My first experience using a GAMING phone!! - Red Magic 6 Pro
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·ShortCircuit
·2021-05-05
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1,638 words · ~8 min read
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- Gaming PCs? (blows raspberry) No, thank you.
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I'll take the latest and greatest gaming phone, if you please.
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Which today is the Redmi RedMagic 6.
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That's what we're taking a look at today. I'm not super acquainted with gaming phones.
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I've heard a lot about gaming phones, but I've never actually gotten a chance to really
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take one for a spin myself, take a look at it.
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There's two boxes here that seem identical.
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(box clatters) What's that about? (exhales) There is a RedMagic 6 and then there's a RedMagic 6 Pro.
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Which one is which? I think they might be physically identical,
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other than the storage and RAM that's inside.
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So for the most part, I shouldn't have to look at both of them.
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I'm just gonna look at one, okay guys? Whoa! Look at that.
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That's fancy. That's all metal, smooth.
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This looks like a super car. This looks like one of Tony Stark's gadgets
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that he would pop out of his shoe or something and it would turn into a transforming drone.
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It's even got two dramatic modes. It's like, "Flashy! Dramatic."
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(imitates angelic singing) (imitates metal music)
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(imitates angelic singing) We got speaker grills? They must be.
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Or, you know what, they're not speaker girls probably, they're probably cooling vents.
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Because one thing that I do know about this phone
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is that it has seven different ways of cooling the processor, which seems a little crazy.
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At least two of those are in an eternal turbo fan and a VC liquid cooling.
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Oh, vapor chamber. But then there's a bunch of other ways as well
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that we're gonna take a look at. Headphone jack! Volume rocker, maybe, on this side
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and a lock some kind of button. I'll figure out what it does when I turn
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on the phone on I guess. Power button, ah, and gaming triggers.
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That's something you want on a gaming phone. 'Cause you're gonna hold it like this.
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That's how you get the headshots. You can't get headshots like this. I've tried.
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You need. (imitates lasers) USB-C for charging on the bottom
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and I guess that that must be a speaker. Unless all the speakers are also cooling vents.
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Ooh, they give you a protector for it.
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Documentation, game time, anytime. A red USB-C, two C cable,
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which I'm guessing works with what is probably in this box,
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which is the power adapter, USB-C power adapter.
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Nice. I think it's a 30 watt adapter. And let me just say, unequivocally, at this point,
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that I know that the difference between the RedMagic 6
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and the RedMagic 6 Pro is that one has 12 gigs of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage
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and the other one has 16 gigabytes
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and 256 gigabytes of storage. I think they are largely identical other than the fact
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that there's a different color scheme. There's other boxes!
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RedMagic Dual Core Cooler. Oh my goodness.
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So that's the thing with gaming phones, they get really hot. You think normal phones get hot when you're trying
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to just scroll Twitter and that's it? These boys, these bad boys get hot
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when they're trying to give you all the frames that you need in PUBG mobile.
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And even despite the fact that there's, it's got seven different forms of cooling,
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I guess you can also get one of these and slap it on there.
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Powered by USB-C, okay. So you can power it from the phone?
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If you're just like, "I don't care if my phone lasts, you know, 30 minutes,
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I need this match." The ear buds, okay, this I actually do wanna
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take a quick peek at because what is this, that box looks crazy.
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Whoa. Whoa.
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(laughs) That's angular. This is like if a dragon made.
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Well, it's even got little horns. It's got like little devil horns.
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(laughs) What are the lights?
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(imitates lasers)
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In a world where an evil authoritarian regime
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keeps gamers down, only one pair of ear buds
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can give them the RGB power. Now time to turn the phone on.
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What have we got here? Okay, so as usual, gaming phones
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usually have 1080p screens, full HD, which is the case with this one.
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I believe it has a 165hz refresh rate,
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which I can already see doing that, whoa!
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A 6.8 inch screen, I guess on both.
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As I was saying, the Pro and the non-Pro version
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are largely identical other than the RAM and the storage inside.
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It's an AMOLED screen and, as I said, there's 165hz refresh rate.
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But there's a 360hz? Is that right?
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Yes, it is. 360 Hertz multi-sampling touch refresh rate.
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So I guess that helps with games. This is my number one least favorite thing
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that some Android manufacturers do. They try to make the Android more like the iPhone
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and don't give it an app drawer. So all your apps just have to be
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on the home screen somewhere. But the thing is that even the iPhone has added an app drawer basically now, so.
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They have multiple models of external coolers
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that you can slap onto this thing.
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I don't know, I'll check it out on your face. (camera shutter clicks)
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John-o, I don't know if this phone has beauty face, it almost certainly does, but you look beautiful to me.
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There was also a watermark for our convenience. (both laugh)
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We got 64 megapixel main camera, an eight megapixel ultra wide camera,
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and a two megapixel bokeh camera. So I guess the camera will be pretty good
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with all of those lenses after all. The main thing that I'm interested in
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is this thing's performance as a gaming machine and how much those seven different types of cooling
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come into play. I've already said the internal turbo fan,
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the vapor chamber liquid cooling,
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but there's also a graphite sheet, a thermal gel, copper foil, air ducts,
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which I think I identified earlier, aviation grade aluminum heat sink somewhere in there,
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aircraft aluminum rear housing. Okay, so that's what I was talking about.
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This is aircraft-grade aluminum, dude. And then you got the Dual Core Ice Dock.
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Okay, so I guess this thing counts as one of the seven. But that's okay.
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There's six that comes with the phone already. I'm online with people, people, oh, select load out?
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But I need to, I need to map the triggers. The phone actually has a manual.
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What the heck? Why doesn't it talk about the triggers? This is so weird.
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I expected to see more software on the actual phone pertaining to gaming.
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Well, there doesn't appear to be any way to get the triggers working.
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Yeah, I'm gonna give you the straight up as a gaming phone. 'Cause you know, I'm assuming that at some point
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you can get the triggers working, which would, oh, a bad guy!
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Oh, you're fricking dead. I'm so good at shooting on a phone.
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Headshot, bro. - [John] (laughs) That's so easy, though.
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- I don't hear the fan going, so it must not be that demanding of a game.
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Okay, this is intelligent regulation.
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(fan whirs) We're gonna go to the high power mode.
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Fast cooling. (fan whirs)
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Ooh. Now, will I get more frames with this?
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That's what I wanna know. Well, oh, is it getting a bit warm?
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I can feel it getting a bit warm, even though the fan's going at full blast.
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But I did just turn it on. And now I'm standing in the middle of the battlefield
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and not dying. Well, safe to say this is a gaming phone, John.
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I don't know if you know. You know, I'm disappointed by the fact
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that I can't, I couldn't figure out how to map the triggers
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onto the buttons because I know that that is something you can do for sure.
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I just, I mean, that's something that I'm gonna say
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as a point against the phone is the fact that that's hard to find because we couldn't find it.
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Where is it? Send us an email, Redmi. So we got the RedMagic 6 Pro and the RedMagic 6 vanilla.
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The vanilla, which is not it's called, but that's what I'm calling it,
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is 599 us and the RedMagic 6 Pro is 699 US.
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Anyways, that's it. Thanks for watching, guys.
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