Xiaomi trolled Realme’s MWC presentation today: the BBK brand couldn’t even keep up GT3 240W start, the Chinese rival has already indicated: it is made with a 300-watt charge, with a 5-minute cable time. Of course, minutes don’t matter as much here: within a quarter of an hour, all mobile phones can be charged incredibly fast, and those who still wait an hour or so for their own phone to be fully charged can rightly be envious.
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By the way, the fast charging standard uses the SuperVOOC branding common at BBK, and only 80 seconds on the included adapter bring 20% charge to the GT3’s 240W battery. The charging is controlled by three chips in addition to numerous sensors in the phone alone, the high transmission is provided by a 12 amp Type-C cable at both ends and the charging head itself uses dual-GaN technology to keep the dimensions down, accepting the thick twine on the Type-C port. Realme provides 80% capacity up to 1600 cycles, which means you can fast charge the phone for many years, and the 4600 mAh battery is quite thin, 61.5% of which is still covered by the heat dissipation system, which is a total of 6580 mm2.
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Realme tested charging at 85 degrees and 85% humidity, as well as at -20 degrees, and the entire system earned the TÜV Rheinland Safe Fast Charge certification. The system also offers AI charging modes: based on GPS position, it charges up to 100% at the airport, for example, but only up to 80% during the planned route for reasons of battery conservation, and finishes with the rest when approaching the destination. During sleep, the charge also goes up to 80%, and the system adds the other 20% until the expected awakening.
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Another interesting feature of the phone is the Pulse Interface, a 25-color RGB LED shape on the transparent glass back panel, which can pulse in two rhythms and at five speeds to display charging, low battery, timer, incoming call, incoming messages and all kinds of notifications. The NFC antenna and the Snapdragon logo are also visible behind the glass panel, but no matter how many times Realme has said that the phone renamed from the GT Neo 5 to the GT3 240W is an absolute top device, the thing has to live up to last year’s popular Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip. Instead, the 6/128 GB variant will open at $650 at some point, offering more expensive packages up to 16/1024 GB.
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The rest of the specifications were not discussed at the presentation, but everything is known: there is a simple 1/1.56″ main camera on the back at 50 megapixels with optical image stabilization, and the 8 megapixel ultra-wide and 2 megapixel microscopic camera. Realme’s 6.7″, 144 Hz, 10-bit, 1400 nits, 1240 x 2772 pixels AMOLED panel knows everything, as does the built-in fingerprint reader and stereo speaker. The phone runs Android 13 with Realme UI 4.0 based on ColorOS.
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