The Ultimate Gaming Phone (2022) – REDMAGIC 7 Unboxing

this is the red magic 7 the first real gaming smartphone of 2022 and one that's

packing a lot of beefy specs now not only did red magic send one of these units out to us early and sponsor

today's blog but

they sent us a few extras details on how you can get your chance at winning one of these coming up later in this video

but for now let's take a look at what's inside the box where we get our

paperwork and an included case the phone tself and then i love to see this a 65 watt fast charger but of course the star of the show is the red magic 7 itself and on this super nova variant that we

have here the back glass is partially transparent where underneath you get badges for things like the snapdragon 8

gen 1 and then a window for the rgb mini fan that's right this phone has a little fan to help cool it down so just like

last year's red magic success you have an intake on this side and then an

exhaust on the other side where the air blows out but this year red magic added an extra vent here on the back which

they say increases the air volume by 35 to help keep things even cooler and they also made it so it isn't as loud when

it's running but you may be wondering why would anybody want all this cooling on a smartphone and the truth is for

regular smartphone use you really don't need it but this is a gaming phone and when you're gaming for hours and hours

on end you don't want to have your screen get dim on you when it starts to get hot a lot of phones do that and you

definitely don't want dropped frames and performance if the phone thermal

throttles we did some testing and this

phone doesn't have any of those issues

running games like gentian impact got us

a constant fps and games like call of

duty just ran buttery smooth now to

really push things to the limit though

we also ran the intensive 3dmark

wildlife extreme benchmark where it goes

through 20 loops of simulated 4k

gameplay where the red magic actually

did a better job than the iphone at

least on average while the iphone had a

higher score on the first loop before it

immediately started throttling down so

if you can run that benchmark

consistently it's going to have no

issues with the current games on the

market especially since this is running

on the snapdragon 8 gen 1 which got a

big boost in the gpu with just an absurd

18 gigabytes of ram on this particular

variant which hey it's overkill but it's

nice to have just like the display on

this thing which has a

165 hertz refresh rate that's the

highest i've ever used on a phone and

while most games don't support 165hz

outside of a handful again it's

something that's nice to have now i

personally can't see the difference

between 120 hertz and 165 hertz with my

eyes but there is clearly a difference

as evidenced here in slow-mo and you

know while i can't see it it is one of

those things that i can kind of sort of

feel especially in combination with the

720hz touch sampling rate but you know

to me the biggest thing that makes this

phone the ultimate gaming phone is in

addition to the cooling and the display

it has these shoulder triggers where you

can actually map them to simulate any

button press on the screen while you're

in a game so what i did in call of duty

is i made the buttons for scope and

trigger super small and then i put them

off to the side and then i mapped the

left shoulder to scope and the right to

trigger which not only gets those

buttons out of the way but it also makes

gaming on this phone feel more like

you're holding a controller it's easily

my favorite phone to play games on right

now mainly because i just play better

having the advantage of these shoulder

triggers now what's cool is when you

toggle the switch on the side here it

pops you into red magic's game space

where you can quickly jump into games

from your library it enables special

features like being able to see how fast

the cpu and the gpu are running you can

change the refresh rate on the fly and

you can even enable performance

monitoring so you can see your fps in

real time so basically everything you

would want while you're gaming now in

terms of the rest of the phone you have

a triple camera system on the back which

is just okay it's not the best camera

phone in the world since the primary

focus here is on gaming you've got a

headphone jack up top in case you're not

about that dongle life you get dual

speakers and a 4500 milliamp hour

battery now with normal smartphone use 4

500 milliamp hours is more than enough

but when you're gaming with that 165hz

display and the minivan the battery can

drain pretty quickly i would have liked

to see a bigger battery in here although

red magic kind of makes up for it with

the included fast charger which is

incredibly quick just three minutes

plugged in got us over a 10 charge and a

little over 20 minutes got us up to 90

percent and if you don't want to deal

with the battery at all the phone also

has this charge separation feature where

you can actually bypass charging the

battery all together and just leave your

phone plugged in and run off the wall

power directly which is not only good

for long-term battery health since

you're not constantly charging it but

since the battery isn't getting charged

the phone also doesn't get hot it's a

pretty cool feature last few things

worth mentioning is you've got an

optical fingerprint scanner that's nice

and fast you have a very gaming themed

ui running atop android 12 and no i

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