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Earthquake. Earthquake. Hurry up, Commander. Hide under the table quickly.

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Red Magic has been making premium gaming phones for a while now. And they

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sponsored this video for us to check out their more affordable one now, the Red

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Magic 10 Air. While it is a little bit cheaper, it still keeps some of the

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amazing features that make it one of the best gaming phones on the market. One

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thing I see they compromised on already, they brought back the camera bump. Red

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Magic, you were the chosen one. You got rid of the bump. Why did you bring it

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back? H I guess we're going to have to explore what else is in the box and the

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phone to see what else they compromised on. As for what's in the rest of the

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box? Perfect. We still got our charging cable, which is about the same size as

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they always include, about 3 ft. And their charger, which is how many watts?

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It says 5 to 21 volts at 3.8 amps. And

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then in the little folder here, we've got your SIM removal tool. Stickers. Oh,

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wow. a lot of stickers. Win more games. That's going in my backpack. And yeah,

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they still actually do include a little clear case like they do with their 10

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Pro, which maybe that's the difference you need to make it a flat bump. Let's

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give it a try here. Yep, that's about all the difference it is. So, it isn't a

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major camera bump, and again, a case will solve that. It's kind of got a

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decent grip on the case. It's weird, though. It only covers the top and the bottom. It doesn't actually cover the

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sides. But I think for most people when they just get a phone to have a base

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case of some sort is good. We're going to take it off though. We don't need it.

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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

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here for when you're playing a driving game or a shooting game. You've got your

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volume rocker, your power button at the top. It looks like our microphone on

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this side. I'm not sure what that is. It was a slider button on the last phone.

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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

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bottom here, as well as your SIM card there. If you were paying attention to

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the last Red Magic phone, you might notice that even though this is called

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the Red Magic 10 Air, it is missing the fan this time, the active fan that

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actually blew through the phone to help keep it cool. They're still using their

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Ice X cooling system, which uses liquid metal. So hopefully the temperature and

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the performance will stay under control. But if that little sound from the fan

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last time bothered you, you don't have to worry about it this time. The

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thickness is a little bit thinner than the 10 Pro, which is why we end up with

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that camera bump again. But it also means it's a little bit lighter. So

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maybe that's a plus for you. Maybe you don't care about that. But it's

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something to keep in mind when you're holding this phone and running your fingers against the back. Red Magic. In

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the phone, we find another major change. The chip is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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versus the Snapdragon 8 Elite that the 10 Pro had. I don't know how much

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that'll impact the average user's performance. I think you're still going to get incredible gaming performance

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when we've done other phones with that chip. Again, something we'll get into a

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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

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impressed with Red Magic's underscreen camera as well as just their brightness

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and screen to body ratio. Right away, I

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am again immediately impressed. I can't see the underscreen camera. It's

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something that has always blown me away. Maybe we can find the right angle. Oh,

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right there. but only because I can see the giant studio light bouncing off of

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it. The screen to body ratio, fantastic. Again, it seems to be getting extremely

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bright. Wow. Even in indoor conditions, like I said, with giant studio lights

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pointed at me. 120 Hz refresh rate. Take that, Apple. I still can't believe that

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they don't have 120 and a more budget phone like this can get it in. It's

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fantastic. And it is still quite a big phone. It is a 6.8 in AMOLED screen. We

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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

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screen here. Woo! That looks pretty great. What

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brightness am I at right now? I'm only at 50% brightness. This is going to look

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terrible on the camera, but I want to see it. So, actually, it doesn't look too bad for you guys either. This looks

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great. Look at Look at it. Look at my boy Andrew. That is a hands. Oh, that's

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a plant. Oh, yes. Even though they don't have the fan, they kept the RGB.

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Absolute class. Red Magic. Oh, I only see three LEDs instead of four, though.

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They're skimping on even just the LEDs. That's

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crazy. Let's hear how it sounds. Let's crank this bad boy. I'm gonna start at

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50% then we'll go all the way to 100%. Sounds great at 50%. I want to

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hear it all the way at the max,

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though. Again, just like the other Red Magic phones, I think 100% might just be

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a little too much. Let's turn it down just like two or three

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clicks. It immediately sounds better and it's still quite loud. So, I I don't

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know if I'd recommend cranking it to 100% unless you just wanted to show

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everyone in the room something. You can show them Mora. I actually noticed she's

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not my wallpaper. Red Magic's abandoning what made them crazy. No, not press the

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red button. Wait, is that what the red button does? Is it a dedicated Mora

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button? Do I have to hold

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it? Classic. And there she

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is. All right. Uh, this is my private. Stop laughing. I'm I'm testing all the

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features. Add her to home screen. Make sure you pick her fit. Oh yeah, we got

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to pick her outfit. Nope. Let's do that

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one. Hello, Mora. Hey,

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Commander. Have you completed your work for today? Sorry. I'll get back to work.

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My bad. Oh god. Oh, she's my wallpaper.

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There we go. We got her. I'm glad they haven't abandoned their roots. They've

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continued to have their black and white option. This one's called Hailstone, and

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then the other one is called Twilight, but they've added a new color this time

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called flare. That one actually only comes in the 16 gigs of RAM and 512 gigs

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of storage configuration, whereas these ones can come with that or a 12 GB of

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RAM version and 256 GB of storage. More

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storage than you would probably honestly ever need, but again, it's a gaming

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phone. You might be downloading lots of games on it or taking lots of photos.

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Let's check out the camera. It looks great. I mean, for me, I'm not a

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photographer, so I'm not necessarily looking for the most amazing quality

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ever. We were in very bright sunlight, so we al obviously had great lighting.

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But I took a photo on the 24 millimeter lens and then the 14 millimeter one. And

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you can still like get in there and see lots of details on Andrew's bike. I even

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took a selfie with the front-facing camera with me and my boy,

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obviously. And you know what? For an underscreen camera, yeah, it's got its

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problems. You can absolutely see some processing around his hairline, around

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the bench here that obviously when you're zoomed in like this, not

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necessarily the greatest, but I still to this day think that Red Magic does

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undercreen cameras as some of the best I've seen. I even tried taking a video

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here of Andrew's bike. I just kind of walked around it. Yep, it's a camera. It

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looks great. I noticed one little spot where it seemed to Oh, wow. That when it

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did that reflection of the sun, it definitely was a very hot spot on the

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screen there. But overall, it looks really good. And I know I was out there

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supposed to test the cameras, but I couldn't really see cuz I was still on

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like 40% brightness. I cranked the brightness up to 100%. I had no issue

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seeing anything on the screen with the sun directly behind me shining at it.

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This phone doesn't get as bright as the 10 Pro, but it is still way more than

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enough for, I guarantee you, almost all of you out there. But there is a

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positive with having possibly a lower brightness than the last phone. This one

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has a 6,000 mAh battery, which again is less, but if it gets less bright, it

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might help with your battery life throughout the day. You might not have to worry about plugging it in and

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charging it as often because it does support up to 80 watt charging. And in

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our test, which we use a 45 watt charger, it actually did a full charge

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in 68 minutes. Should have taken 1 minute longer. Then it would have been

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nice. That is crazy that anyone would just be

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on the subway and be like, "Hey, Commander." Yes. Have you completed your

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work for today? This is my work, believe it or not. We got our FPS counter up at

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the top. Looks like you have your latency there, or at least how much it's

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downloading. How much battery you have left. Oh, I can feel the haptic feedback

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from hitting the triggers. Right now, our FPS counter is saying we're at about

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116, 120. Oh, there's

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someone. I didn't hit him once. That's fine. Oh, I got him. Chick mate. Oh,

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man. Playing with these triggers, it helps a lot.

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As for heating up, doesn't feel like it's getting too hot right now. I mean,

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I've only been playing for like what, like 2 minutes or so, cuz our Labs team

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did actually find out that after an extensive run, it did thermal throttle

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at some point and clock down. But they also mentioned that it's probably not

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enough of a difference for if you're playing a long period of time that it

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would really impact or hinder your gaming experience. Especially for

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lighter titles like Bellatro, you'll

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probably be fine. Oh, okay. So, it's not

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the game center button. Sorry. This is called the magic key button, which it

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looks like you can bind to do a bunch of different things. And right now, it's

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for that game space. Let's try red magic AI. I want to give that a go. Oh, okay.

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That's just a quick like basically translator. That's cool. Let's try Oh,

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you can bind it to the camera or your flashlight. That's great. Sound mode. Or

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you can just have it do nothing, which would be useless. But, you know, let's

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do camera. It's pretty quick, too. It's

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actually not that bad. I would prefer it maybe if it was just a touch, but I

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could also see how that would be annoying if you're gaming like this and

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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

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better than nothing. Holy cow, look at this. Was I on performance mode? Oh,

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there's eco balance and rise. I'm going to assume rise is the top mode there,

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which I was on. It tells me my clock speeds. This is where you can also

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adjust where your actual trigger placement is. So, when you hit the left

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trigger, you can see it kind of lights up there. So, you want to hover that over whatever button you want it to do.

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You got all your other quick access settings that you'd want. No calls.

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Damn. Set it to do not disturb mode. I'm gaming. That's pretty sick. We are on

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the latest version of Android, Android 15, which means of course you're going to get Google's whole suite of things.

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Gemini image editing AI or like you know

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you can just have Mora not allowed. Oh, okay. Never mind. Maybe you do have to

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use Google. Earthquake. Earthquake. Hurry up, Commander. Hide under the

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table quickly.

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You forgot it on the table, though.

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Not an official feature. Apparently, it can detect earthquakes. for being their

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more budget phone that they're attempting to break into this market with. Is it worth the price? It starts

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at $550 and the top tier, which is the one we have here, goes all the way up to

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$700. I think for a gaming phone, you're still able to keep some of the great

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features that Red Magic has boasted, such as the triggers, incredible screen,

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really good undercreen camera. It just depends on if the missing features are

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worth it for you to save that little bit of money versus just getting the 10 Pro.

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Let me know what you guys think down below. Or if you want to save even more money, use the link down below because

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they're having a giveaway. One for the topsp spec Hailstone and one for the

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TopSpec Twilight. Thanks again, Red Magic, for sponsoring this video. If you guys wanted to see the difference

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between this one and the 10 Pro, go check that video out. Mororrow was also

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there. It was great. She's my