It's so rare to see something genuinely new in a phone these days that I'd say
it counts as a legendary pull when you get a device that not only has a fresh
new trick up its sleeve, but that also happens to hit the [music] fastest
benchmark scores we've ever tested. And
if you're like me and you've been dreaming of a flagship phone that has
old school cool features like a headphone jack, a bumpless camera, and a
giant battery, there is so much more to
love about Red Magic, who sponsored this video for us to show off the Red Magic
11 Pro, the [music] world's first mass-roduced liquid cooled phone. And
more importantly, [music] maybe to tear it apart so we can get a good look at
how they managed to pack teeny tiny water cooling into a phone that looks
like this and not like this.
Tear down. Step one, heat up the back to soften the adhesive that holds on the
Gorilla Glass backing.
>> [music]
>> Oh, buddy. [music] Step two. Correct.
Red Magic's biggest blunder with this device. The fact that they covered up
any of this liquid cooling loop. Like, dude, even the ones with the transparent
window in the back. They don't show all of it. How flipping cool is this?
Seriously [music] though, in JerryRig Everything's video, he tears down the transparent back one. And all this
coverage of the lube here is just a [music] sticker. That is like the first
thing that I would take out. I got to assume that's there for shielding or
compliance or something cuz like damn.
Oh, look at that. I can move the liquid around myself. Okay, so next up, let's
pull up this. Oh,
interesting. Protective film. And then next, the chi charging coil is cable
managed into the cooling loop sticker. Hold on one sec. This is wild, dude.
I've seen ideas like this concepts. I
have never seen this in a production phone. There it is. That is thinner than
a playing card. And yes, [music]
that is real liquid. The pump is right
there. There is one thing that I can't overlook here and that is that the water
cooling system realistically is not
doing a lot of cooling. It's just maybe
moving heat around a little bit. The
main cooling is being done by the two other cooling systems that are
integrated into this phone. Red Magic boasts that they've integrated the phone
industry's largest vapor chamber ever.
And assisting it is this 24,000
RPM fan. The fan we can see now, but to get a look at the vapor chamber, we're
going to have to go quite a bit deeper. By the way, as I'm removing these screws, you guys might have noticed a
little bit of uh background noise.
That's because we've got this bad boy running 3D Mark Wildlife in the
background so that we can have the fan running and the liquid circulating as we
tear down our device. And uh you might have noticed that at full [music] tilt
you will hear that fan if you aren't using headphones. Though of course you
will be using headphones. [music] I mean you don't want to be that guy on the
bus, do you? [music] And besides, it's just so convenient. Headphone jacks,
man. Bring them back. With the camera cover removed, we reach a critical
element of the cooling system. And this one is not just for show. See, the SoC
that's at the heart of the Red Magic 11 Pro is the Snapdragon 8 Elite [music]
Gen 5, an 8 core beast with an Adreno
840 GPU that improves both traditional raster and [music] ray traced
performance, contributing to big gains over Red Magic's last gen devices. Huh.
but also in the highest performance profile, some pretty serious heat in
applications that are designed to draw maximum power, like repeated runs of 3D
Mark's Wildlife Stress Test. We're talking with Red Magic about it, but in
a nutshell, they might need to run the fan a little higher to keep device
[music] surface temperatures under control once this thing hits the market.
And that really should help in a big way because you can see this cooling element
with the fan and an intake, some thermal compound, and an exhaust should go a
long way towards cooling our SoC right [music] here. That That is so cool. With
all that said, we only saw the surface temperatures go so high in power
viruses. Most mobile games are FPS capped, meaning that power consumption
shouldn't be able to run wild life. So,
why don't we see how things go in COD Mobile? First things first, fire up game
mode and then I guess yeah, let's go straight to multiplayer so I can show
off my terrible mobile gaming skills. All right. Wow, King Slayer. If only I
wasn't playing against bots that are designed to make me feel better and uh
take my money. Oh my god, look how awesome I am. I should buy so many
cosmetics right now. Score streak is ready
right there. Boom. Well, that was bound to happen,
but I can't blame the device. 520 Hz pulling rate triggers, 144 hertz
display. It really moves a fair bit of air, doesn't it? That's really cool. I'm
going to try and get one more kill.
Ah, screwed up. Now I can keep screwing up this phone by unscrewing the rest of
the screws with this LT precision screwdriver from LT Store.crew. Sorry, I
mean LTTCrew.com. ltstore.com.
A damn it. We've got a great look right now at the triple camera setup. There's
dual 50 megapixel rear cameras as well as a 2 megapixel camera for calculating
distance and a quad LED flash. And now it's gone. See you later, buddy. It's
nice knowing you. What's not gone though is the front camera. You might have
noticed this earlier. See that? No camera cutout, no dynamic island,
just some pixels on the screen that are lower density so that when you fire up
the front camera, you shoot through them. [music] Is it the sharpest front-facing camera in the world? No.
But is your [music] screen not interrupted
by ugly, unsightly holes? Yes. As for
the rear cameras, David's going to go take some shots outside. We'll let you guys be the judge. I don't want to let
any subjectivity get into this because this is a sponsored video. What isn't
subjective is the lack of a camera bump.
Now, I suspect for Red Magic, this is really more about gaming comfort, but
for me, it's just nice that they're using the whole depth of the device for
their cameras here, which allows me to just put my phone down flat on a surface
without freaking it wobbling all over the place when I want to interact with
it. You can see they're like really using the entire depth here. Since we're
in here, now is a great time to get a better look at the backside of our
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5's cooling and
the up to 24 GB of LP DDDR5T
memory that's in this phone. The T, by the way, is for turbo, and it's a little
bit faster than LPDDR5X and probably as good as it's going to
get before we switch over to LPDDR6. in there somewhere. We've got up to a
terabyte of UFS 4.1 storage. But before we get to that, I need to disconnect
this battery, which I actually should have done a long time ago. And maybe let's talk about it a little bit. For
those of you who are eagle-eyed, yes, that is 27.77
W hours, or as we typically refer to
them in sort of mobile devices, 7500
milliamp hours. That is freaking nuts. Now, we just need to get a little bit of
alcohol. Woo! A lot of alcohol around the outsides. It's nice that Red Magic
gives you these pull tabs to lift out the battery. Wish more manufacturers
would DO THAT. [screaming and groaning] OH, YES.
[laughter] That That is like a lot of the weight of the device. 93 g. All
right. 145 g. [laughter]
Literally like what what does that work out to? 35 plus% of the weight of this
device is that ginormous battery. I'm
not even complaining. Like that is 50% more raw capacity than the Pixel 10 and
about double the iPhone 17. Though it is
worth noting that that second one especially is an apples to oranges
comparison. Red Magic claims that that giant battery will last up to 34 hours
of daily usage. And in our testing, we got just over 22 hours of continuous
video playback, about 20% longer than Red Magic's last gen phones. And when
you run out of juice, I don't know, sometime tomorrow, the Red Magic 11 Pro
boasts up to 80 watt wired and two-way
wireless charging. In our testing, by the way, we did see it hit the full 80
watts, but only briefly before settling in around 60 watts, which is still going
to give you a 0 to 100% charge in 59 minutes on what I would remind you is a
massive, massive battery. All right, now
that we've got this out, maybe we can get a closer look at what's going on with the SOC situation here. Oh, that's
nice. Check this out. The headphone [music] jack is on a nice little ribbon
daughterboard magig. So, if you ever need to replace it, it shouldn't be that
big of an operation. At least it's doable without replacing a large part of
it. Look at that. Oh, yeah. And there's
stuff that we've taken out that we wouldn't have had to, like this cooling tunnel here. I remember finding this out
and it it just it blew my mind then and it's still a little surprising to me
just how much of the heat of a phone is expected to be dissipated [music]
through the screen. Check this out. And here's thermal interface material right
between the front of the copper heat spreader that's applied [music] to our SOC here and what is essentially like
the screen. Intuitively to me, the
screen would have enough cooling to do on its own. In this case, it's 144
hertz. [music] They claim >> 1,800 nits peak brightness,
>> but we measured well in excess of that regularly over 2,000 nits with a peak of
just over 2400 nits. It's AMOLED, so of
course you're going to get great contrast. And probably the most impressive part of it to me is the over
95% screen to body ratio. They've still
managed to squeeze in speaker here for your earpiece and then a speaker here,
so you get stereo sound. Actually, it's probably time to listen to Crab Rave. I
just realized we never actually talked about like the layout of the phone at
all. So, there's the triggers, [laughter] lock button, volume rocker, game mode
switch. There's the headphone jack that we discussed [music] before, intake, and
then of course SIM tray, USB type-C, and
a couple microphones for, you know, noise cancellation, that sort of thing.
Once again, I don't want to get too deep into subjective stuff here, like audio
quality, but it's clear that it passes the I don't really need to carry my
Bluetooth speaker everywhere test. So, make of [music] that what you will. With
the tearown out of the way, it's time to show you guys what we measured for
performance from this. By all accounts, Qualcomm's claims about the Snapdragon 8
Elite 5 platform having the fastest mobile CPU in the world ring true. So,
it should come as no surprise that the Red Magic 11 Pro hit the highest scores
we've ever seen in our multiple 3D Mark and Geekbench mobile benchmarks, even
higher than the other phones that we've tested [music] with the same processor.
But I do want to point out again that they may have some fine tuning to do on
their fan [music] curve. There's a few more things for us to talk about. The
body that we roflessly tore apart is
IPX8 rated with RGB lighting. And you
really want to talk about Mora, David? >> Yeah, I do. >> Okay. [snorts] Mora puts the AI back in
anime and waifu. That was it. That was the joke. That was
the entire reason you wanted to talk about Mora. >> There's two AIs in anime waifu.
>> So, what do we do with Mora? >> We chat with Mora. She can help you in
game by giving you [music] tips. >> What is the point of you? [laughter]
>> Oh my god. She refers to you as commander by default. Oh my god. She
gives her weight. >> What? [laughter]
>> Sure. Let's ask. What's your foot size? I don't actually
have a physical body or foot [music] size. [laughter]
Okay. But you told me you weigh 54
[music] kg. I did mention my weight. That's part of the lore. [laughter]
Captain, stop. Stop. I surrender.
[snorts] I need to close this now before I get in trouble with my wife. It has Gemini AI
integration apparently, which might explain why it's kind of an idiot. But
you know who's not an idiot? You. So, you'll have no trouble finding the Red
Magic 11 Pro at the link in the video description. And if you're not that into
Mora, you'll have no trouble removing her. Thanks again to Red Magic for
sponsoring this video and sending in these units. If you guys want more
smartphone content, you should either check out ShortCircuit, whose set we're
actually borrowing today, our channel where we unbox all kinds of tech, or why
not the old school phone water cooling series. We'll throw together a playlist
for you. It um might have been been more
effective, but it certainly wasn't as elegant or