Realme 7 vs Realme 7 Pro - Which Should You Buy? | The Tech Chap By The Tech Chap

All right: let's do this, hey guys, I'm tom, the tech chap, and I'm pretty excited about this video, because not only do I get to unbox and show you two different phones, uh, but I've been looking forward to getting my hands on these new real me. Seven series phones for a while now- and I think when I tell you the specs and crucially, the price of these guys, I think you'll be pretty excited as well. This video is very kindly sponsored by realm. They also sent the phones over, but as always all my opinions are completely my own, but they go in touch and offer me this early access. Look at the two phones- and I thought that would be pretty handy for you guys to have a little look at them as well. Now, as you can see, I'm also bringing back the vertical camera the bird's eye view.

So you can see exactly what I'm looking at as we unbox these guys, and the first thing you'll notice is the pro model is actually a little smaller than the standard one. These are quite different phones actually, and what makes it fascinating is the pro isn't necessarily the better option, it's kind of like what you want in your phone and also, of course, what your budget is. Let me start with the price, because I think that's what's going to catch your attention most because the 7 here starts at just 179 pounds versus 279 on the pro, and if we flip these guys over, you can see some main specs here, and we're looking at 30 watt dart charging with a whopping 5 million power battery on the Realme seven uh versus 65 watt super dart charging and a 4500 William hour battery on the pro so faster charging, but smaller battery versus slightly slower charging but much bigger battery. So actually there are quite a few differences, but let's get into the actual unboxing, let's start with a standard one. It's always a nice touch from the included case, because it just means you don't have to go out and buy one yourself.

You've got this little silicon rubber case there, so you can keep it safe, and then we've got the phone itself. You can tell I've not even opened this, yet this is a proper unboxing, let's just tip these out. So this is the 30 watt, dart charger for the 7 and an USB a2 USB cable. So that's the 7, but then, if we just open up the pro see, if there's anything different, which I don't think there will be got the same case and actually a bigger charger not doing that very uh smoothly. This is the super dart charging 65 watt, as well as the same cable.

So the only difference really is obviously the phone and also the size and speed of the charger all right. So now we've got them unboxed and set up in my left hand. Here with the blue background, we've got the standard Realme seven and then in my right here with the red background, is the seven pro because, as you can see, there isn't a lot of difference between them. Although around the back, you can see while they are both quad camera setups, the uh style of the module is a little different, but they both come with what realm called this AG split design. So, with this sort of matte glass back, you can see when it hits the light.

You've got this sort of line on one side, which kind of makes it look a little more interesting. It stands out from the crowd, so I've got the Realme seven here in mist blue, but you can also get it in mist, white and the seven pro is in mirror silver, but there's also a mirror blue. On the right hand, side we've got the power button, although on the standard seven it actually doubles as a side fingerprint reader, whereas we get an in-screen optical reader on the pro. Both phones give us stereo speakers and also a headphone jack, which is always good to see and then on the left. We've got the volume rocker and the sim card tray.

Now. Actually, both phones have a bit of a party trick. I've not seen this on a phone, at least not one that I've used, but if we use a sim card ejector tool, both phones actually have this quite unique, looking triple slot design. So what that means is you can have two sim cards. It is 4g.

Both phones are 4g, which is fair enough. I think, given the price, and also it's not exactly an essential feature right now, I don't think 5g, but you can expand the storage as well as having dual sim, so I think that's actually really useful and something that does set these phones apart. There isn't any formal IP rating, but we only do say that this does have some splash resistant features. So I suspect this will survivor uh, you know using it in the rain, but I probably wouldn't take it in the shower with me. Also, both the Realme 7 and the 7 pro are the first ever smartphones to pass the TUV Rhineland, smartphone reliability.

Verification which is pretty reassuring actually so build quality is very good now. This is where things get a little more interesting because, as I say, the pro isn't necessarily the better phone. Firstly, in terms of the screen you can see, the pro here actually has better view angles, and that's because we get a super AMOLED panel versus an LCD here so uh you are getting better contrast and slightly richer colors on the pro, but this is actually a 60 hertz screen, whereas we're getting 90 hertz refresh rate on the 7. , so you kind of have to weigh up. Do you want a 60hz, AMOLED or a 90hz LCD? Not only that, but if we jump into the settings menu on both and then go to about phone uh, you can see.

I've got the top spec models of both here with eight gigs of ram and 128 storage. But you can also see the pro has a snapdragon 720 g. That's a Qualcomm processor versus the MediaTek. Well, it just says outscore processor here. So of course my first question is which is faster, the snapdragon or the MediaTek.

Well, I fired up a bit of geek bench 5 and actually in terms of processor performance, they're. Pretty neck and neck you can see the snapdragon is ever slightly faster in single core, but then just look at these open cl scores which is kind of testing the graphics performance, and you can see the MediaTek chip is almost twice as fast as the snapdragon. So the standard- seven, I think, really is more aimed at gamers uh, because, firstly, we have that 90 hertz refresh rate we've got a bigger 5, 000 million power battery versus 4 500 on here, and then we've got that much better graphics performance. Both phones do feel pretty fast, though, and every app and game I tried, ran smoothly on both. But of course you do want that extra graphics performance from this.

If you are going to take advantage of the 90 hertz, because you're going to want to get 90 fps in games that support it so that extra graphical grunt will come in handy to sort of max out this higher refresh rate, we also get a carbon fiber cooling system on a 7. Now I don't have a ton of details about this, although I'm guessing the material is a good conductor of the heat away from the chip, which then helps to keep it cool, so you're still getting the highest frame rate possible. Even in longer gaming sessions, software wise, we get android 10 with the Realme UI skin, on top there's very little bloatware, and it's fast and easy to use. Now, let's talk about these cameras because I think that's where the pro which I have here is going to come into its own. Both phones do have quad setups with a main lens, and an ultra-wide, a macro and also a black and white sensor, which they say helps to capture more light and therefore gives you more detail and better contrast in your photos.

Now, to be honest, I don't really find having a macro lens that helpful, although it seems every phone manufacturer and their ROG seems to be just chucking one in any way. I guess it's an extra option, but the quality isn't that good. But I do like the fact we've got ultra-wide lens on both. So there's the usual range of options from night mode. Video photo portrait full resolution of the lens and under more you've got the macro sensor.

You can go to expert mode if you want to tweak all the settings. Video with the rear camera tops out at 4k 30, although on the front, if we switch the selfie, it's 1080p, 30, not 4k. Now, last but not least, let's talk about battery life and charging because, while the 7 does have a bigger battery, we're looking at 5 000 Williams versus 4500 on the 7 pro so a slightly smaller battery, we do get much faster charging with this. So this super dart, 65 watt charger, will get you from zero to 50 or about 50 in just 12 minutes, whereas the standard 30 watt so still pretty fast, uh dart charger for the seven and will get you zero to 100 in about an hour and five, although, unfortunately, neither of these guys support wireless charging all right. So I appreciate that was a pretty long, unboxing video.

I think you can hear my voice start to get a bit horsey, but it is fascinating to see the differences between these two phones. On the one hand, the standard seven, which is cheaper, starting at 179 pounds. We obviously have the 90 hertz screen the faster graphics performance and also the bigger battery. So I think if gaming is a priority- or you just want the best battery life possible, then the 7 is the one to go for, whereas the 7 pro is a kind of like a better all-round phone with a super AMOLED screen, the higher quality camera and, of course, also the much faster 65 watt super dot charging. So it kind of comes down to what you want.

It's a bit of a shame that you kind of have to pick and choose like we don't get a 90 hertz super AMOLED, for example, but overall I mean, with the premium design the solid performance, good battery life and surprisingly capable camera setup. I think, given the price, these are both definitely phones to look out for and, as I say, I will be doing a more in-depth look at both of these uh very soon so make sure you have subscribed and stay tuned for that, but first impressions which one would you go for the seven or the seven pro? Let me know in the comments below also the realm 7 series comes with a 3 year, warranty and 2 months, free replacement policy, which is a year and a month longer, respectively than most phone brands offer, which is a nice bonus. Thank you so much for watching guys. If you do want to see more from me, then don't forget to hit that little subscribe, button below, and I'll catch. You next time right here on the tech chat.

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