The FASTEST Phone Tested Red Magic 6S Pro Review

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Red magic is back now with the 6s we have  an upgraded model this one still has the fan   in it and i've got the transparent edition so  you can look in and see that little now rgb   fan working away it is 2000 rpm so this model  that i've got has 16 gigabytes of ram that's   a huge amount powered by the snapdragon  triple 8 plus i have a 256 gigabytes of ufs   3.1 storage with this particular model sadly no  upgrades in the camera department which is really   overdue here so eight megapixel front-facing  camera on the rear we got a 64 megapixel main   camera eight megapixel ultra wide and in this  in-depth review i'll be going over this phone   in detail to tell you exactly how it performs  and what you can expect out of the 165 hertz   amoled screen that this has and the general  performance but a bit of a spoiler here   it is the fastest phone that i have reviewed here  in the channel so once on the box we've got a   warranty card there is a quick start guide we have  a case which is a tpu one that does have a cutout   on the whole back of it so you can still enjoy  the transparent back that i have with this model   type c to type c cable and the charger that they  give us this one is 30 watts and it takes just   under one hour but i'll give you the exact time  in this in-depth review there is also a sim tray   tool so this phone is very similar to the other  models that i've reviewed here in the channel   and screen fingerprint reader location is okay  i wish it was a little bit higher but it is very   quick and accurate to unlock now this is a heavy  phone okay it does weigh about 216 grams putting   it yes on the heavy side there so this one has the  obviously the transparent back on here and i do   like it because we can see the tiny little cooling  fan inside there so with our cameras here we have   the same setup as before this is one area that i  do believe that they should have changed this they   should have given us maybe some new cameras so we  have an eight megapixel ultra wide two megapixel   camera for depth and that same 64 megapixel sensor  so you can just see in here that it's advertising   that 165 screen refresh rate hurts screen refresh  rate which is very very quick of course so here   we have an intake vent for the fan that's on  the side and our volume up and down button this   is our game mode switch here so you can switch it  into the gaming mode antenna line so it's middle   frame around the outside and it's 215 grams the  thickness is 9.5 millimeters so it is a little   bit of a chunky heavy phone considering the fact  that it does have some vapor cooling chamber in   there as well too it's kind of normal that it is  heavy the battery capacity is 5050 milliamp hours   and again that's going to add to the weight so  right here on this side you can see we've got the   exit vent and if you put your hand up to there  your finger you can actually feel a little bit   air coming out when that fan's on which will get  more onto soon so right here we've got a power   button microphone and then the triggers the gaming  triggers here at the top that you can customize   i'll cover that later on in this video and the  screen too and just show you again that the   bezels on it they're not too bad and at least we  don't have a natural cutout with this one so this   front-facing camera is eight megapixels we have  secondary speaker right here so it does have   stereo loudspeakers they're very very loud on this  phone now the microphone right here this is our   speaker you can see an antenna line and the sim  tray so this one i'll just quickly pull it out for   you it does have a seal around it rubber gasket  middle frame and it takes two nano sims so one on   that side and then one here on the other and right  up the top here this is one of the greatest things   to have on a gaming phone especially 2021 with  so many brands is completely forgetting about it   is a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack the quality  out of this one it's actually not too bad it is   very loud you can see another antenna line and  a microphone there so three mics in total with   this phone so this phone has a fan that you can  toggle on and off manually in most games it will   turn on you can also go here from the toggles  decide to turn it off now there are two options   you can see with this widget so you can either  turn it off manually you can have it into the   full power mode which is just 100 maximum rpm  there which is 2000 rpm by the way or in the smart   mode and just flipping it over take a look at this  i think it actually does look really quite cool   i like this rgb glow in there and the fact you  can look in and see those internals and see that   tiny little fan spinning away there currently  at 2000 rpm so this panel here 165 hertz maximum   super smooth touch response is 720 hertz so it  is very responsive to touch even though they're   at state in green colors this of course is black  and the blacks do look very very deep it is a good   display i like the size of it 6.8 inches the fact  that it's flat there's no curvature to it at all  

and the brightness is really good this one tops  out at over 800 nits so you can see it in direct   sunlight if you enable this which is the low  brightness flash protection reduce damage to your   eyes reducing the flicker so really that is a dc  dimming but they just haven't named it like that   so you can see when i turn it off have a look what  happens see the banding comes back that flicker   now you can't see any of this in person but onto  the wrong performance so we have with this one   there red magic os 4. it's based on android  11 and the performance is very good this is a   really really quick phone as you expect i've  got a whopping 16 gigabytes of ram with this   512 gigabytes ufs 3.1 storage so there's no  way this thing just wants to slow down at all   there's a couple of complaints though that i do  have with this particular rom and it's nothing to   do with the performance so we can't set our own  launcher with this they're still doing this uh   nubia unfortunately so you can run apex launcher  or nova launcher i've gotten over here and you'll   see that it'll launch it it's fine and you've  got all your apps and everything will be working   but as soon as you trigger gesture like now it's  going to go back to the default launcher you can't   actually set or override this launcher there are  a couple of things like when you turn on the game   space or you go into a game there's some text that  comes up in chinese the translation isn't quite   there the os itself is a little limited but the  performance is very very good and the haptics on   this phone aren't too bad either i do like that  so when you first get this phone it does have   approximately 240 gigabytes free remember there's  no expandable storage no micro sd card support   and i am on the latest this is the latest firmware  here so this is version 4.08 and it seems to be   relatively bug free so far i know with some of the  earlier models i've tested from them the firmwares   were not quite as stable as this one here so wide  vine level one cert netflix is running in full hd   okay that is good but amazon prime video is in  standard definition why well amazon has not white   list white listed this device id yet and that's  why you can see we've got hdr 10 hdr 10 plus   support camera api 2 level 3 support here that's  good now the storage this one is ufs 3.1 so take   a look at these random read and writes here they  are really good phenomenal speeds here and almost   2 000 megabytes per second with the sequential  reads so there is no bottlenecks when it comes   to storage at all on this particular model so  we've got a good geekbench 5 score here for an   android phone for the snapdragon triple 8 plus and  here we do have just the best score ever that i   have seen here from a android phone this is just  amazing this score here for antutu version nine   wow wow wow wow so 865 000 points that's the new  champion that is the best i have seen yet wildlife   stress test so this is stress test that goes for  20 loops and it can tell us if it has throttled at   all because the first score the best score and  then the lowest score calculate the difference   which is our stability so we can see that oh  hang on yes it did throttle down on performance   8.5 now the little fan was working on this the  snapdragon 8 plus and even the triple eight are  

very hot chipsets wi-fi performance excellent very  good now down on my lower spot which is downstairs   away from my wi-fi six router an excellent result  here getting over 300 megabits per second that's   very quick top speeds will max out at 715 not  the fastest i've seen with this router but still   very very good there accuracy is three meters  with our gps and it does see a lot of satellites   in view with its dual carrier frequency support  as you can see here with the level five the   level ones right there and the e5 a2 so  you can see it gets a lot of satellites   now my battery benchmark test that i always run  on these phones and the tablets to that i review   would not complete for some reason this is the  second time it crashed on me and i've just lost   two days testing and it's i've just given  up here okay so it just keeps happening an   unknown error occurred and tutu also crashed  on me so the wrong i wouldn't quite say is   100 stable at the moment hopefully firma  updates will correct that so stuck on   90 hertz i managed to get 10 hours on screen on  time so realistically at 90 hertz here you're   looking at a very good battery life 120 hertz it's  going to really chop it down to about seven hours   realistically of screen on time and 165 hertz you  are then looking at around five and a half six   hours it really does burn through the battery and  if you're gaming gaming time about two and a half   to three hours only so it really rips through that  battery this powerful phone when you're gaming but   at least it does charge really quick here you  can see well it's not bad at all 52 minutes to   go from 12 to 100 this is only 30 watt charging so  still good very good here for a 5050 milliamp hour   battery how was the audio now on this phone so  i've placed a few voice calls they sound good to   me no problems at all and as i mentioned before we  looked at that 3.5 mm headphone jack very loud out   of it just like the speakers so these speakers  super loud there's the one at the top one down   below and i'll give you a sample now at 100 this  is one of the louder phones out there that you   can find and i think this is perfect for a gaming  phone to have powerful loud dual speakers on it now into what this phone is really about that's  the gaming performance which is the best yet i   have tested in an android phone so that is the  game space here that they call it that you just   flick that switch you go into the exclusive gaming  hub so first up i will launch here pubg we'll take   a look at the performance of that as you can  see that's the little bit of chinese we do get   with this gaming mode there is our fps counter and  if you swipe here from the side you can bring up   the performance option so there's a few things  we can see here you've got the balanced rice   the translation's gone wrong beyond and infinite  modes there there's a few do not disturb features   there screen capture adjusting the screen refresh  rate on the go there too as well is all possible   with that there's a lot of different features  there so i'm using the top performance mode here   and just to point out that with pubg that under  settings that we can run with the graphics the   highest frames per second mode here is the 90 fps  that's only on smooth so i'm balanced it's extreme   and he put the smooth on it's only 90 frames  per second so let's test out and see how that   performs and just while we're getting into the  game here too i'll show you the touch controls   here that you can configure that so that's the two  shoulder buttons at the top which are very good to   have with a game like this one here so all you're  basically doing is just moving over this little   widget which is emulating touch okay and you get  the haptic vibration you can turn it on for that   as soon as i push say the right trigger here can  see that is where it's going to press and that   should be my shot fire that one looking down the  sights which is what i normally configure it here   for a game like pump g now with the triggers it  is very easy so i just tap the left one and i can   look down the sights and then fire here with the  right now there is a third touch button which is   on the back here you can touch that one and assign  that to a different control if you wanted to do   so not very hard to do now the performance with  this game has just been the whole time a constant   90 frames per second how do i know well it's the  counter right there it's always around that 90 88   92 but pretty much a 90 average the whole entire  time so it does feel really smooth plays really   well here super fast i've got no kills yet my  teammates keep taking the kills but actually here   we go we've got someone shooting at me or someone  okay they've gone they've disappeared let's take   a look at the game now there's even more demanding  here than pubg and that is gen shin impact so this   game is super tough now i've got it on the highest  possible settings and i have set it to 60 frames   per second and we are normally around that 60  frames per second but there are a few little dips   you can see it's getting down now to about 55.  remember this game is really the most demanding   mobile game out there at the time of this video  at least now let's just attack a few enemies here   you see a few frame dips you can see now down  to 43 there and that is pretty normal there   when it first cashes in the sounds the graphics  and whatnot i have noticed that and when you get   into new areas you will see that occasional a  little bit of a frame a dip some lag and i'm   not playing very well yeah he's getting the better  of me so good performance this is the best i have   seen this game run on an android device really  really good and what about those thermals though   how hot is it gonna get because the snapdragon  triple h series very very hot chips let's check   this out now so what i'll do is i'm gonna play  now for an hour and report back on our thermals all right let's have a look here so it is getting  quite toasty very very warm at the moment so we're   looking at the front of the screen up to almost  50 degrees celsius right there and what about the   back so you can see the hot point actually around  where the cameras are and a little cooler with the   fans blowing some of that hot air out so almost 52  degrees now 53 really after playing for one hour   and you can even see where that hot air is being  pushed out from the fan which is just around this   area so that frame is getting quite warm so this  is really only about a two degrees maybe cooler   than what i've seen some passively called phones  however the performance is right up there it's   maintaining a much higher frame rate throttling  a lot less than other phones that are passively   cooled but it still is threatening a little bit  and still getting very very warm to the touch moving over to our video quality now and the  camera so with the front facing camera eight   megapixel we can shoot as you can see right now  1080p now this does not have any electronic image   stabilization the audio quality is also poor  and well it's disappointing i think they should   have done more i know the focus of this phone is  not really the cameras at all it's all about the   gaming performance still for a flagship it should  be better than this so let's have a look now at   the rear camera sample of our video quality so  you can shoot 8k 30 frames per second and you can   also shoot 4k 30 and 60. it has electronic image  stabilization and the video quality i find to be   it's okay but i do notice you get quite a bit of  panning jutter i mean it's not the best out here   they're still using that same 64 megapixel  sensor so just testing the stability here   look down through my little jungle and the  quality for 4k it's just that i think it's   it's it's really average i have definitely seen  better out of flagship phones i think it's a   little disappointing here so i wouldn't really be  buying this phone for the cameras for the video   performance it would be of course for the gaming  performance what it is really aimed at anyway all right so as you can see from the camera  performance low light wow it definitely needs   a lot of work so they've used the same series of  cameras now for the last three or maybe even four   of these releases here from them and i think  it's time for an upgrade the selfie camera   especially i mean for video performance  though electronic image stabilization   poor quality audio really you would not be getting  this at all for the cameras i mean the main camera   is okay don't get me wrong the main camera can  take a very good photo it's just the rest of   the cameras the ultra wide the front and then the  video performance yeah a true let down with this   the other con here is the software and i mentioned  this before in my other video so there's a few   things with this that uh yeah aren't quite there  yet there's a few translations that are still   not pulling through in english it's still in  chinese and you can't set or overwrite the default   launcher if you didn't want to use the red magic  os you wanted to to set for example nova launcher   sadly once you do any of the gestures or go back  to home or anything it will then revert back to   the launchers i showed you so you can't override  that which is a bit of a nonsense apart from that   i mean if your focus is to have the absolute  best gaming performance you can get out of   an android phone here then this is it this is so  quick that antutu score is the fastest i've seen   yet and then the performance we're playing  a demanding game like gen chat impact it is   very very good maintains a much higher average  frame rate than other snapdragon triple 8 phones   which still tend to get quite hot this does get  hot as i showed you it was still hit 52 degrees   and that's happening on the other snapdragon  triple eight phones however because of the little   fan that is in there you can feel it pushing out  that hot air it's maintaining a higher average   frame rate and that is in end of the day what  you want the screen super fast so 165 hertz is   a battery killer i would probably just run 120  with this phone in fact that's what i was doing   most of the time with this and then we do  eventually have that dc dimming option it's   kind of hidden away because in the dark mode you  can't enable at least that is there touch response   is excellent the gaming triggers at the top  they're great that we can customize it and it just   adds to an extra level of the gaming performance  especially titles like pub g you play that a lot   you can get a smooth constant 90 frames per second  very good loudspeakers good audio charging time   even though it's only 30 watts just under an hour  for 5050 million hours actually isn't too bad so   there we go that is the full story uh there about  the red magic 6s thank you so much for watching   this video do subscribe for more and i hope to  see you back in the next up and coming videos

2021-09-13

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