realme has confirmed that its latest flagship smartphone, the realme GT 8 Pro, will officially launch in Malaysia on 24 November 2025. This new model notably is the first from the company to feature cameras co-branded with Japanese electronics company Ricoh (you probably saw this brand mostly on office printers, but they do cameras, too). With that, realme joins the increasingly large list of of smartphone-plus-imaging-company collaborations.
realme GT 8 Pro Coming Soon
The realme GT 8 Pro is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and features a “tri-chip architecture” that includes the aforementioned Snapdragon chipset, plus Hyper Vision+ AI Chip and Signal Catcher Chip, responsible for graphical upscaling (presumably up to 2K 144Hz, its native display specs) and signal boosting duties, respectively.
Like Oppo and Hasselblad, Xiaomi and Leica, vivo and ZEISS, realme is bringing Japanese-based RICOH for the imaging co-development, with the GT 8 Pro integrating the RICOH GR camera system featuring custom anti-glare lenses and a 200MP Sony IMX main sensor. Users can access signature GR photography functions such as film-style color modes, immersive framing options, and Snap Focus mode.
Speaking of cameras, it’s not just the internals that now gets an imaging company’s blessing – realme also opens up its camera housing for users to customize the appearance, and it can be pretty much any shape or form as long as it fits the module housing three cameras. The company is partnering Bambu Lab for the “Deco Design Contest,” where participants can design and 3D print unique camera housing designs to win prizes.
Pre-orders for the realme GT 8 Pro series, including the standard and Dream Edition variants, are now open until 28 November with early bird customers entitled for gifts valued at RM1,197. The device will officially launch in Malaysia on 24 November 2025, with additional details to be shared on the company’s socials, and you can expect formal pricing announcement by then.
Pokdepinion: My gut feeling tells me someone is going to make a custom camera housing similar to the ones on iPhone 17 Pros.
