The Realme GT series is home to the phone with some best value-by-caste phone and the latest generation is showing great promise. Is GT 7 or GT 7T the right phone for you?
Realme GT 7 has excellent construction quality, a bright, colored Ltpo display, good stereo sound and a solid camera performance. Demidation 9400E chipset is very fast, as is 120W charging (although you have to buy your own adapter). The 7,000mAh SI/C battery currently holds a lot of margin on the top position in our battery life chart.
Realme GT7
Realme GT 7T makes some cutbacks to hit the lower price point. This means that a non-LTPO display (otherwise it is a similar 6.8 “OLED panel with a 6,000 NIT peak brightness), a mid-range demistation 8400 Max chipset and no telephoto camera. The phone has still been rated IP69 and has a 7,000mah SI/C battery with 120W charging.
Realme GT 7T
You can read more about Realme GT 7 camera in our review. In short, the 50MP main camera (1/1.56 ”, OIS) day -night not good but great photo, 50MP 2x telephoto camera (1/2.76”, no OIS) is fine, but it is conducted back by short focal length. On the negative side, the 8MP ultra-wide is a little latedown (no 4K video and no affs), a 32MP selfie camera could also be better.
Realme GT 7 and GT 7T at a glance
The GT 7T basically has the same set of cameras, minusing the telephoto module. There will also be separate processing in separate chipsets.
Note that Realme GT 7 and GT 7T will get 4 major OS updates and a total of six years of security patch. They launch with Realme UI 6 based on Android 15.
Here are prices for European and Indian markets:
| layout | Realme GT7 | Realme GT 7T |
|---|---|---|
| 12GB/256GB | € 750/€ 43,000 | € 650/€ 38,000 |
| 12GB/512GB | € 800/€ 47,000 | € 700/€ 42,000 |
Realme GT 7 5G
| 256GB 12GB RAM | ₹ 42,998 |
€ 649.99 |
| 512GB 12GB RAM | ₹ 46,998 |
€ 699.99 |
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Realme GT 7T 5G
| 256GB 8GB RAM | ₹ 34,998 |
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| 256GB 12GB RAM | ₹ 37,998 |
€ 549.99 |
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GT models compete against the choice of Poco F7 Ultra (SD 8 Elite, € 700), OnePlus 13R (SD 8 Gen 3, € 600) and Samsung Galaxy S25+ (SD 8 Elite, € 1,150). All of them have telephoto cameras – 50MP 2x for Poco and OnePlus, 10MP 3x for Galaxy. So, Zooming is remembered in GT 7T, but it still has strength.
The batteries of these phones are small, even 13R is far behind with its 6,000mAh capacity. In addition, their water resistance rating is not as good, 13R only has IP65, which is not very good for near flagship.
Xiaomi Poco F7 Ultra • OnePlus 13R • Samsung Galaxy S25+ • Xiaomi Poco X7 Pro
The Poco X7 Pro (Demensity 8400 Ultra, € 300) does not have a tele camera and its 50MP main has a small 1/1.95 “sensor. It is cheap, however, and still, there was a sufficient budget for an IP69 certification. The battery has a capacity of 6,000mAh and 6,550mAh in Europe is 90W.
Keeping all this in mind, is Realme GT 7 on the small list of phones to consider for your next upgrade?
What about Realme GT 7T, does its slightly lower price make it more attractive despite having some downgrade?
