The Coolest Smartphone You've Never Heard Of...

All right, 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 120 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 6.65 inch

144 Hertz AMOLED screen turbo fan 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 too. Esports-inspired RGB strip. Gaming Stereo DTS 7.1. Now you know I love to test the audio on smartphones so we'll do that as well

DDR5 RAM Plus UFS 3.0 storage and a 4500 mAh 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 the 865, we get the 144hz display, you're gaming your lights out

You might want I don't know a 5,000 mAh battery, but I whatever I'm nitpicking

It's got some cool specs now. This one is eclipse black in color 8 gigs of RAM

128 gigs of storage all right Let's get this ghost in the shell type of cyborg 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

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 going to 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 grill in an unusual place. No, it is not a speaker grill

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 added, and it's not just on that side

it 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 show you how you can do that On this side you also going to have your volume up and down

You're going to 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 pubg 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

does does the 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 going to see an og 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 going to use this particular port. And then

at the top here, this is your game mode switch. So all you're going to 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 in-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 going to 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 i actually don't mind this in

this particular scenario because they do have that game mode which can shoot you straight into 144 hertz

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 a 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 s20 ultra 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. AHHHHH

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 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 comparable to me

It depends, of course, on which frame you have open at a particular moment and how bright 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 by 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 4d shock which is supported in certain titles pubg

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 uh 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 skeptical. I was like, is that real? And I don't know if you're

going to 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 can even hear it, to be honest. 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 high clock speed on your

Snapdragon 865. Alright, so let's go ahead and boot up PUBG, and what I'm going to 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. Now again, this is optimized

I'm just going to turn it down for a second. This is optimized for game type experiences, possibly movie type experiences

It's kind of DTS. It's like a surround type of environment. You're probably not going to see as much of a benefit on things like music

It'll sound like a more typical smartphone speaker. There's a thick sound

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 say 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 thumb so I can keep my thumb somewhere else

Right I guess on the on the on the joystick I haven't played pub G in a while

Oh man, I've been playing so much call of duty lately that I forgot I

I forgot you can't put your parachute back. It's a real parachute. It's not a glider

So once you pull it it out I totally forgot Call of Duty got my brain am I gonna make it here yeah I gonna make it okay cool

somebody's already shooting at me that's not good those are them that's some loud gunfire

on there it's thick they weren't lying about the audio over here there anything

in you I need to remember how to play this game right now

I got a pan I got a pan right now. Okay fine. We wish oh, and then 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 pen real quick

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Ha ha ha! Oh my. That's not what I expected to happen. Wow

Alright, 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. Better chance to hear that audio again

A little more of that tune. Yeah, I'm telling you, it's cool 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 going to be really specific. It's for a particular type of individual

So it's going to 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 coming right out front and telling you what it is

It's a gaming phone. We have gaming smartphones 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 going to want to take a picture here and there. So is it going to be any good

I don't know. We'll pull out the trusty remote here, and we'll try to capture a 1X 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 the texture in a remote control. This one looks

Really good. Actually these two look really good. We'll do a selfie real quick as well

Oh, you know, I got to turn off the beauty mode real quick and three two one

Even phones where I feel in in 2020 where I'm curious about the camera performance where 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 it's 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