Realme is the king of special edition phones. This is undebatable. Just check out the Naruto-themed Realme GT Neo 3. But if you’re not all that into anime, Xiaomi’s newly announced Redmi Turbo 3 and Pad Pro — arriving in a smattering of Harry Potter regalia — might convince you that it is in fact, The King™.
There’s just one problem. Like the shinobi-clad Neo GT 3, Redmi is reserving the right to purchase one of these glorious devices for residents in the company’s homeland; China. Unless you’ve got an in with someone in China, we’ll have to make do with gaping at the thing from afar.
Yer a smartphone, Harry
Round the back of the Turbo 3 is where you’ll find most of the Harry Potter branding that knocks this phone up in price. The livery puts the Hogwarts crest front and centre, with a wand found up around the camera’s real estate. And, just in case any buyers forgot why they purchased the phone in the first place, Redmi’s stuck some handy Harry Potter branding down the bottom end.
Xiaomi didn’t just slap a skin on their phone and call it a day, though. The box it arrives in is equally Harry Potter-fied, with a special edition phone charger and case — with a few other accessories to complete the set. The same goes for the Redmi Pad Pro, which dons a simpler Hogwarts crest right in the middle, but arrives with a protective case that’ll turn the thing into a massive 12.1in-sized Hogwarts admission letter.
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Should you get your hands on either of these, you’ll nett some decent specs. The Turbo 3 is not only rocking Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor, but also 16GB of RAM, 1TB of storage, and a 6.67in OLED screen. The Pad Pro’s largest feat is the 10,000mAh battery lodged in its innards. We suppose you could make a case for the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 SoC powering the whole Hogwarts letter, too. Must be how it keeps going even on weekends.
