The realme 8 is the more affordable but still highly capable version of its Pro counterpart. This one comes with a smaller 64MP camera, packs a slightly larger battery, and a Mediatek Helio G95 CPU. Design and Construction Design-wise, the realme 8 shares a very close resemblance to the realme 8 Pro. OS, UI, APPS As for software, it runs on Android 11 out of the box with realme UI 2.0 skinned on top, and out of 128GB of storage, there seems to be 111GB of usable space left, which is still a good amount of storage. [caption id="attachment_273094" align="alignnone" width="720"] realme UI 2.0[/caption] You’ll be getting some signature realme apps such as SoLoop, realme Link, HeyFun, Facebook, and Lazada, and of course, the usual apps from Google like YouTube, Gmail, Drive, Photos, and the like. Performance and Benchmarks Now underneath the hood, instead of a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, we’re getting a MediaTek Helio G95 processor paired with a Mali-G76 MC4 GPU. This is also the same chipset found on the realme 7, which is powered by 2 Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.05 GHz and 6 x Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2.0 GHz. As for charging, the realme 8 comes with a 30W Dart Charger out of the box and takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes to reach from 0-100%. Read more in our articles including "realme 8 Review" and "WATCH: realme 8 Review".
