what's happening everyone my name is Alex and welcome back in today's video we are checking
out the latest gaming smartphone from red magic now that we have here updates called the red
Magic 8 Pro this is a phone that's powered by the Snapdragon 8th Gen 2 that spared with 16 gigs of
RAM and 512 gigs of internal storage I believe you can also get the version of this device with
12 gigs of RAM but I do have the top of the line now on The antutu Benchmark this device gets an
antutu Benchmark score of over 1.3 million this is definitely the highest score that I got to
see now there are many phones available on the market that are using the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 but
the difference with this phone compared to all the other ones is the fact that this one has a
fan inside so you can actually see the fan right here through the back so that fan will help keep
the phone cool and that means that you can play games for an extended period of time the other
phone that I got to try with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 was the iq11 and with that phone after about 20
minutes of playing a game the phone would get just too hot and you would see it slow down
well that is not the case with the red Magic 8 Pro so if you're looking for a phone to play for
extended periods of time well this is a phone that you should look into the 8 Pros design is
also quite different compared to all the other red magic phones that we got to see in the past
and this design is definitely my favorite design out of all the other red magic phones that I got
to try so this one looks and feels more grown up I'm gonna say this one actually looks better than
a lot of other phones available on the market if not most phones available on the market so
you get this very flat design I'm gonna say I don't know if that describes it the best
we have a very flat back and a very flat on the front there is something about this design that
I absolutely love the back here is also covered by clearer glass of course so you can see that
fan that I mentioned them earlier and you can also see that snap Dragon 8 even though I don't believe
that the CPU is actually located in that corner there but the design is very unique for sure on
the back there we also have some RGB lights that come on whenever I plug in the phone to charge it
and since we are talking about um charging so this device comes on with a 65 watt fast charger in the
box and charging this from 0 to 100 is done about 40 minutes sometimes about 38 sometimes about 42
minutes so inside the device you have a 6000 milliamp hour battery well we have two three
thousand milliamp hour batteries that charge at the same time so that's why the fast um faster
than normal charging I'm gonna see and on one charge even though the phone doesn't actually
show the stats for um the battery life um you get about six to eight hours of screen time I'm gonna
see moving to the front of the device well the front of the device is definitely my favorite
part about this phone I love how the front of the device looks I love that we don't have a hole for
a selfie camera we don't have a notch and we also have very small bezels around the screen not to
mention the screen is perfectly flat so none of that curved Edge nonsense that we get with a lot
of Samsung devices so I do love this design now of course there is a camera underneath the screen
there so you have a 16 megapixel selfie camera and yes you can take selfies with it but maybe the
Selfies aren't gonna be as sharp as the Selfies that you take with other phones out there these
are some of examples of selfies that I took over the past couple of days so not the best selfies
but definitely usable so this is a 6.8 inches on AMOLED screen that has a refresh rate of 120
hertz you can also lower that refresh rate and of course the lower the refresh rate the better
battery life you will get as for the brightness so according to the manufacturer the peak brightness
for this screen is 1500 nits now I don't really believe that I believe that the peak brightness
is around 800 900 maybe a thousand nits so if you use the phone indoors no problems whatsoever of
course the blacks are super black because we have an AMOLED screen the wing angles are also really
good but whenever you do take the phone outside well it's not the brightest screen out there so
you're probably not going to be playing games outside in direct sunlight but overall one of
the best looking screens for this design that I got to see there is also an in-screen fingerprint
scanner and I feel that this one works a bit better than the last Red magic phone that we
had I mean even that one was quite good and um fast but this one seems to work slightly better
so in screen fingerprint scanner as well now even though we have very small bezels all around the
screen we also get dual speakers so one at the top and one at the bottom here so the top here
we have the whole Sun for one of the speakers then we have a whole for a microphone and we also get
the 3.5 mil audio jack and that means that you're gonna be able to plug in some headphones whenever
you have headphones plugged then it doesn't actually bother you whenever you're playing so
definitely a good addition since you're talking about those speakers so the second one is at
the bottom here let me play a short recording so you can hear how those speakers sound they
do get loud but maybe not the best speakers I've heard I think other um previous red magic phones
that we've had in the past had louder more full speakers so let me play a quick um clip for you
ha
so what do you think about um those um speakers all right going back to the bottom of the phone
here so here we have a SIM card slot so device can take two SIM cards we also have the USBC charging
port this also supports video out just in case um you're wondering I haven't seen any settings for
an e-sim for this device so this is a 5G device well my network provider doesn't actually offer
5G quite yet but this is also a 5G device but no support for an easy looking on the left hand
side here here we have the volume buttons and we also have the holes for that fan that I mentioned
and earlier on the other side of the phone we also have the holes for the fan so on one set
of wholesome the phone will pull on pull colder and on the other side the hot air run will come
out basically here we have the power button we have the holes for an additional microphone and
then we have the gaming button we've seen this gaming button on previous some red magic devices
and on this side as well we have a couple of buttons that are customizable I'm not sure if
you can actually see them on the camera so you basically have one on the right hand side and
one on the left hand side of the device so you can customize those for certain games moving to
the back of the device well here we have three cameras we have the main camera and the main
camera is also new for this model this is a 50 megapixel main camera we have the ultra white
camera another camera that's used for portrait mode pictures now the picture quality for a
gaming phone I think is pretty decent now if you guys want and if you leave a comment down below
and the request this I can probably do like a full camera comparison between this phone and
my iPhone 14 pro so definitely let me know if you are interested in something like that basically
the pictures that you are seeing on the screen right now are taken with this device over the
past couple of days and around the town here so from what I've seen the pictures do look quite
decent maybe not not as good as a flagship from Apple or Samsung but it definitely has a lot of
potential not to mention this is a gaming phone so gaming phones are typically not known for the best
um cameras as for the video capabilities you can record in 8k with this device however I
don't recommend that you do 8K but it can also do 4K 30 and 4K at 60 and this is a quick recording
that I've done in four cat 30 frames per second the other day all right we have a quick video
done with the red Magic 8 prompt so the maximum recording resolution for this device is 8k you
can also do 4K 30 and 4K at 60 frames per second and we are currently doing 4K 30 frames per second
I'm also walking there is a bit of noise around us some traffic so you may hear that as well
so we'll keep walking this way I also have the sun to my right here so a bit of a challenging
situation for um any camera basically so we'll stop somewhere around here I guess
and we'll pan to the left
so yeah this whole recording done in 4k 30 frames per second with the red Magic 8 Pro would look
like the phone runs red magic OS 6.0 which is based on Android 13. first things first I love
the fact that it doesn't come pre-installed any useless apps so you just get the apps that you're
gonna need so no useless apps that um you get them pre-installed no pop-ups from apps and so on
except for the browser which I deleted right away and now I'm using Chrome so the UI on it is quite
um quite smooth I'm gonna see even though I did notice that you cannot install custom launcher
so if you want to use Nova Launcher you cannot I mean you can install it you can open it but
as soon as you go back to home it goes back to the regular launcher so I guess that would be a bit of
a downside you cannot use a custom launcher as you'd expect everything works insanely fast on
it so even if you buy a phone like this and you don't necessarily use it for gaming for example
um scrolling up and down onto your Facebook feed will be extremely smooth the screen some
responsiveness is also impressively good probably the best that I've had from any phone up until now
so if you want a responsive on a phone that's fast all the time a phone does that doesn't kill apps
that are running in the background well this is definitely the phone for you so you can keep a lot
of apps running in the background and the phone doesn't seem to kill any of them but I mean we do
have 16 gigs of RAM like all the other red magic phones that we've seen in the past the gaming mode
on this device will allow you to customize pretty much anything about your gaming experience but of
course the higher you raise the graphic settings for example the faster you will drain the battery
there is also a feature available for this device where you can plug it in and the phone doesn't
actually charge the batteries so this way doesn't get hot of course that's a good feature because if
you're also charging the batteries the batteries are generating heat and so on so you can have it
plugged in you can play on it and you're not gonna get the phone super hot because it's not
charging so it does have a lot of very smart and unique features for a gaming phone I'm gonna see
you can also record your screen but all these features were available with previous red magic
phones in the past so having that fan on the back that definitely makes a difference when you're
playing games for extended periods of time and I'm not talking about like half an hour because most
phones can kind of do it for half an hour after half an hour the performance starts to decrease
well because you have that fan you can go on for hours at a time on playing games without the phone
suffering from basically a Slowdown because well there is no throttling as we do have a lot of
other devices so red magic is definitely making their phones more and more appealing every year
and I feel that this phone is not only intended for gamers because the previous red magic phones
did have a bit of a different design a more gaming design but I feel that this phone looks
better than many phones available on the market so this is a phone that you should consider even
if you are not a gamer not to mention this is one of the more affordable phones that has
um the Snapdragon 8th gen so I don't think you can actually buy any other
ones for the price of this one so red magic is making better and better phones
um every year and the red Magic 8 Pro is definitely one of those phones alright
guys hopefully you enjoyed this video thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one