Realme XT

Overview

Realme XT is the latest smartphone by the Chinese smartphone maker. The manufacturer has been quite aggressive in bringing new phones to India this year. In the last one month, the company has launched three quad-camera phones, including the Realme 5, Realme 5 Pro and the newly launched Realme XT. It is the company's first 64MP quad-camera phone in India. Realme XT is the latest addition to Realme's current lineup of phones. The phone’s price starts at Rs 15,999. The company considers its flagship model.

Design

The Realme XT features Gorilla Glass 5 on the front and back. It has a curved glass design and comes in two gradient colour options - Pearl Blue and Pearl White. The phone has a 6.4-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED Dewdrop display with a small waterdrop notch. The display has a resolution of 1080 x 3240 pixels and a 91.9% screen-to-body ratio. It has a night mode as well.

Performance

Powered by a 2.3Ghz Snapdragon 712 SoC the phone is equipped with Adreno 616 GPU. It has the same processor as the Realme 5 Pro. The Snapdragon 712 SoC is a mid-range chipset meant to handle day-to-day tasks. The phone ships with ColorOS 6 based on Android Pie OS. It comes with a number of pre-installed apps. Connectivity options included in the phone are 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Mobile Hotspot, Bluetooth, GPS with A-GPS, Glonass, and USB Type-C. It has a light sensor, a proximity sensor, a magnetic induction sensor, gyro-meter, acceleration sensor, pedometer, and G-sensor.

Camera

The Realme XT is its 64MP quad-camera setup and uses Samsung's 64 MP GW1 sensor for the primary camera. It has an 8MP ultra wide-angle sensor, a 2MP macro lens and a 2MP depth sensor. The camera comes with features like Chroma Boost, HDR and Nightscape.  The phone has a 16MP lens on the front camera. The phone supports 4K video recording at 30fps, 1080p HD video recording at 30fps/60fps, 720p HD Video recording at 30fps/60fps, and Slow motion up to 960fps. The device comes with electric image stabilization for front and rear camera. The camera on the phone is AI enabled. The phone has four-in-one intelligent pixel binning, and f1.8 aperture with the 64MP sensor.

Battery and Storage

The Realme XT is a dual SIM phone and houses a powerful 4000mAh battery. It comes with 20w adapter with VOOC 3.0 fast charge support. The smartphone offers 64GB of internal space which is expandable via a microSD card slot up to 256GB.

The RealMe XT is available in 64GB / 4GB RAM, 128GB / 6GB RAM, and 128GB / 8GB RAM variants which are priced at Rs 15,999, Rs 16,999 and Rs 18,999, respectively.   

Configuration

The REALME XT smartphone runs on Android 9.0 (Pie) OS upgradeable to Android 10.0. The phone is powered by an Octa-core (2x2.3 GHz Kryo 360 Gold & 6x1.7 GHz Kryo 360 Silver) CPU with a Qualcomm SDM712 Snapdragon 712 (10 nm) chipset.