My real wife will hate this phone - REDMAGIC 9PRO

Summary

The script provides an enthusiastic unboxing and first impressions of the Red Magic 9 Pro gaming phone featuring the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. It highlights the phone's high-end specs like fast charging, a large battery, and an under-display selfie camera enabling a notchless, nearly bezel-less display. It also explores the phone's advanced cooling system and accessories like clip-on coolers and a controller. Overall, it conveys excitement about the phone's cutting-edge gaming performance, seamless display, and unique cooling capabilities.

Takeaways

• 😲 The Red Magic 9 Pro has the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip which is claiming big performance improvements
• 👌 It has an under-display selfie camera to allow a notchless and holepunch-less display
• 🔋 The large battery charges insanely fast with the included 80W charger
• ⚙️ It has a built-in cooling fan that can spin at 22,000 RPM to prevent overheating during gaming
• 🎮 The dedicated gaming features like triggers and software optimization aim to provide an elite gaming experience
• 📸 The main camera setup is quite capable while the under display selfie camera lacks in photo quality
• 🔊 It has very loud stereo speakers that enhance gaming immersion
• 👾 There are various clip-on cooling accessories available for even better heat dissipation
• 🕹 The Shadow Blade 2 gamepad further elevates the gaming controls and ergonomics
• 💰 It starts at a comparable price to last generation gaming phones

Q & A

What chipset is featured in the Red Magic 99 Pro?

The Red Magic 99 Pro features the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset.

What improvements does Qualcomm claim for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3?

Qualcomm claims the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 offers up to 30% better performance, up to 20% better efficiency, and a 25% faster GPU compared to previous chipsets.

What is the battery capacity and charging speed of the Red Magic 99 Pro?

The Red Magic 99 Pro has a 6500 mAh battery and comes with an 80W charger that can charge it from 0 to full in just 40 minutes.

What display specifications does the Red Magic 99 Pro have?

The Red Magic 99 Pro has a 6.8-inch 120Hz AMOLED display with 2480 x 1116 resolution.

What is unique about the front camera on the Red Magic 99 Pro?

The Red Magic 99 Pro has an under-display front camera, allowing for a seamless display without any notches or hole-punches.

How did the Red Magic 99 Pro perform in benchmark tests?

In benchmark tests, the Red Magic 99 Pro achieved over 99% performance stability when using the clip-on cooler accessory.

What accessories come included with the Red Magic 99 Pro?

The Red Magic 99 Pro comes with a charger, USB-C cable, SIM ejector tool, and documentation in the box.

What rear camera specs does the Red Magic 99 Pro have?

The Red Magic 99 Pro has a triple rear camera setup with a 50MP main, 50MP ultra-wide, and 2MP macro camera.

What gaming-focused features does the Red Magic 99 Pro have?

Gaming features include shoulder triggers, RGB lighting, active cooling with a built-in fan, and optimized gaming software.

What is the starting price for the Red Magic 99 Pro?

The Red Magic 99 Pro starts at $650 USD for the 12GB RAM and 256GB storage model.

Outlines

00:00

📱 Unboxing and First Impressions of Red Magic 9 Pro Gaming Phone

The first paragraph provides unboxing and first impressions of the Red Magic 9 Pro gaming phone. It discusses the phone's specs like Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, 6500 mAh battery, 165Hz refresh rate display, and cooling fan. The accessories in the box like an 80W charger and inclusion of a 3.5mm headphone jack are highlighted.

05:02

😎 Testing Out Phone Accessories for Cooling and Performance

The second paragraph tests out the phone's clip-on cooling accessories and their impact on performance stability during intensive gaming. The magnetic cooler and ice cooling backpack attachment are shown to provide over 99% and 96.3% performance stability respectively. The paragraph also explores the phone's gaming focused interface and software.

10:02

🎮 Console-Like Gaming Experience with Controllers and Emulators

The third paragraph demonstrates the phone's gaming capabilities using controllers like the Shadow Blade 2 and emulators like Dolphin. The ease of mapping controls and availability of accessories provides a console-like experience. Testing games like PlayStation Portal is shown though issues like settings needing tweaks for optimal performance are pointed out.

Keywords

💡Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

This refers to Qualcomm's newest flagship mobile chipset that provides high performance and efficiency. The video emphasizes how the Red Magic phone is the first device the narrator has tried with this new chip, which enables impressive capabilities like the fast charging and high frame rates while gaming.

💡gaming phone

Gaming phones are designed with hardware and software optimized for gaming, like high refresh rate displays, shoulder triggers, advanced cooling systems, and performance modes. The Red Magic phone showcased has many such gaming-centric features.

💡cooling system

Phones can get hot when gaming intensely for long periods. The video highlights the Red Magic phone's vapor chamber cooling and fan system which allows it to sustain high performance without overheating.

💡frame rate stability

This refers to how consistently a game can maintain its target frame rate over time during demanding gameplay. The cooling accessories for the Red Magic phone help it achieve 96-99% frame rate stability.

💡under-display camera

This is a front-facing camera placed underneath the display, removing any need for a notch or hole-punch cutout. The Red Magic utilizes this for an uninterrupted full-screen display optimal for gaming.

💡trigger buttons

Physical shoulder buttons on the sides of gaming phones allow precise controls in games. The Red Magic has customizable trigger buttons with high polling rates.

💡accessories

Gaming phones often have accessory add-ons like gamepads or cooling attachments. The unboxing shows the Red Magic's clip-on fan, cooling backplate, and controller accessory.

💡performance vs efficiency

The tradeoff between peak performance and battery efficiency based on use-case. The video mentions the Red Magic's software profiles balancing these factors.

💡emulators

Games console emulators allow playing classic games on phones. The Red Magic's power runs emulators like Dolphin and Yuzu well, presenting new benchmarking challenges.

💡pricing

The video calls out the Red Magic's competitive pricing starting at $650, especially given the high-end specs and performance.

Highlights

First phone with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip for improved performance

Includes 80W fast charger that charges phone from 0-100% in 40 minutes

Has flush rear cameras so no camera bump when holding phone landscape

Comes in glossy black and white colorways with exposed cooling fan

Fan has RGB lighting with ability to customize colors

In stress testing maintained 94% performance over 20 minutes

Achieved 60C max temperature in stock configuration

Optional clip-on coolers further improve cooling and performance

Has 10,182mm^2 vapor chamber for cooling

Over 23 hours battery life in testing

120Hz AMOLED display with under display selfie camera

Rear camera setup includes 50MP main camera

Ships with detachable gaming controller accessory

Starts at $650 USD for base 12GB RAM and 256GB model

Pricing in line with last generation model

Transcripts

under normal circumstances I wouldn't be

that excited to do a sponsored phone

unboxing but the red magic 99 Pro is the

first device that I've gotten my hands

on with the new Snapdragon 8 gen 3 and

this thing looks sick Qualcomm is

claiming up to 30% better performance up

to 20% better efficiency a 25% faster

GPU not to mention that red Magic's

implementation comes with virginity

armor WoW I'm never going to lose it

this

way anime is cool no judgment seriously

though red magic is claiming that this

is the fastest chip to ever do it and

the phone itself is loaded up with

features first let's take a look at the

accessory package we've got an included

type-c to type-c USB cable as well as

wow imagine that a charger in the box

and not just any charger this is an 80 W

charger that we found took the phone

from Zer to full in just 40 minutes

which is all the more impressive when

you wow this paper is not coming off

there we go it's glossy black which is

all the more impressive when you

consider that the phone itself has a

6500 Milah battery oh wow I thought this

was a sticker but it's not between

phones with cool lighting and ones with

transparent backs like this I am liking

this trend why have a boring black slab

when you can have a cool black slab oh

there's another color way they sent us

let's guess snowfall oh okay white hey

that's not just white though that's that

looks pretty cool and also includes

armor anything in here Sim removal tool

and documentation cool we're looking at

a 50 megapixel another 50 and that is

not a camera that is a cooling fan which

we'll take a look at in a moment the

third one is a 2 megapixel shooter right

here which it's going to be a macro

shooter maybe I don't know they don't

mention it so we'll figure that out

first let's get this thing fired up and

talk about why it matters that these C

cameras are flush I think most people

are kind of used to the camera bump at

this point so why do they care and the

answer is because while it doesn't

matter for holding your phone like this

it matters a lot for holding your phone

like this and these are gaming forward

phones so if you got a camera bump

digging into your knuckle and you're

sitting there using it for 2 3 4 hours

at a time it's going to be pretty

annoying comes with a built-in screen

protector always love to see it thank

you for not nickel and diming me let's

talk basic specs for a moment it's

running red magic OS 9 which is based on

Android 14 and has either 12 or 16 gigs

of lpddr 5x memory with 256 or 512 gigs

of storage did I mention that that fan

is RGB oh my God it's got four separate

LEDs it looks like let's crack open

mobile Forge ah here we go competitive

atmosphere LED wa okay there's an LED

here let's make that one perfect purple

nice they say it spins at up to

22,000 RPM which might be kind of

annoying if you don't have headphones in

uh the good news is why don't we take a

quick tour of the outside of the device

you got your dual SIM slots dual nano

SIM USBC stereo side firing speaker

there's your game mode toggle oo haptic

trigger buttons lock button volume

rocker these have a 520 HZ pulling rate

and feature custom lighting then moving

up to to the top a 3 and 1/ 12 mm

headphone jack let's go another side

firing speaker there's one of your

microphones and another vent for the fan

so this is pulling air in the one side

and Blasting it out the other this must

do some real Cooling in here and it does

we've got results for it firing Up 3D

mark whoa you can immediately hear the

fan kicking a lot less annoying than I

thought it was going to be of course

it's probably not running at full speed

right now let's do uh Wildlife extreme

stress test we already ran this but I'm

just experiencing it for myself for the

first time man it's crazy what you can

do on a mobile chipset these days is

that as loud as it gets okay well that's

not bad especially when you consider

here let's have a look at our historic

results this is the worst we got it to

do this isn't it stock configuration

without either of the clip-on coolers

and over a 20 minute stress test we only

reached about 60° by the end of it and

that is some really really strong result

stability too at around just shy of 94%

of the score after 20 minutes of what we

had on our first Loop what that means

essentially is if you start at 30 frames

per second you're going to end up at

around

28.6 frames per second after a 20-minute

gaming session that's pretty good now I

mentioned some clip-on accessories huh

here's the clamp on one you got a little

button to turn it on uh USBC port for

power oh I guess uh doesn't have its own

battery so you got to power with the

phone here we go one sec and it's a

little weird to me that you would have

an insulating rubberized layer I mean I

guess you don't want it to move around

but no it's thermoconductive silicone

wow that definitely increases the weight

a little bit oh I bet it comes with a

little short cable no it comes with a

long cable overall things have been

going really well up until now how about

a shorter USBC cable with the clip on

that RGB though

okay that's uh that's something the

button is apparently not to power it on

and off it just goes it's to change the

gear so it can either go in high gear or

eco mode and then if you hold it it

changes the RGB style speaking of

cooling their ice 13.0 magic cooling

system apparently features a

10,182 MM squared Vapor chamber which is

a lot less than it sounds like that's

only 100 square cm which is 10x 10 but

that's still a lot of surface NE to pack

into all the little structures inside

their Vapor chamber with this bad boy we

were able to achieve

96.3% frame rate stability which is not

as good as the magnetic one that's wait

a second does this have a pelta in it oh

that's chilly interesting as a first

party accessory all right sure oh cool I

don't have to have a big stupid clamp on

it the so is kind of up here so let's go

ahead and o no no no no Oh no I got this

no debrand be watching this L yeah lus

this is why we never let you put on our

skins

okay I probably wouldn't put it there

even if that does give me the best

performance and it really does we saw

greater than

99% performance stability with this

particular cooler on it coming back to

gamespace there's a lot to explore here

they've got different performance

profiles depending on whether you

prioritize battery life or performance

they've optimized their plug-in life

Library had Crosshair stopwatches cool

stuff like that and they've revamped

Mora she's their AI digital assistant

and maybe this is the kind of thing that

plays better in other markets that's

probably enough of Mora for me my wife

watches these she doesn't but look the

people who are in tomora you guys you

know you saw that you're like oh that

looks great and you got you guys go for

it but I it's uh let's talk about the

display a red magic claims a better Peak

brightness than they ever have before

and that much is true but we were not

able to attain the 1,600 nits that they

claim we're not quite sure how they

measured that we were able to hit just

over 1,00 nits which is plenty for

watching content in HDR but isn't what

they said so we'd like to see that

improved what was what they said was the

battery life we measured over 23 hours

in our endurance test playing back a

YouTube video at a fixed brightness and

about an hour 45 under under extreme

load pretty darn impressive I like the

aspect ratio it's 2480 X 1116 so it's a

little bit on the taller side really

responsive 960 HZ pulling rate on the

screen you can really feel it that's not

bad

hey not bad Distortion sets in around

80% that's as high as I would go but

this thing is flipping loud at 80% get

you some real stink eye on the bus loud

at 80% so don't do that just use the

headphone jack there's more to like

about the screen I didn't even mention

it 6.8 in 120 HZ AMOLED but where's the

camera hole punch that's right my

friends they are boasting a

93.7% screen to body ratio with an under

screen front-facing camera and there it

is huh that's pretty good there no no we

got it we got it we got it

there you can kind of see a shadow of it

that's pretty cool okay now let's see

how it holds

up yeah it is uh not the best selfie

camera I've ever

used it takes a lot of processing on

this boy to make it work but if you are

not that into selfies which a lot of

people aren't and you prioritize a

completely seamless screen experience

this is it and it's there in case of a

selfie emergency I guess and this has a

particular impact for gamers because

whole punch cameras tend to not have

touch sensitivity over top of them

meaning sometimes you can have to

rearrange your inputs not going to be a

problem here at least the rear camera is

markedly better very functional this is

the first phone that has made us go man

we need to re-evaluate our mobile game

benchmarking cuz most mobile apps are

FPS locked so they can't go higher than

whatever their target is 60 120 FPS

dolphin used to be just like an insane

stress test for phones but this thing

hit 1% loaves of 58 frames per second

like we're not going to be able to

differentiate between Snapdragon 8 gen 3

devices or at least barely what what are

we going to

do Yuzu oh well that's going to be

harder we've got one more accessory to

play around with the Shadow Blade 2 it's

got hall effect sticks and triggers

which I was not

expecting actually surprisingly nice

ergonomics different joysticks depending

on whether you like them small or you

like them grippy or okay that's pretty

cool joystick swaps are handled by just

popping off these magnetic tops it's

apparently compatible not only with red

magic phones but basically any phone you

like as long as it's got USBC and oh it

turns your USBC Jack into a USBC charger

charging port and a headphone jack that

was immediately detected love to see it

oh man PlayStation portal look out as

long as you've got like $800 to spend

for the top skew although to their

credit at least pricing hasn't gone up

since last gen which seems to be

something we can't really take for

granted anymore these days and it starts

at 650 for the 12 gig uh 256 gig version

M it's not compatible with the extra

cooler with the game pad on though let

fire up dolphin man I like this

thing feels surprisingly good got rip at

the back L4 R4 even the d-pad doesn't

suck I'm not the biggest fan of the

position of it but it doesn't suck all

right how do I use

items all right that'll do

it

it's not a skill issue it's it's a

settings issue Superstar hacks let's go

well that was the end of the race okay

well let's uh ignore that and uh

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