Realme GT2 Pro Review: A Premium Phone with Some Cuts

The Realme GT2 Pro is a flagship phone that has been making waves in the market with its impressive specs and features. In this review, we will take a closer look at this device and explore its strengths and weaknesses.

One of the key areas where the Realme GT2 Pro shines is in its performance optimization. The phone's software experience has been getting better over the years, and it now runs on Android 12 with Real MIUI 3.0. This has resulted in a clean and intuitive user interface that is easy to navigate through. We also appreciate how well Realme has optimized this UI, making it suitable for both casual and power users.

The phone's cooling system is another notable feature that sets it apart from other devices in its class. The realme GT2 Pro comes equipped with one of the largest vapor chamber coolings in the industry, which has contributed to its favorable sustained results. This is especially noticeable when using resource-intensive apps or games, as the phone's temperature remains relatively stable.

However, not all aspects of the Realme GT2 Pro are without controversy. One area where it falls short is in its Bluetooth capabilities. Despite being a premium device, the phone still comes with more than 15 bloatware apps, which can be frustrating for users. Additionally, some of these apps tend to reappear after every update, and there have been instances of ads popping up while using default system apps like File Manager.

In terms of cameras, the Realme GT2 Pro is where the phone falls short. While its camera performance is good, it doesn't quite match that of similarly priced phones from Samsung, Apple, or even Xiaomi. The phone's portrait shots have an extra vibrancy that can result in unnatural color tones, and its selfies often lack the subtle output we've come to expect from top-tier devices.

The Realme GT2 Pro also has a notable issue with exposure management during night time. While it maintains better exposure and sharpness than some of its competitors, this comes at the cost of an over-the-top punch in its images that can be too much to handle sometimes. This is particularly noticeable when comparing the phone's output to that of the Xiaomi 12 Pro.

In terms of video recording, the Realme GT2 Pro offers a range of options, including 8K resolution at 24fps and 4K resolution at both 30 and 60fps. The phone's video quality is good, with colors that are on the saturated side but stabilization that is effective in reducing camera shake. However, the subject sounds crisp, but background noise cancellation could be improved.

The front-facing camera of the Realme GT2 Pro also has its limitations. While it can shoot at 1080p resolution, there's no option to record at higher resolutions or with ultra-steady mode enabled. The phone's stabilization is not very good when this feature is turned off, and while the subject looks good, we wish for better highlight management.

In conclusion, the Realme GT2 Pro is a solid but not outstanding smartphone that justifies its price tag. While it excels in areas like performance optimization and cooling system, it falls short in other key areas such as camera performance and Bluetooth capabilities. To truly stand out in this crowded market, Realme needs to innovate more in these areas and avoid making the same mistakes as other Chinese brands have done in recent years.

In the future, we hope that Realme will focus on improving its cameras by incorporating new features or collaborating with external partners to enhance computational photography. This could potentially put the phone on par with top-tier devices from Samsung, Apple, or Google. Until then, users are left to choose between the Realme GT2 Pro and other options in this crowded flagship market.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and namaste everyone pratima here and today i will be discussing my in-depth experience with the realme gt2 pro it is the company's most premium phone to launch till date and it comes with a really impressive spec sheet for quite a reasonable price here i have also been comparing this phone with the xiaomi 12 pro which has more or less the same specs but comes for a slightly higher price so let's dive right into the review with the things that i have liked about this phone and the first thing that comes to my mind is certainly its unique design that i am quite fond of actually in this world of plastic and glass finish phones riomi's paper-like implementation looks and feels quite different likewise ryomi says that they've used a bio-based polymer material here which leaves around 35 percent less carbon footprint so that's something i really appreciate being an eco feed myself and not to forget its paper like that means that you can write on it too which is kind of interesting but definitely not something you would do regularly but you know what would have been even more interesting if the gt2 pro came with the design as the initial leak suggested i mean that looks so damn cool right nevertheless coming from the flashy racetrack design of the realme gt this one's a huge huge improvement in my opinion also having used this phone for quite some time that took without a cover i am pleasantly surprised that this pack has not gotten dirty even on this light color textured finish the g2 pro is one comfortable phone to use too thanks to its lightweight design and flat frames but comparing the xiaomi 12 pro side by side i feel like the g22 pro kind of misses out on that premium heft so if you're into hefty glass design phones i think you might like what xiaomi has to offer instead overall i don't have many complaints on the design front of the gt2 pro except the fact that it's missing an ipv8 i don't know if you watched mkbhd's interview with the then co-founder of oneplus carl pay but in that interview he says that the cost for including an official ip rating on the oneplus note would have been around 15 had they decided to go that route so i think it's high time that brands like realme and xiaomi start offering such ingress protection at least on their premium flagships because it seems like the cost of the phone won't go up by a huge margin anyway okay in terms of the display you get everything you would expect from a flagship phone here on the miami gt2 pro it has a 6.7 inches samsung made amoled panel with 2k resolution it has 10 bit colors 100 dci p3 color coverage ltpo 2.0 technology and up to a thousand hertz dot sampling rate and um it's not just about the specs this is indeed one hell of a good screen i found it to be quite bright and vibrant so watching videos or simply browsing the web has been an incredible experience here for durability ryomi has also included gorilla glass victor's protection on top but as zack from jerryrig everything always says glasses glass and it breaks so making sure your smartphone's display remains intact is never a bad idea and our sponsor for today's video glazed ink will help you do just that glazed ink's range of premium real curved tempered glasses offer true complete coverage of your phone's display so that you don't accidentally damage it unlike other normal tempered glasses in the market glazed inks tempered glasses provide you with a complete viewing experience with their fully glued edge to edge design for added protection you can get the glazed rugged armored case that is impact and shockproof and it comes with a honeycomb design for maximum damage protection check out the link given in the description below to get glazed in tempered glasses and covers for the ryomi gt2 pro or any other smartphone and don't forget to use code g by 10 for an additional 10 discount okay getting back to the video something icky about this display is that it does not support hdr video playback on ott platforms although the display itself is hdr 10 plus certified for me personally that hasn't made that big of a difference because let's face it there aren't a lot of dolby vision and hdr contents to begin with so that means my content consumption experience has not been affected that much here but um despite the multiple security updates the phone has received so far real me is yet to solve this issue and i don't know if it's because of the latest update but what i've also noticed is that the contrast in normal hdr videos is uh slightly boosted here so i hope realme looks into it and brings an update asap besides that gt2 pro's in-display fingerprint sensor works quite well and thanks to the excellent vibration motor the typing experience on this phone is quite crisp and satisfactory its audio quality is pretty good too although there is some noticeable distortion in the highest volume actually i was expecting the xiaomi 12 pro to do better in this aspect with its harman kardon tuned quad speakers but it turned out to be the opposite i found the vocals and the overall audio to be crisper on the gt2 pro here let me play a little something for you to touch okay apart from the terrific design and display another thing that i have been very satisfied with is its battery life its 5000 milliamp hour battery had no trouble lasting me an entire day under my typical usage pattern which means lots of multimedia consumption clicking photos and videos and constantly on a phone call or whatsapp so yeah the battery life here is certainly better than the xiaomi 12 pro that would not even last me until bedtime but xiaomi does compensate with its 120 watt fast charging support that takes the phone from 0 to 100 in under 25 minutes while realme's 65 watt charger fills up the gt2 pro in 35 minutes give or take then again that 10 minute difference really does not account much for me but um if you are someone who's always on the run and charging speed matters to you a lot then xiaomi does have a slight edge here all right let's talk about the performance now and uh just like the xiaomi 12 pro and other high-end android devices the ryomi gt2 pro is fueled by qualcomm's second most powerful chipset of 2020 to the snapdragon 8101 and we know that this is an excellent processor which can handle almost everything you throw at it but we are also well aware of its heating issues and yes when you push the ryami gt2 pro had enough the phone does heat up here uh playing graphic intensive games like engine impact for about 25 to 30 minutes in the highest possible settings it almost reaches 45 degrees celsius and it's not just about the heat because during the first 10 minutes when the phone stays relatively cool i was getting about 48 to 50 fps which dropped to 38 fps after 20 minutes so what realme is doing here is throttling the performance for better stability and less heat dissipation and hence i was able to get stable 38 fps even beyond 30 minutes into the game apart from gaming if you are recording 4k videos for a while you will also notice the phone's temperature rising there however games like pubg and call of duty mobile run very smoothly in their respective highest settings achieving 4d and 60 fps throughout the gameplay all the while maintaining below 42 degrees temperature so that is good xiaomi 12 pro's results are more or less similar in the same setting but i noticed that its back panel starts feeling warm rather quickly and its sustained performance is slightly lower than realness in real life testing as well as cpu throttling test so i got to admire realme for optimizing the gt2 pro's performance and also for using one of the largest vapor chamber cooling in the industry which has contributed to such favorable sustained results moving on realme software experience has also been getting better over the years which i am quite happy about the gt2 pro runs on android 12 with real miui 3.0 on top and i appreciate how clean this ui is and how well real me has optimized it i am yet to face any uh kind of micro status by navigating through the phone and it's also capable of switching between refresh rate quite spontaneously depending upon the content on the screen however there are two things that i am not happy about at software number one the bluetooth situation here is somewhat out of hand i mean uh being the most premium phone in real me's portfolio it still comes with more than 15 bloatware apps although most of them can be uninstalled what's really annoying here is that some of these apps reappear after every update and number two i have encountered a few ads here and there while using uh default system apps like file manager which again should not be the case with such a premium device but still these are some things that you can live by and not a deal breaker in any way which brings me to its cameras and this is one area where i found the gt2 pro to be unable to provide a premium experience yet i am definitely not saying its cameras are bad or anything still if you take realme's cheaper phones like the realme 9 pro plus for example i think it offers one of the best cameras in the mid-range segment but as the price of realme phones increases the overall camera performance does not increase linearly as you would expect it to be and hence the g2 pro is not in the same league as similarly priced phones from samsung apple and even xiaomi for that matter here just take a look at this portrait shot i took with both these phones it has this extra vibrancy that leaves the subject with an unnaturally rich color tone in this aspect i think the xiaomi 12 pro has done a better optimization as it delivers better subject focus and skin tone you will find similar properties in the selfies too in terms of regular images from the main sensor view me's stand alone results have a good dynamic range and details but they also have this extra punch in them which can be a bit overboard sometimes in comparison the 12 pro brings noticeably more subtle output which i prefer most of the time during night time too xiaomi maintains better exposure and sharpness alright so about the videos well you have options to shoot at various different resolutions like 8k 24 fps you can shoot at 4k 30 or 60 1080p 30 or 60 likewise and the video quality i think it looks really nice the colors are a bit on the saturated side but the stabilization is good the videos are really stable and the videos have this nice field of view as well so that is good um about the microphone well the subject sounds crisp although i would appreciate if the background noise cancellation was a bit better okay turning over to the front the realme gt2 pro can shoot at 1080p 30fps only which i think is kind of a bummer considering it is such a premium phone um at 1080p 30fps you have two options so you can turn on the ultra steady mode which i have turned on right now which balances the stabilization to a great extent um if you choose to turn it off the stabilization is not very good but you get a wider field of view um apart from that i i think the subject looks good although i wish the highlight management was a bit better okay so now it is time to conclude this video so what do i make of this realme flagship well i think it's a good if not great semi flagship phone and certainly justifies the price of s but going forward i really want ryomi to bring more innovation to the camera department maybe some kind of collaboration will help achieve that like xiaomi is doing with leica or oneplus with hasselblad or maybe rnd in terms of computational photography i'm not sure but as things stand apple samsung and google are comfortably sitting in the top three spots while other brands are playing catch up so i hope real me instead of bringing out new flagship devices really fast like every eight to ten months would wait for a bit more and make improvements in areas where it's lacking and not make the same mistakes as other chinese brands did in the last five years so guys that was all for our in-depth full review of the realme gt2 pro if you like this video don't forget to give it a thumbs up and while you're there don't forget to subscribe to our channel till then i'm prathi maathikari and i will see you in my next videohello and namaste everyone pratima here and today i will be discussing my in-depth experience with the realme gt2 pro it is the company's most premium phone to launch till date and it comes with a really impressive spec sheet for quite a reasonable price here i have also been comparing this phone with the xiaomi 12 pro which has more or less the same specs but comes for a slightly higher price so let's dive right into the review with the things that i have liked about this phone and the first thing that comes to my mind is certainly its unique design that i am quite fond of actually in this world of plastic and glass finish phones riomi's paper-like implementation looks and feels quite different likewise ryomi says that they've used a bio-based polymer material here which leaves around 35 percent less carbon footprint so that's something i really appreciate being an eco feed myself and not to forget its paper like that means that you can write on it too which is kind of interesting but definitely not something you would do regularly but you know what would have been even more interesting if the gt2 pro came with the design as the initial leak suggested i mean that looks so damn cool right nevertheless coming from the flashy racetrack design of the realme gt this one's a huge huge improvement in my opinion also having used this phone for quite some time that took without a cover i am pleasantly surprised that this pack has not gotten dirty even on this light color textured finish the g2 pro is one comfortable phone to use too thanks to its lightweight design and flat frames but comparing the xiaomi 12 pro side by side i feel like the g22 pro kind of misses out on that premium heft so if you're into hefty glass design phones i think you might like what xiaomi has to offer instead overall i don't have many complaints on the design front of the gt2 pro except the fact that it's missing an ipv8 i don't know if you watched mkbhd's interview with the then co-founder of oneplus carl pay but in that interview he says that the cost for including an official ip rating on the oneplus note would have been around 15 had they decided to go that route so i think it's high time that brands like realme and xiaomi start offering such ingress protection at least on their premium flagships because it seems like the cost of the phone won't go up by a huge margin anyway okay in terms of the display you get everything you would expect from a flagship phone here on the miami gt2 pro it has a 6.7 inches samsung made amoled panel with 2k resolution it has 10 bit colors 100 dci p3 color coverage ltpo 2.0 technology and up to a thousand hertz dot sampling rate and um it's not just about the specs this is indeed one hell of a good screen i found it to be quite bright and vibrant so watching videos or simply browsing the web has been an incredible experience here for durability ryomi has also included gorilla glass victor's protection on top but as zack from jerryrig everything always says glasses glass and it breaks so making sure your smartphone's display remains intact is never a bad idea and our sponsor for today's video glazed ink will help you do just that glazed ink's range of premium real curved tempered glasses offer true complete coverage of your phone's display so that you don't accidentally damage it unlike other normal tempered glasses in the market glazed inks tempered glasses provide you with a complete viewing experience with their fully glued edge to edge design for added protection you can get the glazed rugged armored case that is impact and shockproof and it comes with a honeycomb design for maximum damage protection check out the link given in the description below to get glazed in tempered glasses and covers for the ryomi gt2 pro or any other smartphone and don't forget to use code g by 10 for an additional 10 discount okay getting back to the video something icky about this display is that it does not support hdr video playback on ott platforms although the display itself is hdr 10 plus certified for me personally that hasn't made that big of a difference because let's face it there aren't a lot of dolby vision and hdr contents to begin with so that means my content consumption experience has not been affected that much here but um despite the multiple security updates the phone has received so far real me is yet to solve this issue and i don't know if it's because of the latest update but what i've also noticed is that the contrast in normal hdr videos is uh slightly boosted here so i hope realme looks into it and brings an update asap besides that gt2 pro's in-display fingerprint sensor works quite well and thanks to the excellent vibration motor the typing experience on this phone is quite crisp and satisfactory its audio quality is pretty good too although there is some noticeable distortion in the highest volume actually i was expecting the xiaomi 12 pro to do better in this aspect with its harman kardon tuned quad speakers but it turned out to be the opposite i found the vocals and the overall audio to be crisper on the gt2 pro here let me play a little something for you to touch okay apart from the terrific design and display another thing that i have been very satisfied with is its battery life its 5000 milliamp hour battery had no trouble lasting me an entire day under my typical usage pattern which means lots of multimedia consumption clicking photos and videos and constantly on a phone call or whatsapp so yeah the battery life here is certainly better than the xiaomi 12 pro that would not even last me until bedtime but xiaomi does compensate with its 120 watt fast charging support that takes the phone from 0 to 100 in under 25 minutes while realme's 65 watt charger fills up the gt2 pro in 35 minutes give or take then again that 10 minute difference really does not account much for me but um if you are someone who's always on the run and charging speed matters to you a lot then xiaomi does have a slight edge here all right let's talk about the performance now and uh just like the xiaomi 12 pro and other high-end android devices the ryomi gt2 pro is fueled by qualcomm's second most powerful chipset of 2020 to the snapdragon 8101 and we know that this is an excellent processor which can handle almost everything you throw at it but we are also well aware of its heating issues and yes when you push the ryami gt2 pro had enough the phone does heat up here uh playing graphic intensive games like engine impact for about 25 to 30 minutes in the highest possible settings it almost reaches 45 degrees celsius and it's not just about the heat because during the first 10 minutes when the phone stays relatively cool i was getting about 48 to 50 fps which dropped to 38 fps after 20 minutes so what realme is doing here is throttling the performance for better stability and less heat dissipation and hence i was able to get stable 38 fps even beyond 30 minutes into the game apart from gaming if you are recording 4k videos for a while you will also notice the phone's temperature rising there however games like pubg and call of duty mobile run very smoothly in their respective highest settings achieving 4d and 60 fps throughout the gameplay all the while maintaining below 42 degrees temperature so that is good xiaomi 12 pro's results are more or less similar in the same setting but i noticed that its back panel starts feeling warm rather quickly and its sustained performance is slightly lower than realness in real life testing as well as cpu throttling test so i got to admire realme for optimizing the gt2 pro's performance and also for using one of the largest vapor chamber cooling in the industry which has contributed to such favorable sustained results moving on realme software experience has also been getting better over the years which i am quite happy about the gt2 pro runs on android 12 with real miui 3.0 on top and i appreciate how clean this ui is and how well real me has optimized it i am yet to face any uh kind of micro status by navigating through the phone and it's also capable of switching between refresh rate quite spontaneously depending upon the content on the screen however there are two things that i am not happy about at software number one the bluetooth situation here is somewhat out of hand i mean uh being the most premium phone in real me's portfolio it still comes with more than 15 bloatware apps although most of them can be uninstalled what's really annoying here is that some of these apps reappear after every update and number two i have encountered a few ads here and there while using uh default system apps like file manager which again should not be the case with such a premium device but still these are some things that you can live by and not a deal breaker in any way which brings me to its cameras and this is one area where i found the gt2 pro to be unable to provide a premium experience yet i am definitely not saying its cameras are bad or anything still if you take realme's cheaper phones like the realme 9 pro plus for example i think it offers one of the best cameras in the mid-range segment but as the price of realme phones increases the overall camera performance does not increase linearly as you would expect it to be and hence the g2 pro is not in the same league as similarly priced phones from samsung apple and even xiaomi for that matter here just take a look at this portrait shot i took with both these phones it has this extra vibrancy that leaves the subject with an unnaturally rich color tone in this aspect i think the xiaomi 12 pro has done a better optimization as it delivers better subject focus and skin tone you will find similar properties in the selfies too in terms of regular images from the main sensor view me's stand alone results have a good dynamic range and details but they also have this extra punch in them which can be a bit overboard sometimes in comparison the 12 pro brings noticeably more subtle output which i prefer most of the time during night time too xiaomi maintains better exposure and sharpness alright so about the videos well you have options to shoot at various different resolutions like 8k 24 fps you can shoot at 4k 30 or 60 1080p 30 or 60 likewise and the video quality i think it looks really nice the colors are a bit on the saturated side but the stabilization is good the videos are really stable and the videos have this nice field of view as well so that is good um about the microphone well the subject sounds crisp although i would appreciate if the background noise cancellation was a bit better okay turning over to the front the realme gt2 pro can shoot at 1080p 30fps only which i think is kind of a bummer considering it is such a premium phone um at 1080p 30fps you have two options so you can turn on the ultra steady mode which i have turned on right now which balances the stabilization to a great extent um if you choose to turn it off the stabilization is not very good but you get a wider field of view um apart from that i i think the subject looks good although i wish the highlight management was a bit better okay so now it is time to conclude this video so what do i make of this realme flagship well i think it's a good if not great semi flagship phone and certainly justifies the price of s but going forward i really want ryomi to bring more innovation to the camera department maybe some kind of collaboration will help achieve that like xiaomi is doing with leica or oneplus with hasselblad or maybe rnd in terms of computational photography i'm not sure but as things stand apple samsung and google are comfortably sitting in the top three spots while other brands are playing catch up so i hope real me instead of bringing out new flagship devices really fast like every eight to ten months would wait for a bit more and make improvements in areas where it's lacking and not make the same mistakes as other chinese brands did in the last five years so guys that was all for our in-depth full review of the realme gt2 pro if you like this video don't forget to give it a thumbs up and while you're there don't forget to subscribe to our channel till then i'm prathi maathikari and i will see you in my next video\n"