so qualcomm's new chip is out the snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 and it's in this phone right here
that i've got to test the red magic 7 s pro now the 7s pro is essentially this 7 pro but with
some tweaks and refinements it does have better cooling so they've got their what they call ice
10 cooling now with 10 different layers slightly faster touch shoulder buttons here for your gaming
triggers and of course that new chip which is 10 faster the snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 versus the 8
gen 1 and around about 30 more efficient or so qualcomm claims so this is what you'll find in the
box we have our 65 watt charger the type c to type c cable now charge time is just over 20 minutes
to charge the 5 000 milliamp hour battery so it is very quick we get this case here so it's tpu
style but they've got this cut out on the back of it there so that helps with the cooling of course
and a warranty card so it looks just like the red magic 7 pro but with the 7s pro there are
just a slight differences here as you can see now it does state that it's got the eight plus gen one
now this version i have the color they call this is supernova now it has the 18 gigabytes of ram
and 512 gigabytes of storage yes 18 gigabytes of ram that's probably more than most people's
laptops so we have a little fan in here it does have some lighting with that and then the light
strips either side there too for a little bit of rgb after all if it didn't have that then you
couldn't really call it a gamer phone right it's got to have a bit of that rgb bling so this is
the intake here for the fan camera setup has not changed for a long time now and i always complain
about this and i'm going to complain about it again so we just got an 8 megapixel ultra wide
64 megapixel main camera and then the 2 megapixel macro it's about time they just upgraded this
and hopefully maybe a sensor that's also got optical image stabilization would be good you
can see that does state ice 10 hit now so that is actually their slightly improved cooling i didn't
particularly like the cooling on the red magic 7 pro let's see later on in this review if it's
actually better middle frame around the outside so the thickness of this is 10 millimeters it's quite
a thick and heavy phone so 235 grams is the weight we have metal power button volume up and down
antenna lines one of three microphones and these touch triggers at the top which are capacitive
ones so they're not click in physical buttons like you do have will say the black shark phones
but these do operate at 520 hertz now up the top we still have the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
and this is a must i think in a gaming phone and really good to see that red magic do have it
and you'll see the antenna lines loudspeaker so there are two of them dual loudspeakers and they
don't give you a sample they're very loud and they're pretty good good for what you'd expect
in a gaming phone then we've got our type c port now this is usb 3.1 does support video out another
must i think in a gaming phone that you can use it like a console connect up say a bluetooth
controller and you've got then a large screen tv with the video out with it so i got a sim tray
that only takes two nano sims no micro sd card support and the other loudspeaker the screen is
the same before so we do have a amoled screen here super amoled and it's a 120 hertz now previous
models yes did have 165 144 so we are missing a little bit on the refresh rate but i don't think
a lot of people are going to be too bothered about that so we have the under display camera now this
one is 16 megapixels and you can barely ever see that it does have a front facing selfie camera
now the quality as a result of this is downgraded because the sensor does need to look around and
really through those pixels and if it's in direct sunlight as you can see now you'll see this little
sun icon showing up there that just means that the screen's at its maximum brightness there
instead of showing say the sensor there that's why they do that now bezels around the outside
are very good and it is a flat panel the in-screen fingerprint reader is in an okay location it's not
right at the bottom like some brands but it's not too hard to get to now just demonstrate it quickly
that it does work well it's not always the fastest that time was actually quite slow for some reason
and now you see that's a little bit faster there but i do like its accuracy that it seems
to be working 10 out of 10 times for me and the overall comfort of this phone a little bit big yes
at the 6.8 inches but i don't find it too bad and i think for a gaming phone especially with
the flat screen they've got a lot of things right with this model and more on that screen
of course so it is a full hd plus screen and we do have 120 hertz we've got a 90 hertz option
and plenty of different settings in here so with the refresh rate if you want to save on battery
you want like 10 hours of battery life on screen time that is i'm talking about then you've got to
set it to 60 hertz 90 you get about uh seven and a half eight hours and 120 hertz we're looking about
seven or so hours or actually under that really with this screen and of course depends on what
you're doing now the touch accuracy and the response is very good i don't know what just
happened then that was probably my own fault there and we do have in here you see this low brightness
flash protection now that is just another way to mention really dc dimming that's what they
mean it's dc dimming so you'll see if i set the brightness right down very low here that it will
start to band have banding that's going up and down you can see maybe a little bit of flicker
so this setting the good thing about it is that it works on all refresh rates now a lot
of other brands a lot of manufacturers don't actually have that so if you set it to 90
or anything above 60 dc dimming wouldn't normally work with some of the other brands like xiaomi for
example but here it's going to work across all of the refresh rates there so i'm keeping it on 120
that's what i'm always using that is of course what you are paying for too so why not use it
unless you need to save on battery life so we do have all these options with the screen you
can tweak the white balance there we've got vivid mode which is by default i just find it way too
punchy the colors for me anyway a little bit over saturated i do prefer natural mode i just think
looks a little bit better so all up for a gaming panel for a gaming phone 120 hertz may not be the
fastest but it's good it's a flat screen and you don't have that ugly cutout for the camera now
by the way there is a seating in here if you go and have a look right down the bottom tiny screen
adjustment this is where we might actually be able to make out you see if i adjust that brightness
you can just see now a little rectangle there where it is and you're able to tweak that
separately from the rest of the panel after all it acts as like an individual little screen there so
it's good we do have those extra settings there for the udc camera screen that's in front of it
so how was our ui well we are running here red magic ui 5.5 and yes it is running on android 12.
now it has been very good the ui but a lot of the times it's just been fixed actually i was
experiencing crashes where the settings would just disappear when you go to something like
for example battery the battery one is still a little bit buggy too so it's not completely
fixed the screen you should usage is not showing and i cannot really show you the screen on times
at all with this sadly even now i've been using this phone for about 10 days i cannot
show you that report or anything like that so the battery life what i said before it's the
same as the previous model really i've not seen that much of an improvement slight improvement
over say the snapdragon 8 gen 1 the 8 plus is a little more efficient up to 30 percent they claim
so you're looking around close to about six and a half to seven hours on screen time at 120 hertz
10 hours on screen time at 60 hertz with very light use and around about eight hours or so at
90 hertz depending on what your needs are there so the ui performance is very good scrolling
everything and there's no problems with the toggles notifications they're not lagging i
don't see any lag or stutters or problems it does run at 120 frames per second so the ui
performance the gesture detection all of that kind of stuff is very good and we do have a
lot of ram on board with this one just a ridiculous amount of course with this having the
18 gigabytes of ram certainly is helping boost that performance there and they do have a little
bit dedicated to virtual ram which is basically like a caching system so this is that patch that
came through which thankfully did fix quite a few little problems that i was having just with some
instability uh but there's a little bit more work to go there's a couple of little random bugs and
things that have have happened to me so i'm sure they're going to be onto that red magic to get it
sorted so we have camera 2 api level 3 support that's great so look for gcam ports if you do want
to improve things a little bit or just a different style of photo too when you test them out you can
maybe get a bit more sharper two ultra wides from the gcam ports it's got wide vine level one cert
so what that means is your streaming services like netflix are yes and full hd
however amazon prime video is not and disney plus standard definition hopefully that will
change though in the future when they support this phone so this is 3dmark's wildlife extreme test
here so this is very good to test if it's going to throttle now in my experience all the snapdragon 8
gem ones were throttling apart from the fan cooled ones that red magic do release and now it's even
better so this basically did not throttle i mean if it didn't throttle and was 100 here that'll be
absolutely perfect but you can see it did throttle down but 1.5 you can see the difference from the
best score loop to the lowest that's fantastic and i cannot stress that enough but look at this line
here that is just stellar performance there so the fan definitely working the new improved cooling
and that new revised eight plus gen one definitely seems a bit better than the previous model
geekbench five scores very good strong performer as you'd expect out of this this is the top-end
flagship and it has plenty of ram these storage speeds really good random writes
very good you can see the random read i've seen better but hey this is still excellent ufs 3.1
speeds and of course i've got the 512 gigabyte model here so even though it doesn't support
micro sd cards i think most people with that kind of storage capacity should be absolutely fine and
then the antutu score here so this again is just a monster of a score it's the highest i have seen
yet we're creeping up well well over the million points mark now when it comes to antutu and you
can see that it only went up 3.2 degrees and we did lose 5 battery in most other phones we can
sometimes see up to 11 degree increase but being fan cooled those thermals are just so much better
as for audio no changes here compared to the red magic 7 pro the 7s uses the same hardware
the same speakers and really good that i can still use these so 3.5 millimeter headphones
if you've got them you can happily use them output is good nice and loud i wouldn't
rate it as the best i've heard in terms of quality but perfectly fine and acceptable
just like these loudspeakers they are loud they're clear they've got a bit of bass to them
and overall they're excellent now speakers here's a sample of them at 100 volume
then onto gaming so this is for me the key reason to go for this phone over any other android
flagship phone for example the samsung galaxy s22 ultra is because of the performance of this fan
cooled but we do have this dedicated gaming mode for this phone here so you just flick the switch
here you go into the hub and you'll see all the games you've got added there will show up you
get some stats here so you can see that i've been gaming for five hours the size of the game and 15
days that i have been playing on and off kinshin impact so you can start the game you've got game
settings and i'm actually just going to go into it or should have it open there in the background
all right there it is so here we can also toggle from the left or the right so simply just swipe
and oh you got to do it twice you then bring up this little menu here okay and that's we get all
the gaming settings which are really quite good so you've got options there to adjust the performance
you've got rise there which clocks up that gpu to the absolute highest clock speed there to aid in
your performance you got balanced now of course having it on the rise mode that's really going to
affect and burn through that balance that battery and then eco here too you can also run whatsapp
in a little window you can adjust the refresh rate on the fly information that's a little
widget i've got right there with the frame rate you can record you can turn the fan off
quite a few settings and also on the side you've got other options too the triggers which i will
set up and show you now in game now the frame rate is really solid even when there's a lot of action
going on on screen you can see it's a solid 60 frames per second i'm just in the balance mode
but that fan is really helping out holding that high frame rate keeping that performance
up and as i pointed out with 3d marks wildlife extreme throttling test it doesn't throttle so
it just goes and goes and goes and maintains really good frame rate even though i'm on the
highest possible settings right now it's just not lagging so that is just the balance mode here now
if you swipe here you can see of course everything's there but the triggers
i've configured those you can see here to be my attack and then i have the other for the magic for
my spell now you've got all these other options here too you can see that rapid fire long press
uh dual operations is both at the same time you can configure for other settings then it does
work really well i'll just demonstrate so there's my attack and then now the spell and it works well
and it's going to work in any single game and you can also configure that too so we'll save it
for each of the games i don't have to go back and keep changing it so great performance here i'll
just swipe again here put that oh i'm actually on the rise mode too so i'm balanced it will still be
60 frames per second here so this is the best i've seen this game perform on a phone how do
the thermals hold up then after one hour of gaming almost with ganshin impact you can see
that the screen is around about 41 degrees celsius and holding it the frame feels hot yes certainly
does feel quite warm to the touch and it's getting up to you can see there about 46 degrees almost
and the back of the phone now we're looking at about 40 degrees and i can confirm that the frame
rate is still 60 frames per second i'm not seeing any thermal throttling at all taking place exactly
the same as the result i got with 3dmark no throttling at all moving over to our cameras now
with a red magic 7s pro so the front-facing camera here with its under display camera is the weakness
you can see it's got this kind of blurred effect it looks like this camera must have just a smudge
over the lens right but that's actually just what it is like because of that under display camera
the camera itself the sensor has to look through and around those pixels so this is why if you're
someone that likes to take a lot of vlog footage and selfies is probably not the phone for you
because you can see from this quality that well it's not that good at all and we don't have any
electronic image stabilization with this front facing camera so let's move over to the rear
cameras now so with our rear video we can shoot 4k 30 4k 60 and 8k 24 frames per second now i
have noticed that when you pan around you do get a little bit of jutter the audio bit rate is low
it's only 96 kilobits per second i really do hope that with a firmware update they can correct that
and at least make it a 192 kilobits per second would be a lot better you can also record in
8k but the 8k footage does not have any electronic image stabilization so you can see as i walk ahead
it will shake around now we do get a lot more detail that is captured but without a gimbal
this footage really isn't that usable unless you are stationary and you do have a very steady hand
so there we go the weakness is what i just showed you the cameras and certainly that under display
camera so we've got the same cons as the red magic 7 pro however the thermals that i did complain
about with the red magic 7 pro are actually really good with this model i don't think they're bad at
all considering the performance this is pushing so clearly to me the new snapdragon 8 plus gen 1
with its improved process and more efficient it's generating less heat and i can see that and i do
think with the new cooling they've made some changes very magic to the cooling on this one
that it's good so we don't get any thermal throttling well it went to what 1.5 it throttled
which is basically nothing and the performance that it maintained especially with that 3d mark
extreme stress test is absolutely fantastic there demanding games like gen chin impact it was
a smooth steady 60 frames per second and that's exactly what you want so if you are after the best
gaming phone that you can currently get this is it red magix 7s pro with that new chipset it's a lot
better and it's got the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack video out okay it doesn't have micro sd card
support but if you get the 512 gigabyte version i don't think too many people are going to be
worried about that so thanks a lot for watching this review and i'll see you in the next one