Realme 7 FULL Review & Unboxing (EU Model) By TechTablets

This phone has just launched here in Europe. Finally, the Realme seven and the Realme seven pro, but this one is all about the Realme seven, so this particular model 6.5-inch IPS screen. The key selling feature is that it has a 90 hertz, refresh rate screen. I know it's IPS, which is a shame. AMOLED would have been great, but if you do want the AMOLED screen, then that of course is in the Redmi 7 pro versions, but it is the standard 60 hertz that particular one. Now this phone is powered by the MediaTek hello g95, similar kind of performance to say a snapdragon 732 g.

It's paired up my particular review unit here that I was sent out from Realme with eight gigabytes of ram 128, gigabytes of UFS, 2.1 storage and, of course, the large 5000 William hour battery and 30 watt charging, which takes just over an hour and 10 minutes to fully charge this particular phone. So that's what you'll find in the box. We've got a charger here, that's 30 watts, so it's their dart charger, and it takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes. In my testing to fully charge that 5 000 William hour battery, which is rather large- and we do have a typical type c- cable to an USB here- good size to it nice length it's not as short as some of the other cables I've seen with phones, and then we do get a little of paperwork here. So there is a quick guide and there's your user guide right here and the CPU case, that's included as well, which does offer decent protection.

There's a cutout for the side, fingerprint reader as well, and a raised lip around where the camera glass is too, so it offers decent protection, and it's great to have this included in the box. So having a look at the rear of this phone now, they've changed the design up compared to the previous models, like the Realme six, and we did have with those uh a slightly different, looking camera module here. So it's gone now more of a rectangle shape to a dual tone led flash. We still have the two megapixel cameras here. Unfortunately, this trend continues, and I really like them just to not do this actually, because a two megapixel macro camera kind of useless, the two megapixel depth is probably not actually needed.

Single cameras can do fine for stitching and I would have liked them to have increased the eight megapixel, for example, ultrawide to say, 13, and we've got a 48 megapixel with this particular model. I know in other regions, they've used a 64, but now this one here is a 48 megapixel Samsung, it's the gm one that they are using roomy branding on the back. So no, it is not super huge, taking up the whole rear that we did see with some phones, and you can see in the light here. It does look pretty good, but this is plastic here, okay, the back of it is made out of plastic and the frame around the outside. This is also plastic as well.

Here you can see the volume up and down buttons made out of plastic now sim tray here. This sim tray does take two NATO sims and a micro st on the right-hand side here. That's all always on fingerprint reader, which does actually tend to work quite well here, and I'm not too fast. The in-screen ones tend to be a little slow with this. So it's interesting to note here, along the top there's no IR transmitter with this model.

There is no secondary mic because the microphone they have put it right next to your typical position right here. So it looks like two mics down the bottom here type c port does not support video out. I wouldn't expect it at this price range of phones anyway, a single downwards firing, loudspeaker there'll, be a sample later on in this in-depth review and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. That does support, of course, microphones. So the thickness this comes out to be about 9.4 millimeters. So it's not the thinnest phone out there and the weight is 197 grams.

So our screen we have here in the Realme seven is not an AMOLED. It's an IPS screen here now. This has a maximum brightness of my testing up to 495 nits. It can be made out in direct sunlight, but it won't be as clear as some very bright super AMOLED screens that I am used to now here. When you have a look at the black levels, the saturation, it's not going to be as dark as the AMOLED panels now to be as expected, and when you look at certain colors down the bottom, especially bright colors, you will notice there's a bit of what I call like a shadow to it: there's a darker edge, so it's not just a uniform color.

We get with the whites, and you do also see this with the punch cut out here at the top as well that just around it, depending on if you say looking in settings, you can often see this or just swiping down the notifications. You see at certain angles that the colors do shift out just around where that notches, where it's cut out, and that may be a slight annoyance to some people. But this is, of course, a trade-off of the IPS screens here. So overall I'd rate it as an average screen. That's in this, but it does have one saving grace here that, of course it is running at 90 hertz, which you can set to 60 if you want to in the settings now under the settings here when you do take a look at this, we've got options under display here to adjust our brightness they've got dark mode and adaptive brightness sorry, I mean, and then I'll color temperature as well.

So if you're not happy with what you've got to sit on, you can simply go along and change that so for the entirety of this review, I'm going to keep it on 90 hertz, and I mean that's what you're paying for you're paying for a 90 hertz screen, so I recommend use it unless, of course, you really want to save on battery life and the fingerprint unlocking on this particular phone. Is that capacitive always on fingerprint reader here on the side that I showed you just before now? This actually does work really well. I've got no problems with it. You see as soon as I touch it. It unlocks, and it's very, very quick, and it is really accurate.

I've had no issues and would rate this better than the in-screen fingerprint reader. In fact, for me, it works better than the 7 pro. That's got an in-screen fingerprint reader AMOLED screen, but this one is just so much faster, and I think it comes down to that reliability that people are just going to like versus the end screen ones. So, let's talk a little about the UI performance that I do find that at the 90 hertz you do notice that it's running most of the time at 90 frames per second, the occasional animation won't be perfect, but its nowhere near as bad of what I've seen with say. Mini 12.

This seems to be running quite fluid. Mini 12. I did find there's a lot of stutters now and then the animations don't seem to be quite down. But this is one area that I think with the realm UI that it's just more fluid, and I think it's just better optimized here, so it is running android, 10 and overall, I'm not seeing any bugs no real major problems. The edge detection seems to be good gestures.

Detection is fine and recent apps as well, when you go into them. So if you've got something running in the background you swap over to it, like I've had chrome here for a good 15 minutes, or so it won't actually reload on me, which is great. I do find with some other brands that I review. You typically see that you have to have things reload on you and that's just a bit of wasted time, so they're not killing things off with the task manager here as quick as other brands are, which is very good to see so triggering those gestures, no problems, it all seems to be smooth. It's fluid, triggering the edge to go back and in home and even bringing up the recent apps never had a problem really with that at all, and the good thing about this too, of course.

Well, we do have NFC with this particular model here now other regions may not have the NFC. I know there are some differences between the camera, the main camera used and whether you have NFC or not, but it is on board with this one. It does pass your safety net check, and you can use banking services and things like that really without any issues here. So let's jump into a few other things. So when you first get it, you are going to get some bloatware on here.

So what I mean by bloat? Well, there's Facebook. On there at least we don't have TikTok but WPS Office. It could be handy for some people, but there's a few applications, but really it's not actually too bad. That's what you get when you first get it, and first boot this particular phone up at the time of this video. Of course, I am on the latest software and there probably will be some updates coming through just to fix a few little minor things that are present, and you're going to have approximately 114 gigabytes free with this particular model that I have here: 120 gigabyte version now the battery life at 90 hertz.

It did surprise me here. This is actually a very good result: you're getting 13 hours of a fixed battery life test. Now other phones running 90. They would get a little, maybe a bit more. Maybe a little less 120 hertz takes an even bigger hit, so 90 is that sweet spot between fluidity and battery life.

So I do like this now. What does this translate into so for most people this is going to be at least two days run time: okay, you're looking around a real world use of about nine to ten hours of screen on time? So that's very good, and you can see that the benchmark result here that the hello g95 has a similar kind of performance to say this snapdragon 732 g similar there, so it's not actually too bad, and I'll show you a bit of gaming performance later on with this as well. GPS does work well, this is better than Qualcomm. Now Qualcomm will have an accuracy cap of three meters. They don't have this problem MediaTek, so they're not limited by a law.

They can actually give us the one-meter accuracy, and it does detect a lot of satellites. It's not like the MediaTek GPS from before, which a couple of generations ago used to be absolutely terrible, and I had a lot of problems with it now. This is one area that I think we need a firmware update. I have noticed that the wireless speeds for me tend to be a little slow. I'm talking about just the throughput here with my router.

Furthermore, I should be able to get close to the router, much quicker speeds than this. It should be double this at least now the spot 2. This is away from my router, that's not too bad that speed, but just closer up. I hope that they can address this minor little issue here that wireless speeds, for me just don't seem to be as good as they could be. So it does come with a wide vine level, one cert, which is great, so that means netflix, full HD, Amazon, prime video.

That is all going to be there, and it does pass safety net check as well too, for your banking apps. Now we do have camera 2 API level, 3 support here, but google camera ports being MediaTek will be well they're, going to be scarce, you're not going to have many out there. We do have some ports for it, so I wouldn't hold my breath on this. If you need a Guam port, you're, probably better off going uh with the 7 pro instead of the 7 here, and what about our internal storage speeds, so we've got UFS 2.1. They are not amazing speeds here, but overall, pretty decent they're, not too bad.

The random reads and rides here now. This is not going to be bottle necking or slowing down this particular phone so onto our audio quality. Now that we've got a single downwards firing loudspeaker now it is very loud, but it's not what I would rate as a high quality loudspeaker at 100 volume. It does sometimes distort a little now. You can hear your ringtones really well and the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack quality I would rate as above average. It is good.

It is loud. Furthermore, it is clean, it's clear, but not quite as good as other brands that I have heard around this price range. So there's still a little of tweaking. I feel for Realme to do to just improve that performance. There now voice call quality, good, no complaints.

No issues and I've had very good signal strength. I'm getting 4g most of the time three to four bars, which you'll probably see in this review. But here now is a sample of that loudspeaker in action, and let me know in the comments: how do you think it sounds taking a look now at our gaming performance, so the hello g95 is actually performing better than I expected now we do have game space, which is their gaming hub. We've seen this before with Realme phones- and this does have an option here, for you do not disturb you can add in, of course, your games here and then down the bottom here, there's a little interesting mode here, so we've got the competition mode, which is maximum performance balance, which is of course, a balance between frames per second and battery life, and then you can even optimize it on low power mode, which means it's going to sacrifice a little of that performance, but extend your gaming time here. So it gives you an estimate right down the bottom here that estimates a little off.

I would take about a good 40 off that estimate for real kind of world use here. I've got 60 54 battery life left, and it's telling me I've got six hours almost well. It's actually more, like I would say about three and a half. So this title here is grim valley side, scrolled, very good game, this one I do like it, and it runs at 90 frames per second, no problems whatsoever, very smooth, fluid gameplay. Now with Call of Duty.

This is a popular title. A lot of people keep asking me, of course, for gameplay of this one, but unfortunately we can't run the highest frame rate option here. This is all we got okay, so setting. Even this, the graphic quality onto the lower settings is only going to allow us to go with just the high frame rate option. That's it so nothing higher than that.

Unfortunately, at the time of this video, of course, this could change once the developers support this particular chipset. So this means the performance. This one is locked down to just 40 frames per second, oh, he should have got me. How did he not kill me? Okay, I got lucky there, so if I swipe from the side here, you'll see that the frame rate is just gonna constantly be 40 frames per second here with this game. Sadly, so it still actually runs quite well, and you can see it a good graphics option.

So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to play for about an hour, and we'll take a look at the thermals and just how hot is the Realme 7 going to get here, and the performance was good enough that I could actually win this mission for once, so it has been now one hour of heavy gaming just non-stop. I use the high screen brightness as well, so we're seeing 40 almost 47 degrees on the rear here of the plastics. It is getting quite warm near that camera. That must be where the chipset is flipping it. Over now to the screen, you can see similar temperatures, not quite as hot I'll, just move it over to the hottest point here about 45 degrees here.

So, yes, it does get a little hot when gaming for at least one hour. So let's have a look at the stock camera application here so night mode. This actually does work with our ultra-wide camera, and I'll give you some samples of this shortly and also some video samples as well, and we've got two times: digital zoom and five times, which I wouldn't personally use or recommend, because it's quite pixelated so with video we have 4k on the main camera 30 frames per second maximum. The ultra-wide can only do 1080p 30 maximum, and we also do have the same digital zoom here as well. With this one photo mode is exactly the same, so you can swap over to the ultrawide camera like so HDR.

I leave that on auto by default, and it also has AR enabled out of the box, which I highly recommend turning off the AI scene detection. Otherwise, the photos seem to be a little over saturated. I find portrait mode is here and 48 megapixel mode, so the main sensor is that Samsung gm one under more. You will find right here. Our expert pro mode so pro mode, we got white balance, shutter rate goes up to 32 seconds ISO up to 6400 and, yes, we can shoot in raw.

If I tap that raw feature is on, and I'll just close, that expert mode- and you see under more- we also do have an ultra macro feature something out of the front facing camera. So this one here is a 16 megapixel camera. It is a Sony IMAX. I think it is the force eight or four seven off the top of my head. I can't actually remember, but this quality here.

What we're looking at is no electronic image stabilization right here and in the sun. It can sometimes overexpose a little, and it also does have an audio bit rate of only 128 kilo bits per second. They used to use on previous phones 320. So here the audio does sound a little scratchy. So if you want the best ability, you're going to have to use a gimbals with this front-facing camera, so we get electronic image stabilized 4k 30 frames per second maximum.

I find the stability is okay, it's not quite as good as the Realme 7 pros electronic image stabilization. You have to remember that both of these phones do not have optical image stabilization. It's reasonably sharp, not the sharpest I've seen overall for the price this phone is selling, for I think the quality is good. The audio is actually better than the Realme 7 pro, which has an issue on the current firmware that it sounds a bit of muffled check my full review of the realm 7 pro for that. So this phone does have yes, a plastic frame around it plastic on the rear.

We've got NFC the build quality for the plastics is not bad, but of course it does not feel as premium as a phone with a middle frame around the outside or some say, gorilla glass on the back. So it's only got the gorilla glass 3 on the front of it. Now the 90 hertz IPS is definitely the key selling point here. The key selling feature that it's very smooth. It's fluid versus 60.

, and I noticed this a lot when I go back to the snapdragon 720 powered 7 pro model with the AMOLED 60 hertz screen, then it feels a lot slower, but of course it's a nicer screen to AMOLED. Apart from the high refresh rate, AMOLED offers the deeper blacks it doesn't have those IPS traits like. I showed you with the darkness around the edges of the screen. It has none of that, and it's over a better experience, but the fingerprint reader in this one is actually quicker, faster, more reliable side, one and I'll just touch it. Now I mean this thing: it just never fails me.

It works so well that fingerprint reader now face unlocking I didn't show you in the video but face unlocking, does work excellent as well, no problems at all for it to unlock when it sees me no issues there, but I think most people will probably just stick with the fingerprint reader and the fact that it's located with our power button as well here on this side, so all up as a phone, it's not going to compete or better. Sadly, the Poco x3 NFC that I've reviewed also in the channel it just falls short spec wise. That is f, offering a little more. So maybe that wasn't what I think rookie were aiming for. They just wanted to get something else in that segment in that market, and this is a phone that if I was going to be choosing out of these two, so the 7 pro, which I also have the review of right now in the channel.

I think I would go with the 7 pro, because you get better video quality uh. You tend to have better thermal performance as well. I notice it does run a little cooler. This gets up to about 48 degrees gaming for one hour, as I showed you in this video and then the front-facing camera has electronic image stabilization. The 64 megapixel main camera does seem to be a little better, and you've got the in-screen fingerprint reader being a little slower, but the AMOLED screen, so it makes the decision there.

If you're looking at Realme a little difficult now in terms of again I'll touch on that UI performance. I believe that definitely real me's UI is running a lot better than me. Why that I've been using with Xiaomi phones, it just seems to be a bit better optimizing seeing less of that stutter the frame dips and that's one thing I do really like about this particular phone here. The UI performance is good, it's great, and the task manager is not so aggressive, killing things off. If you want to multitask and take advantage of that eight gigabytes of ram, which I had with this model, you can actually do it without having to reload apps.

All the time, like I see say with me UI, so thank you so much for watching this review here of the realm 7, do check out the review of the 7 pro and I hope to see you back with more up and coming videos.

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