As a Realme fan, I’m always happy to announce what the brand is cooking up next. My introduction to the brand kicked off with a phone from their midrange 12 series, and it delivered in every way. It’s only recently I learned about the P Series. This midrange counterpart is just as marvellous, and is now being refreshed with the upcoming global launch of the P3 and P3 Ultra on June 24.
P3 Ultra bets on MediaTek, while P3 sticks with Snapdragon
The P3 Ultra will debut worldwide with MediaTek’s Dimensity 8350 Ultra chip, while the regular P3 uses the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 chipset. The phones already appeared in India days ago.
The already released Dimensity 8350 is a four nanometer chip that uses a combination of Cortex-A715 and Cortex-A510 cores, clocked up to 3.35GHz. It supports fast LPDDR5X RAM, UFS 4.0 storage, and advanced features like Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.4, and 5G with peak download speeds over 5Gbps.
The Ultra version to appear in the Realme P3 Ultra has no separate listing on MediaTek’s website yet. It's likely a custom-tuned and better version made specifically for the brand. It could also be the same chip with just fancy naming.
The Indian website hints at enhanced thermal management, better power tuning, and a slightly higher sustained performance. Regardless, June 24 is the day to anticipate for all the answers we seek.
It also has an AnTuTu score of over 1.45 million, which is quite high for regular Dimensity chips. Outside that, the two phones share a 6000mAh Titan battery in a slim 7.38mm frame, 120Hz refresh rate on AMOLED Esports displays, and a Sony 50MP OIS camera that shoots 4K video resolution at 60 frames per second. They also come with IP69 durability, and over 10 hours of gameplay on a single charge.
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Realme software yet to match hardware capabilities
The Realme P3 and P3 Ultra phones launch with Android 15, while we wait for Google to do a widespread release of the Android 16's final stable version. That said, Realme’s track record with software support still isn’t great.
Its flagships don't get more than three years of Android version upgrades and four years of security patches. So we wouldn’t expect more than two years of Android updates for the P3 series, which is what the brand has promised. Security patches go a bit longer into three years.
According to GSMArena, their justification for the shortened support is that “no one uses a phone that long”. I beg to differ. Plenty of users do. Not everyone upgrades their device every year or even every two.
If a phone's hardware is good, then you'll definitely want to hold on to it for as long as you can. As my Realme 12+ 5G nears the end of its support, I already mourn the features I'll miss out on.
In markets where the P3 Ultra is expected to do well, especially price-sensitive ones, people often hold onto their phones until the hardware fails or the software becomes too outdated to keep up.
