chris here with realme's new release this is the gt neo 3 the 150 watt version
so 150 watt charging that is blazing quick and it is the fastest that i've tested out in a phone to
date only about 15 sometimes 14 minutes to fully charge the 5000 milliamp hour battery
is impressive but the other thing i'm really impressed with is mediatek's demensity 8100 that
is powering this phone right here so the model that really sent out to me this is a review unit
does have 12 gigabytes of ram and 256 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage the main camera has optical
image stabilization it's 50 megapixels with an f 1.9 aperture we do have with this dual
loudspeakers in screen fingerprint reader a 6.7 inch screen which is an amoled 120 hertz those
are the key specs there but let's find out why i'm so impressed with the gt neo 350 watt version here
included with the phone you'll find some paperwork and a sim tray tool we have our charger which is
large it's a type c charger 150 watts then i'll type c to type c cable and a tpu case
high quality one in a smoky gray color the phone weighs 188 grams and the thickness
of it is 8.2 millimeters measuring here so on the left side we have our volume up and down buttons
which is separate and then our power button here on the right side power button location i like
i think it's in a good place but the fingerprint reader is really low down here i really wish they
put it here but that fingerprint reader let me do that again is very good i find it to be fast
it's accurate and look at how quick it unlocks so it is a amoled screen 1 billion colors 120
hertz hdr 10 plus and 6.7 inches full hd plus resolution covered with gorilla glass 5. there
is a cutout here for our front facing camera the whole punch dial and that houses a 16 megapixel
f 2.5 camera which is a 26 millimeter wide lens now i really like this color that they've gone
with it's a purple almost blue depending on the way you look at it the way the light shines
off it we've got these racing stripes on it and then our deer to leap with the real me right
there now at least the deer to leap small not like some of the other phones that had it huge across
the back which to me was a bit of an eyesore now we do have some text here and the ce they have
to use this for the global models unfortunately but you'll see with the chinese edition that they
don't actually have all that writing which is a bit of a shame there so with our cameras the main
camera has optical image stabilization which is this big lens right here 50 megapixels that's an
f 1.9 aperture and we do have an 8 megapixel ultra wide and a 2 megapixel macro ouch yes 2 megapixels
i really wish they'd put at least a five megapixel macro or just give us an ultra wide that has focus
then we wouldn't even need it we could just have the two cameras on the rear but doing three things
down below we have a loudspeaker our type c port microphone and our sim tray takes two nano sims so
no micro sd card support unfortunately and then this is a port here for the earpiece
loudspeaker so yes it does have dual speakers and our mic later on i will give you a sample of how
these speakers sound let me talk a little bit more about the screen so 6.7 inches it responds
to touch as i mentioned before really well and the display brightness it does top out at just
over 700 nits according to my meter that i have here and you can make it out in direct sunlight so
it won't top or beat the top-end flagship screens it can get over a thousand nits like your samsung
panels and your s22 ultras and things like that no but i think for the price point it is excellent so
under color mode we do have some options here you've got pro mode cinematic and you've got
brilliant you can adjust the white balance you've got natural softer color display and again you can
adjust that white balance and then vivid vivid's the one by default and that is what i'll be using
throughout this review here so you have your other options here so you got bright hdr video
eye comfort there is there too as well now the refresh rate i often just keep this on
auto select so it swaps between 60 and 120 i don't know if it uses 90 hertz
and i would have preferred to have seen that option in here too so you can force it on 120
to make everything quick at the cost of the battery but 90 is that sweet spot between
the fluidity of 120 and then the battery saving of 60. so it's a shame that it isn't there now i'll
just go into a couple of images right here just to show you what the screen is all about i think
it looks really good i think it is a fantastic display and it just responds to touch really quick
no problems and our rom optimization is excellent so bringing down the toggles and notifications
very quick the gestures do work well recent apps is all very smooth very fast and the performance
in general really good i've got no complaints the animations are spot on i don't see any stutters
any lag at all so it does run android 12. it's real me ui version 3.0 it's basically
color os is what it is but customized for real me and we do have this option here so we've got
what they call ram expansion now i wish they would rename this to virtual memory because that's what
it really is so it's basically just a caching system to help speed things up a little bit
dedicated by default is three gigabytes here now i do have 12 gigabytes of ram you can even set up
to seven if you wanted to which might aid in the performance you give up on a bit of storage of
course but for me it is very quick and really fast just top notch performance here out of this rom
now when you get hold of your nice brand new shiny gt neo 3 and you first power it on you
will be greeted with a few bloatware applications so linkedin tick tock
there's a couple others all right it's not that bad at all it's very tame
when it comes to bloatware this is certainly a lot better than what i'm seeing in miui 13 which
can sometimes have up to about 20 bloatware applications around almost three gigabytes
so that's great i hope that real me keeps up with that that they just tone down and
just try and use a minimal amount of bloatware so charging time because it's 150 watts this version
it's super quick i have not seen a phone that's able to do these kind of speed so from 10 to 100
in 14 minutes i've actually done it before in 13 and sometimes it's 15 or 16 depending on when you
charge if it's a little bit lower down but really that's just crazy crazy fast now ignore this that
doesn't mean that we're losing out on battery capacity it tends to be a little bit inaccurate
and so that's just a gauge there on the battery capacity that it's calculating it's only estimated
there that's the antutu application antutu score here it's actually very good so the demensity 8100
i am impressed so far the way it is i think the efficiency of it is great
it feels very quick and snappy and really i cannot complain about it at all just like the
internal storage speeds here so ufs 3.1 take a look at this random reason right both over 300
really good and their sequential reads and writes they're right up there so excellent
performance there now it has full support here for camera two api not unfortunately level three
now being mediatek two you might have some issues getting a gcam or open camera port to work and
hopefully give you electronic image stabilization with 4k video which the phone's currently lacking
so the safety net status is a pass here which is good does have nfc on board with this
and we do have a wide vine level one cert now netflix in full hd but amazon prime video no
disney plus also in standard definition sadly so hopefully that's going to change later on
gps does work well you get an accuracy of one meter now it was a very cloudy day in raining and
my average signal strength was a little bit lower as a result i do notice when it's a very clear day
this will be in the 30s so they didn't see or did should i say see a lot and locked onto 32 but it
just looks like the amp's not seeing a mini there now stability this is really a threatening test so
the wildlife extreme 3d mark throttling test shows the performance will drop down 20
almost that is so much better than the snapdragon gen 1 chips that normally drop down about 40
almost in performance so for me this demensity the 8100 is better actually long term than the
snapdragon 810 one for gaming that is generates less heat throttles less which is good so the
battery life here this is a fixed test 200 nits i calibrate the display and it goes down to 20
battery gives me the result it went through it for an amazing time here now i have to admit that i
did have it set on the variable frame rate option so the refresh rate sorry was between 16 100
and 20 hertz so i didn't force it to 120 hertz now real life use is not going to be
this good but you are looking at approximately nine hours of screen on time which is great
for a phone like this voice calls and our haptics i wanted to talk about a little bit before i get
onto audio so voice calls i haven't had any issues i've called myself on the sim here and it sounds
fine to me the audio quality i know in the past a lot of people have been criticizing real me's
call quality and i don't seem to have an issue here at least with my network
now we do have haptics that feel quite nice and crisp when you type away with the on-screen
keyboard i do like them i like what's coming out of that vibration motor here with the gt neo three
so audio wise no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so you have to use bluetooth something
like these these are some new one more evos i'm currently testing out and they
are amazing review of those soon but here's a sample of these loudspeakers at 100 volume
gaming performance now i'm testing out the dimension 8100 with a very stressful
demanding game here yen chan impact now with these snapdragon 8gen ones normally about now
after playing i've only been playing about five minutes the frame rate would be around the high
40s to mid 40s on the top possible settings which is what i'm running right here so that's going to
stress it out quite a bit you go into graphics and it's set to the highest preset it does stay
custom there because i put it onto 60 frames per second so i'm pushing it really hard here
and so far faring really well i am impressed with the mallee graphics that this has so it's the mali
g610 and of course the demancity 8100 is a five nanometer chip so see what happens now after a
game for around one hour just how hard is it going to get and will it start to throttle down like i
saw with 3d mark okay this is just ridiculous i am so shocked here it's not really getting that
warm it's getting slightly warm to the touch and that is and it seems to have just plateaued so
i did end up putting it into the performance mode see if i can get it a little bit hotter
and it's warming up slightly but if you keep it in the balance mode i'm seriously impressed with
this demensity 8100 it's just not heating up it's so much cooler than the snapdragon counterparts
they're going to be really hot but let's have a look at the thermals because i've been playing
now for about 40 minutes and it's just not getting any warmer so there's no point me continuing there
the frame rate still is very steady on the top settings around 60 frames per second
hang on i've got to kill this enemy here let's get them out of the way
so the screen here is heating up to about 40 degrees now that's normal and that's actually
really low because the again the snapdragons would be up around 50 degrees some of them
and on the back here look at this that's around where the camera module is where i feel most
of the heat 30 degrees that's it so it's the front of it that's getting up to about 40 41
that's really it i'm not seeing any higher than that seriously impressive thermals here
well done with the cooling realme and well done mediatek with this amazing dementia d8100 chip
and the front-facing 16 megapixel camera does have electronic image stabilization the exposure
doesn't seem to be too bad considering i'm wearing a white shirt here which can be a problem for
some of these phones they tend to over expose scenes so it's good that we have the electronic
image stabilization here but no 4k with a front-facing camera and it would probably be
4k without electronic image stabilization moving over to our video now with the gt neo 3 so we do
have 4k with the main 50 megapixel camera with its optical image stabilization but as you can see it
does not have electronic image stabilization which is really odd now we've already had a couple of
patches come through so it seems that for some weird reason real me doesn't want to give this
electronic image stabilization maybe they don't want it to compete with the gt2 and the gt2 pro
so the ultra wide compared to that main camera does have electronic image stabilization but
it looks very washed out lacking details the 8 megapixel sensor here really is struggling
to capture detail now it's only 1080p no 4k with this camera the sensor just does not support it
so
so you just saw what the weaknesses of the gt neo 3 that is the cameras main camera is good it has
optical image stabilization but no 4k electronic image stabilization and then the ultra wide
performance is poor it's not great and especially at video only 1080p video that looks washed out it
looks a little bit over processed over sharpened i don't like it the audio quality there's room for
improvement as well now the audio bit rate isn't 96 kilobits per second like we see on other brands
it's 156 but they could up it they could certainly tweak that audio to sound a bit better with video
so there's so many things that i'm really impressed about with this phone charge speed
wow okay 15 minutes to fully charge it but the real thing that impresses me is the performance
of that media tech the demensity 8100 this is my first time testing it out and i'm blown away by
the thermals and the sustained performance so play a demanding game like i did gentian impact you get
frame rates that better all of the snapdragon 8 gen 1 phones that are passively cooled there are
phones like the red magic 7 and the red magic 7 pro that i've reviewed with fans in them they can
get 60 frames per second the whole time but you've got a noisy fan in there but this barely heats up
40 degrees after playing a demanding game like that's amazing i am absolutely well stunned that
it can do it it just shows me how bad really the qualcomm chips are just turn that screen back on
the qualcomm chips they overheat they're too hot they're overpriced they kind of sound like
intel media text like amd well to me at least i'm sounding like in a mediatek shell here but trust
me i'm not i'm not being paid or anything like that i'm just happy to see that such a competitive
chip's coming through finally the screen 120 hertz great ui performance no lag no real bloatware no
problems with animation stutters and i can't say that about other brands it simply is a solid great
offering from realme just improve those cameras and they have an all-round monster of a phone
to beat so thank you so much for watching my review here of the gt neo 3 150 watt edition