Realme GT 6 Evaluation

Realme GT 6 — the corporate’s newest arrival within the GT collection of smartphones — is provided with premium mid vary specs, whereas protecting the worth across the Rs. 40,000 mark. This handset is powered by Qualcomm’s just lately introduced Snapdragon 8s Gen Three chipset, and is provided with a 50-megapixel triple rear digital camera setup, in addition to a 32-megapixel entrance dealing with digital camera. The Realme GT 6 additionally packs a 5,500mAh battery that may be charged at 120W with the included SuperVOOC charger. The corporate has additionally outfitted this smartphone with AI options, however does it have what it takes to compete with equally priced smartphones? Discover out in our evaluate of the smartphone.

Realme GT 6 value in India

Realme GT 6 value in India begins at Rs. 40,999 — that is for the bottom mannequin that’s outfitted with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of inbuilt storage, whereas the 12GB+256GB and 16GB + 512GB variants will set you again by Rs. 42,999 and Rs. 44,999, respectively.

The corporate despatched me the Realme GT 6 in a Fluid Silver colourway, and the handset can be obtainable in a Razor Inexperienced color possibility.

Realme GT 6 Evaluation: Design

The design of the newly launched Realme GT 6 seems fairly just like the extra inexpensive GT 6T mannequin, right down to the curved edges off the show, the rear digital camera module association, and color choices. Nevertheless, not like its cheaper sibling, the Realme GT 6 has a glass panel that has a barely extra premium really feel.

Realme GT 6 encompasses a reflective part that surrounds the digital camera module

Realme has outfitted the handset’s rear panel with a mirror like part that homes the triple rear digital camera setup and doubles up as a useful pocket mirror. It has a clean end and attracts numerous fingerprints, smudges, and mud. That is additionally the case for the remainder of the panel, however the cloudy end is best at hiding them. The cameras are on one aspect, which implies that the cellphone wobbles when positioned on its again, with out the included TPU cowl.

On the entrance, there is a curved show with Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 safety. Throughout the three weeks that I spent utilizing the Realme GT 6, the cellphone’s tall 6.78-inch display was principally simple to make use of, if I used each arms. It did not get in the best way of scrolling via apps, even when my fingers had been resting on the curved edges.

There is a speaker grille on the backside edge together with a USB Kind-C port, whereas the correct aspect of the cellphone homes the quantity and energy buttons. On the prime, Realme has included an infrared transmitter that can be utilized to regulate a number of family home equipment. The perimeters of the cellphone have a metallic end which might be cool to the contact.

Realme GT 6 is provided with a triple rear digital camera setup that features a telephoto digital camera

Realme ships the GT 6 with a charging brick, a USB charging cable, and a TPU cowl that reveals the reflective portion of the rear panel. I ended up utilizing the TPU cowl all through the time I examined the cellphone as the perimeters are a little bit slippery. The included cowl has a barely raised part on the rear panel that protects the digital camera module.

Realme GT 6 Evaluation: Specs and software program

The Realme GT 6 has an octa-core Snapdragon 8s Gen Three chip with an Adreno 735 GPU, and this 4nm cellular processor has one Arm Cortex X4 core clocked at 3.0GHz, and 4 Cortex-A720 and three Cortex-A520 cores clocked at 2.8GHz and 2GHz, respectively. The processor is paired with as much as 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM.

Realme GT 6 runs on Android 14-based Realme UI 5 (faucet to broaden)

So far as software program is worried, the Realme GT 6 runs on Android 14 out-of-the-box, with the corporate’s Realme UI 5 pores and skin on prime. The handset comes with 5 preinstalled third-party apps — Amazon, Finshell Pay, Myntra, ORoaming, Snapchat — that may be uninstalled. The software program on the cellphone provides helpful options on prime of Google’s working system together with a devoted gaming mode, ‘air gestures’, and the flexibility to make use of a pair of wired earphones and a wi-fi headset on the identical time.

That is additionally Realme’s first AI-branded cellphone, and the corporate has outfitted the GT 6 with its ‘Subsequent AI’ that improves low gentle digital camera efficiency, means that you can take away objects from photographs, and suggests actions to carry out by analysing the content material of your display. Realme says that the cellphone will get three Android OS and safety updates adopted by a fourth yr of safety updates.

Realme GT 6 has an AI Eraser mode that’s principally dependable, however you would possibly discover a little bit of blurring

On the connectivity entrance, the Realme GT 6 provides help for Wi-Fi 6, 5G, 4G LTE, Bluetooth 5.4, GPS, in addition to a USB Kind-C port for charging and knowledge transfers. The corporate has additionally outfitted the handset with an IR transmitter that may management a variety of home equipment — I examined it with a TV, dwelling theatre system, and some air conditioners in the course of the time I spent testing this cellphone.

Realme GT 6 Evaluation: Efficiency

With its Snapdragon 8s Gen Three chipset and ample RAM, the Realme GT 6 is able to dealing with each day-to-day duties and demanding workloads with no points. This included modifying a 4K video and exporting it on InShot, hours of gaming, and plenty of looking the net and social media apps.

I examined Genshin Affect and Name of Obligation: Warzone Cell on the Realme GT 6 on the very best supported settings chosen by default in each video games. These are two of probably the most demanding titles you’ll be able to play on an Android cellphone, and there was no lag, stuttering, throttling or overheating, even after an hour of gaming. The built-in gaming mode additionally allows you to activate optimisations for HDR content material, contact response, and decide between battery saving or efficiency modes.

Realme GT 6 can deal with heavy titles like Genshin Affect with none lag or stutter

Realme GT 6 artificial benchmark take a look at outcomes (faucet to broaden)

The Realme GT 6 was on par or barely forward with the Poco F6, its rival with the identical Snapdragon 8s Gen Three processor, on most artificial checks. You possibly can confer with the desk beneath to see how the cellphone fared in each CPU and graphics benchmarks, in comparison with the Poco cellphone as effectively one other handset with a barely extra {powerful} Snapdragon Eight Gen 2 chip, the iQoo Neo 9 Professional.

Like most telephones launched this yr, the Realme GT 6 runs on Android 14, with Realme UI 5. The software program feels effectively optimised, there are not any promotional messages, and some preinstalled apps can both be disabled or uninstalled. RAM administration is perfect, and I did not discover any just lately used apps being kicked out of reminiscence once I switched again to them. Like different Realme handsets, it’s important to conform to separate privateness and utilization agreements earlier than opening some system apps.

The Realme GT 6 encompasses a 6.78-inch Full-HD+ (1,264×2,780 pixels) LTPO AMOLED display with a dynamic refresh price that ranges between 1Hz and 120Hz, and a 360Hz contact sampling price. The show will get lots vivid when automated brightness is enabled, and you’ll see particulars on the display even whenever you’re open air and utilizing the cellphone in vivid daylight. There is a toggle that allows you to ramp up the display brightness past the unique restrict, but it surely additionally comes at the price of elevated battery drain.

Realme GT 6 sports activities a big AMOLED display that’s usable in vivid daylight

There is a 5,500mAh battery powering this Realme handset and it lasted for 21 hours and seven minutes throughout our HD battery video loop take a look at. When it comes to precise utilization, I managed to get about 7 hours of display on time earlier than I needed to plug it into the charger at 5 %. It may be totally charged in 29 minutes on common, utilizing the included 120W SuperVOOC charging brick. The cellphone has a glass again, however there is not any help for wi-fi charging on the handset.

Realme GT 6 Evaluation: Cameras

The Realme GT 6 is provided with three rear cameras — a 50-megapixel major digital camera with a Sony LYT-808 sensor, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide angle digital camera with a Sony IMX355 sensor, and a 50-megapixel telephoto digital camera with a Samsung JN5 sensor. The handset additionally has a 32-megapixel selfie digital camera on the entrance with an unspecified sensor.

All three cameras on the Realme GT 6 carry out effectively in the course of the day (faucet to broaden)

The telephoto digital camera allows you to take detailed photographs of topics with out getting too shut (faucet to broaden)

One of the best digital camera sensor on the handset is the first digital camera, which captures photographs which might be clear with correct colors. Zooming into these photographs reveals that there’s sufficient element, assuming there’s sufficient gentle. In low-light situations, the digital camera nonetheless captures good photographs within the default mode, and you’ll change to a devoted Evening mode that takes brighter photographs in below a second.

The ultra-wide angle digital camera provides photographs with a significantly decrease decision and barely darker than the first digital camera, but it surely’s useful for clicking bigger topics that are not too distant. There’s additionally no noticeable warping across the edges. In low-light situations, the digital camera captures photographs which have much less element in comparison with the first digital camera, and I discovered myself utilizing the latter when there wasn’t sufficient lighting.

When you have topics which might be distant, the telephoto digital camera on the Realme GT 6 can seize sharp photographs at 2x and 4x optical zoom. The colors on photographs captured by the telephoto digital camera are barely much less vivid than the first digital camera. In darker situations, zooming in on distant topics produces photographs with a little bit little bit of noise and softening. When you zoom previous 15x, the digital camera interface shows an indicator that tells you when to hit the seize button.

Extremely-wide angle pictures from the Realme GT 6 seem darker than photographs from the opposite cameras (faucet to broaden)

The ultra-wide angle digital camera on the Realme GT 6 would not carry out as effectively in low-light situations

The telephoto digital camera on the Realme GT 6 captures clear photographs with the inbuilt Evening mode (faucet to broaden)

The first and telephoto cameras allow you to seize video at as much as 4K/ 60fps, however if you wish to use the built-in extremely regular mode, you will have to file at 1080p/ 60fps and use the first digital camera — that is the most suitable choice when recording movies whereas strolling round. The ultra-wide angle digital camera allows you to seize movies at as much as 1080p/ 30fps.

For selfies, the entrance dealing with digital camera can ship detailed photographs after you disable the ‘beautification’ options. The photographs captured by the selfie digital camera look good when there’s sufficient gentle, and barely blurry in low-light situations.

You may as well use the first and telephoto digital camera to file movies in Dolby Imaginative and prescient, at as much as 4K/ 30fps, and whereas these movies are brighter and supply extra distinction, it is price noting which you can solely view them on Dolby Imaginative and prescient appropriate shows. In the meantime, movies captured utilizing the entrance dealing with digital camera are good in the course of the day, however the high quality drops significantly at evening.

Realme GT 6 Evaluation: Verdict

When you’re out there for a brand new smartphone priced round Rs. 40,000 in India, it is simple to advocate the Realme GT 6, which provides a very good mixture of efficiency, battery life with quick charging help, and dependable cameras. I encountered no points throughout informal use, voice calls, and gaming on the handset, over the course of the evaluate.

There’s numerous competitors from equally priced telephones, on this value section. The iQoo Neo 9 Professional (Evaluation) and OnePlus 12R (Evaluation) function the extra {powerful} Snapdragon Eight Gen 2 SoC, however the Realme GT 6 provides a extra versatile digital camera setup.

In the meantime, if efficiency is your major consideration, you can too take a look at the just lately launched Poco F6 (Evaluation) which has the identical processor as this Realme handset however is offered at a a lot lower cost level. Different less-powerful choices price contemplating embrace the Samsung Galaxy S23 FE (Evaluation) and the Google Pixel 7a (Evaluation), and each these telephones include Samsung and Google-exclusive options.