Realme GT 2 Pro - The Record-Breaking 2022 Flagship
The fastest growing smartphone company
in history is not apple or samsung or
xiaomi like you might expect it's
actually a brand called realme i spent
the last few days playing with their
record-breaking 2022 flagship phone and
i think it's time we talk about them
this is the realme gt2 pro i gotta say
these guys do not have the clearest
naming convention there's a real me 8 an
x 50 or c21
doesn't sound very real to me it doesn't
make any sense but what you need to know
about the gt2 pro is that it's the first
time that this company has ever made a
top-tier flagship and
it's the fastest android in the world by
a mile underneath the phone you also get
a pretty decent quality tpu case a 65
watt fast charger and a usbc charging
cable
better than most flagships then
so this realme company has been more
than doubling in size every single year
how on earth do you do that
here's what i think i think that the
market for affordable smartphones is
held back by the market for high-end
smartphones because most companies want
customers to go and buy their flashy
flagships they have to purposefully make
their lower end phones less attractive
less good-looking and also usually not
as cheap as they would otherwise be but
ryomi hasn't been burdened by that
because they so far haven't made a
flagship phone they've not been trying
to upsell people towards anything and so
with every single device their only
objective has been how do we make this
the most unique and value-crammed device
possible some have had racing stripes
others bold colors quite a few have just
had this massive dare to leap motto
plastered over them it looks kind of
like one of those drunken tattoos that
you regret the next day not all of their
designs are winners for sure but they're
consistently packed with really strong
hardware for the money and that doesn't
change here in fact the real me gt2 pro
is less than flagship price i've been
told around 700 to 750
but at the same time they've managed to
break three major world records with it
it has the largest internal cooling
system it has the widest ever ultrawide
camera and it doesn't just use the same
top-end snapdragon 888 chipset as every
other current flagship this is the first
phone to ship with the next generation
of that the snapdragon 8 gen 1. but the
very first thing you'll notice is not
those things
it's the design this is classic realme
it borrows elements from other oppo and
oneplus devices because if you didn't
know realme belongs to the same parent
company but it adds that wacky gen z
flare that they're developing a bit of a
reputation for it's pretty tastefully
done here the flourishes of chrome
dotted around the body the ultra fine
texture on the power button the contrast
of matte and glossy on the back the
papery textured wallpapers it's almost
uncharacteristically
classy i would definitely have scrubbed
this signature from the back to me it
just looks like they've written the word
noob but you only get that on the
special edition variants and oh i
haven't even mentioned the most
interesting part of this
the material
so you know how smartphones are going
through a bit of a an eco revolution
right now with their recycled packaging
and
nothing included in the box well this is
realme's way of doing it the back of
this phone is made of a biopolymer which
is derived in part from recycled paper
and therefore uses 35 percent less co2
to make and on one hand it is a bit
strange like when you think of a
flagship phone you don't think of
recycled bottle caps melted together
with paper mache but in execution it
just reminds me of leather it's got that
same plushness but also that slightly
coarse texture for grippiness and so
when you combine this back because i am
a fan of leather phones with the
seriously alluring screen on the front
this starts to feel like one of the most
complete hardware packages that money
can buy like when you look at this form
factor it looks high-end yes but it
doesn't immediately strike you as one of
those nothing missing feature-crammed
ultraphones right well as far as the
screen's concerned
it kind of is literally every corner
that i kind of assumed they would cut
they didn't
it's super amoled for deep contrast it
supports true 10-bit color to be able to
display even more of a range it's quad
hd plus resolution for more pixels than
you'll ever need 120 hertz refresh rate
for fluidity with i think the highest
ever recorded level of touch
responsiveness all topped off with ltpo
2.0 technology which allows the refresh
rate to scale all the way down to one
hertz when it can get away with it to
save up to 50 battery consumption plus
also it's just a nice clean flat screen
with no weird jutting corners i mean i
don't personally mind curved screens but
the point is you'll struggle to find
something to complain about here
actually this is the internet
but okay let's address the elephant in
the room this is the first phone with
next generation processing power
how fast is it
kind of amazing
kind of underwhelming then hey if you're
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channel would be
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let's be very clear this is powerful
this is the most powerful smartphone
i've ever held or even looked at if you
want to put a number on it while
samsung's s21 ultra scores around 700
000 points on antutu benchmark
this passes a million i nearly fell out
my seat i still remember the day where
all i wanted in life was to get my phone
to 10 000 points and here i am holding
something that passes a million
i've been getting consistently higher
wifi speeds than on my s21 ultra
wherever i'm testing from and also it
blitzes through games with seemingly
less of a performance hit from sustained
play sessions and while the metal room
around the outside does get toasty doing
so the actual core cpu temperatures are
kept at a healthy level throughout but
there is a counterpoint to this and it's
partly the fact that well i mean android
games and android apps they aren't
really getting more demanding and last
generation's chipset already ran them
really well but it's also partly the
fact that this doesn't feel like the
most polished optimized software
experience i get the impression that the
only reason this is the first phone to
have the next chip is just that real me
spent less time working with the chip
i've had a couple of cases where my
widgets haven't been updating i've
noticed that the charging animation just
kind of disappears when you swipe up
looks a bit unfinished a few of the
menus and core apps don't support the
phone's 120hz refresh rate and so feel
jittery as you move between them and
also something that definitely cheapens
the experience you will find subtle
adverts within the user interface it's
not a bad experience by any means for
the most part this realme ui3 based on
android 12 is quite an interactive
tactile experience it's filled with
settings that you never even thought to
ask for and it's baked in apps like
weather
rather premium i was slightly concerned
that realme was going to continue its
rather weak trend of one year of major
software updates here but for their
flagship they're committing to three
which
is fine i would just refrain from
thinking of this as some sort of
transformative experience just because
they have the new chip doesn't mean
they're squeezing every last bit of
utility out of it
and that brings me on to the cameras
because the performance of phone cameras
is more and more being governed by
processing power this snapdragon 8 gen 1
for example should technically enable
next generation dynamic range in photos
but in actuality again i assume because
of a lack of time spent optimizing this
is pretty standard flagship performance
it does keep up with last year's top end
phones in most situations but falls
behind a little when it comes to low
light oh also
doesn't have a zoom lens however this is
a ridiculously fun camera to use there's
so many options i don't even know where
to start and i love it you've got your
standard things like night mode portrait
mode expert mode etc but also movie mode
which shoots in a cinematic aspect ratio
street photography which gives you more
data like exactly how far away your
subject is dual view video which records
two separate streams at once microscope
mode which uses this little third camera
and the not one but two separate flash
modules to get 40 times closer to
subjects very cool but also kind of
irritating that it's only two megapixels
id mode which turns a selfie into an
actual usable passport photo starry mode
which highlights stars in the sky 3d
mode which identifies faces and
separates them completely from the
background and of course this 150 degree
ultra wide mode it's a bit odd in the
the normal ultrawide camera on this
phone is
well i mean it's just normal it's only
when you go to more options and then
specifically select 150 degrees that it
gets crazy but to be fair to them even
though it is kind of a hack they've
turned off distortion correction to
achieve this wide angle when you use it
it is genuinely astonishingly wide okay
just to round this phone off it also has
a 5 000 million power battery dolby
atmos stereo speakers eight to 12 gigs
of fast ram and 128 gig to one terabyte
of fast storage
but on the downside no ip rating no sd
card support and also no headphone jack
so on balance
it's
really rather good like assuming that
the price does end up at around 750
dollars like they've told me and
assuming that ryomi follows through with
their promised three years of updates
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