Though Realme has launched a lot of phones past year or so, its GT series hasn’t seen any new modes for the Indian market for two years or so now. The series is more known for its performance than anything else, and now the company has come with the new GT 6T, priced at Rs 30,999 for the base variant. Let’s try and see if this new offering is worth your consideration.
The Realme GT 6T comes with a 6.78-inch curved display with an entire plastic back and frame to go with it. The front has narrow bezels, and though all are not symmetric, the chin is also not very broad. The polycarbonate back sports the dual camera plus dual LED flash setup on a glossy rectangle near the top, while the realme branding is near the bottom. The right side features the volume buttons and Power/lock key near the middle – both are quite narrow but still comfortable enough to press; the left side is all plain. The bottom locates the dual SIM card tray, primary mic, USB type C port and one outlet for loudspeaker; while the top carries the other outlet with ear-speaker, infrared port and secondary mic. The display houses the centrally placed punch-hole front camera at the top and optical fingerprint scanner at the bottom. The phone weighs about 192grams and is slightly slippery but not too much. It does attract a lot of dust quickly, including on the lenses at the back and frames all around sides.
The 6.78-inch full HD+ (2780x1264) OLED LTPO display with support for variable refresh rates of up to 120Hz. This is a bright and clear display, perhaps the brightest in this price range and is readable under direct sunlight. The colour reproduction is also pretty good for watching high resolution videos and viewing images. There’s better HDR output than before in terms of handling sheer brightness and dark scenes to some extent as compared to previous models.
Coming to the camera performance, the phone sports dual camera setup on the back – a 50MP (f/1.88) main camera (with OIS) and an 8MP (f/2.2) ultra-wide camera. The camera performance seems to have better picture tweaking than before, but colour reproduction could have been a little better in low light shots. The phone can take detailed and vivid shots in good lighting with night mode giving slightly less grainy shots as compared to the realme’s 12 series. The front-facing 32MP (f/2.4) camera is pretty quick to use and takes well lit shots in decent lighting conditions, its dynamic range could have been a little better but it’s more than good enough for video calling, too.
Running on realme 5.0 UI based on Android 14 with the April security patch in place, the phone is equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 chipset (up to 2.8GHz octa core processor, Adreno 732 GPU and X63 5G modem) along with 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 512GB UFS 4.0 storage (also comes in 8GB + 128GB UFS 3.1, 12GB + 128GB UFS 3.1, 12GB + 256GB UFS 4.0). The phone is generally a smooth operator with no visible lags while watching YouTube videos, scrolling within messaging and social media apps or having Google Maps navigation working with music playing side by side. A lot of the third party apps run on 120FPS without any consistent drops in frames while scrolling. For gaming, you can expect to play a game like BGMI at a little under 60FPS at medium to high (but not highest) settings. There are no major heating issues or stuttering happening while gaming at such settings on the device but don’t expect to play the most graphic#intensive games at their highest settings with absolute smoothness here. There are a few third party apps pre-installed on the device (lower than what it used to be earlier) but these can be uninstalled the usual way.
When it comes to the battery life, the realme GT 6T performs among the best in this price range. Boasting (dual 2,750mAh batteries) 5,500mAh battery, the phone lasted me a day comfortably around 9/10 times despite using it on 5G on the go with WiFi hotspot in use for consecutive 2-3 hours, with brightness at around 35%, and so on. Using the bundled 120watts SuperVooc (and GaN) charger, you can charge the device from 1% to full in about in under an hour, and a little if smart charging has been enabled (it’s switched on by default).
The phone’s dual stereo speakers are quite a bit top-centric taking its toll on the stereo effect when playing music especially at high volumes, though otherwise, it’s quite loud, but nothing special. WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS performance on the device didn’t show any troubles and worked as these should. 5G network reception on it is not bad, too, with the phone latching on to 5G in areas wherever it’s available when outdoors, including on the go.
In a nutshell, the GT 6T is a welcome addition to the GT series, which hadn’t been launched in India for the past two years. It has feature rich software in place, smooth performance, not for most graphic-intensive games, but capable otherwise. To top it, its battery life is among the segment leading with no heating issues.
