Realme 15T Review: All That Glitters Is Not Gold

A price hike has now led to the sale of the Realme 15T, which was marketed as a budget smartphone but thanks to ‘higher prices at mid-range pricing’. Compared with the Realme 14T it does have some upgrades and downgrades as compared to its own . Realme has retained its IP69-rated design, added a high-tech and high power battery as well as redesigned camera. This is a slightly smaller display than the previous model, but only downgraded to an original one-update (downgrade) of . Is it necessary to upgrade these things? Or are they just for filling a spec sheet? Read on to know if Realme’s 15T is worth your money.

Realme 15T Design

This is the design of the Realme 15T, which has redesigned over the previous Realmme 14T. Its corners are more rounded, there’s a new finish called Flowing Silver and an squarish camera deco. Although it is made of polycarbonate, its frame and rear panel are composed of a glass-based camera deco from aluminium alloy.

The new camera deco is made from aluminium alloy

Despite being made of polycarbonate, the finish on the rear panel looks like mother-of-pearl (nacre) material. Although the phone is plastic, it feels mid-range, not budget, even though its body size is. But the only thing that brings its budget roots back to the surface is it’s slightly thicker display border (even on each side of the screen). It has three sensors but the metal camera module is very slim, so when placed on a flat surface this phone barely wobbles. The 7-year-old is a result of its lack of ‘protruding camera module’ because it does not have. Despite slimmer, even slimmers look at an 89mm profile.

The Realme 15T has a slim and modern appearance

The phone’s flat sides and matte finish rear-panel make the phone a bit slippery to hold, especially with its matt finish. In addition, Realme has retained the 14T IP69 rating for dust and water. They’re the best-of-the-art durability ratings, so that even pressure jets of water can be withstanded. But you have to keep in mind that Realme will not be damaged by water ingress under its warranty.

Realme 15T Performance

Paraphrasing The 6. It is a good display of 57-inch AMOLED, which rejects fingerprints and gets plenty of light outside the house. This panel is flat, and so there are no distracting reflections either. This is not uniform, as it has the thickest border of the panel; at the bottom and on the top one are the thinnest. As an LTPS panel, it only switches 60, 90 and 120Hz. When using default Vivid screen colour mode, watching videos was a fun experience with deep blacks and slightly saturated colours. Although we have a high-brightness panel, Weirdly does not support HDR while you stream video but Widevine L1 with Full HD playback quality is available for streaming. The stereo speakers are loud enough for audio (but not a sound rich speaker), but it is too loud to be heard.

The Realme 15T has a bright AMOLED panel with slightly thick borders

overall software experience is good, with a good deal of ‘s work experience. If you chose not to use the app during setup, but are prepared for seeing tons of pre-installed third party games and apps as it is a budget game with its roots. All of these can be uninstalled, thankfully, and I was not spammed by random notifications during the review. You get 3 years of updates but the phone still boots to Android 15 out-of-box in 2026, so software commitment is a bit limited (see details) as it has been updated. Also available is an advanced AI Edit Genie (a basic feature) for voice-based image editing, which also provides a phone’s own version of the same device. It works as advertised, but it takes a long time to process edits and will not understand very complex commands.

The Realme 15T comes with a lot of pre-installed games and third-party apps

A recent 6nm processor of the Realme 14T was not a notable exception, while MediaTek Dimensity 6400 Max is slightly upgraded to an upgrade that does not introduce anything new to the table either. UFS 2 combines the chipset with . A storage (128/256GB) and LPDDR4X RAM (8/12 g) were 2 (or more) of s.

| Benchmarks | Realme 15T | Motorola Edge 60 Fusion | OnePlus Nord CE5 |
| — | — | — | — |
| Display resolution | FHD+ | 1.5K | FHD+ |
| Chipset | Dimensity 6400 Max (6nm) | Dimensity 7400 SoC (4nm) | Dimensity 8350 Ultimate (4nm) |
| AnTuTu v10 | 5,55,544 | 6,49,652 | 14,12,373 |
| PCMark Work 3.0 | 10,526 | 16,841 | 13,435 |
| Geekbench 6 Single | 810 | 1,087 | 1,317 |
| Geekbench 6 Multi | 2,083 | 3,049 | 3,989 |
| Geekbench AI CPU (Quantized) | 1,037 | NA | NA |
| Geekbench AI GPU (Quantized) | 485 | NA | NA |
| 3DM Wild Life | 1,373 | 3,630 | Maxed Out |
| 3DM Wild Life Unlimited | 1,357 | 3,675 | 11,038 |
| 3DM Steel Nomad Light | 152 | NA | NA |

A device at this price point is a good gaming performance for the money, but it may have been better than that. Considering the benchmark scores, Realme 15T is not really designed for gaming but it does Call of Duty Mobile (CODM) at Medium graphics and frame rate just fine. This game has only High and Medium graphics settings, but does not display Max settings for framerates. While playing CODM, the game is a smooth one with occasional lag; but touch sampling rate is very low and you will have trouble with FPS titles.

The Realme 15T’s selfie camera gets an upgrade

Camera hardware for the Realme 15T is similar to that of the 14 T. The redesigned 50-megapixel selfie camera is an upgrade to 14T’s 16-MP sensor which has been the first one in its history.

Realme 15T primary camera samples (tap images to expand)

The primary camera captures a vivid image in daylight that shows slightly punchy colours with good dynamic range. In the bright sport, and in the shadows there is a lot of detail but the resolved details are slightly less than low; however, it’s not too much. pixel peep), and you will see soft textures and some blurred patches.

When shooting close-ups of objects, the sharpness just doesn’t even exist when it is shot. And so, while the photos look fine on your phone, they just don’t have enough detail when zoomed in. This is why the 2X digital crops are generally poor overall, and this is what makes s so bad. Similarly, the primary camera is trouble-locking and maintaining focus; low-light images visibly soft, with low on detail (OIS) are also subject to high optical image stabilisation (obviously called “low light” images), and large on noise.

With all the processing, portrait mode photos taken with this camera are sharp and detailed; but there is a noticeably blurry halo around subjects.

Realme 15T selfie camera samples (tap images to expand)

The selfie camera takes slightly contrasted images with good dynamic range in daylight. It is fine to have edge-detection, but there is a soft and visible halo-like blur around the edges of Edge-destr. The videos shot at 1080p (30 fpm) have decent stabilisation but are also shown with blow-out highlights. It is not perfect details; however, the frame rate is constant. A frame rate of 1080p 60 fps video is higher but it does not stabilize so that even when panning, it looks very shaken. A low-light video, which is very loud and has a soft look, no detail and dynamic range but seems quite quiet. Stunning Selfie videos look fine, but have overexposed backgrounds.

The Realme 15T comes with a massive 7,000mAh silicon-carbon battery

Using a state-of-the–art silicon-carbon battery with combining swimming ‘6nm chip, it is not effective for the 15T either. PC Mark Battery Life test The 15T had a good 22 hours and 52 minutes, until the battery reached 80 percent (which is when the test ends) in the PCMark Battery life test. Nevertheless, the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion with its 5,500mAh battery managed to achieve an identical 22 hours and 21 minutes of similar performance (indicating that the 7,000mAh should have been better) due to the 6nm chipset. The test of the OnePlus Nord CE5, which is slightly more expensive than the Realme 15T, was 27 hours and 10 minutes long. The phone lasted for the entire day of heavy use with daily usage and still had power to last through the first half of the following day. You can get some more hours out of it (for a mid-ranger) with casual use and assuming that it isn’t feature packed in terms of capability, for example, you have the right time to do so.

The bundled 80W charger is 60W, but it has good charging speeds. The phone charged 46 percent in 30 minutes and reached a full charge state of 1 hour and 42 minutes, not too bad when charging 7,000mAh battery.

Realme 15T Verdict

But Rs., not too long ago as a or more? Would 25,000 be the equivalent of our phones, such as the Realme 9 Pro+ which offered capable cameras, good battery life, smooth software, one cool design feature and overall, great value for money. Due to rising cost of component, today we have a problem with devices such as the Realme 15T that claim they are worth it but don’t.

When we test, it’s easy to conclude that Realme 15T – even though it has been upgraded — is not worth enough to justify its Rs. Starting price 22,999 . The performance, cameras and value of Motorola’s Edge 60 Fusion is much better than the one that was launched at this price. Then OnePlus Nord CE5 is much better for you, with lots of raw performance and high battery life at an extra Rs. If you can spend some time more, then so is the choice? 2,000 s.