Earthquake. Earthquake. Hurry up, Commander. Hide under the table quickly.
Red Magic has been making premium gaming phones for a while now. And they
sponsored this video for us to check out their more affordable one now, the Red
Magic 10 Air. While it is a little bit cheaper, it still keeps some of the
amazing features that make it one of the best gaming phones on the market. One
thing I see they compromised on already, they brought back the camera bump. Red
Magic, you were the chosen one. You got rid of the bump. Why did you bring it
back? H I guess we're going to have to explore what else is in the box and the
phone to see what else they compromised on. As for what's in the rest of the
box? Perfect. We still got our charging cable, which is about the same size as
they always include, about 3 ft. And their charger, which is how many watts?
It says 5 to 21 volts at 3.8 amps. And
then in the little folder here, we've got your SIM removal tool. Stickers. Oh,
wow. a lot of stickers. Win more games. That's going in my backpack. And yeah,
they still actually do include a little clear case like they do with their 10
Pro, which maybe that's the difference you need to make it a flat bump. Let's
give it a try here. Yep, that's about all the difference it is. So, it isn't a
major camera bump, and again, a case will solve that. It's kind of got a
decent grip on the case. It's weird, though. It only covers the top and the bottom. It doesn't actually cover the
sides. But I think for most people when they just get a phone to have a base
case of some sort is good. We're going to take it off though. We don't need it.
And I'm going to clean the rest of my table up. As for the rest of the phone, you still get your triggers on the top
here for when you're playing a driving game or a shooting game. You've got your
volume rocker, your power button at the top. It looks like our microphone on
this side. I'm not sure what that is. It was a slider button on the last phone.
Maybe that's to get back into the game center. We'll try it when we boot it up. And then you have your USB 2 port at the
bottom here, as well as your SIM card there. If you were paying attention to
the last Red Magic phone, you might notice that even though this is called
the Red Magic 10 Air, it is missing the fan this time, the active fan that
actually blew through the phone to help keep it cool. They're still using their
Ice X cooling system, which uses liquid metal. So hopefully the temperature and
the performance will stay under control. But if that little sound from the fan
last time bothered you, you don't have to worry about it this time. The
thickness is a little bit thinner than the 10 Pro, which is why we end up with
that camera bump again. But it also means it's a little bit lighter. So
maybe that's a plus for you. Maybe you don't care about that. But it's
something to keep in mind when you're holding this phone and running your fingers against the back. Red Magic. In
the phone, we find another major change. The chip is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
versus the Snapdragon 8 Elite that the 10 Pro had. I don't know how much
that'll impact the average user's performance. I think you're still going to get incredible gaming performance
when we've done other phones with that chip. Again, something we'll get into a
little bit later. But I want to turn on the screen now and actually take a look at it cuz I've always been very
impressed with Red Magic's underscreen camera as well as just their brightness
and screen to body ratio. Right away, I
am again immediately impressed. I can't see the underscreen camera. It's
something that has always blown me away. Maybe we can find the right angle. Oh,
right there. but only because I can see the giant studio light bouncing off of
it. The screen to body ratio, fantastic. Again, it seems to be getting extremely
bright. Wow. Even in indoor conditions, like I said, with giant studio lights
pointed at me. 120 Hz refresh rate. Take that, Apple. I still can't believe that
they don't have 120 and a more budget phone like this can get it in. It's
fantastic. And it is still quite a big phone. It is a 6.8 in AMOLED screen. We
should see what content looks like on it. I'm going to zoom all the way in. Man, I don't want to take up the full
screen here. Woo! That looks pretty great. What
brightness am I at right now? I'm only at 50% brightness. This is going to look
terrible on the camera, but I want to see it. So, actually, it doesn't look too bad for you guys either. This looks
great. Look at Look at it. Look at my boy Andrew. That is a hands. Oh, that's
a plant. Oh, yes. Even though they don't have the fan, they kept the RGB.
Absolute class. Red Magic. Oh, I only see three LEDs instead of four, though.
They're skimping on even just the LEDs. That's
crazy. Let's hear how it sounds. Let's crank this bad boy. I'm gonna start at
50% then we'll go all the way to 100%. Sounds great at 50%. I want to
hear it all the way at the max,
though. Again, just like the other Red Magic phones, I think 100% might just be
a little too much. Let's turn it down just like two or three
clicks. It immediately sounds better and it's still quite loud. So, I I don't
know if I'd recommend cranking it to 100% unless you just wanted to show
everyone in the room something. You can show them Mora. I actually noticed she's
not my wallpaper. Red Magic's abandoning what made them crazy. No, not press the
red button. Wait, is that what the red button does? Is it a dedicated Mora
button? Do I have to hold
it? Classic. And there she
is. All right. Uh, this is my private. Stop laughing. I'm I'm testing all the
features. Add her to home screen. Make sure you pick her fit. Oh yeah, we got
to pick her outfit. Nope. Let's do that
one. Hello, Mora. Hey,
Commander. Have you completed your work for today? Sorry. I'll get back to work.
My bad. Oh god. Oh, she's my wallpaper.
There we go. We got her. I'm glad they haven't abandoned their roots. They've
continued to have their black and white option. This one's called Hailstone, and
then the other one is called Twilight, but they've added a new color this time
called flare. That one actually only comes in the 16 gigs of RAM and 512 gigs
of storage configuration, whereas these ones can come with that or a 12 GB of
RAM version and 256 GB of storage. More
storage than you would probably honestly ever need, but again, it's a gaming
phone. You might be downloading lots of games on it or taking lots of photos.
Let's check out the camera. It looks great. I mean, for me, I'm not a
photographer, so I'm not necessarily looking for the most amazing quality
ever. We were in very bright sunlight, so we al obviously had great lighting.
But I took a photo on the 24 millimeter lens and then the 14 millimeter one. And
you can still like get in there and see lots of details on Andrew's bike. I even
took a selfie with the front-facing camera with me and my boy,
obviously. And you know what? For an underscreen camera, yeah, it's got its
problems. You can absolutely see some processing around his hairline, around
the bench here that obviously when you're zoomed in like this, not
necessarily the greatest, but I still to this day think that Red Magic does
undercreen cameras as some of the best I've seen. I even tried taking a video
here of Andrew's bike. I just kind of walked around it. Yep, it's a camera. It
looks great. I noticed one little spot where it seemed to Oh, wow. That when it
did that reflection of the sun, it definitely was a very hot spot on the
screen there. But overall, it looks really good. And I know I was out there
supposed to test the cameras, but I couldn't really see cuz I was still on
like 40% brightness. I cranked the brightness up to 100%. I had no issue
seeing anything on the screen with the sun directly behind me shining at it.
This phone doesn't get as bright as the 10 Pro, but it is still way more than
enough for, I guarantee you, almost all of you out there. But there is a
positive with having possibly a lower brightness than the last phone. This one
has a 6,000 mAh battery, which again is less, but if it gets less bright, it
might help with your battery life throughout the day. You might not have to worry about plugging it in and
charging it as often because it does support up to 80 watt charging. And in
our test, which we use a 45 watt charger, it actually did a full charge
in 68 minutes. Should have taken 1 minute longer. Then it would have been
nice. That is crazy that anyone would just be
on the subway and be like, "Hey, Commander." Yes. Have you completed your
work for today? This is my work, believe it or not. We got our FPS counter up at
the top. Looks like you have your latency there, or at least how much it's
downloading. How much battery you have left. Oh, I can feel the haptic feedback
from hitting the triggers. Right now, our FPS counter is saying we're at about
116, 120. Oh, there's
someone. I didn't hit him once. That's fine. Oh, I got him. Chick mate. Oh,
man. Playing with these triggers, it helps a lot.
As for heating up, doesn't feel like it's getting too hot right now. I mean,
I've only been playing for like what, like 2 minutes or so, cuz our Labs team
did actually find out that after an extensive run, it did thermal throttle
at some point and clock down. But they also mentioned that it's probably not
enough of a difference for if you're playing a long period of time that it
would really impact or hinder your gaming experience. Especially for
lighter titles like Bellatro, you'll
probably be fine. Oh, okay. So, it's not
the game center button. Sorry. This is called the magic key button, which it
looks like you can bind to do a bunch of different things. And right now, it's
for that game space. Let's try red magic AI. I want to give that a go. Oh, okay.
That's just a quick like basically translator. That's cool. Let's try Oh,
you can bind it to the camera or your flashlight. That's great. Sound mode. Or
you can just have it do nothing, which would be useless. But, you know, let's
do camera. It's pretty quick, too. It's
actually not that bad. I would prefer it maybe if it was just a touch, but I
could also see how that would be annoying if you're gaming like this and
you bump it and then all of a sudden you're in your camera instead of playing your game. So, a quick hold is probably
better than nothing. Holy cow, look at this. Was I on performance mode? Oh,
there's eco balance and rise. I'm going to assume rise is the top mode there,
which I was on. It tells me my clock speeds. This is where you can also
adjust where your actual trigger placement is. So, when you hit the left
trigger, you can see it kind of lights up there. So, you want to hover that over whatever button you want it to do.
You got all your other quick access settings that you'd want. No calls.
Damn. Set it to do not disturb mode. I'm gaming. That's pretty sick. We are on
the latest version of Android, Android 15, which means of course you're going to get Google's whole suite of things.
Gemini image editing AI or like you know
you can just have Mora not allowed. Oh, okay. Never mind. Maybe you do have to
use Google. Earthquake. Earthquake. Hurry up, Commander. Hide under the
table quickly.
You forgot it on the table, though.
Not an official feature. Apparently, it can detect earthquakes. for being their
more budget phone that they're attempting to break into this market with. Is it worth the price? It starts
at $550 and the top tier, which is the one we have here, goes all the way up to
$700. I think for a gaming phone, you're still able to keep some of the great
features that Red Magic has boasted, such as the triggers, incredible screen,
really good undercreen camera. It just depends on if the missing features are
worth it for you to save that little bit of money versus just getting the 10 Pro.
Let me know what you guys think down below. Or if you want to save even more money, use the link down below because
they're having a giveaway. One for the topsp spec Hailstone and one for the
TopSpec Twilight. Thanks again, Red Magic, for sponsoring this video. If you guys wanted to see the difference
between this one and the 10 Pro, go check that video out. Mororrow was also
there. It was great. She's my