The Realme GT 6 Shows How AI on Smartphones Should Be Done
As another brand to spin off from Oppo, it shares the same bloodline as OnePlus but mostly operates in lower segments, offering similar features at a lower price. After a slight shift in identity, Realme is back to making incredible flagship killers — a category that OnePlus birthed and dominated for a long time. Its latest phone, the Realme GT 6, has a lavish set of features that enable it to compete head-on with flagships.
Realme assigns a simple and satisfying gesture to invoke Screen Recognition, where you tap and hold the screen with two fingers. When it is triggered, the contents on the screen freeze, and a scanning animation appears on top. Similarly, when Screen Recognition detects an email address or phone number, it suggests related apps. Likewise, it recommends Google Maps when it finds a physical address, which is extremely useful if you spot a business on a social media app such as Facebook or Instagram. One of the power moves is to drag any image over to Google Lens and let it do the rest of the magic.
What’s even more exciting is that the gestures are intuitive and do not require extensive practice to get used to. You can see AI Screen Recognition in action above. The punchy colors in the image convey the story of a jubilant evening when the sun emerges out of clouds after several hours of rain. But the fast-moving Honda appears jarring in the otherwise serene ambiance. I tasked Google’s Magic Editor to remove the sedan, which resulted in the image on the right.
While I am unsure what makes Realme’s implementation more effective than Google’s, I will surely lean toward using the former. Besides Realme, I have only seen a similar level of finesse in the AI regeneration features on the recent desktop versions of Adobe Photoshop. The fact that Realme produces results similar to a desktop app is nothing short of commendable.
Improving videos is significantly more difficult than producing the same effects in photos. It requires the phone to process dozens of frames every second, which, in turn, relies on the hardware. It is commendable that the Realme GT 6 improves the visibility in videos by a respectable margin, even without the more powerful hardware or a dedicated co-processor. Protection for your eyes I spend almost every waking hour staring at screens.
