It looks like yet another phone brand will team up with a camera firm
TL; DR
- Realme is apparently about to announce a partnership with a camera manufacturer.
- There is no word about the identity of the alleged camera partner.
It seems like many smartphone brands in the market right now have a partnership with a camera manufacturer. This trend doesn’t seem to be ebbing anytime soon as it sounds like another smartphone maker might be joining in.
Weibo Leaker Digital Chat Station has claimed that Realme will announce a partnership with a “veteran camera maker”. There’s no exact word on when to expect this announcement, although the machine-translated post seems to suggest that we might hear news as the Realme GT Master Edition launches. In any case, who could be the camera partner in question?
Well, the tipster expressly excludes Sony in a comment below the post. We also saw Leica work with Huawei and Sharp, Zeiss with Vivo and HMD, and Hasselblad with OnePlus. There were also strange rumors that Samsung could launch Olympus branded smartphones in 2022.
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That doesn’t leave many other camera companies on the table for Realme, but some potential candidates are Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Panasonic, Pentax, and Polaroid. In any case, if Realme actually goes down this path, we hope this is more than just a branding exercise and extends to actual photography and videography improvements as well.
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