Hi Chris here and only a few months ago i did review the red magic 6. we now have the 6r
version so the r stands for racing but this really essentially is a cut down model priced a little
better and to be just offering still a similar kind of package so we still have that snapdragon
triple eight eight gigabytes of ram 128 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage that my unit here has now
this is a review unit that was sent out to me in exchange for the video you're watching right now
but what about the cutbacks from this phone so we still have an oled screen or amoled screen
and it's a 144 hertz now not 165 but hey that difference does not matter at all very good touch
sampling rate of 360 hertz we have the gaming triggers they're still there 400 hertz happening
rate on those battery capacity has been reduced now to 4200 million hours 30 watt fast charging
and we miss out on a secondary loudspeaker it's not present in this phone so if you needed that
sadly that has gone and there seems to be some cutbacks when it comes to the 5g frequencies so
i can't seem to get onto 5g at all with this phone inside the box you will find a type a to type c
usb cable a 3.5 millimeter to type c adapter so no 3.5 millimeter support on this particular phone a
clear tpu case our charger is 20 watts maximum it does actually support the phone though up to 65
a warranty card and a quick start guide so we've got a less of a gamer look with this
new phone here from rear magic so the six are the r stands for racing now slightly smaller screen
here this one is six point six seven inches it is an amoled screen maximum brightness
of measure to be about uh 750 nits and it can be made out in direct sunlight so gone is that
real gamer look to the previous that we had with the previous models okay so it's more simplistic
okay there's just a few little things on here the red magic logo there but it looks a lot more basic
so this phone the weight is not too bad so when it is under 200 grams i'm pretty much happy with
considering the size of the screen on this one so it is a 188 grams according to my scales
and you're looking at approximately eight millimeters the thickness of this one so gone on
the left and right side are the intake and exit vents for the internal little fan so no longer
is it fan cooled so we have a middle frame around the outside we've got a curvature to it right here
and you can see on this side we've got the gaming trigger so they are still here the gaming triggers
with the 4 000 hertz megahertz sorry sampling rate and all made out of metal those buttons
have a good feel to them and easy access to that power button too when i'm holding it
one-handed now the fingerprint unlocking speed on this one very very quick and i have found it to
be actually very good this is i would say perfect i've not had any issues the accuracy is fine i've
only added my thumb just a single time to with this one so when the screen is off you can see
the front facing 16 megapixel camera it's got that ring around it like what samsung does and
yeah i wish they didn't do this it would be just better to have this black and it wouldn't
stand out as much having the cut out there for the front facing camera speaking of cameras on
the rear here so we have a uh 64 megapixel sensor just like the previous models no real changes here
two megapixel depth camera five megapixel macro and eight megapixel ultrawide which is the
weakest camera of the setup here with it so i wish they'd gone and just changed the cameras
a little bit given us a better ultra wide perhaps put a better main camera on there but no changes
here from them at all so down the bottom we have just a single loudspeaker so no more secondary
loudspeaker they used to be very powerful they are in the roomy six series and even the five models
so this is a disappointment that we've lost that of course no micro sd card support with the sim
tray here it just supports dual nano sims the type c port thankfully we didn't lose this feature so
it does support display out which is a cloning feature and it's good to have in a gaming phone
but in a gaming phone i would love to have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack it's just much more
immersive and a lot better for games especially like pubg gaming with a headset and well you're
gonna have to use bluetooth because we don't have that here with this phone so it's just a secondary
mic up here and then some antenna lines overall build quality of this phone i do like it it is
solid it's fine and i do like the fact that it is not so much of a standout gamer look to it anymore
so the screen size with this one it is 6.67 inches and we're looking at a 144 hertz maximum with this
particular display with the refresh rate now it does have a very good touch response it is
a good screen but it's a step down from the red magic 6 which has a 165 hertz screen but trust me
you're not going to notice that difference such a minimal increase in the refresh rate you will
not notice that at all so the ui it is running red magic's own ui and you cannot unfortunately
use a custom launcher with us you can't just go and use if you decided to that hey i want to run
nova launcher on this you're not going to be able to do that now no problems here with notifications
they're all showing up just fine i place calls on this phone too and i've had no issues and i
haven't really had any problems with bugs i've had a couple of little ui glitches but so far it
has been quite smooth and very very fast so great performance as phone as you see later on from the
synthetic benchmarks too so with the display we've got dark mode of course you've got a lot of
different options there for screen preferences you can change all of this and tweak it to you how you
like it but what is missing is dc dimming which would have been really nice now the refresh rate
i find a good balance is 90 hertz i'm very fond of this because it's the good and real perfect
balance between battery life and a fluid ui but of course you can force an override 144 hertz there
is however one thing that i've noticed with this phone and that is i'm only on 4g i can only sing
to get 4g i can't get 4g plus now the previous mod i reviewed the red magic 6 no troubles to get onto
5g i simply cannot get onto 5g at my house in town it seems that we are missing out on some
5g bands there and this could be a result of just using a different modem or they're cost cutting
and i don't like to see this so they've gone to step backwards with many things here
missing the loudspeaker missing the fan missing uh the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and that the
bands too as well with this particular model here now just jump into gallery just go through a few
of the tests that i normally do run in my reviews so charge time here for our battery capacity which
again is a little less actually than the previous model you're looking at from 10 to 100 49 minutes
that's not bad i mean under an hour for me is great in my books not a problem there too so
here is our battery life now this was run at the display at 90 hertz and i do think that getting
9 hours and 20 minutes almost there is actually okay but for 90 minutes but i do actually see 120
phones being able to achieve this result now real world you're looking around seven hours
six to seven hours on screen time that's at 90 hertz but if you put it on to 120 or 144 hertz
then you are going to get about an hour less so do expect that wireless speeds they are pretty
much well average not the fastest i have seen for wi-fi six this is and the minimum speed down there
was okay but i would like to see better here we have gps and it sees a lot of satellites because
it does support the dual carrier frequency and the accuracy will not go any better than three meters
of course being a qualcomm chipset very good average signal strength which is another important
one there and it did seem to follow me around just fine camera two api support level three maximum
support so look out for some gcam ports to improve the quality of the photography and even possibly
video quality so it does have a security level one here for drm and that's wide vine level one cert
so that again is something we do want to see wildlife score so this is a very very good
score here thanks to that snapdragon triple eight 35 average is just like other phones that have
the same chipset too that i have tested out and two two this is now version nine a newer version
really good score here of course this is just a short burst benchmark gaming's a different story
which i will get onto shortly internal storage speed so ufs 3.1 very very good here i mean look
at that random write score that is right up there 315 megabytes per second and excellent sequential
reads and writes so not holding me up there at all i am on the latest firmware so this is the android
11 and red magic os version 4 and i do have the 8 gigabyte version with 128 gigabytes of storage
and on first boot you get around about 108 gigabytes free so sadly we're missing out
on the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and the secondary loudspeaker earpiece that we had on
the previous models so it sounds okay i mean it's loud it's fine for a loudspeaker just that uh i
wish they didn't do this move here now the 3.5 millimeter to type c adapter the quality is fine
loudness is good i would rate it as average it certainly doesn't sound the best to me i've heard
better with other manufacturers so i'm going to play a short clip here now of the speaker at 100
volume now the gaming performance is exactly what you'd expect for a snapdragon triple eight
with eight gigabytes of ram pub g this does allow me to run the extreme frame rate here under the
graphics settings okay and you can run that with hd balance or smooth extreme and overall very very
smooth here looking around absolutely no problems this performance now when you do play for about
an hour i have noticed that the longer you play of course it's going to get quite hot now this phone
will actually get up to about 50 degrees on the back and i do find that it's quite hot
now i've seen this with a lot of snapdragon triple eight phones uh over the months now
i've been reviewing them so it's a very hot chipset and the performance yes it is really
good but just be prepared for it to get quite hot and that 50 degrees celsius that's without
the case on so with it on it is going to probably get even uh two or three degrees hotter than that
so like the other phones we've got game space here so this is where you can have a hub but we used
to have the switch to get into the game space and that was a little bit easier to turn it on and off
now it is simply done via toggles here so when you swipe down from the top you can turn it on
or off now i have noticed that sometimes it is a little bit uh this is where i call up the glitches
with a ui and a few little bugs that sometimes when you're running it or you're in a game or an
application stuff i just try and launch here and tutu uh that it can sometimes be quite slow to
respond and other times you get like stuck in the application you can't even get out of it because
when you try to trigger the gestures that then will bring up uh our game mode here the toggle
so you can change then on the fly the refresh rate everything else which is great and then you can go
back to try and get out of it but a lot of times that back it's working now but a couple of times
when it is auto detecting the game mode you get stuck in it and you can't even go back you can't
get back here into the game space and swiping from the top to disable it so it's actually
behaving itself at the moment and working okay but certainly some firmware updates are needed
from red magic to really improve the overall ui experience and i'll show you how to set up
those gaming triggers which are at the top and they're very good to use especially in a game
like this like call of duty or pub g which this game of course right here so swiping here from
this side you can bring up again that menu and you've got shoulder triggers i have that enabled
so we need to do is just drag the overlay for the left and right triggers to where you want
it to be so for example i want the right trigger to look down the sights and left to shoot you can
adjust the sensitivity you've got the vibration there so the haptic motor in this particular phone
isn't too bad i mean it's reasonable kind of strength so then i'll just close that it has
saved that and this is per game setting okay so we'll save it for the games and then now i can
just simply tap here so watch when i tap the right look down the sights and to fire this is
very very easy and really quick to do it and of course it does have that high sample rate of 400
megahertz meaning it's very very quick to respond and i do find it's great for a game like this
and moving over to the camera performance here so first up video with the red magic 6r
vlog footage with the front-facing camera sadly as you can see it shakes around all over the
place and it does not have any electronic image stabilization 1080p a maximum so you can't shoot
4k which i think flagship should definitely have 4k so as i walk ahead it shakes all over the place
you really do need a gimbal now stepping into the sun that the exposure changes here with the
automatic exposure don't seem to be too bad and moving around you're not going to see any rolling
shutter or anything like that because it's not using electronic image stabilization and the rear
camera you can shoot all the way up to 8k so what you're looking at right now is 4k 30 just like my
timeline it has electronic image stabilization so as i walk ahead it's well reasonably steady
but it's certainly not the best i have seen now the weakness really of this phone is probably the
cameras i mean they're not the best out there are they the same as other flagships no it does fall
behind a little bit on that so a quick little jog ahead just testing out that stabilization
and you can see it's okay it's definitely doing something now this camera the 64 megapixel one
here does not have any optical image stabilization it's all electronic what about stills so this one
on my cat vera it's quite detailed it's not a bad photo at all portraits often look very soft now i
turned off beautifying but you can clearly see it's still applying a little bit there and the
saturation just well over saturated as you can see it's from these photos that now is the ultra
wide which is it's okay the 8 megapixel ultra wide but it still doesn't capture a lot of detail this
has a lot of clipping indoor photo here as well is okay not too bad considering it's artificial
lighting the ultrawide again isn't bad here uh it just lacks a little bit of detail that's all and
low light performance is well not really that good at all they definitely need to improve the cameras
red magic so this phone is it the one to go for or should you get the red magic 6 i would actually
get the red magic 6 and because this phone is just missing out on i think some essential things now
the rear magic 6 does have the fan in there now a lot of people think ah the fan's a bit of a
gimmick it actually does push out a bit of hot air it does lower temperatures down a little bit
it does something okay so it's worthwhile to go for now the difference between 144 hertz and 165
trust me you will not see this difference at all this still has a very good screen it's a super
fast phone snapdragon triple eight ui is blazing fast however no secondary loudspeaker hmm okay and
there's no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack which would have been great to have on a gaming phone
it does tick one of the boxes though that is a must for me on a gaming phone and that is display
out so there's display out support with this one but i'm missing out then again on some 5g bands
the ui has a few bugs in here especially when it comes to the gaming mode so to me it's kind of
a little disappointing and a bit of a puzzling release like why on earth did they release this
just keep with the red magic six it doesn't look like a game of phone anymore which for some people
is a positive for others is going to be a con maybe you want that actual gamer look to it
and yes the triggers are good and great to see they did not remove the gaming triggers i really
love them especially in games like pub g or call of duty those triggers do come in very handy once
you get used to them i really do prefer that over using touch the triggers to just so much quicker
reaction times for me that is at least so thank you so much for watching my review here of the red
magic 6r i can't actually recommend it i would get the red magic 6 if you're into your gaming phones
so do subscribe and like of course if you like this video and i will catch you in the next one