hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the Nubia red magic 5g this is
their latest gaming phone with 5g technology built in and comes in between
five and six hundred dollars or so and is available with eight gigabytes or up
to sixteen gigabytes of RAM with 128 or 256 gigabytes of storage now let's flip
this over and unbox it here so we'll take the packaging off here or the
wrapper and let's go ahead and open it up and inside we have the phone itself
now it should have an under the screen fingerprint sensor we'll take a closer
look at that in a moment and let's take this packaging off and we have three
different envelopes or three different packages so inside this one we've got a
SIM card removal tool then we've got our Quick Start Guide it says here just some
information about the phone and then a warranty card as well now on the right
we have a charging brick and this is not the United States variant but there will
be a United States variants USB a 2 USB see look this back and then in here we
should have our USB C charge cable so and here is the charging cable it's a
nice red color again USB a 2 USB C so let's set that aside and take a closer
look at the phone itself let's go ahead and take the wrapper off the phone this
is a really interesting color you can see it says 5g here you've got your
cameras so let's go over the specs of the phone we'll take a look at the
design the specs and everything else now around the outside edge we have a little
switch here this is usually a gaming switch we have a little vent on the side
so it's got air that goes through one side and out the other to keep the
processor cool then we've got some pogo pins for some
other accessories they sell on top we have a microphone and a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack on the right again we've got these shoulder buttons just like
last year's Nubia magic 3s you've got shoulder buttons
here you've got your vent or intake and then you've got a power and volume
button here and they feel like they're metal but I'm not sure if they are on
the bottom we've got a speaker and then we've also got our USB C charging port
along with a microphone now we also have a SIM card slot as well
now we'll pop out the SIM card tray and we should have dual SIM capability so on
each side we can place a SIM card there is no expandable storage in this
phone now let's take a look at the specs now this is the 12 gigabyte model with
256 gigabytes of storage internally we have a qualcomm snapdragon 865 along
with superfast ufs 3.0 storage and ddr5 ram so not only is the display 144 Hertz
it's six point six five inches it's an AMOLED display 1080 by 2340 with 388
pixels per inch and it supports DCI p3 now not only is it a hundred and
forty-four Hertz but it has a 240 hertz touch esports ultra smooth display it
also has 300 Hertz touch sensing capability on the triggers now on the
back we have a couple different cameras we have a 64 megapixel Sony sensor with
an F 1.8 wide lens we also have an 8 megapixel ultra wide and a 2 megapixel
macro camera so that's pretty interesting we can also record in 4k 60
or 8k as well on the front we have an 8 megapixel F 2.0 wide forward facing
camera as well internally we have a 4500 milliamp hour battery that supports fast
charging with 55 watt chargers and should charge at about 56% in 15 minutes
it will charge 100% in 40 minutes if you have that fast charger now it also
supports Wi-Fi 802 dot 11a b/g/n AC and a X or Wi-Fi 6 and bluetooth 5.0 a2dp
apdex le so this is packed full of specs for half the price of what you get with
a samsung s 20 ultra for example but we don't have that huge camera array on the
back so let's go ahead and boot it up
there we go now we'll go ahead and set it up so we'll connect to a mobile
network now it's connecting and checking for updates
and one thing I noticed is it says 90 Hertz in the upper left of the display
so it says detected a new version update now so we'll go ahead and update and it
says it optimizes Play Store compatibility and camera applications so
let's go ahead and update this now it's asking if I want to copy apps and data
I won't copy I'll set it up as new and it says just a sec checking info and we
can sign in with Google or do that later we'll skip that for now and just try to
get to the home screen as fast as we can here now this does have an under the
screen fingerprint sensor so it says unlock with fingerprint we'll hit next
so we'll go ahead and setup the fingerprint sensor every time we do it
you can see the screen gets brighter that's kind of interesting so it's must
be optical similar to what oneplus has says fingerprint add it will hit next
and it says adding finishing touches just to give you a size idea here is the
red magic 5g next to a pixel for Excel so you'll see the size difference
thickness wise it's actually not too big it has a nice curved edge to it so it's
not too much bigger but the display is bigger now if we put our finger on the
fingerprint sensor there's an interesting animation and we won't copy
here now this is the home screen of the nubia red magic 5g and we'll go to
settings here after it updated and you can see this is the 12 gigabyte variant
with 256 gigabytes of storage running Android 10 with the March 1st 2020
security patch so it's actually pretty up-to-date already maybe there'll be a
new update very soon with the latest security patch now it's also running at
red magic OS at version 3.0 now the home screen skin looks like this it's pretty
familiar as far as any other you've seen in rent magic now a couple of things to
know this is very similar to the Google now launcher so if I slide over here
we've got basically our Google now view but you can't swipe up to go back you
have to swipe back to get there so it's kind of interesting and then it's highly
customizable so you can see I have it set to 144 Hertz for the display and you
have that option to change it from 144 Hertz to 90 or 60 and leave it in the
status bar so you can change it to 144 for eSports change it back when you need
to save some so that's really nice as well now in the
notification in status bar we can also show our network speed so right now it's
gonna give us our overall speed if we're using network connectivity and it's just
nice that we have all these little customizable options that are really key
to people that are playing games on their phone and if you don't like the
gestures that I've been using you can get back the navigation bar switch it
out to whatever you'd like and other than that you can see we have neo AI for
smart game neo speed that helps you with gaming and you've just got all these
really nice effects such as colorful lighting effects or low power off and
all sorts of things now another interesting thing is other than the
lighting we have the cooling fan and we can tell it to turn on to max speed or
even have it turned on for quick charging so it keeps the battery cool
and then you can have it shut down as well so it's really neat to have all of
these different options and it's just something that's a little bit different
than anything else you see out there and you also have some options such as
always-on display they have some nice options here but the thing that sets
this phone apart from others that I've seen is not its skin but rather it's a
gaming mode so in the upper left we have this little switch here we flip the
switch and we go into our game mode and so you can see we have access to the
cooling fan RGB LED strips so if we go into that we have an RGB LED strip on
the back so we'll wait for it to turn on or off it it lights up this part right
here I can turn it on or off if you want to
use that and then also the cooling fan on or off and now we also have some
other options if we swipe from the right we have options for our fan we have our
display switch being switched to 144 Hertz just by tapping on it we also have
4d shocks so it's supposed to be a better haptic feedback motor and then
access to things such as blocking calls blocking messages or taking a snap of
the phone basically a screen shot and then it also tells us what our CPU and
GPU are running at and it's got a bunch of really interesting stats that you
don't normally see on other phones so it's definitely set up for gaming now
let me go ahead and add some games so we can take a closer look now I've added a
couple different games to this phone and let's go into the gaming mode now as
soon as I do this you're going to hear the fans kick
so we'll rotate it here and it's not terribly loud let's see if you can hear
this now that's what the fans ounds like you can turn it off with this button
here and then it kicks back on and it seems to do a good job you can actually
feel air blowing out of the bottom here so let's go ahead and try a game now
because this is in the game mode here you can go through swipe through your
games add a game you can sign in and then if you swipe to the right it also
again shows you what your CPU usage is at you can assign your triggers and
things like that it's really nice so let's go into asphalt 9 first it seems
super fast as well and the sound is quite good but I have it turned down for
this video now this game is super smooth at 144 Hertz you can see that everything
is running nice and smooth it's in full resolution everything's turned all the
way up and the phone is staying fairly cool but it is getting a little bit warm
and let me go ahead and go back to the game space here you can just swipe in at
any time and the back of the phone is warming up a little bit but that's to be
expected when playing something intensive and ramping up the CPU and GPU
let's swipe over and go to call of duty and check that out so this game is super
smooth on this display it looks great it looks better than I remember it on the
Xbox 360 and in general it's very playable no problems here the framerate
super smooth you've got that fan keeping everything nice and cool now if we want
to exit the game we can just swipe to the right go to the game space and we're
back to the main screen flip our switch here and we're back to the home screen
the fan shuts off and you just use the phone as a normal device and all of your
settings go back to normal it's a really nice way to do a gaming phone and it's
pretty interesting now as far as the camera is concerned on the back we have
some interesting options so if we go into the camera you'll see that we have
some zoom options so let me put the pixel 4xl underneath so you can see this
but we can go to 3 X 5 X and then 10 X and it's actually pretty clear it's not
too bad and we also have the option for macro photos which you don't really see
too often so what you need to do in order to get macro is you actually go
into the camera family here and then in the camera
family you go to macro and so maybe I want to get really close to this looks
like it's in focus there we go we've got some focus peaking which means just the
red outline here that lets you know you're in focus and you can see we have
a macro shot so if we zoom in it's actually pretty nice so it's nice to
have that as an option on the camera and then also you have some really nice
video options as well so if we go into the options here you
see we've got grid and things like that let's see if we can go back let's go
back to photo or video here rather then go back into options and you'll see for
the resolutions we have all the way up to 8k but it recommends it for outdoor
use because it probably needs a lot of light so I've set it to 4k 60 so that's
really nice it's got that option so let's go ahead and see what it sounds
like we'll go ahead and hit record and now we're recording from the red magic
5g so this is what it sounds like just recording out of it it does seem to have
some odd focus issues from time to time it doesn't seem like it's dual pixel
autofocus but this phone is fine for most people as far as photos and video
but it's not going to be something like an S 20 or a pixel for excel for photos
at least with this current version of software so here's my video on the Nubia
red magic 3s let's go ahead and take a listen to the speaker's quick and turn
them up they go nice and loud but they do distort it high-end so it's pretty
good you've got a nice stereo sound as well that's it for the Nubia red magic
5g let me know what you think about this color and the phone in general in the
comments below for its price it's really hard to be as far as what you get for
specs gaming you've got a fan you don't have an IP rating really that's going to
protect it because you have open vents and things but in general it's a solid
package for the price and you've got a hundred and forty-four Hertz display
which is really impressive but again let me know what you think in the comments
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this is Aaron I'll see you next time