Realme 11 series launched in India and New York; coming to Europe in June (but sadly not the UK, for now at least)
The latest range of phones from Realme’s ‘number series’ has been unveiled, with the flagship Realme 11 Pro+ 5G featuring a 200-megapixel image sensor and 4x in-sensor zoom.
While there’s no planned launch in the UK yet, the three new phones are still of great interest – and will be available to import in due course for those who want to experience great camera features on a highly affordable phone.
The portfolio comprises the Realme 11, Realme 11 Pro, and Realme 11 Pro+. The latter is the one of most interest to budding mobile photographers, and comes with Samsung’s ISOCELL HP3 image sensor with ‘SuperOIS’ and a number of filters, as well as Street Mode 4.0 and HyperShot 2.0.
All three phones are powered by MediaTek SoCs, and the range topping model also gets 100W wired-charging.
You can find out more in the press release below.
Press Release
realme 11 Pro Series Confirms to launch in Europe in June, featuring Samsung ISOCELL HP3 SuperZoom Sensor
May 17th, 2023 – City, Country – realme, world’s fastest growing smartphone brand, confirmed today in its Mobile Photography Innovation Event with Samsung Electronics which was held in New York City that realme 11 Pro Series will come to global market soon. Launched in mainland China on May 10th, realme 11 Pro series brought brilliant 200MP OIS SuperZoom Camera which had drawed the widespread attention in Europe. More surprisingly, Francis Wong, CEO of realme Europe has confirmed that realme 11 Pro+ 5G and realme 11 Pro 5G will be available in Europe in June. realme 11 Pro Series is expected to be the camera flagship for realme Europe in 2023.
Some of the hero camera features of realme 11 Pro+ 5G unveiled during the event:
Upgraded Samsung ISOCELL HP3 SuperZoom Sensor: realme 11 Pro+ 5G boats realme’s camera flagship of the year, featuring a 200MP OIS SuperZoom Camera. The 200MP camera system on the realme 11 Pro+ 5G is based on the an upgraded Samsung ISOCELL HP3 SuperZoom Camera system with a sensor size as large as 1/1.4-inch, a pixel size of 2.24μm and a f/1.69 aperture, all comes in as flagship-level configurations in the same price range – a giant leap when comparing to competitors who are still using IMX766 sensor.
Industry’s First with 4x Lossless Zoom: With In-sensor Zoom technology, the realme 11 Pro+ 5G can support 2x/4x lossless zoom mode, which allows the sensor switching among different image modes to achieve the same number of real pixels in different focal segments, so that photography composition is more free, and shooting is clear from far and near. At a result, the realme 11 Pro + 5G is the industry’s first mobile phone equipped with 4x lossless zoom, and the image resolution in this focal segment is 242% higher than that of similar products.
More Camera Features to explore: The realme 11 Pro series also has interesting camera features such as Super Group Portrait and One Take, which is used for intelligent composition with AI algorithm, to generate multiple “best-angled” photos at once.
Seongwook Song, Vice President of Sensor Architecture of Samsung Electronics, stated in the event: “With the realme 11 Pro+ 5G, we are excited to see the results of close collaboration between Samsung and realme to maximize the potential of the 200MP image sensor.”
Realme Press Release