Here’s a quick look at what all do you get in the box. There’s the phone itself, a transparent thin flexible TPU case, Some paperwork, SIM tray election pin, Usb type A to Type C cable,and the star of the show 65watt Super Dart charging brick.
I called this charger the star of the show,because we have never seen such charging speeds on a 20,000Rs. smartphone. I did manage to run the battery on this phone down to 7%, and this charger took just 31 minuets to get it from there to 100%.
It is insanely fast. Now make sure to use the included cable to get these charging speeds. You won’t get same charging speed with any other charging cable.
This phone supports 18watt fast charging viaa compatable power delivery charger as well. This the is the 6GB RAM and 128GB storage variant in Mirror Silver colour, which I got for Rs.19,999. The 8 GB RAM and 128GB storage variant is priced at Rs.21,999. Rs.20,000 for the base variant is a lot of money, so should you spend your hard earned money on the Realme 7 Pro? Let’s find out.
Realme has finally brought in a new design to the back of this phone. After having used Gorilla Glass back on the Realme 6 Pro, they have gone back to using plastic for the back of this Real me 7 Pro. Fortunately they went with the frosted glass or itched glass like finish to the plastic back.
So while it might not feel as premium in hand as phone with a glass back, it doesn’t feel cheap at all. I actually like the way light reflects off of this back, and unless you tell people that its a plastic frame and back, I am sure they will assume its a glass back. There are pros and cons of using Plastic back instead of glass. Number 1 con is that, it doesn’t feel as premium.
The Pro are that, plastic back makes the phone lighter, it is not as prone to scratches as glass, and you won’t have to worry aboutthe back shattering if the phone falls on its back. Which makes the overall phone much more durable. Now the Realme 7 Pro is not a small phoneby any means, but with a 6.4 inch display, it is compact compared to some of the other phones. And this makes it fit a bit better in my hands.
Despite of packing in a 4500 mAh battery,it doesn’t feel too bulky. It is still not a 1 handed device, al leastnot for me. But it has a more manageable form factor. Speaking of the display, its a 6.4 inch SuperAMOLED panner with a resolution of 2400x1080 pixels, and a 60Hz refresh rate. While some people are considering it a downgradeover the 90Hz LCD display of the Realme 6 Pro, I think this AMOLED panel looks muchbetter, with punchy colours, amazing contrast levels and great viewing angles.
Leaving the bottom chin which is a bit biggeron this phone, other bezels all around are pretty much comparable to other smartphonesin this price range. I know most of you guys would have loved toget 90Hz refresh rate on this AMOLED screen, but then the phone would have been pricedmuch higher than what it is right now.
That would have also brought in some otherunwanted issues like the weird colour tint or black bars near the punch hole camera cutout. So honestly, right now this is one of thebest displays you are getting at under Rs.20,000. It is great for consuming content, wetherits on Youtube, Netflix or any other streaming service, and its also amazing for playinggames. Amazon and Netflix both support Full HD playbackon this phone. Speaking of consuming media, this phone getsa dual speaker stereo setup.
Having stereo speakers give you a more immersiveexperience while watching videos. Bottom speaker is obviously the louder one,but the bigger earpiece speaker also does a pretty good job. Since it’s a plastic back, you do feel thewhole back of the phone vibrating if you are listing to songs at full volume.
If you don’t want to disturb others by listen to the audio via the speakers, this phone gets a 3.5mm headphone jack which supportshigh res audio as well. Unlike most of the other budget smartphones,Realme 7 Pro doesn’t get s physical side mounted fingerprint sensor. Since its an AMOLED display, they were ableto put the optical fingerprint sensor under the display. Granted that it is not as fast as the physicalfingerprint sensor, but it looks much more futuristic, in my opinion.
That being said, I still prefer a physicalfingerprint sensor for its speed. Speaking of speed, the face unlock is muchfaster than the fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone. It is so fast, that sometimes I wonder ifits even working properly or not.
So I have it turned off, and I just use thein display fingerprint sensor instead. Coming to the internals, the Realme 7 Propacks in Snapdragon 720G processor, coupled with Adreno 618 GPU. 6 or 8GB of RAM, and128GB of internal storage, with a dedicated microSD card expansion slot. All of this is backed up by a 4500 mAh nonremovable battery, which supports 65watt fast charging.
Now the processor hasn’t been upgraded,but by now, we all know, the performance of this processor has been more than adequatein the phones that we have seen it in, till now. All these internals are held together withRealme UI, which is built on top of Android 10. I haven’t given this Android skin a tryin a long time, but Realme seems to have refined it a lot since I last used it. There are still many preinstalled apps, allof which you can uninstall by the way, but as a whole UI, it still looks much cleaner.
The icons are not as bad, there is Googlescreen on the left most page, instead of Realme smart Assistant, there are no banned appspreinstalled, animations are snappy, and overall navigation feels smoother.
I will need to use it for longer to see howI feel about it, but so far I am not disappointed by it. Something that annoyed me is that this scanningpage showed up, every-time I installed any app. I really don’t know why its there, and Idid not find a way to disable it. I was very annoying to have this appear forevery app that you install.
Next up, cameras. This phone gets 5 cameras in all. 4 on its back, and 1 at the front. Primary camera at the back gets a 64 megapixelSony IMX682 sensor with F/1.8 aperture and a 26mm lens. Next one has an 8 megapixel sensor with F/2.3aperture and 16mm ultra wide lens. Followed by a 2 megapixel macro camera withF/2.4 aperture and another 2 megapixel black and white depth sensor again with F/2.4 aperture. At the front, it gets a 32 megapixel camerawith F/2.5 aperture and a 25mm lens. I did take a few images with the cameras,and so far I like what I see.
AMOLED display is a step up, performanceincluding RAM management has been good so far, the 4500 mAh battery easily lasts formore than a day, and the insanely fast 65watt charger is just a treat. If you are considering to get s new phoneunder Rs.20,000, and you prefer a more manage phone which doesn’t feel like a mammothbrick in the hands, I feel the Realme 7 Pro might be your best bet right now. The only other phone that I might recommendother than this is the POCO X2, but then again, it is over 6 months old now, and the Realme7 Pro is the newer offering.
