The Realme GT series is once again in the news. Last month, Realme GT 6T made its debut in India, and now, Realme is stepping up its game with the new GT 6. This phone packs more punch than the “6T”, rocking the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip. And the camera? Realme has packed a new 50MP Sony LYT-808 OIS primary sensor and a 2x 50MP telephoto lens. The 2024 flagship from Realme also packs some AI features, but is it really up to par with other similarly priced smartphones? Let’s find the answers:
Realme GT6 Review
Pros
- Reliable performance
- Excellent Curved AMOLED screen
- Good primary camera
- Long-lasting battery with fast charging
Cons
- Smudge prone design
- No eSIM support
- Ultra-wide camera
Realme GT6 Review - Design & Build
The Realme GT6 shares many of its aesthetic features with the more recently launched GT 6T. They both have curved edges on the display, a similar rear camera layout, and familiar color options. However, the GT 6 has a glass panel, making it look like a more premium phone.
The phone has a sleek profile thanks to a curved Gorilla Glass Victus 2 front. It’s side fame is made of plastic with symmetrical curves. The phone has IP65 protection against water and dust.
It comes in Fluid Silver and Razor Green, both featuring a matte paint job topped with a glossy layer and a mirrored section around the cameras. However, those three camera rings stick out, making the phone wobble on flat surfaces.
Up front, there’s an OLED display with super thin and even bezels and a small punch hole for the selfie cam. There’sThere’s also an under-display fingerprint scanner on the front, which works flawlessly.
The earpiece also acts as a secondary speaker in a stereo setup, and the phone is comfortable to hold at 162 x 75 x 8.6 mm and 199 grams. The flat plastic frame with sharp chamfers gives it a good grip. The mirrored back looks stunning but is a nightmare to keep clean. Overall, we’re happy with the Realme GT 6 design.
Realme GT6 Review – Display
The Realme GT 6 has a massive 6.78-inch 1.5K OLED display with a resolution of 2,780 x 1,264 pixels, giving you a crisp 450 pixels per inch. Realme claims the GT 6 display has 1,600 nits of overall peak brightness and up to 6,000 nits of local peak brightness.
The display also boasts a super-fast 360Hz touch sampling rate that can be cranked up to a mind-blowing 2500Hz. It’s a 10-bit color panel that delivers a wide range of colors, including DCI-P3 colors.
For those who are really into display colors and accuracy, you can choose from three color profiles: vivid, natural, and Pro. You also have the option to adjust the color temperature between default, warm, and cold. Realme has added a Natural Tone Display setting, which uses an ambient light sensor to fine-tune the display colors based on your surroundings.
Because it’s an LTPO panel, the display can drop to 1Hz for static content, 30Hz for 24-30fps, 60Hz for high-frame-rate playback, and go up to 120Hz for system apps, supported apps, and games. The Realme GT 6 also supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision, complete with Widevine L1 DRM. This means you can enjoy HDR content on most apps, although Netflix currently only streams in 1080p SDR.
Realme GT6 Review – Cameras
The camera setup includes a 50MP primary camera with a Sony LYT-808 sensor, an 8MP ultra-wide camera with a Sony IMX355 sensor, and a 50MP telephoto camera with a Samsung JN5 sensor. Additionally, there’s a 32MP front-facing camera.
In daylight, the camera captures excellent shots that are sharp, detailed, and low on noise. The dynamic range is solid, and the colors are vibrant. However, due to software issues, there are occasional instances of overexposure and clipped highlights.
The default mode performs well in low-light conditions, and the dedicated Night mode significantly improves brightness in less than a second.
The telephoto camera provides good sharpness at 2x and 4x optical zoom levels, but the colors may be slightly less vivid compared to the primary camera.
In portrait mode, the telephoto sensor creates portraits with good depth-of-field and edge detection. However, the skin smoothing effect can sometimes make subjects look unnatural. Although it occasionally misses edges, the overall quality is suitable for social media.
Realme GT6 Review - Software and Performance
The Realme GT 6 software has a couple of new AI tricks in its sleeves. While it lacks AI-generative features like those in Pixel or Samsung Galaxy phones, it has features like AI Smart Loop and AI Screen Recognition powered by Breeno. An AI smart loop lets you pick stuff on your screen and send it straight to other apps, while AI Screen recognition can analyze what’s on your screen and is smart enough to read English and even grab images.
Apart from these, Realme has also introduced AI Night Vision in video, which improves video in low-light conditions. It also has AI Smart Removal in the Albums app, which does a neat trick of erasing unwanted objects or people from photos.
Out of the box, you get Realme UI 5.0 based on Android 14 with several pre-installed apps, including Snapchat, Amazon, Facebook, and Myntra. Thankfully, you can ditch most of the apps that you don’t need. ColorOS-based Realme UI also gets File Dock and Floating Windows, which I haven’t used once in my time with the phone.
Realme promises three years of major software updates plus an extra year of security updates, which means you will get at least Android 17 via OTA and security patches until at least 2028.
For reliable performance, Realme decided to rock a Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip under the GT6 hood. It’s actually built on a 4nm process and uses a 1+4+3 CPU setup. The main Cortex-X4 core is clocked at 3.0 GHz, while the four Cortex-A720 cores run at 2.8 GHz. The three high-efficiency Cortex-A520 cores are ticking away at 2.0 GHz. The GPU is the Adreno 735, which is a step down from the Adreno 740 in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
On the performance side, the Realme GT 6 scores a solid 1,554,993 on AnTuTu. Geekbench results are 1,986 for single-core and 5,145 for multi-core.
Realme has kept thermal management in mind, so it used a 10,014mm² 3D tempered dual vapor chamber, which is made of a large copper foil sheet right under the screen and a 9-layer sheet including graphite. This setup keeps things cool and performance steady.
When it comes to gaming, the GT 6 holds its own. It consistently hit 60 FPS, playing BGMI on ‘Smooth’ graphics settings for 30 minutes. Even on the highest graphics setting, Ultra HDR, it managed a playable 40 FPS. The same solid performance was seen with Call of Duty Mobile and Gensin Impact. Plus, it only saw a modest 6-degree temperature increase after gaming sessions.
Realme GT6 Review – Battery & Charging
The Realme GT 6 comes with a 120W SuperVOOC fast charger for its hefty 5,500mAh battery. The box also includes a 12A USB-A to Type C cable for charging. Realme claims that with 120W SuperVOOC, you can get your Realme GT 6 50% charged in just 10 minutes. Some cool battery charging features include Smart Charge Boost and a Battery capacity limited to 80% to help prolong battery life.
In real life, I was able to use the phone for about 7 hours and 10 minutes before I had to plug it in for charging. When I did charge it, it took around 32 minutes to go from zero to 100 percent charged.
Review Verdict: Should You Buy the Realme GT6?
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The Realme GT 6 is a solid choice for folks who want a powerful flagship phone a new phone around Rs. 40,000. While it might not be the absolute best in benchmark tests, its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC can handle pretty much anything you throw at it. The awesome AMOLED display is bright and punchy and the battery life and cameras are reliable, especially in daylight, and I have nothing to complain about its battery life with charging speeds.
First reviewed in June 2024.
