This here is the real me 9 pro plus it's their new mid-range phone from them powered by the MediaTek
dimensity 920. now i'm glad to see they didn't go with the qualcomm snapdragon 695 or 680 with
this phone and offered us a more potent chipset so that one from mediatek it's a lot better in terms
of performance especially for games over the 600 series with the snapdragons now with this phone
we get a 50 megapixel camera as the main camera but it has optical image stabilization something
that you don't normally see at this price point and category of phone it's got 60 watt charging
a 4 500 milliamp hour battery this screen with an in-screen fingerprint reader is 90 hertz amoled
full hd plus resolution and in my time using and testing out this phone i do think this is one
of the best mid-range phones so far for 2022 and you'll see why in this in-depth review along with
the phone you will find our super dart charger so that is 60 watts and it will take approximately
40 minutes to fully charge the phone i'll type a to type c usb cable in white and of a good length
and we do have a sim tray tool and a warranty card information and a tpu case here now this tpu case
coming from a manufacturer does fit it perfectly smokey grey color and there's even a bit of
protection here around where the cameras are and it covers the buttons there to either side
so the phone is a very comfortable weight it's only about 184 grams and the thickness of it
is just eight millimeters which is excellent now the build of it when you shine it in the light you
can see a bit of a sparkling effect coming through with the back with this green color which i think
looks great i do like the fact that we don't have that big huge dare to leap slogan on the back now
it looks a little bit more simple and just the three camera modules here so the main camera
is that imx 766 from sony with optical image stability you can see it's listed right there
50 megapixels and it does also shoot 4k video right here is a macro camera so that macro camera
is just two megapixels with a four centimeter focal point on it and then an ultra wide which is
eight megapixels pretty standard there but still great to see such a decent basically flagship
grade camera in a phone at this price point on the right side of the phone we've got our power button
now it's very easy to get to it's right where your thumb is if you're holding it with your right hand
so that's good location and along the sides here you don't see any any antenna lines at all because
it is a plastic frame so eight millimeters here but the cameras they do stick out quite a bit more
as you can see now the frame is solid it doesn't creak it doesn't flex in hand then here on the
left hand side we see we've got two separate volume up and down buttons and then our sim
tray so the sim tray just takes two nano sims no micro sd card support with it unfortunately down
the bottom our microphone 3.5 millimeter out great to see this here with mic support and good quality
i have no real complaints about it it sounds good to my ears the loudspeaker here downwards firing
and in the earpiece right here we have the second so it does actually have two loudspeakers
which is great up the top we simply just have a secondary microphone so they've done away with an
ir transmitter and the whole punch cut out front facing camera this one's 16 megapixels do you
like it the cutout on the left or do you prefer it in the middle i think my favorite position
is actually right there in the middle but let me know in the comments which one you prefer
the display here that really has gone with is a 90 hertz panel and it's got an in-screen
fingerprint reader with this 6.43 inch screen so full hd plus resolution it does look very good
and it's emulated of course and 90 hertz so it's fast smooth it's fluid so it's fingerprint reader
very good i have not any problems with it it is more accurate and working a lot better than
even the samsung galaxy tab s8 ultra i currently have and i'm testing this is a lot better i'm just
finding to be so much better which surprises me considering this is not a flagship device
so under settings here you can go into this and take a look at what we have for our options you've
got plenty of things to tweak and choose from from which i really like to see here so i comfort mode
dark mode that's all standard video enhancement mode i don't really mess around with that i don't
actually personally like that but we've got the refresh mode selection here too which is good
so high is 90 hertz auto select will range from 30 to 60 to 90 it swaps between it so it's adaptive
in order to save on battery life and standard you can force it to 60 if you need
of course that extra battery life or you don't care about 90 hertz but for me i'm paying for a
phone that's got 90 hertz screen i'm going to use it at 90 hertz definitely there and you've got
your color modes okay so vivid natural and pro the screen brightness tops out at close to a thousand
nits which is excellent so it can be made out in direct sunlight not a problem there which is great
the other definite bonus with this screen is i don't see any banding flicker or anything it seems
to be running a form of dc dimming it's not using i don't know if it's using pulse width modulation
or i'm not seeing it at any brightness really the flickers which is good because even turning this
down onto a low brightness where's the banding there is no banding that i've seen and even see on
premium amoled screens that just don't have the dc dimming so it looks like they've got it there
they're enabled it and it is truly a stunning great screen that i don't think anyone's going
to have any problems here just quickly go into this real world test take another look at it here
images look very very good just up there brightness a little bit punchy screen with great
contrast and super deep blacks ui performance now so we've got android 12 with real me ui 3.0
is the skin and i really do like it i think it's better than me ui now miui 13 has been quite laggy
with android 12 and problems with some of the google apps whereas here it's so much smoother
just look at the scrolling really really good now i do have it set to a performance mode but
even with that performance mode off i'll show you where to do that actually just go in through the
settings it's a bit hidden away battery and you want to go into advanced settings here performance
mode so you can change that normally it's on smart it's an adaptive performance just using a balanced
governor there for the cpu but when you put it on to high performance it's a high performance
governor so it's forcing a higher clock rate the whole time so really good gesture detection not a
problem either swapping between all my different apps i found to be quite quick now it does end up
reloading things a task manager will kill things off in the background and you notice it reloads
quickly if it's not a system app it happens even quicker there so no problems there really with
it i think it's great the performance how fluid everything is and no real issues it's certainly so
much better this chipset the demincidi 920 versus the qualcomm snapdragon 680 or 695 just nowhere
near as good as this so bloatware is something i point out that manufacturers they force these apps
upon you when you first get it but real me has toned down on this quite a bit you can see what
i would classify as bloatware when you first get it would be just a few of these apps around here
so booking.com facebook pubg thing linkedin amazon bit of bloat nothing like the competitor's phones
like xiaomi when they put like 20 apps on about 2 gigabytes worth so good to see that they're toning
down on that a little bit i'm on the real me ui 3.0 latest update here so that came through was
a big update and it fixed a few little bugs the camera was crashing although it still has crashed
one or two more times on me when i swap from photo to video mode so there are a few little bug fixes
needed from real me there so free storage you're looking about 107 gigabytes on first boot remember
no micro sd card support and we're looking at ufs i believe i don't have the spec sheet but i
believe it's ufs 2.2 and the speeds here very very good considering the price and category grouping
of this phone that's excellent with that demensity 920 look at this performance this this absolutely
kills the snapdragon 680 or 695. i'm so glad rumi did not go with one of those chipsets in
this phone this is much better here having this mediatek chip geekbench 5 scores pretty good for
this type of chipset really good there actually now battery life this here i had it set to the
adaptive refresh rate okay so a lot of the times it was just running at 60 hertz you're looking at
realistically if you use that mode around about nine hours of on-screen time eight and a half to
nine hours depending on your use which is light use here if you game it's only going to go for
about four or five hours of just straight out gaming again depends on your brightness too now
if you use just 90 hertz and force it to 90 hertz you're going to see around seven to eight hours of
on-screen time again depends on what you're doing of course mileage will vary there so it does have
a wide vine level one cert which is good to see so netflix yes is in full hd but amazon prime video
isn't it's still standard definition because it's not being whitelisted by amazon which is another
step that i hope they will eventually whitelist these devices so gps works really quite well you
get an accuracy better than qualcomm's chipset of one meter here that's as good as it gets
with accuracy and the average single strength is very good so nothing like the old gps of the old
mediatek which used to be terrible no the gps now is pretty good quite good in fact so we do
have camera api level 3 here for api camera two api so it's great so if you need to try out gcam
ports whatever you can do with this so the battery capacity four thousand five hundred milliamp hours
it takes from three percent to to do that only in 23 minutes and approximately 40 minutes to
fully charge the trouble is it always cuts out for a split second audio quality now
so i have placed some voice calls on it sometimes i forget to actually mention
that and i do apologize their phones after all and you can place calls no issues no cutouts no drops
nothing like that and no weird microphone quality it sounds good it does have noise cancellation
there's that secondary mic in the top so down the bottom a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack delivering
good quality it sounds clean the loudness isn't the loudest i've heard it could be a bit louder
but overall i think it's good and great to have of course so there is a loudspeaker in the earpiece
and then the one down the bottom what does it sound like so just jump into youtube
and while i'm doing that let you know as well another thing is the haptics on this
is quite good i do like what i'm feeling from the haptics motor in this particular model
so go into one of my videos and i'll give you a sample of the speakers at 100 volume
gaming performance pubg right here now what settings can we use with this well there's
some good news here that under our graphics options you get the extreme frame rate but the
only way to get the extreme frame rate is using the smooth graphics preset if you use balance or
anything higher it knocks it down to ultra hd and hdr you still get the ultra frame rate but
no i want the extreme there which i already have set up now with the game settings here you can
actually swipe from the top if you've got this enabled you bring up the new widget here which
is good and you've got different tweaks here so you've got the game focus mode so it's basically
like enabling do not disturb modes you've got your touch sensitivity improvement and here the one i
like is this is the system status so you can bring this up it displays then the frame rate so you
can see currently just in the menu here 30 frames per second but i will jump into some gameplay now
this performance is great it's a constant 60 frames per second well it does show their 59 but
the whole time now it doesn't support 90 frames per second which is unfortunate but with this
graphics extreme frame rate option and balanced i'm happy with this performance and i think most
people will probably go for this instead of using the better graphics visually looking better but
you lose that frame rate of course because it's going to knock it down then to the lower setting
which will be kept then at 45 frames per second which you don't want so looking down the sights
here at no problems there is no lag i have not seen it lag yet at all it's just constantly
60 frames per second with that gaming performance mode on now it is getting a little warm around the
camera module so what i'll do is i'll game for 40 minutes to one hour and i'll report back with my
thermal imaging camera we'll see just how hot is it going to get gaming constantly on the real me
9 pro plus now the back of it's getting up to about 37 degrees celsius now if i did have a case
on it which i think most people probably would gaming then do expect probably about 3 degrees
or so more they're reaching around 40. now it's got a vapor chamber in it and it does seem to be
doing the job here on the front it looks like it could be almost a little hotter no about the same
around 37 degrees celsius so that's after approximately 38 minutes of gaming it doesn't
seem to be getting any hotter it seems to be at the moment plateauing around that 37 max there
over to the cameras now so our front facing vlog footage here with the 16 megapixel front facing
sensor 1080p maximum with electronic image stabilization now i have noticed that it can
sometimes overexpose a little bit and when i walk ahead you see that the electronic image
stabilization does have a bit i have noticed of a jello effect happening with it so a
little bit of optimization and some firmware updates needed with the cameras i feel here
so audio quality it's 256 normally kilobits per second which is not a bad bit rate
i'll swap over now to the rear cameras video and then later stills rear main camera so this
is that 50 megapixel sony imax 766 it has the stabilization which is optical but you see now
as i walk ahead that it is shaking around all over the place that is because it's just 4k without any
electronic image stabilization and i do hope that realme can add this later on at least it
does have 4k because the competing phones like the redmi note 11 pro that does not have 4k 1080p only
ultra wide camera so it is the weaker cameras with this realme 9 pro plus here so we do have
electronic image stabilization which does work really well there's not a lot of detail
captured as you can see especially around the edges with this lens and the camera
now i'm just going to step it up to a jog you can see how that electronic image stabilization is
working there but it does at least do a good job now panning around here we shouldn't really see
any jutters coming through not at 1080p which is the max you can record with the ultrawide camera
and there we go so i think camera wise there's a little bit optimization that is certainly needed
especially with the front vlog footage and some of the sharpness and the white balance with those
photos but really this is an absolute solid release from real me i do believe that xiaomi
and well redmi are going to be in a bit of trouble if they keep this up because this mid-range phone
here certainly in my eyes destroys the likes of the redmi note 11 pro with its snapdragon 695
now the dimension 920 if you're a gamer it's the one to go for and just general wrong performance
too the rom is a lot smoother google apps like scrolling in twitter in chrome and even play store
super smooth on this where it's a bit janky and laggy and stuttery with
the xiaomi miui roms i think that realme ui is certainly now a better ui i'm liking it more
than i like mia y13 that's definitely for sure so far what i've seen with android 12
phones a lot of them are a little bit buggy so far it doesn't mean this real me 9 pro plus is
perfect in the rom department the camera app has crashed on me a couple of times swapping between
photos and video and there's a couple of other little things in there too as well so there's some
bugs to iron out but apart from that i mean the performance the fluidity how smooth it is
fingerprint reader is working super well there you just simply need to just tap that and it unlocks
and it's working for me every time build quality good very solid i like how thin it is it's it's a
good weight too just over 180 grams and there's no creaks nothing feels cheap at all with this
build even though it does have a plastic frame to it it certainly doesn't detract from the quality
and the build of this offering here from realme so i'm really impressed by this phone for a mid-range
phone i'm going to say so far in my time testing out mid-range phones now in 2022 this is the
model to go for they've certainly upped a lot of areas here really with that camera giving us
optical image stabilization and just the general whole package we're getting out of this one so
thanks so much for watching my review here of the realme 9 pro plus i'll see you in the next one