Chris here and welcome back to another phone review so I have with me
the Realme GT i've been using it for the last two weeks Realme did send this out to me
and i will let you know all of the pros and cons about this particular model here since my time
using it there are definitely a few things you should be aware of if you're considering
importing one of these so yes it is an import model it doesn't come originally with google
play store on it but you can install it so it does have a very bright 120 hertz screen on here it's
amoled and screen fingerprint reader 64 megapixel rear camera a 4 500 milliamp hour battery 65 watt
fast charging which they claim can fully charge it in 35 minutes but i'll let you know the exact time
and it does of course have room ui and android 11. the included charger is called a superdart charger
this one is 65 watts now it will take 41 minutes of my testing to fully charge the 4 500 milliamp
hour battery our cable is type c two type a and we do get this tpu case in a smoky grey color as a
raised lip for the camera module and it does cover all of our buttons so the build in this one in
hand it doesn't feel too bad now the weight of it it is 188 grams and 8.2 millimeters the thickness
so here you can see on the left or power up and down buttons we've got a slot here that takes two
nano sim so no micro sd card support and flipping it over and taking a look there on the right so on
the right side that's where the power button is so you can easily reach that power button that's
great but what i don't particularly like is the location of the in-screen fingerprint reader which
works really well however i'll do that again to see been right-handed tap it and i need to move my
thumb down quite a bit more i would like it to be placed about there like other manufacturers do and
i think they've overlooked an opportunity just to move that up which they should have probably done
so this has a 6.4 inch screen on it it's super amoled and we've got a 16 megapixel camera right
here so the bezels around the outside of this one they're not super small they make it look a little
bit the bezels to me like a more of a mid-range phone or even a lower end phone so this right here
is the realme 8 5g and you can see they do have a very similar design and good to see that both of
these just simply state real me on the back there is no huge dare to leap slogan that i'm not too
fond of them doing and most people don't actually i believe like that either so with the ports down
the bottom here we do have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack great to see on a flagship
so many flagships don't have this microphone type c with no video out support loudspeaker
and up the top there is just a microphone right there so no ir transmitter on this one
and the frame around this is plastic painted with a metallic finish to make it look and feel like it
is metal but no it is plastic with this one so we have a 6.43 amoled screen full hd plus resolution
120 hertz is the maximum refresh touch response is very good on this one i like the fact that it's a
flat panel so there's no curvature to it at all so just have a look at the colors right here the
brightness is at 50 percent in the app but i have turned it right down now you may see a little bit
of banding coming through that's because there isn't sadly no dc dimming with this panel now
maximum brightness is really good it tops out at 775 or so nits it can be viewed in direct sunlight
without too much of an issue there it comes with a pre-applied screen protector even though that
stayed in green colors that's clearly our blacks it's just a problem with the app so blacks do look
very deep and the touch response again here really quite good so overall it's a great panel i just
hope that they could with a firmware update add dc dimming and then it would get a big thumbs up from
me and under display here you've got all your standard kind of options you'd expect with an
android 11 flagship apart from of course that dc dimming so i comfort mode you can swap over to
dark mode there if you wanted to save a little bit on battery life that's quite good for that
there's some color modes so i prefer gentle and i'll keep it on gentle for this video i found that
vivid uh it does does have a little bit of a blue tint to the whites then using that and brilliant
i notice it's way too oversaturated when you look at youtube videos or someone's face especially i
noticed that they did look like they had a bit of a sunburn look to them i probably look like that
too when you look at some of my videos especially on this screen so you've got video sharpener mode
color enhancer as well i personally wouldn't be using those and it would be nice just under more
here to have that dc dimming option so the screen refresh rate options you've got auto select which
will swap between 60 90 and 120 you can force it on to 60 the standard mode i'm going to keep it
120 hertz for this review so this phone is running real means ui version 2 and that's on android 11.
i found everything to be very quick and snappy and the recent apps here just going through that
swapping over to different things it does timeout and kill apps in the background it
tends to just be that battery saving thing that we have with android phones can be a little bit
over aggressive to me at times the gesture is really good animations are very good and
overall the performance of the ui is excellent everything seems to be running at 120 hertz
and i really don't have any complaints with it the only thing that's happened to me with the phone
and the now two weeks of have it i've had it as one time it did completely freeze and lock up on
me for a split second i have no idea why that is so play store i had to install that myself
it's not too hard to do it's got the framework already there so we need to do is just go and
download the latest play store apk file just use a website like apk mirror and away you go there with
that i am on the latest firmware with this you get your software updates and all that coming through
and so far it's just been the one that i did get so just go through some performance metrics that
i always test out with this one and you can see that uh the uh photo gallery there just loaded in
a little slow even that's got the ufs 3.1 storage so let's go through some of these well important
things i think to me so there is quite a bit of bloat where there's been a chinese domestic model
that has been imported here of course to me you're going to have a lot of these different apps that
will be all in chinese now you can uninstall a bulk of them but there is still quite a few
that remain and i counted at least about 15 or so different bloatware applications so there are
a few of them so free storage you are looking at approximately about 111 or so gigabytes with
128 gigabyte version that's the one that i have it has eight gigabytes of ram internal storage speed
so this is ufs 3.1 spec are very good like look at those random read and write speeds they are
really impressive very very high there so there's no bottleneck there the sequential read very very
good for 128 gigabyte drive that's excellent so if you've got the 256 gigabyte version
expect higher rights with that one and two to score as expected for a snapdragon triple eight
this is a very good score the big one there is the gpu of course scoring there
over 300 000 points so it does have a very potent powerful gpu and i'll get onto gaming performance
later on in this review this is actually a pretty good result for 120 hertz screen
run from 100 battery down to 20 it's calculated my score here you can watch all my other reviews
and you can see the same test that's been done displays are calibrated to
200 nets across all devices first with a light meter so that's actually not too bad now real
world use you're looking around six and a half to seven and a half hours tops so you should be
able to make it through a full day even using this one at 120 hertz now on the adaptive rate you will
get much higher better battery life and probably a few more hours of on-screen time charge time
wasn't recorded here but it is 41 minutes it didn't record it for some reason with this app
normally it would time it right here but it just didn't support this phone unfortunately so 41
minutes their claim is 35 it is still very very quick that is their 65 watt charging so sadly
wide vine level cert is level three this is really disappointing i've been a chinese model i did kind
of half expect this and i was just crossing my fingers that they might have had wide vine level
one so this means that amazon prime video netflix disney plus and all that will be in standard
definition sadly with the real me gt here camera two api support pretty standard nowadays
most manufacturers will give you the full support for this so you can use
third-party camera applications like open camera gcam if you wanted to do that so gps works really
well good signal strength and it sees a lot of satellites and locks onto quite a few and typical
qualcomm's accuracy of three meters which is their cap for that one now there's a big disappointing
area here for me wi-fi speeds are truly poor for a snapdragon 888 i do not know why this is happening
normally most devices with this chipset mean qualcomm's latest flagship would be up around
900 megabits per second to even sometimes towards 1 000 so gigabit speeds but here i'm topping out
at always under 300 megabits per second so this is a software bug i hope it's not a hardware design
issue or a hardware issue to do with the wireless but yeah i did expect this to be at least three
times faster than the result i got here for wireless performance which is yeah not good
to see it all onto our audio now so i've listened to a lot of music with this and various different
sources using 3.5 and it sounds good but i would rate it as about a 7 out of 10. it could be a
little bit louder so if you're using a big headset and you want to really drive and pump out some
powerful bass you may be a little bit short on the volume output with this one there's no crossover
there's no like horrible static or anything like that coming from the jack which is great to hear
voice calls place them good signal strength has been fine for 5g here no problems with that but
here's a sample of the two loudspeakers so the bottom firing one this outputs a good 65
of the sound that you're going to hear and then the rest of it so about 25 35 sorry percent coming
out of the earpiece and you notice this if you to tap the bottom it's definitely you tap the top
most of the sound is coming out the bottom there but here is this loudspeakers both of them at 100
volume
gaming performance how does the gt handle this game here genshin impact on the maximum settings
which is very very demanding it's the most demanding game at the moment currently out
it's doing really well so 60 frames per second has been set highest possible settings so if i swipe
here and bring up their game space it is normally a solid 58 59 or 57 frames per second so in some
battles and fights i have seen it get down to about 49 frames per second but it's only
for a split second right now the gpu's hardly been pushed so with the game space you've got
different performance optimization modes here so you can see you can either unbalanced you've
got pro gamer mode which will push the thermals up but keep the performance up low power mode
chops down the frame rate and that will help to save of course on your battery battery life
with that so there are various other options here that we can do with that game space and
that is just to do with blocking notifications so we can concentrate on gaming of course so
what i'll do now is i'll play this game which is running really well on this phone i'll play for
one hour and i'll check back and report on just how warm is the real me gt going to get here
okay so we are heading around 45 almost 46 degrees on the rear of it and i have
noticed that it is very hot to touch on the left side of the screen and i just
moved the probe temperature over the top of that area and that's peaking at well almost
50 degrees celsius i've seen it actually hit 50 degrees like other snapdragon triple eight mobiles
i'm moving over to our cameras now so this is the front facing camera 1080p
maximum is all you can shoot with it and vlog with it and as i walk ahead you can see that
there is no electronic image stabilization so it shakes around all over the place
so this is very disappointing to see on a flagship phone i mean at least give the front facing camera
some electronic image image stabilization so it is missing a few things definitely this particular
model here the gt from real me but let's take a look at the rear cameras now and how they perform
rear 4k video so we do have electronic image stabilization with this one 4k 60 4k 30 with
that eis it doesn't have any optical and it does an okay job but i have actually seen
better stabilization from other brands so going down these stairs here
not too bad now we do have some digital zoom here so this is two times
and you got to five times which uh yeah i would not be using that one two times still looks okay
and when you go over to the ultra wide we only get 1080p sadly so this degrades the quality somewhat
nowhere near as sharp the ultra wide camera really is the weakest of the cameras here with
this realme gt as i pan around doesn't seem to be any jutter coming through
which is good just that quality definitely looks a little bit washed out
okay so i really think that mr mark here really with this one sure we got a bright screen 120
hertz very fast processor great rom speed it's really quick great charging times the cameras are
a little bit of a letdown we don't have a wide widevine level one cert and the wireless speeds
are way slower than i expected no image stabilization with the front-facing camera
they're built with a plastic frame around it we've got a two megapixel macro camera too as
well the eight megapixel ultra wide is not really that amazing um the fingerprint reader well fast
it works well i think location should have been a bit higher that's for both lefties and right
handed people it still means you need to move your thumb down if you're holding it one hand
you do it like that that's fine but if you were to do it one-handed that's when you have to
move your thumb down there which is a very minor thing now face unlocking does work
well if you don't want to use the fingerprint reader of course haptics has a bit of a minor
little buzz there to it but it's nothing amazing it's not as deep feeling as it as it could be
so that's why i just think that real me has missed the mark here with the real me gt it could have
been so much more performance is there it's just on the software side of thing and the cameras
they're just a little bit of a let down really if they want to compete with the likes of xiaomi
then really models like this do need to offer i feel feel quite a bit more so hopefully we'll see
an international release of this one prove the software and you can get it for a really good
price they would say okay yeah then consider it if not take a look at what the competition
is offering with their snapdragon triple eight lineup so thank you so much for watching this
review i hope you did like it do subscribe for more and i will see you in the next one