Realme’s New Phone Changes Color In The Cold, But It Won’t Last Forever

Realme conscionable launched its 14 Pro phones successful India, and they recreation pinch a connection trick: nan phones tin alteration colour successful nan cold. That’s successful summation to a triple camera flash and a triple IP opinionated that should protect nan telephone from utmost h2o conditions.

Both nan Realme 14 Pro and 14 Pro Plus banal nan color-sensitive tech, though it’s constricted to nan pearl achromatic versions, pinch purple and grey models stuck connected 1 lousy color. Co-designed pinch Danish workplace Valeur Designers, nan pearlescent phones see thermochromic pigments that commencement retired arsenic white, but premier up bluish hues erstwhile nan somesthesia drops beneath 16 degrees Celsius (about 61 degrees Fahrenheit), reversing arsenic it warms up again.

Realme says that nan colder nan temperature, nan faster nan telephone will change. It’s moreover imaginable to create short-lived patterns by only cooling circumstantial spots, which Indian YouTubers are already enjoying putting to nan test.

It does recreation pinch 1 meaty caveat successful nan mini group though: “The cold-sensitive color-changing usability will gradually suffer effect owed to regular usage and is not a worth issue.” How agelong it will past remains to beryllium seen, but moreover Realme’s ain website only promises nan effect “during first use.”

The color-changing creation isn’t nan only oddity to nan 14 Pro series. The rear cameras spot 3 abstracted flash modules, a creation which Realme says “automatically restores earthy tegument tones successful low-light conditions.” On nan 14 Pro Plus those flashes beryllium successful betwixt 3 camera lenses, though nan 14 Pro pulls a spot of a accelerated one, including 2 rear cameras and a 3rd circle that only looks for illustration a lens, but is successful truth empty.

This is too nan latest telephone to characteristic an IP69 opinionated for protection against particulate and jets of h2o astatine precocious temperatures and pressure, joining nan OnePlus 13, Moto G Power, and Honor Magic 7 Pro successful adopting nan stringent standard, which until precocious was constricted to nan bulkiest rugged phones. The 14 Pro is too rated IP68 for submersion successful h2o and IP66, which too applies to jets of h2o but for higher h2o measurement astatine small pressures and longer distances.

Otherwise, nan 2 Realme phones are emblematic midrangers. They immoderate characteristic 50 megapixel main cameras and middle-of-the-line chipsets, pinch a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 successful nan Pro Plus exemplary and a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 successful nan Pro. The ample 6,000mAh batteries and 80W charging speeds are still impressive, though. Both phones are retired successful India now, and commencement astatine ₹22,999 (about $265).