Recently, Realme has launched its successor GT NEO 3. It has a main camera with OIS feature and a new processor. A special 150w fast charging model of this also comes, which I am going to review today. Is Realme Gt Neo 3 (150W) one step ahead of its old model? In the review, we know how it competes with the rest of this segment premium smartphones.
Realme Gt Neo 3 (150W) Price in India
Realme Gt Neo 3 (150W) The price in India is Rs 42,999. This model provides 4,500mAh battery and the box gets 150W charger. Its 80W model provides 5,000mAh battery. This model comes in two variants. One gets 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, it costs Rs 36,999. The second variant provides 8GB RAM and 256GB storage. Its price is Rs 38,999. Both models come with three color options including Esfalt Black, Nitro Blue and Spring White. These include racing strips on the rear panel in nitro blue and spring white, while the black variant has a plane finish.
Realme GT Neo 3 (150W) Design
Realme GT NEO 3 is like GT NEO 2. The difference is seen in the center punch hole cutout for its new finish, rear camera layout and selfie. The company has replaced the shiny dual tone rear glass panel found in GT Neo 2, this time a simple matte finsh AG glass, on which the fingers of the fingers are very quick.
GT Neo 3, OnePlus 10r It takes more premium and gives good feel in hand. Its weight is 188 grams which is not too heavy, but cannot be said better for the use of one hand. Protection of Gorilla Glass 5 is available on a large display and fingerprints appear on it. But these can be easily cleaned. Its hole punch Emolade display has thin bezels all around which adds more value in its premium look.
The mid -frame of the phone is made of polycarbonate. Like the back panel, it also has a matte finish so that it looks like slipping in the hand. But the company has given a transparent TPU case with the box which gives a good grip and even after planting the design of the phone is easily visible to everyone.
Realme GT Neo 3 Specifications & Software
Realme GT Neo 3 has MediaTek Dimensity 8100 SoC. The company has given an imaging chipset in it called a dedicated display processor. The company says it will reduce the use of power and increase gaming performance. For connectivity, it gets the support of Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, NFC, and Type-C port as well as satellite navigation system. The fingerprint scanner is given within the display and it works well.
Reality has created a better user interface by mixing Material You and Realme UI with Android 12. Realme UI 3.0 looks like a stock in the phone and its icons look slightly different from the pixel phone. All widows of Android 12 work as expected and its theme, based on the wallpaper installed, changes the color of the engine keyboard, widgets and other icons. The personalization section found in the Settings app looks similar to OnePlus and Oppo. In this, you can customize things like icon shape, quick settings icon and system font.
Like other reality phones, it also contains pre-installed third party apps around the world. But these software does not spoil the experience and they can also be uninstall when needed. But the notifications from Themes Store app troubled me a lot.
Realme Gt Neo 3 (150W) Performance
Realme GT Neo 3 has a 6.7 inch FullHD Plus AMOLED display with a refresh rate of 120Hz. It also shines quite in the direct light of the sun and there is no problem in reading. Colors look quite Panchi in its default vivid screen color mode. The refresh rate is adaptive but can only switch between 60Hz and 120Hz, which depends on the run app. While watching the movie it was running on 60Hz and the user was running at 120Hz while navigating the interface. The display in the games locked on 60Hz while it should usually be 120Hz, which disappointed me.
HDR10 video streaming certification for apps like Netflix is missing but standard content looks sharp, with black levels also look good. The stereo speakers given in the phone do loud and clear sound, which makes the video and gaming experience better.
The performance of its software was also fine. Its benchmark scores reach close to a phone with a Snapdragon 888 chip. The phone scored 8,10,225 points on AnTuTu. It scored 969 and 4,065 points respectively in a single and multi -core tests on Geekbench. GFXBench’s T-Rex and Manhattan 3.1 In Gaming Test it manages 54FPS and 60fps while Snapdragon equipped with 888 Xiaomi 11t Pro Here it runs on 121fps and 100fps.
Its real world gaming performance also did not woo much until GT mode was enabled. Call of duty in regular mode: Mobile and Asphalt 9: Games like Legends were seen skipping frames on high graphic settings, but went well in medium mode. This game in GT Mode also did well in the most high possible settings but did not look smooth as I like. Surprisingly, I also found a 60fps mode while playing Asphalt 9: Legends in it, which I have noticed only in a device with only a Snapdragon processor.
The battery life of the phone is good. It lasted for one and a half days in single charge, while I used heavy gaming and camera in it. In our HD video loop test, the phone lasted 19 hours and 26 minutes, which is a good thing for a premium smartphone.
Its 150W charger charged the phone 100 percent from zero in only 16 minutes. So far this is the fastest charging speed found in a phone. During this time, the phone was very hot so that I was also getting a little worried. However, the company has claimed that many safety measures have been taken to prevent any accident. Like the OnePlus 10R Enduration Edition, it also gets a notification, which warns of heating the phone during charging.
Realme Gt Neo 3 camera
Realme GT Neo 3 comes with primary camera (OIS), it is a 50 -megapixel Sony IMX766 sensor. The second camera is an 8 -megapixel ultravide lens and the third camera is a 2 -megapixel macro shooter. Both secondary cameras have focus fixed. A 16 -megapixel camera for selfie is given in the front. In this, the company has used Samsung sensor, which has a higher aperture and also more field of view.
Comparing GT Neo 2, the performance of the phone in the day-light proves to be quite good. The exposure in the landskep photo got good and the dynamic range was also good. The details in the photo taken from the primary camera were good but the photos were slightly saturated, especially when comparing with the photo taken with ultravide camera.
A photo taken from ultravide camera gets a large field of view of 120 degrees but these photos had a comparatively dynamic range limited and the photos were offering light blur effects on the edges of the frame. Closeup shots of flowers taken from primary camera were good but the photo looked saturated. Its 2x digital zoom works well but the details in the photo decrease slightly.
Photographs drawn in portrait mode were managed well. Tone was down in them and they looked natural. Edge detection was good and a dynamic range was also good with background exposure. The selfie taken from its front camera was a bit overshadow and looked saturated. The background looked too bright. Portrait mode looked better in selfie quality but the edge detection was average.
The Macro camera took the average photo in which an effect was coming on the age like a purple jhalar. The focus system here disturbed a bit. The photo taken in low-light from the phone’s primary camera had good details and the dynamic range was also better. In the photo taken from night mode, the scene looked more bright, making the bright area of the real scene and more blow out. Selfies taken in low-light were not special and soft with less details. Low-light selfie from portrait mode was drawn with a lot of noise, there was a huge shortage of texture on the subject.
The quality of the video recorded from the phone was quite good. The videos shot at 1080p in the day light were good but the details were not so much. The video shot in 4K got good details but the dynamic range was reduced here. There was also a lack of stabilization in them. Its AI highlight feature improved the dynamic range but the video was not as smooth and sharp and the resolution was limited to 1080p 30fps. The video recorded at 1080p in low-light had a limited dynamic range and showed it soft. Recorded footage on 30fps in 4K was seen to be the best, but again there was a lack of stabilization here.
The image quality of its primary camera has become much better than Realme GT Neo 2. The company has also used this sensor in a low price smartphone like Realme 9 Pro+ 5G. I liked the quality of the photo but it is far behind from a competition device like IQOO 9 SE.
Our decision
For GT NEO 3 (150W) I agree with the company that it is a smartphone made for speed. It has a car racing design, a 150W charging system, a crisp display with 120Hz and a good performance processor. Its camera has improved significantly compared to the old model.
Having more features does not make it a compatible smartphone. Apart from upgrade from the old model, it approaches the rest of the rivals. Its 150W charging system makes the phone very much and its 120Hz refresh rate does not work in most games, which I tried to play. Qualcomm Snapdragon is slightly left behind in terms of phone performance from rivals with 888. It does not provide features like IP rating and wireless charging which Samsung Galaxy S20 Fe 5G And Apple iPhone (2022) I get this price at this price.
I would even say that its regular 80W model also looks a bit expensive because IQOO 9 sees gives a better camera and performance at a lower starting price. If you are a fan of realme, then at its current price you can buy Realme GT Neo 3 (150W), or you can also think of buying it as a smartphone with fastest charging speed.