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Realme just announced the X50 Pro 5G
March 02, 2020

The X50 Pro 5G is Realme’s first flagship device, so it packs the best specs and the latest features into something that aims to rival high-end offerings from the competition. Last year’s Realme X2 Pro won our Best of Android award. Upfront, is a thin chin bezel, and a Galaxy S10 Plus-esque double punch hole. Like the Honor View 20, this punch-hole sits on the right side of the display. The rear glass on the X50 Pro 5G is matte and comes in two colors. There’s the Moss Green, which we have here, along with a Rust Red option. The colors are slightly muted when compared to outgoing models.
Figure 16: Realme X50 Pro 5G

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On the left edge are separate volume up and down buttons. On the right edge, there is a colored power button. The microphone is on the top. On the bottom, there’s a USB-C port, SIM card slot, microphone, and speaker. The buttons are clicky and tactile and well positioned. On the back, the matte glass is slippery and could be prone to falling. This is contrasted with the grippy aluminum rails that surround it. 

The Realme X2 Pro had a 90Hz display.  The X50 Pro 5G continues this with its 6.44-inch FHD+ 90Hz Super AMOLED panel. There’s a 180Hz sample rate to help the touch screen feel more responsive. Realme claims “1000+ nits brightness”, “105% NTSC”, and “100% DCI-P3” meaning that the X50 Pro 5G is out to compete with some of the best screens on smartphones in 2020. The X50 Pro 5G features 32MP and 8MP cameras on the front. The main sensor is an IMX616 with an 80-degree field of view. The second has a field of view of 105-degrees and features Realme’s Edge Deformity Correction function, which detects warping and corrects for it in software. On the rear, lives a 64MP GW1 sensor with an f/1.8 aperture, an 8MP 119-degree camera with an f/2.3 aperture, a 13MP 2x optical zoom camera with an f/2.5 aperture, and a black and white portrait camera to aid with portrait mode.

The 13MP zoom camera is capable of 5x optical hybrid zoom and 20x hybrid zoom. There are no mirrors or prisms here like the Huawei P30 Pro or Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, however. There’s also a new system for pinching to zoom called Smooth Zoom Technology. This aims to emulate the feeling of zooming a camera lens.
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The front camera is able to shoot FHD video at 30 and 120fps. The rear has the ability to shoot UHD video at 30fps with UIS video stabilization. The Realme X50 Pro 5G supports optional 6, 8, or 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and either 128 or 256GB of UFS 3.0 storage and a  Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 5G  putting it in the performance ballpark as the recently released Galaxy S20 series,  It has a 4,200mAh battery is typical of what we’d see in a phone of this size in 2019.  The device will ship with Android 10 in the form of Realme UI, which has shown to be a radical improvement over its predecessor. There’s an optical in-display fingerprint scanner on the Realme X50 Pro 5G, which Realme claims allows for a 0.27 second unlock time. There is also a dual speaker setup utilizing the bottom speaker and the earpiece speaker for a hybrid combination. WiFi 6 is present, too, for a download speed of up to 9.6Gbps. This device is using a vapor cooling system to keep the SoC cool during long periods of processing load. There’s also a tactile linear motor that’s designed to tighten and crispen up the feel of the vibrations and haptics.