So this has not been a good year for gaming phones. We've had the Legion Duel 2
break, some catastrophic damage to the ROG Phone 5.
We've had more phones break apart this year than any other year and it's only June. Today we have a
new gaming phone, a new contender called the Red Magic 6. It's one of those phones with
an internal cooling fan. So hopefully this one survives a little better than the last couple.
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[Intro]
This Red Magic 6 costs about $600, which is pretty fairly priced compared to some of the other gaming
phones, and it has some pretty impressive specs as well. It is 5G this time around,
which is something to consider now that there are more 5G towers in place. Inside the box
we get a subtly shiny black smartphone, as well as a 30 watt quick charge charging brick
and a red USB-C cable, along with some paperwork and a SIM card removal tool.
Red Magic has kept this aesthetic for quite a while now with the cameras lined up vertically
in the center of the phone. And they were the only ones for a while to have a built-in
internal cooling fan to help keep the guts from overheating during long gaming sessions.
There are no metal protrusions or flashy accents. This Red Magic 6 could sneak
by as a regular smartphone unless someone was actively looking for it.
To get the fan to turn on we flip a switch on the side of the phone,
and it's pretty quiet. It's a singular fan. If you remember, the Legion Duel 2 had two
fans inside..and it also snapped in half, so it's probably not the design we should be emulating.
We'll test this more in a second. It wouldn't be a gaming phone without some RGBs. They are
also quite a bit more subtle this time around, just some smaller light bars along the edges,
and of course, the logo down at the bottom. Let's just into the durability test.
Red Magic is nice enough to include a pretty nice looking screen protector.
Once that's gone we can start scratching what Nubia's calling the world's smoothest smartphone,
not due to the physical smoothness of the glass, but the digital smoothness of the display.
This screen refreshes at 165 hertz, and has a peak touch sensitivity rate of 500 hertz...which for a
gaming phone is pretty important and impressive. Pretty sure this is now the world leader in
touch sensitivity. The screen can pretty much sense your finger before you sense your finger.
Still scratches at level 6, with deeper grooves at a level 7 though. There's no sapphire here.
Up in the top bezel we have an 8 megapixel selfie camera,
along with the plastic earpiece which won't be falling out on it's own. The bottom bezel
is symmetrical, nothing super special down here. The special bits begin on the side.
The Red Magic 6 has scratchable capacitive triggers along this right side of the phone.
They don't magnetically pop up like we saw on the Black Shark 4, but they are very responsive with a
touch sensitivity near 400 hertz. The buttons and fan vent are made from metal. The top of
the phone has a headphone jack sitting inside a concave channel – similar to a blood groove on a
medieval sword. Well that was dark. Then over here on the right side of the phone we have more metal,
the volume rocker, the air intake, and the dedicated gaming button.
The bottom of the phone has the stereos speaker, USB-C port, and SIM card tray,
which does not have any removable storage.
Fans inside of smartphones have always fascinated me. Moving air does a really
good job of cooling things down. And as we can see, this blower has some force to it,
scattering my little bits of shredded post-it note all over my desk. It's easy to tell where
the fan is located on the phone when we stab it. I would make a terrible doctor.
It makes noise when we jab it at one end, but not the other, so we can tell which sides it's on.
Even after stabbing it 10 or so times, the fan is still alive.
Thumbs up for that. Hopefully it will still be in one piece when we do the teardown.
The back panel is made from glass, and then of course,
we have three cameras sitting up here in a little row in the center of the phone.
I'll turn off the fan. Up at the top we have the 64 megapixel main sensor that can film in 8K.
And then we have the 8 megapixel ultra wide, and the 2 megapixel macro camera, all protected under
the same piece of glass. Then, under the back piece of glass, we have a single LED triangular
flash. The shape helps the prismatic fluorescence triangulate the luminescence.
Just kidding – it's all aesthetic, but I bet you thought it was super cool for a second there.
Besides the internal fan, the screen is probably the main selling point of the Red Magic 6,
along with that 165 hertz refresh rate. It's also a 6.8 inch 10 bit with a billion colors
1080p, and of course, lasts for about 23 seconds under the heat from my lighter
before going white and not recovering. Red Magic also says this guy also has 4D shock inside,
which might mean multiple vibrators. We'll have to check during the teardown.
And the last test before the durability test, is the under screen fingerprint scanner.
We can see that it's optical by the light emitting from the portion of the screen that
sits above the scanner sensor. It's illuminating the ridges of my fingerprint. And once it's set
and working, we can add some heavy duty level 7 deeper grooves to the surface of the screen,
which will be more damage than it would receive in normal everyday life.
And impressively it's still working...even with how scuffed up my fingerprints are.
Finally, the bend test, which apparently, for gaming phones is a hard test to survive this year.
Seeing phones snap in half is almost harder to handle than Breath of the Wild being delayed for
another year...again. Starting from the back there is hardly any movement in the frame.
And bending from the front we get pretty much the same results. Turns out the Red
Magic 6 is a solid piece of hardware that can handle the rigors of being a gaming phone.
Nice work. It survives my durability test and brings the 2021 gaming phone survival rate to 50%.
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