Realme GT 6T review
Display
The display is honestly one of the highlights of the Realme GT 6T. First of all, it is quite spacious, measuring 6.78 inches in diagonal. With an unusual but still pretty high resolution of 1264 x 2780 pixels, the math adds up to around 450 ppi of pixel density. That's incredibly crisp.
The display is also impressive in its performance. Realme claims the panel will do 1,000 nits of typical brightness, 1,600 nits in high brightness mode and a whopping peak brightness of 6,000 nits. In our testing, the Realme GT 6T managed 735 nits by maxing out the slider in high brightness mode (631 nits in regular mode) with a max auto brightness reaching 1,046 nits. That is perfectly comfortable for outdoor use.
The GT 6T also offers 2160Hz PWM dimming under 70 nits of brightness and Realme claims it automatically switches to DC dimming at mid-to-high brightness levels.
The minimum brightness we measured at point white was 1.6 nits.
Max display brightness test
White test pattern, 75% fill (nits)
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- Auto mode
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The display has a 10-bit color depth. There is also display HDR support. Regarding HDR decoding, the phone can handle all formats, including HDR10, HDR10+, HLG and Dolby Vision. That is excellent. The Realme GT 6T is also certified for the highest possible Widevine L1 DRM, allowing apps like Netflix to offer up FullHD streams to saturate the display resolution.
The Realme GT 6T supports three refresh rate modes - 60Hz, 90Hz and 120Hz. There are also three refresh rate modes: Auto select, Standard and High. Standard is the most straightforward. It just locks the refresh rate to 60Hz.
Both Auto Select and High Mode have a bit of smartness in their behavior. They get up to 120Hz and then lower automatically down to 60Hz after a few seconds of inactivity.
The refresh rate can actually go lower than that as well. We saw 30Hz and even 1Hz with a static image, but, for some reason, this behavior seems to only trigger when the screen as at high brightness and there is also ample ambient light.
The phone also detects video playback and toggles 60Hz mode. Certain apps launch in 60Hz out of the gate as well.
High mode seems to behave almost identically to Auto mode, but with the added bonus of per-app refresh rate settings, it is an amazing addition.
High refresh rate gaming is perfectly feasible on the Realme GT 6T. All of the games we tried during testing pushed past the 60fps mark.
We also appreciate the LTPO tech, which allows for faster and more efficient refresh rate switching.
Battery life
The Relme GT 6T has an above-average 5,500 mAh battery. We haven't really seen the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 in too many devices at the office, save for the OnePlus Nord 4, but we still expected pretty good efficiency going into our testing, and we were not disappointed.
The Realme GT 6T got an excellent Active Use Score of fifteen hours. It did exceptionally well in the video streaming department.
Our new Active Use Score is an estimate of how long the battery will last if you use the device with a mix of all four test activities. You can adjust the calculation based on your usage pattern using the sliders below. You can read about our current battery life testing procedure here. For a comprehensive list of all tested devices so far, head this way.
Charging speed
As we already mentioned, our review GT 6T unit did not come with a retail box. However, in most regions, Realme will be bundling a 120W SuperVOOC GaN charger in the box with the phone. We decided to borrow the charger from the Realme GT 6 for our testing.
Both phones have the same size 5,500 mAh batteries, and both advertise 50% charge in just 10 minutes and only 28 minutes for a full top-off. It came as no surprise that the two phones charged at very similar rates in our testing, and it's quite rapidly.
We basically reaffirmed Realme's advertised charging numbers to the letter and clocked 50% in to minutes, 66% in 15 minutes and 100% in 28 minutes. It takes another 4 mins for the phone to display 'Charged'.
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Speakers - loudness and quality
The Realme GT 6T features a stereo speaker system, with one speaker at the bottom of the phone, and the earpiece serves as another with the help of a second top-facing outlet.
That's just like the Realme GT 6, which seems to have a very similar speaker system overall. The sound is balanced even if the bottom speaker is louder and with richer output.
The Realme GT 6T scored a Very Good mark in our loudness test. Its audio quality also deserves a similarly good mark for its good bass, great vocals and rich high-frequency range. Once again, the GT 6T performs and is tuned very similarly to its vanilla GT6 sibling, which is great to see since both offer exemplary audio.
Use the Playback controls to listen to the phone sample recordings (best use headphones). We measure the average loudness of the speakers in LUFS. A lower absolute value means a louder sound. A look at the frequency response chart will tell you how far off the ideal "0db" flat line is the reproduction of the bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You can add more phones to compare how they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable with our older loudspeaker test. Learn more about how we test here.
Connectivity
The Realme GT 6T is a dual SIM device with two Nano-SIM slots on the tray. Both slots support SA/NSA Sub-6 5G connectivity. Unfortunately, there is no e-SIM support.
For location, it has dual-band GPS (L1+L5), BDS (B1I+B1c+B2a), GALILEO (E1+E5a), QZSS (L1+L5), NavIC and GLONASS.
Local connectivity is covered by dual-band Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 with LE support. There is NFC on board, as well as an IR blaster. No FM radio, though, 3.5mm audio jack or a storage expansion slot. The Type-C port is backed up by a plain old USB 2.0 data connection, which means a theoretical maximum data throughput of 480 Mbps. There is support for USB Host mode/OTG, but nothing else fancy, like video output.
The GT 6T has a pretty full set of sensors onboard. There is a TDK-Invensense icm4x6xx accelerometer and gyroscope combo, an akm ak0991x magnetometer and compass combo, an OPLUS Fusion Light Sensor Next Gen light sensor and an OPLUS tcs3720 hardware proximity sensor. There is no barometer.
Reader comments
- Anonymous
- 26 Oct 2024
- s8L
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- Anonymous
- 12 Oct 2024
- CbI
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- Bart
- 13 Sep 2024
- 8mC
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