Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition hands-on review

Realme launched the Realme 10 Pro final November in three colours – Dark Matter, Nebula Blue, and Hyperspace Gold. And a number of weeks in the past, the corporate unveiled a restricted version 10 Pro designed in partnership with Coca-Cola, dubbed Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition. We obtained one from Realme, so let’s examine the way it’s completely different from the common 10 Pro.

The Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition is available in a particular package deal that is a tad taller than the usual mannequin’s retail field. It drops the black-yellow shade scheme for a Coca-Cola-inspired black-red theme and encompasses a cropped Coca-Cola brand, one thing we additionally see on the smartphone itself.

The Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition’s retail field displays mild at completely different angles, and whereas Realme is promoting the smartphone with the Deluxe Boxset, which incorporates the precise telephone field and Realmeow Coca-Cola Figure, it is solely the telephone field that clients will obtain upon buy. The giant field and Realmeow Coca-Cola Figure should not on the market and have been despatched solely to the media.

Even then, the Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition’s retail package deal consists of some goodies you will not get with the usual model. For starters, there are 29 Coca-Cola themed DIY stickers, and whereas these may not be as much as everybody’s style, there’s a custom-made SIM card needle impressed by the Coca-Cola bottle cap, which is method cooler than those we often get with most different smartphones.

Additionally, the package deal features a Coca-Cola can-shaped restricted quantity card telling which of the 6,000 globally obtainable Coca-Cola Edition models is in your possession. Ours is quantity 841.

Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition with restricted quantity card and customised SIM card needle

The Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition’s retail field additionally comes with the same old set of equipment – a transparent protecting case, a charging cable, a 33W SuperVOOC energy adapter, and a few paperwork.

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Let’s flip our consideration to the telephone now. The Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition shares the hardawre with the usual model however flaunts a Coca-Cola-inspired design. Its again panel is handled with a “Matte Imitation Coating Process” to offer the “elegant touch of brushed aluminum while remaining resistant to scratches and fingerprints.” The concept is to make the telephone really feel like a can of Coke when holding it, and we should say that the again cowl’s matte end feels good and resists fingerprint smudges. And like its field, the Coca-Cola Edition’s rear additionally displays mild at completely different angles.

The Coca-Cola Edition’s again panel flaunts what Realme calls the Red & Black Collision: 70/30 Asymmetrical Black Design since 30% of the panel is in black shade and 70% within the purple. The black strip sports activities the Realme moniker, whereas the purple space options the cropped Coca-Cola brand. There’s one other Coca-Cola brand etched on the smartphone’s right-side body.

You may also see that the 2 cameras on the again are surrounded by red-colored rings, giving a pleasant contrasting look to the restricted version 10 Pro. Realme calls this Camera Lens Halo.

Realme prolonged the Coca-Cola theme to the telephone’s UI. With the Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition, you get a Coca-Cola-inspired lock display displaying Realmeow’s Coke model, with the app icons having a bubble aspect since they’re encircled with a purple ring.

The system apps’ icons have been custom-made by Realme as effectively. There are 24 of them, though relying on market you could not get the complete set pre-installed. Our unit solely got here with 19 custom-made app icons.

Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition’s custom-made app icons

It’s price mentioning that that is achieved by means of the “Cheers! For Real” theme, which might be discovered within the Themes menu. It is chosen by default, however you should utilize different themes if you would like.

There’s extra to the Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition’s UI than simply custom-made apps. The smartphone has a effervescent charging animation, mimicking the bubbles within the beverage’s bottles.

Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition comes with a Coke-inspired charging animation

It additionally comes with a brand new ringtone and notification sounds. The Cola Official Music can be utilized as a ringtone and a notification sound, whereas the Open Happiness and Cola Bubbles tones are solely obtainable as alert tones.

Realme additionally confirmed some fizzing like to the digital camera division because the default digital camera app on the Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition comes with an “80s Cola” Filter accessible by means of the Street Mode and a brand new bottle opening digital camera shutter sound known as “Special edition.” It’s enabled by default, so if you happen to favor the unique shutter sound as a substitute, you may change by heading to the default digital camera app’s Settings > Shutter sound menu.

We are glad that Realme custom-made the UI of the Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition and did not pull one other GT Neo 3 150W Thor Love and Thunder Limited Edition (hands-on) with it because the GT Neo 3 150W Thor Edition is simply the common GT Neo 3 150W Nitro Blue model with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage, which is available in a particular retail package deal.

The commonplace Realme 10 Pro has two reminiscence choices – 6GB/128GB and 8GB/128GB, priced in India at INR18,999 ($230/€220) and INR19,999 ($240/€230), respectively. The Coca-Cola Edition is available in a single 8GB/128GB configuration, priced at INR20,999 ($255/€240). If you might be searching for a telephone that is a collector’s merchandise, you may take into account shopping for the Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition as a substitute of the common mannequin.

The Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition is at present out of inventory on Realme’s official Indian web site and Flipkart, which was anticipated since Realme made solely 6,000 of these for promoting in markets it operates in, however you may nonetheless discover it at some mainline shops in India.

The Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola Edition is at present India-exclusive, and we’re but to see it launch elsewhere. But no matter whether or not you might be planning to purchase the restricted version or common 10 Pro, you may wish to learn our commonplace Realme 10 Pro’s detailed review because it has the identical {hardware} because the Coca-Cola Edition.