Red magic's back with a refresh to their gaming phone series the red magic 7
now has this snapdragon 8 gen 1. it's still actively cooled so there's that tiny little rgb
fan in there pushing out the hot air and it's up to 20 000 revolutions per minute that fan
so does it actually do a good job i'll be checking out later on the thermals with my thermal imaging
camera the battery capacity is 5050 milliamp hours it does support video out from the type c
port it's got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and a gaming phone like this must have a good screen
right it does it's full hd plus resolution 6.8 inches and super amoled with a refresh rate of
hertz that's pretty crazy for a phone but what's even crazier is the ram capacity 18 gigabytes now
that's more than my 16 gigabyte laptop absolutely insane capacity there in our box you'll find a
65 watt charger now it does support up to 120 watt charge rates with power delivery
and i'll give you those times later on exactly how fast it charges the read magic 7
type c to type c cable they give us a tpu case now this one has a cutout right here
so you can see the leds the rgb that it's got and we also do get a sim tray tool which is off camera
now this is a large phone 6.8 inches the screen full hd plus super amoled 165 hertz really quick
and the power button here that is on the right you can get to it quite easy and then we have
our volume up and down here in screen fingerprint reader and that unlocks really quick i mean this
is one of the fastest phones i have used to date in fact the fastest so far when it comes to gaming
or just general performance super quick and more on that soon so we do have quite a bit of a bezel
at the top and the bottom that's because they haven't gone for a notre cut out eight megapixel
camera right here we've got dual loudspeakers on this side that's the exit vent there for the fan
we've got the gamer switch and on this side here the capacitive you can see just there top and
bottom the capacitive controllers left and right triggers and you see the rgb lights inside so
looking at the back it's exactly the same as the red magic 6s that i've also covered in the channel
and the six previous versions the only changes it now states it's got the snapdragon 8 gen 1. so we
have our flash right here we have an 8 megapixel camera for the ultra wide 64 megapixel main camera
no changes there and i kind of wish they'd given us a different camera just specked it up a little
bit too in the camera department not just the chipset of course this has a crazy whopping
18 gigabytes of ram within it now this little fam see that rgb there that means it's a gaming phone
you can tell because well it's got rgb but it's spinning at 20 000 rpm on the max setting and
you can feel it when you put your finger up here yep you can feel it pushing out that air
so it has all the essentials a gaming phone really needs and that is this a 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack you can see antenna lines no ir transmitter but there's a mic there just a little bit hard
to see there you go there's the mic and then at the bottom of it here we have our sim tray
takes two nano sims and then a type c port with video out this is really good on a gaming phone
3.5 millimeter headphone out and then video out great and then the loudspeaker right
here so we've got our mic just next to that type c port and an antenna line you can see
so the frame around the outside here that's made out of metal that has not changed at all
and the back this material that is glass and there you go you can see the little rgb fan in there
spinning away again now the display that this one comes with is 165 hertz that's the max rating
touch response is excellent very good so full hd plus resolution it is covered with gorilla glass
and it does have no curvature to it all right so no curve flat screen no notch no cut out and
i think for gaming fun this is really good i don't want to have an ugly notre cut out in the way with
the games so you don't have it here being amoled blacks like right now look super deep really good
so 700 nits is the maximum brightness the touch response and triggering gestures and everything
i've had no problems with it all so just show you some of the settings and options we get with this
display so it is very standard now what you get with android phones android 12. so refresh rate
overrides you can set it to whatever you want here so these last two i name battery killers because
that's what they are 90 hertz is my preferred one unless i'm gaming and i really need 120 or
165 hertz which most games don't actually support there are a few out there that do though so you've
got night mode dark mode icare mode all that stuff still there and i'll display preferences so it's
on vivid by default natural and p3 color gamut even which is great so that's looking a little
more correct too those whites aren't so bluish intent and it's rgb so all up it is a display that
suits a gaming phone hundred percent and i really do like it even though they've used it now for
a few years red magic the phone is running android 12 and it does have red magic os 5.0 that's our ui
and it's using the nubia launcher so you cannot override it sadly at least i've not found a way
to do this just say nova launcher if you wanted to have nova launcher there and you want your app
straw and you've got your own configuration that'd be great but every time you go home it's going to
come back with a default launch and i don't see how to write it and set it as default nova that's
something that seemed to be blocking which is unfortunate here and i hope that one day
they're going to fix that now the rom itself the performance is excellent everything's very fast
gestures really good touch great there as well and i've got really no complaints at all with it this
is a super fast phone the only thing is the camera several times going from video mode to photo mode
or swapping from the front camera to the rear camera it has a couple of times crashed on me and
i'll show you that later on but the performance is just so quick especially at the 165 hertz this
thing's crazy fast now you'll notice here i've got this little widget that's because the fingerprint
reader can actually double as a heart rate sensor if you needed that you've got that
option there a few other manufacturers few brands are now offering that too with their own phones
so when you use this phone you can feel that performance it is so quick and it does show of
course in our benchmark results antutu getting over a million points here i believe that this
is probably the fastest phone for this kind of test here that i've seen at least and it really
is quick and you you see it in the ui and just the general performance of it the storage ufs 3.1 i've
got 256 gigabytes this version with that crazy 8 gigabytes of ram it's really fast look at that
random reads and storage great sequential such fast quick storage there geekbench 5 score
super solid another amazing top-end score there that's really good and even wildlife wildlife
pushing out almost a 60 frames per second average it's 59.7 this is the highest i have seen out of
the now three or four snapdragon 8gen one phones i have reviewed so widevine security level one is
there so netflix is in full hd but sadly amazon prime video not a white listed device from amazon
so it's still in standard definition even though we've got the drm cert that they need it's a bit
disappointing gps works really well no complaints from me it's good it's a good lock holds the lock
and very quick to get it to then it takes a matter of seconds so battery life this is the kind of the
worst thing about this phone that so much power running at uh snapdragon 8 gen 1 just pushing
it to limit all the time takes a huge toll on the battery life now i only set the refresh
rate here you can just see the top 90 hertz and this was my own general use here i managed to
squeeze six and a half hours i can't show you the battery use unfortunately because that's
missing the battery specs the battery use doesn't show up it's not in the rom it's not enabled so i
can't show you like twitter netflix and everything else the actual percentage and times it's using
another day that i used it here so the last full charge you can see was 28 hours
and i managed to squeeze just over six hours i had the brightness set to only about 40 percent so not
amazing here the battery life i gained 90 hertz but what happens if you put it on to 120 hertz get
on to that in just a second even worse but charge time look at this 16 minutes to go from 15 to 100
that was not using the stock charger that was 120 watt power delivery charger i have and it was just
crazy fast look at how quick that is it got a little warm but the fan was on keeping it cooler
so that helps but here's where we take a huge toll on that battery so i tested out 120 hertz
fixed benchmark here and you're seriously looking about four hours four and a half of on-screen time
that's it if you use your screen a lot that refresh rate takes a huge toll and then if you
put it on 165 hertz it's only going to be about three and a half hours of battery life so ow
yeah i've been keeping it on 90 hertz that's why i've been doing it so i can actually make
it through a full day with the red magic 7 here oh and that's the era that you get it comes up with
the camera okay it's crashed on me about five or six times you need to close the camera then open
it again it's very annoying but i'm sure they can fix this red magic it's a firmware update
that i'm sure is coming onto a gaming performance so we've got that switch that's just at the top
left flick that you go into the dedicated gaming launcher there's various different
things you can configure in here if you do have the accessories you can see those are
them we've got the multi-core cooler ice magic dock and then some earbuds for it you can just
configure those and set them up and this is where you can launch your game so we do have
those two capacitive triggers at the top here and for a game like pubg they're really good and i'll
show you how to set them up and configure them as well as the performance in these two titles here
engine impact and pubg very popular one so launch pub g first so hdr hd balanced and smooth all give
us the extreme frame rate option which is only 60 frames per second now if you go to ultra hd then
it's just ultra okay that's 45 frames per second so i will run hd here with the extreme frame rate
reboot it and jump into some gameplay the frame rate here is a constant 60 frames per second it's
not a problem here at all for the snapdragon 8 gen 1 to play a light title really like pubg
i will get onto again shane impact shortly so i have the triggers configured it's basically an
overlay that you set anywhere on the screen it's a widget and now if i tap this top right trigger
will fire and the left one looking down the iron sights or the scope so it's a lot quicker than
using the on-screen controls so how you set it up is through this so if you swipe here from the top
you get our gaming widget then it so you can see that just popped up you're gonna swipe it
twice actually so here we've got different performance modes it's on balanced you can
force it onto what's called rise it's going to warn you that it will get a lot hotter and i'll
tell you the temperatures of this later on too so i'll bring that back and you can see it does
change the gpu turbo now is holding a lot higher there that's really boosting the performance so
you've got other modes there on the fly you can j adjust the refresh rate performance monitor turbo
fan record do not disturb all of that is there and i just very quickly show you a little bit
of gameplay so oh that's luckily that's one of my teammates there otherwise i would be slightly dead
so running around here and looking out the frame rate still constantly 60 frames
per second no problems and just show you that tapping those triggers really good
so easy so i'll check out now again [ __ ] impact performance and then i'll get onto those thermals
now it doesn't matter where you are on the map it's a constant 60 frames per second in
the high performance mode and the fan is on too at the back so it's blasting out that hot air
and the game's just running so good i've never seen gentian impact run this smooth
on any phone this has to be the best yet and it's not surprising considering that antutu
score over a million points there so now i'm going to play for one hour and we'll see just how hot it
it's going to get will it run into thermal throttling can that little fan dissipate the heat
quick enough especially in a game as demanding as this one you can also do this is run the game in
a window as a little widget it's just floating on top so you can answer your whatsapp messages text
messages place calls but not be completely out of the game it's handy if you do need this feature
now you can see what the fan is doing see that cooler area where it's sucking in
right here okay and then blowing the heat out you can see with my thermal imaging camera that heat
being pumped out the side so the camera is getting a little bit hot around 42 degrees so it is
warm to the touch hot to the touch flip it over now we'll take a look at the front of the screen
uh the front of the screen a little cooler there but the frame around the phone is reaching about
41 degrees now these temperatures are nothing compared to what i've seen with the xiaomi 12
that got up to almost 50 degrees celsius and the xiaomi 12 pro so that fan the cooling in
it certainly is helping and keeping that peak performance without it throttling down the frame
rate in generation impact has been a steady 60 frames per second the whole time no throttling
and over to our cameras now with the red magic 7 so we do have 1080p with the front-facing camera
which is 12 megapixels and it doesn't seem to have any electronic image stabilization you can see as
i walk ahead it does move around quite a bit now you can shoot video up to 8k with the main camera
but the ultra wide which is 8 megapixels no video option there just stills so let's have a look at
the rear cameras now main 64 megapixel camera so we do have 30 frames per second and 60 frames per
second with electronic image stabilization i don't think the video quality is too bad but it's the
audio bit rate it's only 96 kilobits per second so i do hope that nubia red magic can improve upon
this with some firmware updates but they haven't done it in the past so i'm not holding my breath
now that camera performance definitely for me is lagging behind not flagship grade i do
hope that the red magic 7 or the 7s whatever the next release is going to be they give us
new cameras they focus a little bit on the camera performance but where this is completely killing
every other android phone so far in my testing is that gaming performance so snapdragon 8 gen
1 phones that i've covered a lot of them only get around an average of 40 lower 40s
for our frames per second with a demanding game like dension impact top absolute max settings set
to 60 frames per second this thing is an absolute monster because of the thermals and that fan
keeping everything cool it will maintain maintain high 50 frames per second and most of the time
it's 60 frames per second average when gaming such a demanding game is really impressive no other
phone has been able to do that that i've tested especially after gaming for 30 40 minutes or one
hour it does take a huge hit on the battery now the battery life on this is definitely
a saw point of the red magic 7 that even with my light use and capping the refresh rate at 90 hertz
remember it can do 120 hertz and even a crazy 165 i'm only getting around five and a half hours to
six hours through this with screen on time and that's being mostly just whatsapp twitter social
media kind of stuff general browsing and not a lot of gaming so yeah it's not amazing battery life
even though it does have a large capacity if you want the fast charging time get yourself a power
delivery 3 adapter you can charge it as i showed you in around 15 20 minutes very very quick that
it's just crazy fast now that ram capacity 16 gigabytes i don't think that anyone needs that
actually because who can use 16 gigabytes up on a phone no one really unless you multitask like
crazy but then the ui itself will end up killing the task manager anything that's running in the
background that's being there too long it's not a system app and you can't really use it at all so i
would go for probably the lower ram versions with this so that performance really there and there is
a few couple of bugs there with the ui like the camera the camera crashed a few times on me so
they do have a bit of work read magic to get the software up to spec in time for its release
and i do hope that they have some firmware updates ready to roll out as soon as it is shipping
so hands down the best gaming phone on android so far that i've tested
never seen the snapdragon 8 gen 1 perform so well without any thermal throttling this is the phone
to get if you're really serious about that android gaming experience because it's unmatched unrivaled
so far in all the phones that i have tested out so thank you so much for watching my
detailed long guess review of the red magic 7 but now you pretty much know everything about
this phone here i do have to see in the next one so subscribe for more reviews from me bye for now