Skins and cases let you change a phone’s appearance to suit your style. That’s all the other phones. Meanwhile, the new Realme GT8 Pro lets you tweak the look of the phone by changing the camera module. You heard that right. This new Android handset from Realme has an interchangeable camera module.
Out of the box, the Realme GT8 Pro [CH] has a round camera module that is offset to the side. But with the camera module covers, you can swap it to a transparent square or a metallic square. Or you could just leave it naked, which looks kinda cool too. In its case-free state, the camera module looks like a robot’s head.
With the new GT8 Pro, it also marks Realme’s first partnership with a serious camera maker—Ricoh. That’s right. Xiaomi has Leica onboard. Oppo has Hasselblad. Now, Realme joins the club with its “camera powered by Ricoh GR.” And no, this isn’t just a sticker job. Realme says the GT8 Pro inherits and innovates on Ricoh’s 30 years of experience, with hundreds of custom tweaks to hardware, algorithms, tones, and overall design.
The 50 MP Ricoh GR main camera features a 1/1.56-inch sensor, f/1.8 aperture, OIS, and a 7P high-transparency glass lens. There’s also a 200 MP periscope telephoto lens with 3× optical and 120× digital zoom, plus a 50 MP ultra-wide camera. Up front, you’ll find a 32 MP selfie camera that’s ready to make you regret not cleaning your pores.
The display is another show-off move: a 6.79-inch 2K AMOLED “Sky Screen” with 144 Hz refresh rate and 4,000 nits of peak brightness—bright enough to double as a flashlight during blackouts. Under the hood, it packs Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, LPDDR5X memory, UFS 4.1 storage, and an R1 gaming display chip that keeps native 120 fps smoothness alive even when you’re sweating in Mobile Legends ranked matches.
Keeping all that power from melting is a 7,000 mm² vapor chamber cooling system with dual-layer screen cooling, while the 7,000 mAh titan battery with 120 W wired and 50 W wireless charging makes sure you spend less time tethered and more time bragging. It also packs a Sky Signal S1 chip for better connectivity, an IP69 rating for water and dust resistance, and stereo speakers tuned for “master-grade balance.”
So yes, it’s a powerhouse, but more importantly, it’s the first phone that lets you change its face like a mecha mid-transformation, and we have got imaging by street photography extraordinaire in the house, too. Like, what’s not to love, right?
The Realme GT8 Pro has launched in China in three gorgeous colorways and five configurations: 12+256, 16+256, 12+512, 16+512, and the top-tier 16+1 TB. Prices start at just 3,999 yuan [CH] (around 561 US dollars).
Images: Realme [CH].
