I got a new Lego piece you win no thanks I've got a gaming smartphone there's my
friends is the Nubia Red Magic 3 let's take a look
good people so I really have not played this many hours of Android games until
the nubia Magic 3 came into my life and exploring the ecosystem of games is
both rewarding when you find something actually good because the Play Store is
filled with garbage games and paint to win games but when you do find those
occasional times when you actually do enjoy something on the gaming phone the
experience is actually pretty good now the thing is the specifications on this
phone are really impressive for the price point around $500 us for
snapdragon 855 8 gigs of ram 128 gigabytes of storage we have a five
thousand milliamp hour battery a forty eight megapixel camera which is not
great giving this a gaming phone the gaming features or the gaming center is
actually pretty impressive and so I want to really explore the question our
gaming smartphones worth it with long battery life and NVIDIA MX 150 GPU and
Intel Core i7 processor in a compact design the Razer Blade stealth 13 is a
great companion for users on the go if you want more gaming her hook it up to
the core X EGP you would support for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs the Razer Blade
stealth + the core X the ultimate power couple so first of all how would you
even classify a gaming smartphone outside a targeted marketing and
demographic because I feel like gaming smartphones right now or just
performance machines for performance users in the gaming these guys and it's
relevant because Razer has a gaming smartphone so there's a soos and I feel
like this whole gaming category is actually quite important to push certain
features forward like massive batteries powerful SOC s lots of RAM and storage
and most importantly high refresh rate screens and push all those features into
the mainstream and basically create an ecosystem that makes it comfortable to
game on and mobile device and I feel like newbies execution here is pretty
fantastic so I guess design wise a gaming
smartphone must look the part it is very different versus the sleek glass packs
or simple aluminum shells RGB lighting tow seems to be quite common in the
gaming sector so the light strip on the Nubia is both expected and very
pointless Razer and they Suze did the same thing
with the illuminated logos in the back so I guess this is a trend even the
fingerprint sensor is this weird shape that unfortunately is kind of slow for
the hardware we also have a cooling fan installed inside the frame that you'll
not find on your regular Android smartphone it is slightly audible when
you put your ear to it but with speakers blasting you know above 40 percent it is
not really an issue interestingly it does in fact keep the SOC slightly
cooler versus my similarly specked out zenfone 6 and here's the deal the
Snapdragon 855 and Adreno 640 is a fantastic combo that is also found on
the new Samsung Note 10 which are much higher priced and this hardware is
actually pretty awesome for demanding titles like PubG has fought nine world
tanks and others and interestingly when they compared the benchmarking scores
between the zenfone 6 that also has the 855 and Adreno 640 the zenfone 6 is
faster in the physics test but all the other benchmark tests are pretty on par
with the Nubia but these are just benchmarking scores you know whatever
and in terms of real-world scenarios I have not noticed any difference even
between my one plus six it is slightly older using older hardware as well in
majority of games no difference between the Nubia or the one plus six outside of
like PubG and maybe asphalt nine like a little bit extra performance in terms of
frame rate on the Nubia but it doesn't really matter and that's the thing from
a Georgia of games on the Play Store they're designed to work with whatever
Android smartphone you have regardless of the specifications except for really
demanding titles like PubG so with the Nubia because the powerful hardware you
get a visual advantage and you also get the performance advantage by having
better fps so you can aim better and that is the only incentive to go towards
like a gaming smartphone or a phone that has better specs it is a good thing then
the phone is absolutely massive within almost six point seven inch display so
that when you hold it because of the aluminum shell it is kind of slippery I
would love to have a little bit different texture especially on the
sides to really give you a little gripping this over here the phone
charges via type C there is a headphone jack up top and we
have this red toggle on the side that activates game mode and this is
something that is actually kind of cool so enabling it gives us access to the
full library of games and this is like game mode only you can disable incoming
phone calls incoming messages incoming notifications and all that so you will
not be disturbed as you gain so swiping from the right you can see we have that
full command center reveal so you can enable your fan you can disable the LED
strip since it's completely pointless you can also toggle between those
notification options you can also change between different performance modes but
in my benchmark testing they don't really make any difference and the
really cool 4d shock feature so for example playing asphalt 9 the phone
literally gives you that haptic feedback about the music and the base which is
actually kind of cool the vibrations are pretty strong and it feels like you're
almost holding a little controller in your hand instead of a smartphone I also
love the temperature notification plus any network activity and both the CPU
and GPU frequency and it's actually kind of cool because as I game I can swipe
from the right to see the temperature of the SRC and GPU and CPU clock speeds
which I guess makes sense to see on a gaming smartphone but not like you can
overclock the CPU or GPU independently anyway but it's still kind of cool and
you use the same read toggle to get back into your desktop away from that command
center and probably the most useful feature are the touch buttons and that's
because we have two capacitive triggers on top for left and right so inside the
game you can map exactly what left and right does on screen so for example in
pop G you can map the right trigger to aim down sight which is super useful you
don't have to navigate your thumb away from shooting you can simply tap the
trigger on the right this is especially cool for games that have a lot of
happening on-screen and if you have a lot of touch controls so you can free up
that real estate from your thumbs on to your point fingers via the triggers and
given the screen is 90 Hertz that is absolutely incredible for this price
point given not many high ends flagship phones even have high refresh rate
displays the catch over is that not many games support 90 Hertz refresh rate
because they have to be running at that fps as well so if I'm running anything
demanding like asphalt 9 world tanks PubG I am a hundred percent not getting
90 FPS on the mobile phone so it feels like I'm 60 and below in majority of the
really demanding titles but in terms of gaming with something really demanding I
don't feel a difference between this and my zenfone 6 that has a 60 Hertz display
but I think majority of people will just enjoy the United Hertz display outside
of the gaming arena because not many games supported and the fluidity you get
with just basic operations is absolutely amazing scrolling through something or
touching something is awesome I do have a few complaints about the screen toe
like the rounded corners I feel like they're way too rounded they cut off
some of the UI like the battery percentage and the clock for some reason
when I open my folder with all my games in it the animation is super laggy
despite having a 90 Hertz display and a really powerful SOC - there's no way to
change the refresh rate of the screen to anything lower than 90 Hertz which I
find odd it'd be nice to have the option to do so and weirdly there's no way to
disable the capacitive trigger buttons when you're outside of gaming mode so if
I'm watching a YouTube video and they accidentally brush against one of those
trigger buttons the menu will show up because YouTube things that I just
touched the screen but given the size of your phone you can go into landscape
mode directly on your home screen I feel like this size of the phone is
absolutely perfect for precise aim so in PubG when you need to land those
headshots easily achievable on this phone the same thing with World of Tanks
when you need to penetrate those pieces where the tanks don't have armor because
the phone is massive and your your thumbs or your trigger fingers are not
blocking anything on the screen we do have a stereo set of speakers which is
nice but the bottom one on my unit is much louder so when I'm gaming the right
channel is just blasting audio at me while the left one is a bit muted and it
kind of removes the whole stereo effect as for using this on a daily basis
outside of gaming it's too big for my pocket but it's Android you could
customize it to however you like to use your phone the only few issues I have
with the software is the camera app it's both laggy the shutter delay and there's
takes way too long to actually process the images once you take them the actual
detail of the image with a 48 megapixel sensor is pretty good dynamic range is
there sometimes it likes to underexpose a bit but in terms of having a really
nice sharp is great the selfie mode that thing has
impressed me a lot nice detail as long as you disable the
whole pretty effect so the cameras are good but they take kind of forever to
process and the camera app is kind of like it and so in the end I would say
this is a pretty complete gaming package for the price point especially with the
snapdragon 865 that is found on the zenfone 6 and the new note tents it is
really impressive what this thing can do in terms of battery life at five
thousand milliamp hours I've played for an hour at full performance mode and I
only lost 20% of battery so that gives you five hours on non interrupted gaming
like asphalt 9 PubG or world tanks which are super demanding on the
smartphone it's pretty good and to come back to the question of whether or not
gaming smartphones are worth it in my opinion yes they need to exist to push
certain features into the mainstream like the priority for me would be the
higher refresh rate screens Razer did it Asus did it oneplus did it with the 7
Pro Nubia is doing it man degrades if more companies did it - ah so that is my
experience with a Nubia red magic 3 check out my favorite android games down
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