At the Mobile World Congress 2025 (MWC 2025), Realme has displayed how smartphone photography would be taking a giant step forward with revolutionary interchangeable-lens. The innovative concept brings a 1-inch customized Sony sensor that lets DSLR lenses mount on a smartphone to bring the mobile photography closer to professional grade imaging.
Alongside these interchangeable-lens systems, Realme also introduced two groundbreaking AI features that revolutionize photo and video editing with minimum efforts.
An Interchangeable-Concept for Smartphone Photography Revolution
Realme invented a real concept with interchangeable lens, and it’s a very groundbreaking attempt to fill the gap between smartphones and professional cameras. Unlike other conventional mobile camera enhancement, this system enables a user to tie a DSLR lens to a smartphone and capture high quality images using a customized 1-inch Sony sensor power.
Realme presented these 2 lenses at MWC 2025.
- Professional bokeh portrait shots and stunning portraits lens – 73mm portrait lens.
- Throughout the use of 234mm telephoto lens, lossless 10x zoom helps to take pictures of detailed shots from distance.
This is all in prototype now, which is a bold step in overcoming the limitations of small smartphone camera sensors and corresponding loss of quality in digital zoom.
How the Interchangeable-Lens System Works
Realme interchangeable-lens system doesn’t act as a replacement for built-in cameras on smartphones but provides a new dimension of flexibility by enabling users to mount external lenses on smartphone’s camera module. A proprietary lens mount system is used for seamless integration with the device’s software.
The mounted lens gets recognized and used as the main camera and facilitates enhanced imaging capabilities once the smartphone is attached.
Key Specifications of Realme’s Interchangeable-Lens Concept
| Name | Realme Interchangeable-Lens Concept |
| Sensor | 1-inch customized Sony sensor |
| Lens Mount System | Proprietary Realme design |
| Lens Options | 73mm portrait lens, 234mm telephoto lens |
| Zoom Capability | Lossless 10x zoom (with 234mm lens) |
| AI Features | Al Voice-based Retoucher, Al Video Eraser |
| Prototype Status | Not yet mass-produced |
| Availability | Currently a concept, no release date announced |
Introducing AI-Powered Imaging Features
In addition to its interchangeable-lens concept, Realme also previewed two powerful AI driven imaging features focused on simplifying editing of both pictures and videos.
● AI Voice-Based Retoucher
It allows the users to edit their photos using voice commands. The AI will instantly change the image as soon as the users say a phrase such as “Remove the background”, or “Make the sky blue,” without the users having to manually configure settings. This way, it becomes hands free which makes it faster and more accessible.
● AI Video Eraser
This feature allows users to tap off unwanted objects or people in videos. However, traditionally one has to remove objects from videos by frame.
What This Means for the Future of Smartphone Photography
Realme is the future of smartphones as a camera, not just for convenience but real imaging devices on par with professional cameras. Although it’s the interchangeable lenses that provide unprecedented flexibility, AI developed features perform complex edits without effort.
Although the prototype for such a concept has yet to be realized, its impact is sure to be felt. If successful at commercialization, this innovation could potentially lay the agenda for a new age of mobile photography whereby mobile phone users access different lenses as professional photographers do.
Conclusion
Realme is adding its own twist to the internet Zam interchangeable-lens concept, as nicely as to AI inspired imaging options. This means that we could attach DSLR lenses on a smartphone, revolutionizing mobile photography, and we can have professional quality as professional editing tools powered by AI.
It will be interesting to observe how Realme shapes up these innovations when realising them in following smartphone models and as this technology moves from prototype to reality. The idea in principle is to make the interchangeable lens concept a new standard for smartphone photography, bringing pro-level imaging to within reach as never before.