Chris here with a suitcase and something different that arrived in from real me they've sent out
this limited edition gt explorer it's come in this reviewer's case here suitcase design that
states here mastery beyond speed i always like getting these special packs so let's get this
unboxed take a look at what we get at least uh the reviewers get this so we've got the explorer
edition right here in the suitcase because it's got this suitcase designed to it and you'll see
why shortly and a few extra goodies that real me has also included here hey we've got the phone
with naoto fukusama's signature on it he's the designer behind this behind the suitcase design
and in this little pack there's really things here for us reviewers only but i'll just show
you too because it's cram packed full of just real me items so magnets a few of those master of speed
and we get all the stickers right here okay there's actually a lot of them quite a few
and some postcards with photos that roomie fans have taken on really phones of course
and then a strap for the suitcase roomy branding with the dare to leap on it
now for the box content so obviously the phone right here and i'll get on to that
shortly we've got our type c cable here so it's the typical real me white type a to type c
sim tray tool just there and our suitcase design case for it i do like the look of that
and we've got the designer signature on it just like on the back of the phone too
and then the super dart charger so this one is 65 watts and the charge time i've cheated
i've actually already tested it it's just over 40 minutes about 43 minutes with this one right here
so it is very quick now the design of this one i really do like so we've got with this one vegan
liver on the back and it's their voyager gray color they call it there's also a luna white and a
day break blue now this very very nice feeling in hand super premium it does not feel cheap at all
there is a middle frame around the outside the thickness with this one is 8.8 millimeters
and the weight of it is not too bad it's 183 grams now if you get the one with the glass on
the back of it that brings the weight up then to 185 and what they've done with the cameras
here is a nice look to it we don't have any huge delete on the back branding here and we've got
the designer's signature right there real me of course and this does have a nice feel to it
grip and it's not really that slippery when it's cold it might be a tiny little bit of course you
can put the case on it with this one so for the main camera here this is 50 megapixels
it's an imx 766 from sony f 1.88 aperture and it's the first optical image stabilized camera from
real me and it's good to see they're doing this we have a 16 megapixel ultra wide and a 2 megapixel
macro in this one and dual tone led flash so there's a curvature to the screen i'll get onto
that a little bit that it does shift out and we've got an in-screen fingerprint reader here
which i personally find to be too low okay it should be about here when you're holding it
about there is comfortable right and you have to move right down to get to it but it's quick and it
is fast and you can see a little bit of banding coming through on the screen there and that's
normal so the bezels left and right because of the curvature don't look bad at all we've got a little
bit at the bottom but not bad front facing camera here this one is 32 megapixels it's the imx615
down the bottom type c port now it does not support video out sadly with this one antenna line
because it is a metal frame around the outside with this metallic gray finish which looks great
feels great in hand microphone right here the loudspeaker and sim tray so it takes two nano sims
for this there is no micro sd card support on the top of the phone another two antenna lines there
and our microphone used for noise cancellation in calls and for stereo with the video footage
so this is an excellent display that they've gone with here realme for the gt explorer we've
got a screen from samsung it's amoled 6.55 inches 120 hertz and a touch response rate
that is 480. now i do have dc dimming turned on in person i don't see any flicker on camera
you can see this banding that is happening a tiny little bit and i don't know why that is really
showing up there so the screen brightness tops out at a very impressive 920 nits which is great
and you do get plenty of options in here too as well for the screen so you've got eye comfort mode
white balance can be adjusted the color mode too you can tweak that and dc dimming can be turned
on and off through the labs setting roomy lab you'll find here dc dimming which i do have on
there which is good and i wish this setting was part of the display options so the touch gestures
very easy to trigger no real problems with them because it does have the curvature this amoled you
will notice a little bit of color shifting on the edges i really do wish that this was a flat screen
the phone runs android 11 and it is realme's ui 2 that we do have on board with this one here
and you take a look at about phone there now i have 12 gigabytes of ram with this particular
model and if you jump into the about phone you can add some virtual ram uh this is basically a swap
file caching whatever you want to call it it's named ram expansion which i do find a little bit
misleading it's like that internet joke when people say i downloaded
two gigabytes more of ram well with my 12 gigabytes of hardware ram i can add the virtual
ram right up to 7 gigabytes if i wanted to do so now i do find the ui performance is excellent this
is really really quick fast responsive loading times going through recent apps too not a problem
everything is just really quick here and i would say it feels very very similar to my experience
with oxygen os and if you're looking at compared to real me and xiaomi ui performance i do believe
real me is winning the battle here when it comes to the fluidity of their launches and their ui
now you will see i've got google play store it works it functions well but it was not originally
there because this is a chinese version that was sent out to me so you've only got english and
chinese with the languages with this now it's very easy to get google play store on here go to one
of those sites that you can download the apk file away you go it's going to work fine so you can see
performance in here really good but let's jump into just a few other things i wanted to point
out again because it is the input version there is a lot of bloatware on this that's not relevant
to us at all and i don't even think half of it's going to work even if you do understand chinese
so you can see all the chinese apps so i did have to spend about five minutes uninstalling a little
bit of that junk that's on board here with this one so the internal storage really quick ufs 3.1
spec with this snapdragon 870 that we've got that's powering all of this and you can see
that those speeds there are really impressive good random reads and writes and a sequential read very
high there and this is not going to bottleneck it naked at all now the 870 performs really well
that snapdragon you can see 25 average frames per second with wildlife this is a 3d mark benchmark
and that is a decent score very very good and i like this chip just as much as the snapdragon
triple eight and in ways i think it's actually better it doesn't in my experience get as hot
gpu performance here is very very high and look at the score over 700 000 for antutu that means that
this yes is definite flagship performance you can see the battery went down seven percent temps went
up 7.6 kind of normal here with this one so uh it doesn't have wide vine level one support with this
because it's a chinese rom okay so if a global version comes out it should eventually have
level one support here camera two api api is supported here level three maximum support so
like i say with other videos check for gcam ports if you wanted to test them out on this
excellent wireless speeds very very good i don't quite get gigabit speeds is what i've seen on the
gt master edition it's still not far off at the lower point here very good so if you're quite
a distance from your router you still get some decent speeds compared to some of the other phones
i've reviewed out there so charge time okay it went a little bit silly here this is the monitor
for uh the charge times with antutu's benchmark app actually has this in there
44 why is that written there well that's the time it was actually 44 minutes other times
it was 42 minutes should be around 40 minutes to fully charge this one with a 4 500 milliamp
hour battery battery life at 120 hertz 10 and a half hours is okay it's not the best i have seen
realistically you're looking at on-screen times of around six to seven hours or seven hours is the
best you'll be able to squeeze out with a low brightness now if you stick it on to 60 hertz
you'll be able to get then maybe about seven to eight hours of on-screen time with this so it
depends if you're a really heavy user whether or not and you can balance that a little bit so that
is the battery life which again for 120 hertz it's okay but it's not amazing audio quality
out of this one so we don't have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack that's sad i still miss it i know
i still cry about it so you're gonna have to use one of these which is a type c to 3.5 millimeter
adapter one is not included in the box with this so down with firing speaker right here
the earpiece acts as a secondary loudspeaker and it's mostly just mids and trebles that one
a little bit more bass coming out of this so what i'll do now is i'll go into youtube
play a track at 100 volume so you can just hear what it sounds like
and what is the verdict on those speakers so the loudness is good they don't actually sound
too bad and overall i think most people will be pleased with these loudspeakers gaming
performance is excellent as you'd expect from a snapdragon 870 with 12 gigabytes of ram it's
great so this is gen chain impact i have it set on the absolute top setting 60 frames per second
and when i swipe here from the top left you'll see here it gives me a bit of info on the gpu the load
and normally it's around 60 frames per second the whole time with a few frame dips so it's able to
handle this super demanding game without really too much of an issue now when you get into some
new areas you sometimes see a tiny little bit of lag but this is probably one of the best phones
that i've seen when it comes to performance with this game it's just so smooth really really good
in all the areas i've been and just show you those settings just to confirm that i'm not trying to
fake this or anything like that and under graphics you'll see why does it say custom that's because i
changed it from the highest to 60 right there now it is getting warm just how long so what i'll do
now is i'm going to game for one hour like i've tested out on other phones with this demanding
game and report back on those thermals so it does feel really quite warm in my hands and i can see
that it's getting up to about 45 degrees here in the screen just around the middle frame also does
feel quite hot to me to the touch now that is warm what about the back of it clearly we can
see where the cooling is right here in the chipset and that's about 44 degrees and honestly with the
vegan leather here i thought that it would be quite a bit warmer but most of the heat
is being dissipated through the front of it as you can see there now 45 degrees this is
actually a very good temperature i'm so used to the snapdragon triple eight phones getting up to
50 degrees celsius that this is not actually too bad after gaming a super demanding game like this
and moving over to our cameras now so we do have 1080p with the max resolution we can shoot and
it doesn't look to have any electronic image stabilization you can see it is shaking around
quite a bit here which is disappointing now for 1080p quality it does look sharp it's detailed
and it is good with that good audio bitrate of 320 kilos per second but it is the shaking around with
the lack of electronic image stabilization here which i'm not too really happy with because this
is a flagship after all hopefully in a firmware update realme will be adding that electronic image
stabilization with this front-facing camera but let's take a look at the rear video footage now
with the main camera and the ultra wide so with our main camera we can shoot 4k 30 4k
60 optical image stabilization which is the first phone here for real me to actually have optical
image stabilization with this sony sensor and it is applying some electronic image stabilization
very smooth as you see as i walk along here it's not moving around that much i do like what i'm
seeing with this 4k footage and as i pan around with the exposer changes it shouldn't really be
any jetta coming through sometimes it does do it a little bit and the focus is another thing
that i found has been very good no issues at all with this one you can see it's a very quick focus
and most phones are nowadays pretty good with the autofocus ultrawide video now so
with this one we only get 1080p with that 16 megapixel camera very good electronic image
stabilization as you can see as i walk along it does look nice and smooth and fluid the footage
okay so the gt explorer edition what do i think now recap i think they aced the design they really
have i like the suitcase design they've gone with it looks to me very good we've got none of that
big slogan on the back the dare to leap that thankfully has disappeared and even the camera
layout it just looks premium the middle frame around the outside very very good without a doubt
this is the best build quality that they've come up with yet real me and the design even though
okay the curvature to the glass i'm not a huge fan of curved amoled screens i think they should
be flat but it's not too bad we get a little bit of color shifting on the corners as i mentioned
before now me nitpicking here fingerprint reader location it's way too low personally i think
it's too low it should be a little bit higher it would be so much more comfortable face unlocking
i didn't show it because i've got my camera tripod and things in the way but it is very very
quick and i've had no problems with it because this is on a chinese rom it's a chinese version
i don't have 5g for some reason it's just not picking up the frequencies for me here which
i can normally get onto so that's one thing to bear in mind i do have lte band 20 though however
which is good the other thing is google play store the apk file does need to be installed that's
all you need to do and then you've got google play support however it's not part of the rom
out of the box here and you do get quite a bit of chinese bloatware which is a bit of a con there
easy to install the google framework is there and that's great and then away you go just like
a normal phone would be now performance they have absolutely aced it pretty much the same with this
one which is the gt master edition but with the gt explorer super quick performance the snapdragon
870 is one of my favorite chips and in many ways i actually like it better than snapdragon triple
eight i think it doesn't get as hot it's got slightly better thermals so in the long run when
gaming it really does perform the same very very similar performance there to the snapdragon triple
eight so i wouldn't really to worry about that too much not missing out on what is the latest
from qualcomm optimization of the rom is very very good too everything's just so quick and fast and
smooth 120 frames per second 120 hertz and then the fast touch response to with this charge time
excellent cameras the main camera so far i think takes a very good still the ultra wide is much
better than the typical ultra wise we see with real me with the real me master edition it's only
eight megapixels this is 16 and i'm seeing a huge step up in the quality
however i will say that i think they still need to do a bit of optimization
with the cameras and even with the video quality a little bit so that's one area i think definite
room for improvement overall it's a very nice phone but just bear in mind that if you're gonna
get one of these you're gonna import one that as i mentioned that those things there with the chinese
roman things you have to get around so if you wanted to say french or spanish unfortunately
at the time of this video with this model here at least the chinese one it's just english and
chinese that is it so now we know the full story of the gt explorer edition do check
out my review of the much cheaper and it's a global version of the gt master edition
here which for the price is excellent very good performance from the snapdragon 778g with this one