Infinix GT 50 Pro review

Display

The Infinix GT 50 Pro features a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen with 1208 x 2644 pixels (440 ppi). The panel supports up to 144Hz refresh rate, 10-bit color depth, up to 330Hz touch sampling, and 2,304Hz PWM dimming. There is no mention of HDR support, though.

The screen is protected by a Gorilla Glass 7i.

According to Infinix, the panel is capable of 700nits of typical, 1,600nits of HBM, and 4,500 nits of peak brightness.

Our measurements confirm the typical and the High Brightness Mode numbers. We got 704nits of max brightness with our usual 75% white patch. Then we captured 1,694 nits of brightness with High Brightness Mode boost enabled.

The peak brightness with a 10% white patch was 1,971 nits everywhere, but in the gallery app we measured 2,263 nits.

The minimum brightness when showing white was 2.1 nits.

Refresh rate

Like on most of the recent smartphones by Infinix, the GT 50 Pro's display supports up to 144Hz refresh rate. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of apps that actually support 144Hz.

The Display settings offer three refresh rate modes - Auto Switch, Standard, High.

Auto and High share similar behavior - the OS uses 120Hz for the entire UI, most popular system and some social apps. Then 90Hz is used for the rest of the apps and games. Finally, 60Hz is used on idle screen.

When you are in High refresh rate mode, you can specify the maximum RR of each app. And in this mode, you can force 144Hz for the compatible apps, which in our case were Facebook, Instagram, Files, Settings, Phone, and Messages.

Finally, the Standard mode fixes the refresh rate at 60Hz.

HDR and streaming

The GT 50 Pro screen is recognized as HDR10 capable by some apps such as YouTube, but not by Netflix. There is no official certification for HDR10 video support either.

The phone supports Android Ultra HDR, and the format is available across all compatible media and social apps.

Battery life

The Infinix GT 50 Pro is powered by a large 6,500mAh battery, a proper improvement over the 5,500mAh cell inside the GT 30 Pro.

The Infinix GT 50 Pro scored a very good Active Use Score of 15:28 hours. It did absolutely great on the web browsing scenario, our video streaming test, and even lasted almost 10 hours on our gaming torture. The call time endurance was the only average result of the GT 50 Pro.

Charging speed

The Infinix GT 50 Pro supports 45W fast wired charging, as well as 30W wireless charging via a MagSafe case and a compatible charger. It can also do reverse wired and wireless charging, as well as bypass wired and, for the first time, wireless charging.

We carried out our usual wired charging test. We used the provided 45W power adapter and original USB-A-to-C cable.

The charger refilled 29% of the dead battery in 15 mins. Another 15mins on the charger and we captured 50% of charge. Finally, the full charge took 67 minutes, which is quite all right for the 6,500mAh battery.

Infinix advertises a battery self-healing technology for the GT 50 Pro that can recover 1% battery capacity per 200 charge cycles - this should delay the inevitable battery degradation.

There are a few options for prolonging the lifespan of the battery, too. AI charge protection learns your habits and recharges the last 20% shortly before you need your phone (i.e., when your alarm is about to go off in the morning). You can also enable Custom charging protection - here you can set a charging limit between 80% and 100%.

Slower, low-temperature charging is also available.

The Infinix GT 50 Pro also supports reverse wired and reverse wireless charging.

Bypass charging is also available in both wired and wireless scenarios. The latter has to be the first - it's available when you are using the optional Infinix GT Magcharge Cooler 2.0. It's rated to provide up to 15W while also offering 12W of thermoelectric cooling (TEC).

The charger is as small as an Apple MagSafe one, but incredibly thick due to the cooler. It has RGB light inside, so as far as gaming aesthetics are concerned - you are covered. This round brick requires 27W USB PD input (not part of the package).

The charger has an on/off button for the wireless charging, but it's cooling never stops. We tried it, and we can confirm its bottom surface is cold, and we mean below 10C cold. Nice.

Speakers

The Infinix GT 50 Pro has a dual speaker setup that supports Dolby Atmos. The arrangement is of the hybrid variety where the earpiece is pulling a double duty with the help of a second top-facing sound outlet.

The speakers scored a Very Good mark on our loudness test. Unfortunately, the sound quality is mediocre with lacking vocals, feeble bass and well-presented high frequencies. The output is simply put, shallow.

Use the Playback controls to listen to the phone sample recordings (best use headphones). We measure the average loudness of the speakers in LUFS. A lower absolute value means a louder sound. A look at the frequency response chart will tell you how far off the ideal "0db" flat line is the reproduction of the bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You can add more phones to compare how they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable with our older loudspeaker test. Learn more about how we test here.