hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and
this is the Nubia red magic 5g this is
their latest gaming phone with 5g
technology built in and comes in between
five and six hundred dollars or so and
is available with eight gigabytes or up
to sixteen gigabytes of RAM with 128 or
256 gigabytes of storage now let's flip
this over and unbox it here so we'll
take the packaging off here or the
wrapper and let's go ahead and open it
up and inside we have the phone itself
now it should have an under the screen
fingerprint sensor we'll take a closer
look at that in a moment and let's take
this packaging off and we have three
different envelopes or three different
packages so inside this one we've got a
SIM card removal tool then we've got our
Quick Start Guide it says here just some
information about the phone and then a
warranty card as well now on the right
we have a charging brick and this is not
the United States variant but there will
be a United States variants USB a 2 USB
see look this back and then in here we
should have our USB C charge cable so
and here is the charging cable it's a
nice red color again USB a 2 USB C so
let's set that aside and take a closer
look at the phone itself let's go ahead
and take the wrapper off the phone this
is a really interesting color you can
see it says 5g here you've got your
cameras so let's go over the specs of
the phone we'll take a look at the
design the specs and everything else now
around the outside edge we have a little
switch here this is usually a gaming
switch we have a little vent on the side
so it's got air that goes through one
side and out the other to keep the
processor cool
then we've got some pogo pins for some
other accessories they sell on top we
have a microphone and a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack on the right again we've
got these shoulder buttons just like
last year's Nubia
magic 3s you've got shoulder buttons
here you've got your vent or intake and
then you've got a power and volume
button here and they feel like they're
metal but I'm not sure if they are on
the bottom we've got a speaker and then
we've also got our USB C charging port
along with a microphone now we also have
a SIM card slot as well
now we'll pop out the SIM card tray and
we should have dual SIM capability so on
each side we can place a SIM card
there is no expandable storage in this
phone now let's take a look at the specs
now this is the 12 gigabyte model with
256 gigabytes of storage internally we
have a qualcomm snapdragon 865 along
with superfast ufs 3.0 storage and ddr5
ram so not only is the display 144 Hertz
it's six point six five inches it's an
AMOLED display 1080 by 2340 with 388
pixels per inch and it supports DCI p3
now not only is it a hundred and
forty-four Hertz but it has a 240 hertz
touch esports ultra smooth display it
also has 300 Hertz touch sensing
capability on the triggers now on the
back we have a couple different cameras
we have a 64 megapixel Sony sensor with
an F 1.8 wide lens we also have an 8
megapixel ultra wide and a 2 megapixel
macro camera so that's pretty
interesting we can also record in 4k 60
or 8k as well on the front we have an 8
megapixel F 2.0 wide forward facing
camera as well internally we have a 4500
milliamp hour battery that supports fast
charging with 55 watt chargers and
should charge at about 56% in 15 minutes
it will charge 100% in 40 minutes if you
have that fast charger now it also
supports Wi-Fi 802 dot 11a b/g/n AC and
a X or Wi-Fi 6 and bluetooth 5.0 a2dp
apdex le so this is packed full of specs
for half the price of what you get with
a samsung s 20 ultra for example but we
don't have that huge camera array on the
back so let's go ahead and boot it up
there we go now we'll go ahead and set
it up so we'll connect to a mobile
network now it's connecting and checking
for updates
and one thing I noticed is it says 90
Hertz in the upper left of the display
so it says detected a new version update
now so we'll go ahead and update and it
says it optimizes Play Store
compatibility and camera applications so
let's go ahead and update this now it's
asking if I want to copy apps and data
I won't copy I'll set it up as new and
it says just a sec checking info and we
can sign in with Google or do that later
we'll skip that for now and just try to
get to the home screen as fast as we can
here now this does have an under the
screen fingerprint sensor so it says
unlock with fingerprint we'll hit next
so we'll go ahead and setup the
fingerprint sensor every time we do it
you can see the screen gets brighter
that's kind of interesting so it's must
be optical similar to what oneplus has
says fingerprint add it will hit next
and it says adding finishing touches
just to give you a size idea here is the
red magic 5g next to a pixel for Excel
so you'll see the size difference
thickness wise it's actually not too big
it has a nice curved edge to it so it's
not too much bigger but the display is
bigger now if we put our finger on the
fingerprint sensor there's an
interesting animation and we won't copy
here now this is the home screen of the
nubia red magic 5g and we'll go to
settings here after it updated and you
can see this is the 12 gigabyte variant
with 256 gigabytes of storage running
Android 10 with the March 1st 2020
security patch so it's actually pretty
up-to-date already maybe there'll be a
new update very soon with the latest
security patch now it's also running at
red magic OS at version 3.0 now the home
screen skin looks like this it's pretty
familiar as far as any other you've seen
in rent magic now a couple of things to
know this is very similar to the Google
now launcher so if I slide over here
we've got basically our Google now view
but you can't swipe up to go back you
have to swipe back to get there so it's
kind of interesting and then it's highly
customizable so you can see I have it
set to 144 Hertz for the display and you
have that option to change it from 144
Hertz to 90 or 60 and leave it in the
status bar so you can change it to 144
for eSports change it back when you need
to save some
so that's really nice as well now in the
notification in status bar we can also
show our network speed so right now it's
gonna give us our overall speed if we're
using network connectivity and it's just
nice that we have all these little
customizable options that are really key
to people that are playing games on
their phone and if you don't like the
gestures that I've been using you can
get back the navigation bar switch it
out to whatever you'd like and other
than that you can see we have neo AI for
smart game neo speed that helps you with
gaming and you've just got all these
really nice effects such as colorful
lighting effects or low power off and
all sorts of things now another
interesting thing is other than the
lighting we have the cooling fan and we
can tell it to turn on to max speed or
even have it turned on for quick
charging so it keeps the battery cool
and then you can have it shut down as
well so it's really neat to have all of
these different options and it's just
something that's a little bit different
than anything else you see out there and
you also have some options such as
always-on display they have some nice
options here but the thing that sets
this phone apart from others that I've
seen is not its skin but rather it's a
gaming mode so in the upper left we have
this little switch here we flip the
switch and we go into our game mode and
so you can see we have access to the
cooling fan RGB LED strips so if we go
into that we have an RGB LED strip on
the back so we'll wait for it to turn on
or off it it lights up this part right
here
I can turn it on or off if you want to
use that and then also the cooling fan
on or off and now we also have some
other options if we swipe from the right
we have options for our fan we have our
display switch being switched to 144
Hertz just by tapping on it we also have
4d shocks so it's supposed to be a
better haptic feedback motor and then
access to things such as blocking calls
blocking messages or taking a snap of
the phone basically a screen shot and
then it also tells us what our CPU and
GPU are running at and it's got a bunch
of really interesting stats that you
don't normally see on other phones so
it's definitely set up for gaming now
let me go ahead and add some games so we
can take a closer look now I've added a
couple different games to this phone and
let's go into the gaming mode now as
soon as I do this you're going to hear
the fans kick
so we'll rotate it here and it's not
terribly loud let's see if you can hear
this now that's what the fans ounds like
you can turn it off with this button
here and then it kicks back on and it
seems to do a good job you can actually
feel air blowing out of the bottom here
so let's go ahead and try a game now
because this is in the game mode here
you can go through swipe through your
games add a game you can sign in and
then if you swipe to the right it also
again shows you what your CPU usage is
at you can assign your triggers and
things like that it's really nice so
let's go into asphalt 9 first it seems
super fast as well and the sound is
quite good but I have it turned down for
this video now this game is super smooth
at 144 Hertz you can see that everything
is running nice and smooth it's in full
resolution everything's turned all the
way up and the phone is staying fairly
cool but it is getting a little bit warm
and let me go ahead and go back to the
game space here you can just swipe in at
any time and the back of the phone is
warming up a little bit but that's to be
expected when playing something
intensive and ramping up the CPU and GPU
let's swipe over and go to call of duty
and check that out so this game is super
smooth on this display it looks great it
looks better than I remember it on the
Xbox 360 and in general it's very
playable no problems here the framerate
super smooth you've got that fan keeping
everything nice and cool now if we want
to exit the game we can just swipe to
the right go to the game space and we're
back to the main screen flip our switch
here and we're back to the home screen
the fan shuts off and you just use the
phone as a normal device and all of your
settings go back to normal it's a really
nice way to do a gaming phone and it's
pretty interesting now as far as the
camera is concerned on the back we have
some interesting options so if we go
into the camera you'll see that we have
some zoom options so let me put the
pixel 4xl underneath so you can see this
but we can go to 3 X 5 X and then 10 X
and it's actually pretty clear it's not
too bad and we also have the option for
macro photos which you don't really see
too often so what you need to do in
order to get macro is you actually go
into the camera
family here and then in the camera
family you go to macro and so maybe I
want to get really close to this looks
like it's in focus there we go we've got
some focus peaking which means just the
red outline here that lets you know
you're in focus and you can see we have
a macro shot so if we zoom in it's
actually pretty nice so it's nice to
have that as an option on the camera and
then also you have some really nice
video options as well
so if we go into the options here you
see we've got grid and things like that
let's see if we can go back let's go
back to photo or video here rather then
go back into options and you'll see for
the resolutions we have all the way up
to 8k but it recommends it for outdoor
use because it probably needs a lot of
light so I've set it to 4k 60 so that's
really nice it's got that option so
let's go ahead and see what it sounds
like we'll go ahead and hit record and
now we're recording from the red magic
5g so this is what it sounds like just
recording out of it it does seem to have
some odd focus issues from time to time
it doesn't seem like it's dual pixel
autofocus but this phone is fine for
most people as far as photos and video
but it's not going to be something like
an S 20 or a pixel for excel for photos
at least with this current version of
software so here's my video on the Nubia
red magic 3s let's go ahead and take a
listen to the speaker's quick and turn
them up they go nice and loud but they
do distort it high-end so it's pretty
good you've got a nice stereo sound as
well that's it for the Nubia red magic
5g let me know what you think about this
color and the phone in general in the
comments below for its price it's really
hard to be as far as what you get for
specs gaming you've got a fan you don't
have an IP rating really that's going to
protect it because you have open vents
and things but in general it's a solid
package for the price and you've got a
hundred and forty-four Hertz display
which is really impressive but again let
me know what you think in the comments
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