Realme 7 Pro Review

Realme 7 Pro: Best Smartphone Under Rs. 20000

 

Realme recently launched the Realme 7 Pro smartphone, successor to realme 6 Pro that was launched earlier this year. This has a completely different approach compared to the realme 6 Pro since it moves from a 90Hz refresh rate LCD screen to 60Hz AMOLED screen, doesn’t have a telephoto lens or a secondary wide-angle front camera, retains the same Snapdragon 720G SoC, but this brings 65W fast charging for the first time in the price segment. Is the phone worth the price when you already have a lot of phones? Let us dive into the review to find out

Box Content

• Realme 7 Pro smartphone in Mirror Blue color
• 2-pin 65W Super-Dart charger (10V-6.5A)
• USB Type C Cable
• SIM Ejector tool
• Clear protective case
• User Guide and Warranty information

Display and Hardware

The Realme 7 Pro has a 6.4-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED dew-drop screen with a pixel resolution of 2400 × 1080 pixels, 20:9 aspect ratio 2.5D curved glass screen with gentle rounded corners and pixel density of about 411PPI. The display is bright, and the sunlight legibility is good as well, thanks to 600nits brightness and has 98% NTSC color gamut so the colors are vibrant. It has 60Hz refresh rate and 180Hz touch sampling rate, which is decent, but if you have used 90Hz refresh rate you will find the difference. The phone as ultra-narrow border so it has high screen-to-body ratio of about 83%, even though the company says it is 90.8%. It also has HDR support, which works for supported YouTube videos, but you can’t control it manually. The phone has Corning Gorilla Glass 3+ protection.

Above the display there is an earpiece on the top edge that also doubles up as a secondary speaker. The ambient light sensor is present under the screen. It also has a gyroscope and a magnetic sensor, otherwise known as a magnetometer. There is also a 32-megapixel camera on the front with f/2.5 aperture.

   

    

 

    

The power button is present on the right, volume rockers and SIM + microSD slot are present on the left and the loudspeaker grill, USB Type-C port, microphone and the 3.5mm audio jack are present on the bottom. On the top there is a secondary microphone.

It has a dedicated dual SIM slot, similar to most other Realme phones so that you can use dual SIMs and a microSD at the same time.

Camera

The phone packs quad rear cameras, that includes a main 64-megapixel primary rear camera with single LED Flash, 1/1.72″Sony IMX682 sensor, 0.8μm pixel size, f/1.7 aperture, has support for PDAF, EIS along with a secondary 8-megapixel camera with 119° ultra-wide angle lens with f/2.3 aperture, 2-megapixel B&W portrait camera and a 2-megapixel camera for 4cm macro with f/2.4 aperture. It has a 32-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.5 aperture.

The camera UI is familiar with other realme smartphones running Realme UI with flash, HDR, AI Dazzle Color (Chromaboost in some phones), Filters and settings on the top. There is option for ultrawide, 1x, 2x and 5x options on the bottom. Below that there are options for Night, Video, Photo, Portrait, 64MP, and more options to choose Movie, Google Lens, Time-Lapse, Ultra Macro, Slow-Mo, Expert (Pro) and Pano. Beautify option for the front camera lets you adjust several features, in addition to smoothness. The night mode also works for the front camera. Realme has enabled Cam2API by default so you can side-load ported Google Camera APKs for advanced editing including RAW capture.

Fingerprint Sensor and Face unlock

   

The phone has an in-display fingerprint sensor, and the company is using new GOODIX sensor. It immediately unlocks the phone just by keeping your finger so that you don’t have to press it. You can select fingerprint animation as well, but can’t disable it. You can add up to 5 fingerprints. You can also use the fingerprint for app local and payments in apps. The phone also has face unlock, but it is not as secure as fingerprint since it can be unlocked with a photo, but there are some additional options so that it doesn’t detect when you close your eyes.

Battery Life

   

Coming to the battery life, the 4500mAh (2250 x 2) built-in battery offers brilliant battery life. It lasts for a day even with heavy use and over two days with average use, and I got about 6 hours of screen on time (SOT) during my use. Since the phone has support 65W Super-Dart fast charging, it takes about 35 minutes to charge it from 0 to 100%, and 0 to 50% takes 14 minutes with the bundled 65W charger. The phone gets a bit hot when charging, which is common in most smartphones with fast charging. It also supports 18W PD/QC charge, so you can use an 18W charger if you want to improve the battery health.

Conclusion

Overall, the Realme 7 Pro, is a worth upgrade to Realme 6 Pro at a slightly higher price compared to the predecessor. It has improved main camera, AMOLED screen, 65W fast charging and offers good battery life even with a 4500mAh battery, but there is no high refresh rate screen and the phone doesn’t have a glass body.