Realme has launched its Realme GT 3, a high-end smartphone with 240W quick charging, a 144Hz show, and the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. I used to be in a position to take a look at the Realme GT 3 and I provide you with my first impressions.
My opinion on the Realme GT 3 briefly
The Realme GT 3 was introduced for Europe on February 28, 2023, at MWC 2023. It’s the world and rebranded model of the Realme GT Neo 5 launched in China. The smartphone doesn’t but have an official launch date or a worth for the European market. The producer has merely indicated that the smartphone can be bought for roughly 610 euros excluding tax. And there are not any plans on promoting the cellphone in America.
The Realme GT 3 is the model’s newest flagship. Its key promoting level is its quick charging of 240 W. In response to the producer, it will recharge the 4600 mAh battery from 0 to 100% in 9 minutes and 30 seconds.
However the remainder of its spec sheet can also be fairly full with a 144 Hz AMOLED show and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. Solely its digicam module leaves me a bit puzzled with the absence of a telephoto lens and the return of the microscopic digicam we noticed on the Oppo Discover X3 Professional.
Design
The Realme GT 3 returns to a way more typical design than its predecessor, the
Realme GT 2 Professional NextPit reviewed 8 months in the past. Gone are the paper impact backs and origami patterns, we discover good previous glass on the back and front. However the look stays very elegant.
Execs
- The matte coating on the again may be very good in addition to the black and white colours.
- The LED on the again will not be too apparent.
Cons
- No IP score.
- Plastic body.
The Realme is available in two colours: Pulse White and Booster Black. The coating is matte with a grainy impact that I discover very stunning and really nice to the contact. However it is usually very slippery.
The smartphone measures 6.45 x 2.98 x 0.35 in (163.9 x 75.8 x 8.9 mm) and weighs 7 oz (199 g). That is not compact, however I did not discover it significantly cumbersome both.
On the again, we discover the triple digicam module organized on a glass island that occupies your complete width of the smartphone. The ultra-wide angle and microscope lenses are grouped collectively whereas the principle lens is on their own. This gives the look of getting solely two lenses and I discover this look extra harmonious.
To the suitable of the digicam module, there’s an LED known as Pulse Interface or “Pulse mild”. Principally, it’s a notification LED that can also be utilized in a contextual approach when your battery is low, whenever you obtain a name, and so on. I am going to discuss this beneath within the Interface/OS part.
Display screen
The Realme GT 3 has a 6.74-inch AMOLED show with a 1240 x 2772 pixels decision. It has a refresh price of 144 Hz and a most brightness of 1400 nits. It is a display made for gaming and Realme provides loads of settings to spice up the picture high quality.
The robust factors of the Realme GT 3:
- Good fluidity with 144 Hz (adaptive).
- Most brightness of 1400 nits (peak).
- No curved edges (for many who don’t love them).
The weak factors of the Realme GT 3:
- Not an LTPO panel (for a extra adaptive refresh price).
To be extra exact about brightness, the Realme GT 3 solely reaches 1400 nits in peak, on a restricted space of the display. Sometimes, the Realme GT 3 display reaches 500 nits and in HBM, with the brightness at full, it could possibly go to 1100 nits. That is greater than sufficient to make sure excellent readability in all places, indoors and outside.
Realme additionally provides fairly full settings to regulate the colorimetry of the display. The settings are additionally stuffed with modes to spice up the colours, the sharpness, or the fluidity of the picture on the display. The 144Hz refresh price is a pleasant addition for some video games that run above 60 FPS.
Interface/OS
The Realme GT 3 runs on Realme UI 4.0, primarily based on Android 13. I haven’t got any details about the replace coverage since it’s not formally bought right here. Realme normally provides three Android updates and 4 years of safety updates on its flagships.
Visually, Realme UI 4.0 may be very near ColorOS 13, Oppo’s overlay. Apparent, you could say. However I believe it is a good factor. The interface is spacious, the completely different components are well-prioritized and the navigation is relatively intuitive. We discover the identical Shelf menu (swiping from prime to backside on the house display) as in Oppo and OnePlus.
Realme has additionally applied Android’s dynamic themes relatively nicely in its customization settings. You’ll be able to apply the dominant coloration of the wallpaper to the remainder of the interface. The themed icons are usually not there but, nevertheless.
Lastly, there’s a devoted menu known as Respiration Mild to customise the “Pulse interface”, the LED on the again of the smartphone. You’ll be able to solely select between two kinds of animations (ripple and pulse). It is a pity, I’d have preferred to have extra. You may also select the colour to be displayed by the LED and in what context to activate it or not (name, low battery, and so on.).
Efficiency
The Realme GT3 options Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC with its Adreno 730 GPU. This octa-core chip etched in 4nm and clocked at as much as 3.19GHz is coupled with 8, 12, or 16GB of RAM and 128, 256, 512 GB, or 1 TB of UFS 3.1 storage.
Final 12 months, the Realme GT 2 additionally shipped with a SoC from the earlier 12 months. And this 12 months, I believe the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 will stay fairly aggressive.
Early benchmark scores with the Realme GT 3 are constant. However I used to be nonetheless in a position to discover a little bit of aggressive thermal throttling, inflicting noticeable framerate losses. Effectively, that is on the benchmark anyway. I did not use the smartphone lengthy sufficient to note this conduct in-game.
Photograph high quality
The Realme GT 3 has a triple digicam module on the again. There’s a important lens with 50 MP, an ultra-wide angle lens of 8 MP, and a macro sensor known as “microscope” with 2 MP. The selfie digicam has a decision of 16 MP.
The primary digicam has not modified from final 12 months’s mannequin. We’re nonetheless on a 1/1.56-inch sensor with OIS, PDAF, and an f/1.9 aperture (towards f/1.8 earlier than, however the distinction ought to be imperceptible).
The 8 MP ultra-wide angle lens has a bit too low decision for my style and its 112° area of view (FOV) can also be relatively slim.
As for the macro or “microscope” sensor, it’s merely superfluous in my eyes. However I do know that a few of you’re connected to it. And it is nonetheless enjoyable generally to play with the microscope mode.
However total, I discover the photograph module of the Realme GT 3 a bit lackluster. That is the aspect on which the producer has made probably the most concessions, for my part.
On the video facet, the Realme GT 3 can shoot as much as 4K at 60 FPS with the rear photograph module and as much as 1080p at 30 FPS solely with the selfie digicam.
Autonomy and quick charging
The Realme GT 3 integrates a battery with a capability of 4600 mAh. This battery can recharge from 0 to 100% in 9 minutes and 30 seconds based on the producer. A
tour de power allowed by the know-how of recharging of 240 W.
The 4600 mAh capability is not loopy on paper. I shortly ran a PCMark benchmark final night time, with the display set to 200 nits and in airplane mode. The Realme GT 3 lasted 13h34 earlier than dropping beneath 20% battery life, so battery life may be very strong and within the higher center of our assessments.
However we do not care about all that! It is the quick charging that pursuits us right here. The Realme GT 3 can cost at 240W. This isn’t a Realme proprietary know-how, however Oppo’s. The SuperVOOC label is even printed on the charger.
However that is the quickest charging in the marketplace. So sure, Xiaomi has introduced a 300W charger, however no appropriate product has been launched but so it does not depend.
And having the ability to cost your smartphone in beneath 10 minutes is completely a killer characteristic for me. It does not matter what the ragers will say within the feedback.
I in a short time tried to cost my evaluate pattern from 11% battery. And it took 11 minutes to go to 100%. So we’re not beneath 10 minutes.
Possibly I am attempting to make excuses for Realme. However I’m wondering if I had “slowed down” the charging by tapping the display just a few instances to verify the battery stage displayed on the display. I am going to let you know extra in my full take a look at.
After charging, the ability provide and the smartphone have been sizzling. However they have been positively not too sizzling to the contact. I actually marvel what concrete impression this type of charging can have on the battery in the long term.
Conclusion: My first opinion
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Conclusion
The Realme GT 3 is an fascinating smartphone. If its European worth stays near the worldwide worth of 649 euros introduced by Realme, will probably be much more so as soon as launched.
The quick charging, usually criticized and mocked as a gimmick, is an actual tour de power for me. And it’s a level on which producers have an plain lead over the market leaders comparable to Samsung and Apple.
However I am most likely too biased. I am clearly the core goal of the Realme GT 3. The smartphone is designed for intensive multimedia use. For individuals who drain their battery shortly with video games or video streaming. And above all, for individuals who do not go to mattress at 8:30 pm and cost their smartphone after brushing their enamel.
In any case, Realme does not appear to be in a rush to market the GT 3 in Europe (do not even get me began on the US…). The whole lot will definitely depend upon the success of the Realme GT Neo 5 on the Chinese language market.
