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The first dynamic island clone. They are really proud of it.
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Here it is in action.
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It turns red when you have low battery.
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The rest of the phone looks good.
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It comes in black and yellowish.
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This power button doubles as a fingerprint reader.
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It has a headphone jack!
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The back of the yellow version has this neat iridescent design.
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The iridescent design is due to a ton of different back layers.
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Kudos to Android maker Realme for being the first to clone the iPhone 14 Dynamic Island. It was a rough six months, but everyone at the Chinese OEM (a BBK subsidiary, like OnePlus /Oppo) got together and made this generic product.
The Realme C55 launched in Indonesia for around $195 and features a new “Mini Capsule” user interface. When it’s time to show a specific type of notification, this phone has two black bars sticking out of the front camera lens, showing more information than you’d normally get in a single bar icon. of state. It looks like the iPhone 14’s new Dynamic Island notification space. While the iPhone’s display dead space is due to it having a bunch of FaceID sensors, there’s no new hardware here (it will take a bit longer to copy), just a normal front camera that turns into a giant pill.
Apple’s end-to-end control over the operating system and app ecosystem means all sorts of apps use the Dynamic Island notification pattern, but Realme is just an Android maker that makes a Android skin, so it looks like the only real notification that appears in the “Mini Capsule” is your battery status. Plug in the phone and you will see charging statistics. With low battery, the pill will have a red outline and warn you that your phone is about to die. Realme is also planning an update that will show a step counter and data usage.
The rest of the phone doesn’t have much to say, it’s still a budget phone. Specs include a 6.7-inch, 90Hz LCD screen, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 5,000mAh battery. An additional tier of 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage is also available. The SoC is a MediaTek Helio G88, a 12nm chip with two Cortex-A75 processors, six Cortex-A55 processors and an ARM Mali-G52 GPU. That’s not too bad in a budget country since you get a headphone jack and a MicroSD slot. There’s also a side fingerprint reader and the phone comes with a surprisingly modern Android 13.
The body of the device contributes to the “counterfeit iPhone” look with a flat metal band that wraps around the sides, just like an iPhone 4 or 14. The back is where things get a little different, with two big camera bumps wrapped around two budget sensor cameras, and the yellow version of the phone has a neat-looking iridescent back.
It might be the first iPhone 14 clone, but it won’t be the last. Next in line on the copier is Huawei, which is said to have a fake Dynamic Island lined up for the Huawei Nova 11. The phone is expected to be released in the first half of this year, assuming Huawei finds the chips for it.
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