if short-circuit time ladies and gentlemen I've got a care package
delivered to me at my home from Nubia technologies and this is the red magic
5g now I have to confess that I wasn't
real convinced on the whole gaming phone concept right out of the gate but when
we did a recent video over on the Linus tech tips channel checking out their
previous phone compared to kind of like bolting this weird janky cooler to a
more conventional phone their cooling system kind of won me over I'm not gonna
start with the phone because I had some complaints last time that I didn't do a
good enough unboxing so here's the unboxing there's a power doodad that's
not compatible with my North American outlet there's a cable that is
compatible with my North American USB port and there's some documentation that
I'm sure will be absolutely riveting game time any times done it's over
that's the end of it this is the red magic 5g and unlike some of their
previous devices it is on time that's
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
longer window for a flagship Snapdragon processor in between showing up in a
samsung phone for example and then a more specialized niche device like a red
magic gaming phone and that's exactly what's inside this thing so the specs
are freaking nuts it's got a qualcomm
snapdragon 865 processor anywhere from 8 to 16 gigs of RAM depending on which
storage version that you go with it's got a 64 megapixel main shooter along
with two others so it's got an ultra wide as well as a macro lens although
that one's only 2 megapixels so we're gonna have to try that out in a bit
there's a flash back there as well we've got their dock connector down here we've
got a notification button so you can actually decide if you want to go into
do not disturb mode with that guy right there this is the goods this is what I
was so impressed with last time around so here is the venting for their active
cooling solution and then over here we've got the lock button volume rocker
as well as shoulder button so these are
actually pulled at 300 Hertz so that's 300 times per second and they are
pressure sensitive for gamers for when you're gaming on the bottom we've got a
speaker grille SIM tray as well as USB type-c with fast charging apparently
it'll do I think it's fifty six percent after 15 minutes or something along
those lines and of course a headphone jack at the top overall I think I
actually like the look of this thing like yeah it's kind of gamer II it's got
like this X logo on the back and stuff the 5g logo this is a 5g device by the
way the red magic word mark and this little powered by Nubia here are
oriented in landscape mode you know when you're holding it like this like for
gaming for gamers of course this one is oriented in portrait so if you were to
decide you know oh once in a while to make a phone call to your grandmother or
whatever then well it'd be covered with your hand anyway oh that's curious during setup it
prompted me to touch the sensor on the back of the phone to register my
fingerprint but oh I think they just
derped on their setup wizard okay no it
has an under screen fingerprint scanner so let's go ahead and get that
registered it's a little on the low side I'd probably get used to it after being
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
running at oh look at that you've got a little indicator next to the time up
there it's running at ninety hurts right now but it actually goes all the way up
to 144 Hertz it actually pulls the touch layer at 240
Hertz so it's taking inputs 240 times per second to make sure that if you're a
touch and the display itself don't quite
line up it's more likely to get the most recent touch information by the time the
panel refreshes let's go ahead and turn it up to 144 Hertz to see how that feels
wow that is really ugly that scrolling
I'm not a fan of that 144 Hertz eSports
level refresh rate silky smooth screen picture yeah that's gonna increase power
consumption hopefully the 4500 milliamp
hour battery is gonna mostly take care of Wow oh-ho that is absolutely sick okay gonna
do yeah we're definitely getting a
little bit of software behavior so far on this one I'll just give it yield reboot after
rebooting I'm prompted to go through this separate game space handheld gaming
experience thing so this is dropping me in there like gaming control center
alright just a second here how do i how
do I get out of this now please swipe again I am swiping again please disable
the compute button to exit okay here we go so I was totally wrong this is not a
Do Not Disturb button at all it is the
compete button you activate it and it launches their game space game launcher
it probably also turns off your notifications so maybe I wasn't technically wrong calling it a Do Not
Disturb button and then what happens is when you unlock your phone depending on
what position that toggles in either launches their game space game launcher
and then yes the RGB lighting effects on
the red magic logo and look at that it
also kicks the fan into high gear OLED plus high refresh rate it's just
holy grail a great display experiences I
wish I could get into the Play Store though well that was weird
nothing I did fixed it until I reformatted the phone and boom it is
working completely fine now you know
what actually I'd be curious to see if the launcher switcher is working better
now to please use it during games oh okay cool oh I understand what it means
so you swipe in to bring up the overlay so you can toggle the fan on and off you
can change the refresh rate of the display in here okay this toggle is
working perfectly now - I don't know what happened last time that splash
screen is super annoying I hope there's a way to turn that up now I want to play
around with the camera a little bit my expectations are not super high oh okay
the colors are a little on the unnatural side maybe that's something that we can
tweak oh we could turn off intelligent beauty maybe that'll help nope it's
still pretty bad alright then supposed to be bright pink but then the actual
touchpad itself it's like I can see it changing it in the viewfinder
and why would they have the shot on red magic 5g on by default nobody wants your
watermark on their pictures you guys like turns it white for some reason I
don't know what it's doing see it's over
done now I really don't know if this quarantine beard is suiting me too well
turned off the beauty on the second shot there it's uh oh it's a lot better now
it's not trying to smooth my facial hair no it's good all right
it's got some games for gamers okay what
what's going it was working I'm gonna
reformat it again then I guess hey we're back so we got asphalt 9 pub G mobile
rage shadow legends and a comfort snack
now I have one theory and it's that a Google Apps account so that's a paid
Google account might not cooperate well with their launcher and play store or
whatever for some reason so I'm using my personal Gmail Hey look at that it
picked up my games just like that not the meme games just top G and asphalt 9
but hey that's alright I'll switch back and see if it up nope still broken ok
well so much for that theory no idea but I've got my games installed so I'm gonna
just try one oh the speakers are
dang not bad and a very even stereo
effect from them to even though it's using an amplified earpiece speaker and
then a much larger side firing grill over on the other side here that name is
already taken who takes this name alright here we go I don't know what
this 4d shock feels like click the edge pull to zoom what okay so I think what
it's doing is it's putting haptic feedback through the screen when you
touch the areas where the game controls are okay I'm pretty sure I felt that
yeah okay when you fire there's little
vibrations on the screen that's kind of cool I had only intended to play rage Shadow
Legends just because it's such a meme right now but hey I guess we're gonna
have to do that because asphalt's not working and I want just at least one
more game that I can play here I got to say I'm pretty impressed with the screen
it doesn't have the same nearly zero bezel experience that you might find on
like a you know a flagship more consumer focused device but I am out here outside
and it's not under direct sunlight or anything but this is very very usable
how's my cooling fan doing then yeah that's on wow that's that's really going
now that I'm in a game actually moves a lot more air than I would have expected
the phone is just like cool to the touch
though but it's a bit of a chilly day but it's like not even noticeably warm
that is sick first impressions then high refresh rate
144 Hertz display I'm super impressed with that love the speakers it's got a
ton of like gamer oriented features with the cooling system really being on the
top of my list but it's pretty obvious to me that by the time this thing
actually launches I am recording this prior to launch that they are going to
have to work out some of the little software kinks like the fact that I
can't open up the Play Store on it for whatever reason as for the camera well
it's about what you would expect for a gaming phone it's functional which is a
lot more than you could have said about these types of devices even just a few short years ago but it's obviously not
going to be as good as a flagship device from someone like a Samsung or an apple
and hopefully you were expecting that just like you were expecting this video
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