Oppo's young Realme brand is gearing up to follow their first year of increasingly excellent-value budget devices with a debut in the competitive value-flagship space.
Though not well-known outside of India and their home-turf, Realme first debuted as a direct competitor to Xiaomi's popular ‘Redmi' budget brand a mere 16 months ago; and yet in that time the budget Oppo-spinoff has already managed to release a total of thirteen devices, mostly in the US$200 price-bracket and each successively offering significant upgrades despite their stunted lifetimes, but now the value-oriented brand is gearing up to launch their first value-flagship following the launch of the much-lauded ‘K20' value-flagship by their rival Redmi a few months ago.
Nothing about the ‘Realme X2 Pro Super Samurai' other than its existence, perhaps name if that brain-meltingly long title is it, and the fact that it will feature the flagchip Snapdragon 855+ has been confirmed in its official teaser by Realme's CMO – however, given the name, it seems likely for the phone to be an upgraded Realme X2 which launched featuring Qualcomm's slightly lower-tier Snapdragon 730G a mere week ago.
This approach of launching a ‘sub-flagship' and then slightly upgrading it with a flagchip and other slight improvements to constitute a value-flagship appears to directly mirror Xiaomi's Redmi K20 and K20 Pro, known internationally as the Mi 9T and Mi 9T Pro; unsurprising given Realme was incepted as a cutthroat competitor to said brand, evident even in the brand's name. I must say I do appreciate the approach though, as it brings more top-end features down to even lower price-points than even value-flagships can provide.
We have no official unveiling/launch date for this, possibly, ‘Realme X2 Pro', but given Realme's breakneck pace I would think its launch to be imminent.
Man do I love competition in the value-oriented space.
