hi everyone this is Dom from tech advisor and I'm here with another new
phone to unbox this one is the Nubia red magic 3 the latest gaming phone from the
Chinese company Nubia and yeah let's get a look at it it's pretty ridiculous from
what I've seen online I'm quite excited to see this thing in the flesh so new
viewers are you you might sort of know the red magic gaming phone line I think
we review the red magic Mars not that long ago my colleague Lewis had a look
at it and I also looked recently at the newbie alpha which is the sort of
flexible like nd SmartWatch phone hybrid thing with a flexible screen which is
very cool so a lot of their phones are kind of
wild a little bit interesting this is no exception though it's kind of familiar
if you know the red magic line already so we've got our nice moody black and
red box very gamer aesthetic as you'd expect and there we go straight to it
let's get it out so here we have the red magic 3 let's peel that off if it wants
to peel give it a bit more fight than normal yeah ok here we have the red
magic 3 in all of its absolutely rediculous glory yes so this is a in the
black finish as you can see it's also available in red it's sort of full red
body and I think there's like I said a gray camo version which is pretty nifty
we've also got I mean it's actually not as thick as I thought it was gonna be
the phone's got a lot of oomph in it and also a lot of cooling oomph in it which
I was worried was going to make it really substantial and really chunky
it's actually not you can maybe see it just sort of like lifts up a bit here
there's a sort of angle the to the back so that's a bit it is a bit thicker in
the middle but overall it actually doesn't feel like a giant giant phone so
yeah we've got all these sort of gamer II red detailing stuff on the
back diamond-shaped fingerprint scanner you know a little bit different and that
is the single rear camera so obviously they haven't gone sort of big set of
camera lenses the focus here is on gaming stuff rather than on photos and
camera but still that camera is a 48 megapixel sensor so it should do fairly
well even on its own and they actually say it couldn't shoot 8k video which is
pretty nuts well so we got right headphone jack or is nice especially for
a gaming phone I think that's one area you you really do need to have a
headphone jack if you want to go gaming phone oh yeah we'll get to these parent
volunteer buttons or see if I can show them off in a bit but these are designed
for when you're actually gaming and you have they aren't they are basically
they're not actually buttons they're sort of touch sensitive pads so they can
essentially act as shoulder buttons like you'd get on the game controller and
then just getting down here yeah we've got USB C port you'll notice there's a
speaker grille here on the bottom of the phone and one on the top so it's
actually dual front-facing stereo speakers again that's a big focus for
gaming stuff the expectation is if you're gaming on your phone you might
want very good sound being blasted at you if you're not wearing headphones
also having them on the front helps because you're less likely to sort of
block the speaker's with your hand while you're holding it if you hold it like
that most of the speaker is still going to be
uncovered yeah I think that yeah and that this is a sort of another hardware
to alter like enter like the gaming mode of the phone basically and then this is
for if you want to attach controllers and stuff like that I believe it doesn't
come with one and are there in some gaming phones that sort of ship with
controllers and stuff in the box this doesn't come with one which is part of
why they've sort of put these buttons on but I think that's so that you have the
option of attaching one if you would still want we'll get into the rest of
the box before I dive into the phone so right we're charging cable very oneplus
that doesn't want to close up again does it no I'm gonna get rid of that power
brick yep and not a UK one helpfully but yet that
is our charge it's got I want to say 27 what fast-charging which is pretty good
but actually what's more interesting than the fast-charging is actually the
battery another reason I thought this one might be massive it has a five
thousand milliamp hour battery in it which is massive
detective most phones most flagships come out in this sort of 3000 something
range so five thousand million powers is a lot more so Bachelor should be great
but it's got a lot of power as well and that's just yes'm key and instruction e
stuff let's get all that out the way and get onto the phone right this should
hopefully have something charged in it and we can get going there we are okay
so looking at the front of device we've got our selfie camera up here just a 16
megapixel selfie shooter again you know it's a single lens cameras are not the
focus of this phone it's top-spec everywhere except the cameras the
cameras aren't low spec but they're just not that kind of you know super super
super high-end they're not gonna be a best-in-class
let's get through setup okay oh my god that was unexpected okay here we are we
are in the phone with a nice nudey sort of Mass Effect desk space man in the
background I love it okay one thing one knows is this is a bit dim let's see if
this makes it a bit clearer yeah there we go
so we can see it is quite easily so you may not like that it does still feel a
little bit old-fashioned maybe depending on your taste obviously if you're just
really not a fan of notches or like pinhole cameras you may prefer we often
hear from people in the comments you say they actually like it when a phone has
bezel cuz they still don't like a camera that interrupts the screen so this very
much that it's not really massive bezels you can see this just a little bit there
at the bottom below the controls there and a little bit half a centimeter or so
at the top not massive bezels I mean it's still like less than an
iPhone 8 or even like a pixel three or something like that but it is bezel it's
not a full screen display by any measure still it is a nice display as you can
see it's pretty enormous it's six point six inches something around there I
comment exactly it's also ninety Hertz so as we've seen with most gaming phones
that sort of higher refresh rate it's becoming more and more the standard in a
gaming phone as people look for that responsiveness when they're watching
content and playing games so this should deliver on that front the rest of the
specs are also pretty top-end Snapdragon 855 like you'd expect it goes
up to 12 gig around two five six gig of storage so again this is like as good as
you're gonna get in any phone basically though there are some lower spec tiers
as well and like I said massive five thousand milliamp hour battery which is
pretty nuts okay so one of the other things that you get on this phone is an
RGB LED strip which I'm pretty sure is this bit on the back what we've
hopefully cut out this video is a montage of me struggling and failing to
turn it on I think this is pre-release software which is probably why it is not
working I've found the app that runs it which I can show you but unless I'm just
being a massive idiot I cannot make this thing like up right now I'm sure it does
work I'm sure it will just be that this is nearly model of the phone but
basically what it is is that I think it's this bit can light up you get sort
of different color effects flicker flow flash Collider and beacon you get to
customise brightness color some of these you can see there's choices of like the
upper half being one thing the lower half being another you can sort of have
it change between colors all that kind of stuff you'd expect from a gaming
phone or laptop with RGB stuff it's just currently not working for me
the other big sort of a gaming feature that you get is like I was saying this
toggle which puts you in game mode so if I flip that
we now go I think you can turn that sound off if you don't want that sound
but we now it sort of takes us into the the dedicated gaming space of the phone
I obviously haven't just taken the phone of the books and no games on it yet but
so you can ads with the games you can control what notifications you get block
calls that sort of thing that will let you turn on or off the RGB lighting you
know when it wants to work and the other thing we'll note here is cooling fan so
this phone has a fan in it it also has liquid cooling nucleuses is the first
phone to have active cooling it says it has up to 500% better heat transfer
which I you know sounds good I don't really know how to measure that
but yeah basically combined with all these specs that's the reason it's olks
out a little bit the back is there is a fan inside here I think that's the fan
vent probably and an liquid cooling so this thing should stay cool even if you
want to play sort of five hours straight a fortnight and with the five thousand
milliamp hour battery you can probably get away with five hours straight a
fortnight but yeah it's just that kind of continued focus here we go
fan adjustments or you can actually hear it if you can hear that coming through
the mic but yeah that's sort of you can hear the whirring of the fan coming out
of there as I sort of turn it up and yeah more led effects that refused to
work for me right now which is great and there we go the screen refresh rate as
well okay a little bit of Chinese on the software yep like I said pre-release
phone but yet the choice between I think that that one is is Auto so again it
will pick depending on the app you're in or you can lock it at 60 or 90 and then
if we tall that back we are back in the regular phone so yeah this is the Nubia
red magic we I'm actually a fan I went into this a little bit skeptical it's
not my kind of design aesthetic but like it's a lot slimmer than I thought it was
going to be the RGB lighting is fun if you can make it work which I apparently
can't but it's like I mean the specs and this thing if you just want a phone
that's gonna be like top-end flagship specs great for gaming fact you've got
these extra shoulder buttons up here this dedicated gaming toggle the cooling
I mean it's OTT don't get me wrong you know this is the equivalent of buying
like a top spec Alienware gaming laptop or something but I kind of love it for
that and glad that this gaming phone market space is really opening up a lot
more and this looks like it's gonna be a real competitor in that space because it
doesn't require you to have an extra fan attachment or an actual controller
attachment you can do a lot more through just the phone itself than you can with
some of the competitors I don't know pricing right now it's out in China says
Chinese pricing not UK US pricing though it is coming to the west the pricing
works out to kind of like the base model starting around 400 and 450 pounds /
dollars probably the actual Western pricing will be a bit higher than that
so I'd probably think it'll start around 500 and go up as the specs go up going
up to sort of 7 800 but yeah I mean at the low end actually that pricing seems
fairly competitive if that is what it ends up as and yeah I like it it's
probably not the phone I would buy myself but if you're looking for a
really top spec gaming phone it's probably hard to beat and yeah remember
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gaming phone videos as well and I think hopefully we're going to pit this
against some of the other ones that we have in at the moment to see which comes
out on top thanks very much
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