This Upcoming Smartphone Realme XT Will Be The First Phone To Sport A 64MP Camera

Moments after Realme announced the Realme 5 Pro, it announced its upcoming smartphone that is set to be the first phone in the world to sport a 64MP camera. This upcoming smartphone, named the Realme XT, will be launched in September in what is already a crowded month for smartphone launches.

Earlier this month, Realme had showcased some sample images that were shot on the Realme XT. The phone makes use of Samsung’s Bright GW1 sensor that sports a whopping . This imaging sensor has the same 0.8μm-sized pixels that we’ve seen on Samsung’s and Sony’s 48MP sensors and will hence capture more light than any other comparable sensor. It is also capable of 4-pixel binning to yield 16-megapixel images.

Samsung’s GW1 sensor will make use of tetracell technology and its remosaic algorithm to produce ‘bright’ images in low-light environments and 64MP shots in brighter settings. The image samples that Realme has shared seem to be really promising.

The Realme XT will sport a quad-camera setup that can be expected to be similar to that of the recently unveiled Realme 5 Pro. It is expected to have an ultra-wide sensor, a depth-sensing sensor and a macro lens along with the primary GW1 sensor. While it’s too early to know anything else, it is expected to be another mid-range device that will sit above the Realme 5 Pro and the Realme X.

The smartphone camera industry is making progress by leaps and bounds. A drastic improvement in the software side of things along with improvements in camera hardware is pushing boundaries of what’s possible with smartphone cameras. And if 64MP doesn’t sound like a big jump in pixels, wait for Samsung to launch it’s 108MP sensor later this year that is expected to find home in a Redmi device before the end of this year.