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if short-circuit time ladies and gentlemen I've got a care package

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delivered to me at my home from Nubia technologies and this is the red magic

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5g now I have to confess that I wasn't

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real convinced on the whole gaming phone concept right out of the gate but when

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we did a recent video over on the Linus tech tips channel checking out their

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previous phone compared to kind of like bolting this weird janky cooler to a

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more conventional phone their cooling system kind of won me over I'm not gonna

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start with the phone because I had some complaints last time that I didn't do a

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good enough unboxing so here's the unboxing there's a power doodad that's

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not compatible with my North American outlet there's a cable that is

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compatible with my North American USB port and there's some documentation that

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I'm sure will be absolutely riveting game time any times done it's over

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that's the end of it this is the red magic 5g and unlike some of their

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previous devices it is on time that's

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not to say they haven't launched them when they said they were going to it's just that I'm accustomed to seeing a

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longer window for a flagship Snapdragon processor in between showing up in a

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samsung phone for example and then a more specialized niche device like a red

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magic gaming phone and that's exactly what's inside this thing so the specs

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are freaking nuts it's got a qualcomm

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snapdragon 865 processor anywhere from 8 to 16 gigs of RAM depending on which

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storage version that you go with it's got a 64 megapixel main shooter along

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with two others so it's got an ultra wide as well as a macro lens although

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that one's only 2 megapixels so we're gonna have to try that out in a bit

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there's a flash back there as well we've got their dock connector down here we've

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got a notification button so you can actually decide if you want to go into

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do not disturb mode with that guy right there this is the goods this is what I

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was so impressed with last time around so here is the venting for their active

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cooling solution and then over here we've got the lock button volume rocker

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as well as shoulder button so these are

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actually pulled at 300 Hertz so that's 300 times per second and they are

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pressure sensitive for gamers for when you're gaming on the bottom we've got a

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speaker grille SIM tray as well as USB type-c with fast charging apparently

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it'll do I think it's fifty six percent after 15 minutes or something along

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those lines and of course a headphone jack at the top overall I think I

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actually like the look of this thing like yeah it's kind of gamer II it's got

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like this X logo on the back and stuff the 5g logo this is a 5g device by the

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way the red magic word mark and this little powered by Nubia here are

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oriented in landscape mode you know when you're holding it like this like for

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gaming for gamers of course this one is oriented in portrait so if you were to

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decide you know oh once in a while to make a phone call to your grandmother or

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whatever then well it'd be covered with your hand anyway oh that's curious during setup it

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prompted me to touch the sensor on the back of the phone to register my

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fingerprint but oh I think they just

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derped on their setup wizard okay no it

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has an under screen fingerprint scanner so let's go ahead and get that

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registered it's a little on the low side I'd probably get used to it after being

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dumped on the home screen the first thing I notice about this phone is it's got a high refresh rate display so it's

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running at oh look at that you've got a little indicator next to the time up

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there it's running at ninety hurts right now but it actually goes all the way up

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to 144 Hertz it actually pulls the touch layer at 240

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Hertz so it's taking inputs 240 times per second to make sure that if you're a

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touch and the display itself don't quite

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line up it's more likely to get the most recent touch information by the time the

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panel refreshes let's go ahead and turn it up to 144 Hertz to see how that feels

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wow that is really ugly that scrolling

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I'm not a fan of that 144 Hertz eSports

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level refresh rate silky smooth screen picture yeah that's gonna increase power

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consumption hopefully the 4500 milliamp

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hour battery is gonna mostly take care of Wow oh-ho that is absolutely sick okay gonna

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do yeah we're definitely getting a

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little bit of software behavior so far on this one I'll just give it yield reboot after

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rebooting I'm prompted to go through this separate game space handheld gaming

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experience thing so this is dropping me in there like gaming control center

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alright just a second here how do i how

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do I get out of this now please swipe again I am swiping again please disable

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the compute button to exit okay here we go so I was totally wrong this is not a

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Do Not Disturb button at all it is the

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compete button you activate it and it launches their game space game launcher

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it probably also turns off your notifications so maybe I wasn't technically wrong calling it a Do Not

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Disturb button and then what happens is when you unlock your phone depending on

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what position that toggles in either launches their game space game launcher

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and then yes the RGB lighting effects on

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the red magic logo and look at that it

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also kicks the fan into high gear OLED plus high refresh rate it's just

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holy grail a great display experiences I

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wish I could get into the Play Store though well that was weird

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nothing I did fixed it until I reformatted the phone and boom it is

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working completely fine now you know

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what actually I'd be curious to see if the launcher switcher is working better

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now to please use it during games oh okay cool oh I understand what it means

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so you swipe in to bring up the overlay so you can toggle the fan on and off you

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can change the refresh rate of the display in here okay this toggle is

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working perfectly now - I don't know what happened last time that splash

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screen is super annoying I hope there's a way to turn that up now I want to play

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around with the camera a little bit my expectations are not super high oh okay

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the colors are a little on the unnatural side maybe that's something that we can

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tweak oh we could turn off intelligent beauty maybe that'll help nope it's

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still pretty bad alright then supposed to be bright pink but then the actual

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touchpad itself it's like I can see it changing it in the viewfinder

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and why would they have the shot on red magic 5g on by default nobody wants your

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watermark on their pictures you guys like turns it white for some reason I

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don't know what it's doing see it's over

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done now I really don't know if this quarantine beard is suiting me too well

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turned off the beauty on the second shot there it's uh oh it's a lot better now

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it's not trying to smooth my facial hair no it's good all right

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it's got some games for gamers okay what

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what's going it was working I'm gonna

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reformat it again then I guess hey we're back so we got asphalt 9 pub G mobile

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rage shadow legends and a comfort snack

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now I have one theory and it's that a Google Apps account so that's a paid

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Google account might not cooperate well with their launcher and play store or

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whatever for some reason so I'm using my personal Gmail Hey look at that it

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picked up my games just like that not the meme games just top G and asphalt 9

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but hey that's alright I'll switch back and see if it up nope still broken ok

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well so much for that theory no idea but I've got my games installed so I'm gonna

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just try one oh the speakers are

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dang not bad and a very even stereo

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effect from them to even though it's using an amplified earpiece speaker and

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then a much larger side firing grill over on the other side here that name is

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already taken who takes this name alright here we go I don't know what

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this 4d shock feels like click the edge pull to zoom what okay so I think what

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it's doing is it's putting haptic feedback through the screen when you

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touch the areas where the game controls are okay I'm pretty sure I felt that

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yeah okay when you fire there's little

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vibrations on the screen that's kind of cool I had only intended to play rage Shadow

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Legends just because it's such a meme right now but hey I guess we're gonna

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have to do that because asphalt's not working and I want just at least one

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more game that I can play here I got to say I'm pretty impressed with the screen

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it doesn't have the same nearly zero bezel experience that you might find on

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like a you know a flagship more consumer focused device but I am out here outside

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and it's not under direct sunlight or anything but this is very very usable

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how's my cooling fan doing then yeah that's on wow that's that's really going

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now that I'm in a game actually moves a lot more air than I would have expected

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the phone is just like cool to the touch

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though but it's a bit of a chilly day but it's like not even noticeably warm

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that is sick first impressions then high refresh rate

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144 Hertz display I'm super impressed with that love the speakers it's got a

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ton of like gamer oriented features with the cooling system really being on the

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top of my list but it's pretty obvious to me that by the time this thing

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actually launches I am recording this prior to launch that they are going to

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have to work out some of the little software kinks like the fact that I

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can't open up the Play Store on it for whatever reason as for the camera well

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it's about what you would expect for a gaming phone it's functional which is a

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lot more than you could have said about these types of devices even just a few short years ago but it's obviously not

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going to be as good as a flagship device from someone like a Samsung or an apple

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and hopefully you were expecting that just like you were expecting this video

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to end now with your subscription to this channel like look at that look at that acid

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green grass do you like it that's not

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what that grass looks like you guys can see that grass doesn't look like that

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wow that is so over the top the top is

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like here and it's like way over there