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alright ladies and gentlemen this is an
exciting smartphone
it's an unusual smartphone it might be a
smartphone that you've never heard of
well it's from a brand that's a little
lesser-known right now they're called
red magic they're part of another brand
of smartphones Nubia but this is the
gaming centric gaming focused brand
within the brand what you need to know
is that this smartphone in front of me
has some features on it that I've never
seen in a smartphone before and most
importantly or at least the thing I'm
most excited to check out the display
144 Hertz on a smartphone display I
thought we were done at 120 of course
we're not done because gaming
smartphones exist and when gaming exists
144 Hertz exist will I be able to notice
a difference I don't know I've been
using one twenty of course on the latest
Samsung stuff so I'll do a comparison
this is the new red magic 5g look at the
unboxing experience my goodness
cyborg status over here back of the
package Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 5g
built-in 6.6 five-inch 144 Hertz AMOLED
screen turbofan liquid cooling there's
actually physical fans on the inside of
this smartphone Sony 64 megapixel ultra
wide triple camera it has gaming
shoulder triggers built right into the
smartphone so it doesn't require some
kind of external attachment there is an
external attachment you can get for it
if you want actual tactile buttons but
this has touch sensitive shoulder
buttons similar to a controller we're
going to test those out to esports
inspired RGB strip gaming stereo DTS 7.1
now you know I love to test the audio on
smartphone so we'll do that as well
ddr5 ram through point O storage and a
4500 milliamp hour battery now that's
the only kind of surprising spec if
you're going for the powerhouse status
if you're trying to say we get to age 65
we got the 144 Hertz display your gaming
your lights out you might want I don't
know a five thousand milliamp hour
battery but whatever I'm nitpicking it's
got some cool specs
now this one is Eclair
so black in color eight gigs of RAM 128
gigs of storage alright let's get this
ghost in the shell' type of sideboard
type of anime situation off the top and
look at the phone red magic 5g and you
can see it's got the gamer aesthetic
going on as you expect in a device like
this you have the red and the black and
the gray it kind of reminds you of a
sports car or something and here at the
top in tiny little lettering it says
powered by Nubia so again a sub brand of
Nubia here is the triple camera setup a
kind of small little setup not extending
too far outside of the shell of the
smartphone itself and then the 5g
indicator this red magic logo in the
center that's actually going to glow
it's also some paperwork in the package
a SIM card tool is in there as well a
black and red USB cable because it's got
to go with the whole I mean check it out
you have to have the whole aesthetic
going on black and red in the cable in
the phone and then the last thing in the
package is gonna be this power brick
this is an unusual phone you have this X
on the back this sports car style of
design and then things get even more
strange as you flip onto the side of the
unit you can see here you have this
grille in an unusual place no it is not
a speaker grille this is an actual
exhaust area for heat because the phone
is running hot well it's trying not to
run hot obviously but you're gaming a
lot and it's heating up and you want it
to continue to perform at its top
potential so this has extra cooling at
it and it's not just on that side it's
gonna be over here on this side as well
so both sides have these vents and
actual active cooling that you can turn
on or off when I get into the settings
here I'll show you how you can do that
on this side you're also gonna have your
volume up and down you're gonna have
your power switch and I kind of
appreciate the fact that they moved it
down the chassis here since it is such a
large phone it's a little easier to
reach you can also notice your shoulder
buttons up here on the top touch
sensitive little grooves in there for
where you touch and you'll kind of
you'll just be
holding it like this when you're gaming
this could be this could be cool for
games like Club G shooter games also
racing games I suppose you put your
accelerator over there and so on and you
can actually map these things so if
you're if you're wondering hey Dizz does
a game support this when you start the
game up you pull down a little software
indicator of the area of the screen you
want these shoulder buttons to activate
so if there's a button down in the
bottom right corner you want to have
mapped to the right shoulder button you
can do that left shoulder button same
story bottom of the device is going to
have your speaker port as well as a USB
type-c connector this is also where
you're going to insert your SIM card and
then on the top believe it or not you're
still gonna see an analog headphone jack
this is probably a feature that's
important to gamers out there they want
no latency no lag they want to plug a
headset in so they've included a headset
here there's this port this is going to
be utilized for certain accessories
controllers there's a dock actually
that's gonna use this particular port
and then at the top here this is your
game mode switch so all you're gonna
have to do to pop into game mode is just
switch this over and then it's going to
enable all kinds of various settings
that you might want while playing a game
like the ability to quickly disable
phone calls put the phone into 144 Hertz
and so forth whatever settings you want
with one switch which is kind of cool
because on mobile games you might not
have that much time to go in and
reconfigure each time so as far as
unlocking is concerned there's an N
display fingerprint scanner now I want
to show you something real quick with
the screen with the display by default
the 144 Hertz is actually not enabled
you have to jump in here and head over
to screen refresh rate where they kind
of warn you that if you are gonna
utilize 144 Hertz then be aware you're
going to drain even more battery now
normally I would think hey you should
have this thing in its top potential
spec straight away out of the gate but
actually don't mind this in this
particular scenario because they do have
that game mode which can shoot you
straight into 144 her
and on top of that you're not gonna even
be able to take advantage of 144 Hertz
in many many apps so I kind of
understand it but of course for the
purpose of this video we got to check
out the 144 Hertz the screen picture is
smoother they say silky smooth in fact
what can I say I mean can i notice it
difference 144 I don't really know I
think when I head into the settings here
I mean it's very smooth and very snappy
you pair 144 Hertz with snapdragon 865
and you're in business obviously but
it's gonna be I mean I'll just for the
purpose of it since we're here I have an
S 20 altra sitting here so why don't we
do the same thing just jump into
settings real quick okay
settings both phones get the focus real
quick settings both phones refresh
refresh race I mean obviously you're not
gonna be able to tell the difference ah
one thing that's obvious to me here
having these two phones side by side is
the fact that this one is actually
surprisingly bright it's about as bright
as the s20 ultra and also it's almost
the exact same form factor as well now
granted the s20 ultra no top bezel very
little on the bottom you have the single
little hole punch on the top you're
getting a better screen to body ratio
obviously on the s20 ultra how much that
matters to you I mean it's tough to even
cross shop these phones since the target
audience is a bit different though I
guess a lot of gamers would be
interested in the s20 ultra but I have
to say just the screen in general from a
brightness perspective it's comparable
to me it depends of course on which
frame you have open at a particular
moment and how bright that that frame
happens to be but I would say certainly
when you're looking at icons at full
blast they're very similar from that
standpoint anyway I'll get the s20 ultra
out of here now one of the things I'm
excited about on here is the audio
apparently they paid a lot of attention
to the audio it's best taken advantage
of inside of the game mode and since
this is such a gaming centric smartphone
I think we should just jump in there
right away
clicking this tiny little red switch up
at the top and boom just like this you
catch the animation red magic and this
is where your games are going to live
along with the various settings that you
have for those games that are inside of
this game mode and then you see a little
indicator in the bottom left for your
cooling fan and a button for your dazzle
light if I flip this around real quick
you'll see the red magic logo there is
actually already glowing now a lot of
the magic happens when you swipe in from
the right hand side you can see your CPU
clock speed GPU clock speed you have a
bunch of different settings here for the
fan for the screen refresh whether or
not you want to block calls messages you
can turn on for these shock which is
supported in certain titles Pub G mobile
included there's just a bunch of
different gaming centric settings that
you can have within this game space that
can automatically load when you click
that simple button right there or it's
actually more like a switch same with
screen brightness you can have
everything the screen brightness goes up
the fans turn on the Refresh goes up and
your calls get turned off all within one
click oh and by the way the cooling fans
actually work so if I put this up to my
ear I was curious at first I was I was
skeptical I guess that is that real and
I don't know if you're gonna be able to
hear it or not on the microphone I'll
give you a chance at it I mean it's very
unlikely you week you can even hear it
to be honest it's it's super quiet but
there is a kind of like a small little
hum to it which indicates to me an
actual physical fan in there blowing a
little bit of air out giving you that
giving you that high clock speed on your
snapdragon 865 alright so let's go ahead
and boot up pub G and what I'm gonna
show you here is how you map these
shoulder buttons to any game that you
want to play
oh and by the way there's an actual
Rumble to it with the 4d aspect Wow
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now again this is optimized I'm just
gonna turn down for say this is
optimized for game type experiences
possibly movie type experiences it's a
kind of DPS it's like a surround type of
environment you're probably not gonna
see as much of a benefit on things like
music it'll sound like a more typical
smartphone speaker there's a thick we
pull out from the right hand side and we
hit the touch button and check this out
if I want to move my right trigger over
to see where the punch is boom no
problem left where do I want to put left
oh I don't know how about this other one
right here the other punch touch
sensitivity low normal high on each one
you can turn the buttons off completely
and you can turn vibration feedback on
and off that's a haptic feedback and as
you can see now I don't need to reach
there with my thumbs so I can keep my
thumb somewhere else right I guess on
the under on the joystick I'm gonna play
pubsey in a while oh man I've been
playing so much Call of Duty lately that
I forgot I forgot if you can't put your
you can't put your parachute back it's a
real parachute it's not a glider so once
you pull it it's out I totally forgot
call dude you got my brain am I gonna
make it here yeah I'm gonna make it okay
cool
somebody's already shooting at me that's
not good those aren't them that's some
loud gunfire on their dick they weren't
lying above the audio over here there
anything I need to remember how to play
this game right now
I got a pan I got a pan right now okay
fine we've ish oh and let's go let's go
try it out I'm gonna die I'm gonna die
guys really hitting me here we're gonna
try and get him with the pan real quick
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oh my that's not what I expected to
happen
Wow all right well yes it's the very
first round on a brand new account so I
don't know if that's a bot or who that
is but anyway a better chance to hear
that audio again no more than two
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yeah I'm telling you it's uh it's cool
to to see some smartphone company paying
attention to the sound and trying to
give a better experience when you don't
have the headphones on I know most
people are wearing the headphones but
sometimes I just don't want to wear
headphones whether it's a video I'm
watching or a game that I'm playing to
have that more immersive experience or
at least the option for it it's kind of
cool so to back out of this mode all you
do is click the switch in the other
direction and you're back to a regular
phone the styling is gonna be really
specific it's for a particular type of
individual so it's gonna be for a
particular buyer that's into this kind
of aggressive look I'm not saying that
I'm not I'm just saying that not
everybody will be it's certainly not
subdued it's not making any excuses it's
it's coming right out front and telling
you what it is it's a gaming phone we
have gaming smart phones now it sounds
good it obviously games good one more
curious question we have to address
obviously before we take off what about
the cameras now I know it's not the main
focus for a device like this but you're
still good you're still going to want to
take a picture here and there so is it
gonna be any good I don't know we'll
pull out the trusty remote here and
we'll try to capture a1x real quick
that's a 1x what else does it have it
has a 3x it has a 5x now of course we're
in the digital lens but actually it
doesn't look very bad well I mean you
can tell it's a digital zoom at that
point that one looks kind of usable you
see a texture and a remote control this
one looks really good actually these two
look really good we'll do a selfie real
quick as well or you know I got to turn
off the beauty mode real quick in three
two one
even phones where I feel in 2020 where
I'm curious about the camera performance
or I'm thinking to myself man how much
focus did they put into it because they
don't really have to but then you
remember that so many of these
smartphones are sharing similar
components in particular the camera
sensor which in this case comes from
Sony so
kind of hard to screw it up too much in
this case both on the front camera and
some quick samples on the rear camera
they look usable and I think for a gamer
for a person who's interested in this
type of power who's interested in this
type of styling right here and the
lighting and the shoulder buttons you're
not starting your journey with the
camera anyways so if it can take some
decent photos that should be good enough
anyway there it is something different
something you might not have known about
and certainly one of the fastest
smartphones I've ever tested when it
comes to the chip and definitely when it
comes to the display