Realme 11 Pro and Realme 11 Pro+ presented in China a month ago began their international launch yesterday. Our Realme 11 Pro+ review has already come out, so let’s focus on the Realme 11 Pro now.
The Realme 11 Pro comes in a yellow retail box like the Pro+ model and the contents of the box are also identical except you get an 80W SuperVOOC charger with the Realme 11 Pro instead of the 100W GaN charger bundled with the Pro+. Realme has not put pictures of its new brand ambassador Shah Rukh Khan for the smartphone category on the retail box like it did years ago with Salman Khan who was the brand ambassador for the Realme 6 series in India. Not everyone likes it, after all.
The Realme 11 Pro is built around a 6.7″ FullHD+ 120Hz AMOLED display with HDR10+ support and a maximum brightness of 950 nits. The screen is protected by Dragontrail Glass and has a centered hole punch for the 16MP selfie camera (Pro+ features a 32MP unit) with a fingerprint reader underneath for biometric authentication.
Turn the phone around and you see a massive circular camera module, housing an LED flash and two cameras: 100MP primary (with OIS) and 2MP macro. Realme ditched the Pro+ model’s 8MP ultrawide unit, which doesn’t sit well with us. The brand could have opted for an ultrawide unit with autofocus to allow for macro shots if it really wanted to have dual rear cameras on the Pro version, but we believe Realme went with this arrangement as a cost-cutting measure.
Realme 11 Pro, like Pro+, has three color options: Astral Black, Sunrise Beige and Oasis Green. We received the Sunrise Beige model, which, like the Oasis Green variant, has a back cover sporting the Lychee Leather Design, which not only makes it look premium and expensive, but also helps with grip by making the back panel fingerprint resistant .
The leather version feels great to hold. However, it is not the first time that Realme has launched a smartphone with a leather back. In 2020, Realme released Realme 7 Pro SE Sun Kissed Leather, which had a similar feeling back cover, with the Realme logo having a metallic effect like on Realme 11 Pro and Pro+.
Realme 11 Pro looks identical to Realme 11 Pro+ and you may not be able to tell them apart at first glance. That doesn’t mean the two phones can’t be differentiated. The Pro model has “100MP OIS Camera” written on the camera module, while the Pro+ has “200MP OIS Camera” written. Also, both smartphones have different rear camera setups.
Realme 11 Pro (left) with Realme 11 Pro+ (right)
Under the hood, the Realme 11 Pro has the Dimension 7050 SoC with up to 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. It packs a 5,000mAh battery with support for 67W charging and runs Realme UI 4.0 based on Android 13. Realme has promised two years of Android version updates and three years of security updates for the Pro and Pro+. It’s also worth mentioning that the Realme 11 Pro and Pro+ come pre-installed with several third-party apps, but luckily most of them can be uninstalled if you wish.
We will start testing Realme 11 Pro soon. In the meantime, you can read our Realme 11 Pro+ review. It’s basically the Realme 11 Pro with a 200MP main camera, an 8MP ultrawide camera, a 32MP selfie shooter, and 100W charging.
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