today we're going through the full unboxing and review of the nubia
red magic 6 and that's coming up right after this
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in the description so today we're taking a look at the nubia red magic 6 gaming phone which is
pretty much a gamer stream with some rgb top spec hardware and an incredible 165hz display
before we get started though please like the video if you're a fan of mobile gaming let me know in
the comments what game you play the most so if you're into mobile gaming then you're probably
well aware of the nubia red magic range as they aim the whole range around gamers to give you the
best experience as well as the latest hardware for running the games we've already covered a brief
first impressions of the red magic 6 so now after two weeks of using it we're going to take a much
closer look so as i said when it comes to the red magic 6 display we get a 165 hertz refresh rate
along with a 500 hertz touch sampling rate this is really going to give you a responsive touch
for gaming the display is a 6.8 inch full hd plus amoled display and it's protected by 2.5 d corning
gorilla glass it's got a resolution of 2400 by 1080 and an aspect ratio of 20 by nine and 630
nits of max brightness it's a 10-bit display with a 91 screen to body ratio so whether it's media or
gaming then it's going to be a great screen to do it on now the red magic 6 is powered by the latest
snapdragon 8885g and this runs at a clock speed of up to 2.84 gigahertz and uses the adreno 660 gpu
it comes with 12 gigs of ddr5 ram and 128 gigs of internal storage and that is of course ufs 3.1 so
it's pretty much enough to power any of today's games when it comes to games this really is a
beast and playing games with a 165 hertz refresh rate is incredible we also get to build built-in
capacitive shoulder buttons this is of course to help you with those first person shooters and
they've actually got a 400 hertz sampling rate and an 8.3 millisecond response time so now let's take
a look at the gaming you've got the dedicated game space switch on the side and this instantly starts
up the calling fans and brings us into the game space mode if you do need a quiet gaming session
you can still turn the fan off however as we know a cool chip is a fast chip so it's best to keep
it on if you want those temperatures down the red magic 6 uses their new i6 multi-dimensional
cooling system and this not only keeps the phone cooler but as i said it keeps performance high
with its liquid cooling and built-in centrifugal turbo fan the i6 cooling system reportedly keeps
the cpu core temperature 16 degrees lower and this can play a big part in performance
as i said as these chips get hot they tend to undercook to compensate meaning you get less
performance in the game so this could be a huge advantage for mobile gamers the game space allows
you to access your games from the menu as well as customizing it to add new apps and games and
even change their icons alternatively you can open the game as normal and then just activate the game
space switch when in game and it will do the same thing while in the game space mode the phone will
automatically try and get the best performance and power consumption for the game and it also
opens a lot of new quick launch settings it tells us our gpu and our cpu speeds we can look at the
gaming enhancements in place in super performance mode if that's what we want we can also set up
our shoulder triggers on whatever game we're playing we can even open up picture-in-picture
mode for lots of popular apps such as whatsapp discord telegram facebook messenger and chrome
we can view our network usage adjust brightness and access many more quick options from this
bar we've also got refresh rate where we can quickly change our refresh rate between 165
120 90 or 60. now we've got aiming assist which gives you a customizable crosshair on screen
we've got manual record footage turn fan on and off small window record a new macro
4d shock for increased feedback record it to record gameplay now controller settings
lock touch charge separation block messages screen hang up super snap block calls display frame rate
hunting mode which will massively adjust the colors and try and highlight enemies in gaming
and then custom if you want to add your own quick starts that you're going to need with games so you
can see a lot of features there and it's great to have so many at your fingertips so whatever
game that you decide to throw the red magic 6 with its 165 hertz display and the snapdragon
8 is pretty much gonna breeze anything with the shoulder buttons it really makes playing them a
pleasure and unfortunately the only bad thing i've got to say in this department at the moment is
that not all games support 165 hertz and then even some that do compromise on quality and for some
reason it won't let you choose the max quality and the max frame rate but games like knives out that
support 60 hertz it plays very smoothly and the frame rate is always locked around 60 it might
drop or increase by one or two when we change to beach buggy racing which supports 160 hertz
it's incredible just how smooth it feels it's so smooth so responsive and it's a huge jump up
from 60 hertz now unfortunately the refresh rate is something that you're not going to be able to
see in this video given that youtube or my camera does not support 165 hertz i do however feel after
playing this that 165 hertz is sort of hitting the max here and we're getting into diminishing
returns it's great and it's responsive and you can see a difference over 144 hertz but the jump
isn't as big as if you went from 60 to 90. now if we move over to something like smash bandits which
is a faster paced game it's even more noticeable and again it really does showcase what the phone
can do it's also the same with real racing and it just feels buttery smooth with frame rates
running high and being very stable now of course many of you out there are going to be wanting to
play games like pubg and call of duty so let's go ahead and check them out so pub g i set the
graphics to ultra hd and the frame rate to ultra now these are the highest settings that the game
currently allows the gameplay is nice and smooth we get a steady frame rate of 40 frames a second
now pubg is always a little bit on the lower frame rate side across all platforms and this
seems to be a limitation of the game it seems to be capped at 40 frames a second and it's not the
fact that the device couldn't surpass that i then reduce the quality to hdr and the game then allows
for an extreme frame rate and this increases the cap to 60 and again the red magic 6 gets a steady
60 frames a second at all time and only ever jumps or drops by one or two we can tell it's capped as
even if we look somewhere where the graphical load would be a lot less there's just no jump in frame
rate so if for any reason you need to head back to your home screen while gaming you can also
keep the game going with picture in picture mode and i can see this being very handy if you're in
the middle of some competitive gaming but then you really do have to back out for something
next we're going to take a look at call of duty mobile which again has some strange restrictions
in graphics and unfortunately this is down to the developers and something that hopefully will
unlock soon given the amount of gaming phones releasing if we put the frame rate on ultra it
decreases the graphics quality to medium but we get a solid 90 frames a second through the game
it's buttery smooth and lovely to play and you can see there's a clear cap at 90 frames a second
we sometimes drop by one or two or go over by one or two but that's normal if i then set the
graphics quality to very high which is the max it reduces our frame rate from ultra to max which
when we jump into a game appears to be locked at 60 frames a second after playing both i found
myself choosing to play medium and 90 as a higher refresh rate just gives a much better experience
and the reason that gamers do normally make that choice so it's a shame that a lot of titles like
call of duty and pubg have these restrictions on frame rates but hopefully it's something
that they are going to remove in time as we are seeing some pretty powerful phones being released
there are still plenty of games however that do allow for 165 frames a second including the one
i've already shown armor mobile ops and many many more of course there's more to this phone than
just playing games so we're also going to take a look at the rest so firstly if we take a good look
at the red magic 6 on the front we've got the cool speaker at the top which is a 3d stereo speaker
and of course we've got the second speaker on the bottom you can also see that the selfie camera is
embedded into the bezel instead of using a punch hole or a notch and this houses an 8 megapixel
camera the phone is well built in it feels sturdy thanks to the metal center frame and a glass back
it's using aviation grade aluminium the total dimensions are 169.86 by 77.19 by 9.8 millimeters
and the phone weighs 220 grams on the top we've got the three and a half millimeter audio jack
for those of you that do want to use headphones and many gamers do prefer wide over bluetooth
on the right we've got the power button in the middle along with a fan vent and two capacitive
shoulder buttons this is a great idea building them in as it makes them easy to use and very
responsive on the bottom we've got the speaker grille the usb type c port in the sim tray then
on the left hand side we've got the volume rocker the fan vent and the game space switch
on the back we've definitely got a gamer style design here but i much prefer it over the previous
generations although the bright red was very popular before i just prefer a much more subtle
approach we've got the red magic branding in the middle and i have the 10 cent game logo on mine
but this is not going to be on the global release you can see here that they've opted for a triple
camera setup along with the triangular shaped led flash one of my favorite features here is a
notification light above and below the red accents that post to let you know there's a notification
when it comes to the cameras of the red magic 6 we get an 8 megapixel selfie camera in the top bezel
and this has an aperture of f 2.0 on the rear we've got the triple camera setup with a 64
megapixel wide angle and an aperture of f 1.79 an 8 megapixel ultra wide with an aperture of f 2.2
and a 2 megapixel depth camera with an aperture of f 2.4 now the cameras did surprise me a little
bit as with many other phones around this price bracket the ultra wide it tends to not perform
so well in terms of detail but it does get plenty when you're shooting from the 64 megapixel primary
i've taken a lot of photos and i've been getting some great detail and color true to what i was
seeing they're not too flat or too saturated and actually quite true to life i would just
say maybe slightly on the flatter side when it comes to the portrait shots it didn't perform too
well with the bokeh effect on the selfie portraits there was very little background blur and then on
the rear camera with a bit more of a complicated background there was heavy background blur but you
can see very poor edge detections when it comes to night sight again it performs quite poorly
it takes its time to take the shot but it loses so much detail and it doesn't brighten things up
much so i don't want to be too harsh here is if we look at the picture of a pond the red magic 6
was able to capture more than i could see with my eye it's just not to the level that something
like a pixel would but of course this is made for gamers and it's not made for photographers
now finally the video i tried 8k at 30 frames a second which did come out quite well colors are
vibrant and plenty of detail on focus although you can clearly see a lack of stabilization
if we move on to 4k at 60 frames a second you can see great detail and color and i was pleasantly
surprised by the stabilization it's pretty smooth for 4k as i was walking down the pathway and my
footsteps are minimalized next up we've got 1080p at 60 frames a second and you can see it's much
smoother although the drop in resolution has of course resulted in a big drop in detail
on the front camera you can see while i'm in focus the detail and the color behind me does
seem to be very flat when it comes to the audio it sounds okay it's not the best but it's perfectly
satisfactory and there was a lot of wind coming at me and it has coped relatively well with this
we'll just take a listen to the audio samples now so now we're back in 4k at 60 frames a second
it's quite a windy day so there's lots of wind coming towards me and as you can see there's
lots of traffic making noise as well so we'll see how the audio comes out in the final recording
so of course this is 5g compatible it supports nfc bluetooth 5.1 and wi-fi 6e for those of you that
care about synthetic benchmarks i've also ran the red magic 6 through geekbench 5 and it scored a
single core score of 1122 and a multi-core score of 3633 so that's not bad going at all when it
comes to using the red magic 6 it's a pleasure to use and it comes with red magic os 4 which
is based on android 11. we've got an in-display fingerprint scanner for the biometrics and it
seems to work every time and relatively quickly for navigating you can choose whether you want the
buttons at the bottom or use gestures and to be fair to them it comes with a lot of the essential
apps we need but not too much bloatware we get an always-on display with plenty of choices of faces
and you can even set times of day for this always-on display to come on if you don't want to
use it all the time we can also select the refresh rate that we want to use for the ui and also if we
want the refresh rate displayed in the status bar at the top as well as the usual display options
you can select from the standard home screen or have the app drawer if that's what you prefer
and it even comes with plenty of theme packs that are going to change your wallpapers as well as
your icons we've got the light strip on the back which comes with plenty of customization settings
you don't get to pick from a color wheel but you do get a choice of red yellow blue and green as
well as a mixture of the two you can also change the effects from lamp with sound steady lighting
up breathing flashing scintillation or flow we also have the additional red magic logo led we can
enable it or disable it but this only comes in red in this section we can choose the lights behavior
for many different notifications so there's plenty of customization if you want to play around here
with the large bright display it also makes it great for browsing the web
watching media and pretty much running any android app you decide to throw at it
the speakers that come with the device are pretty reasonable for a smartphone but as always
there is that little bit lack of bass also the haptic feedback feels like a big improvement from
its predecessor with a little bit more strength to it but personally i'd just like to see that little
bit more power from the vibration motor so next up we've got the packaging when we open up the case
we first get the phone itself as you can see a nice subtle gamer look but we've already covered
this next in the box we've got the power brick now the red magic 6 supports a whopping 66 watt
fast charge with the global version you're gonna get a 30 watt charger inside the packaging it's 66
watts so the phone can be charged to 100 within 38 minutes now next up we've got the usb cable
which is usbc to usbc and then finally we get the instruction manual along with the sim removal tool
overall it's a huge step up from the predecessor and nubia are pushing the red magic gaming range
in the right direction for the red magic 6 that we've looked at today it's 599
599 euros or 509 pounds which to be fair for a snapdragon 8 165 hertz display as well as 12 gigs
of ram is not bad going and of course i've placed the links down in the description below for those
that want to pre-order today there is also a pro model with 16 gigs of ram this is coming in at 699
699 euros or 599 pounds but overall it's a great gaming phone and a relatively low price point
comparing it to some of the competition now if you need a phone for gaming in this bracket then
it's definitely going to be worth checking out and again the only downside is really the photography
and it did do okay there if gaming is the main priority and then it's definitely a contender
and hopefully i have covered everything for you today including the good and the bad but if
there's anything i've missed or you've just simply got some questions then ask them in the comments
below and i'll get back to you as soon as i can but thanks for watching the video if you liked
it smash a thumbs up if you didn't hit the thumbs down twice and i'll see you guys in the next one
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