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 travel pinch a statement trick: the phones tin alteration colour successful the cold. That’s successful summation to a triple camera flash and a triple IP standing that should protect the telephone from utmost h2o conditions.

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

Realme says that the colder the temperature, the faster the 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 the test.

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

The color-changing creation isn’t the only oddity to the 14 Pro series. The rear cameras see 3 abstracted flash modules, a creation which Realme says “automatically restores earthy tegument tones successful low-light conditions.” On the 14 Pro Plus those flashes beryllium successful betwixt 3 camera lenses, though the 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 besides the latest telephone to characteristic an IP69 standing for protection against particulate and jets of h2o astatine precocious temperatures and pressure, joining the OnePlus 13, Moto G Power, and Honor Magic 7 Pro successful adopting the stringent standard, which until precocious was constricted to the bulkiest rugged phones. The 14 Pro is besides rated IP68 for submersion successful h2o and IP66, which besides applies to jets of h2o but for higher h2o measurement astatine little pressures and longer distances.

Otherwise, the 2 Realme phones are emblematic midrangers. They some characteristic 50 megapixel main cameras and middle-of-the-line chipsets, pinch a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 successful the Pro Plus exemplary and a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 successful the 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).