is undoubtedly the digital camera {hardware}.

The brand new Realme will get a correct telephoto digital camera, a periscope lens with 3x zoom at that. That is a particularly uncommon characteristic on this value vary. Talking of costs, the launch price ticket has been bumped by INR 2,000, nevertheless it stays to be seen whether or not the European value will get a correction.

Maybe so as to accommodate the pricier 64MP periscope telephoto digital camera, Realme needed to compromise with the primary digital camera. The principle 200MP shooter is changed with a 50MP one with a barely smaller sensor too. The third auxiliary 8MP ultrawide digital camera stays.

Realme 12 Professional+ specs at a look:

• Physique: 161.5×74.0x8.8mm, 196g; vegan leather-based again, glass entrance, plastic facet body; IP65 mud/water-resistant.
• Show: 6.70″ AMOLED, 1B colours, 120Hz, 800 nits (HBM), 950 nits (peak), 1080x2412px decision, 20.1:9 side ratio, 394ppi.
• Chipset: Qualcomm SM7435-AB Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (4 nm): Octa-core (4×2.40 GHz Cortex-A78 & 4×1.95 GHz Cortex-A55); Adreno 710.
• Reminiscence: 128GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 12GB RAM.
• OS/Software program: Android 14, Realme UI 5.0.
• Rear digital camera: Extensive (foremost): 50 MP, f/1.8, 24mm, 1/1.56″, 1.0µm, multi-directional PDAF, OIS; Telephoto: 64 MP, f/2.8, 71mm, 1/2.0″, 0.7µm, PDAF, OIS, 3x optical zoom; Extremely extensive angle: 8 MP, f/2.2, 16mm, 112˚, 1/4.0″, 1.12µm.
• Entrance digital camera: 32 MP, f/2.4, 22mm (extensive).
• Video seize: Rear digital camera: 4K@30fps, 1080p@30/60/120fps, gyro-EIS; Entrance digital camera: 1080p@30fps.
• Battery: 5000mAh; 67W wired, 1-50% in 19 min (marketed).
• Connectivity: 5G; Twin SIM; Wi-Fi 6; BT 5.2; NFC.
• Misc: Fingerprint reader (beneath show, optical); stereo audio system.

The newer system now presents a stronger Snapdargon 7s Gen 2 chipset as effectively based mostly on a extra fashionable 4nm manufacturing course of.

No adjustments to the show have been made, though we weren’t anticipating any to start with. Final 12 months’s curved 120Hz OLED panel is completely high-quality in 2024 as effectively. Perhaps the utmost brightness falls a bit brief to opponents’ options, nevertheless it’s nonetheless adequate for comfy outside use.

The system additionally retains its slick design with vegan leather-based and the 5,000 mAh battery, however sadly, the latter now costs with a 67-watt brick, down from the 100W charging from final 12 months.

It appears to be like as if Realme needed to make just a few compromises right here and there to accommodate a number of the new options, together with the periscope telephoto digital camera. We dive deeper onto the next pages to see if there are every other noteworthy adjustments which are onerous to identify from the specs sheet alone.

Unboxing the Realme 12 Professional+

The Realme 12 Professional+ is available in a typical retail field containing the same old consumer manuals, the 67W-rated charger and a USB-A to USB-C cable for charging and knowledge switch.

There’s additionally a clear silicone case that does not conceal the distinctive design.