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Realme GT5 review - A midrange smartphone with 24 GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and a 144 Hz OLED panel

www.notebookcheck.net Realme GT5 review - A midrange smartphone with 24 GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and a 144 Hz OLED panel

The realme GT5 is a midrange smartphone with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Read our Notebookcheck review to find out whether the realme smartphone is a worthwhile purchase.

The price may be midrange but the specs definitely are not.

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That's really good, but I somehow doubt it would stay $550 when they sell it in western countries.
- It better be. The Nubia Z60 Ultra with an 8 Gen 3 apprently will be 679€ in Germany.

What about updates, bloatware, spyware? A little bit more important than 144 Hz for essentially everything but gaming.
- I can see a lot of people putting lineageos on this and debloating it.
  
  I do not know one person changing their stock Android, let alone jailbreak iOS. Since it comes with drawbacks like broken banking apps, I would also not do it myself. So if you see a lot of people doing such things, you must know a very specific group of people.
- And probably slave labour

What's the use-case for 24GB of RAM on a phone?
- Running Docker via Termux, idk
- Just as a precautionary measure to open one chrome tab before installing Firefox.
  
  You joke. But, firefox on android starts killing tabs when your system is under memory pressure. Where even chrome would keep your tabs alive. This is not an issue on high memory devices but is noticeable on low ram smartphones.
- Future proofing, I guess?
- LLMs
  
  Yes, we have apps like MLCchat, maid and sherpa to name a few. The experience is not seamless even with 12gb of ram.
- "Higher gee-bees equals more gooder. Number go up!" -typical phone buyer, probably

No SD card slot, no 3.5 mm jack.
- What the hell are you doing with sd card slot when there is one 1 tb worth of space? Seriously the 3.5mm jack I get, but not sd card. The space in modern phone has never ended with me and if the point is to move file from device to another you can just use usb cable or cloud storage. There is no reason to put sd card on phones anymore when theres so much space in phones

BUT DOES IT HAVE A HUGE BATTERY? Nothing matters if it can't run two days.
- If can be fully charged under 20mins or less. Why would 2days battery matter in this scenario?
  
  Amplifying your logic a little, to make the point: A ten-minute battery life would also be no problem, as long as you are near a wall outlet.
  But what if I'm camping? Traveling? Using the phone a lot on the go?

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