Red Magic 5S | Full Tour & Gaming Test By Tech Spurt

If you enjoy eviscerating, complete strangers and games like Call of Duty, mobile and PUBG. Then you might very well be interested in the fresh new red magic 5s. It's just started shipping these last couple of days for 579 us dollars from the global red magic website pack, some really premium specs and some great gaming features for that reasonable, asking price. So what I'm going to do is take you on a full on tour of all the hardware and the software here on the red, magic 5s and spend a lot of time gaming on this bad boy to see exactly whether it lives up to expectations and whether it's actually worth your hard-earned cash and from all the latest greatest tech. Please do poke subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers. I've got to say it's great.

First impressions, absolutely love what uh Nubia is doing with this snazzy comic style design here on the packaging, there's the actual red magic I'll, just pop that aside check. What's in the rest of the box inside the box, not looking quite as exciting as the outside got to see, it looks like. Basically, you get your adapter plug your USB type c, cable which, to be fair, gets top marks for being bright. Red you've got your bit quick, start guide action, and also it's good to see a bundled condom case as well. Just in case your problems get a bit sweaty during all that frantic gaming action, and you end up doing the worst and dropping the red magic 5s right.

So that's all the bollocks in the box. Now, let's actually check out the red magic now. The first thing that always amazes me when I pull a gaming smartphone out of the box, is the absolute weight of the thing. This is a 220 gram monster, so it does pack some proper heft. What you've got is glass front and back with a nice bit of metal engine just to break it up sandwiched in between the two, although that glass back and does actually have a lovely metallic style sheen to it.

As you can see there, it is a matte finish. So, hopefully the lack of gloss means you won't be covered in greasy stuffy horrible fingerprints. This here is the sonic silver models definitely looks very sleek and shiny, but you can also pick it in the rather eye popping in your face, pulse coloration as well, which, frankly, has to be seen to be believed. I've to see it, though I think this silver finish is rather smart. It's a bit more subtle, a little more restrained compared with usual game and smartphone designer, though it is kind of unmistakably a geocentric handset.

With the know, the random x uh Brandon, the angular camera lens, all these little bits of flare that you wouldn't get on your typical handset and regardless of whether you get the silver model or that slightly bonkers pulse version, you will of course get full RGB lighting on the back. I will show you that when we actually get the phone turned on speaking of which, let's actually do that now, assuming we've got some gas in the tank. Yes, we do oh, and immediately confronted with an enormous scroll and t's and c screen. That's always a good start, I'm just going to bunk my sim card inside, and it looks like basically uh. It's a reversible dual sim tray, so you can fit two sim cards in there at once, but no space for any micro, SD memory cards to expand the 128 or 256 gigs of onboard storage.

Now that you'd expect from a gaming smartphone, it is UFS, 3.1 storage, because it's going to be handling a lot of huge files and, as you can see, I've actually got an in-display fingerprint sensor here on the red magic 5s as well. So I'm just registering my print. Oh, that screen is going really, really bright, although it is also annoyingly low down the display as well. I always prefer when it's a little further up, it's a bit more comfortable to grow up for okay, we are all set up here. Is the red magic, 5s, locked and loaded and ready for action? As you can see here, it's actually quite a nice stock version of android that you get as with previous Nubia gaming smartphones as well, which I really, really like.

You don't have that really thick heavy overlay, which just like throws the game and stuff in your face straight away because as you'd hope and expect it. It's full on android 10 on here, so you've got all those great features like the dark mode which comes enabled by default. You've got the gesture navigation and everything too, which I'm actually trying to hunt down. Now, let's forget how uh very feature packed these menus. Are there you go? There's the Wii bugger a bit of full screen gesture action.

It's got plenty of other features you can play around with, like it's been always on display, which you can set. Let's get a bit of the time on the go. Let's do that one that'll do nicely when it comes to actually unlocking the smartphone as well. Of course, you've got that uh in display fingerprint sensor, which you just give a quick tap and, as you can see straight into your desktops, otherwise you also have a bit of face recognition on here as well. So let's just try that out.

Boom super swift, even faster than the fingerprint sensor and, of course, you've got a bunch of gaming features as well, which we'll touch on in a bit so for the visuals here. What you've got is a 6.65 inch, AMOLED display boss and a full HD plus resolution, that's 2340 by 1080, so you can pick up on those finer details. There certainly won't be any sneaky little creeping around in the bushes right in front of you, you'll be able to spot them and pop them right in the goddamn face. Those colors actually look quite realistic on the default settings. So it's quite handy if you are going to be editing, photos something like that on the side as well, you can boost up the vibrancy, so you can also change the color temperature things like that.

If you want, as you can see, there is actually a RGB modes again great for those creative moments. The flat design of the display is, of course, no surprise for a gaming device. It's really well suited for gaming. On the go. You don't have any of those uh controls sort of sloping off the edges of the screen, like you do on some of the more premium flagship phones that aren't geocentric and, of course, like most gaming smartphones, you do have an impressive bit of refresh rate action here.

It's actually on 90hz refresh rate by default. It's nice and silky smooth, but can dynamically change between 1960 has depended on what you're actually doing to preserve battery life? If it's not really needed, you can actually scale it all the way up to 144 hertz as well again, it'll be a dynamic refresh rate. If you don't really care about the battery life, if you just want insane smoothness, if you can see up there as well in the status bar it'll, actually tell you, which refresh rate you are currently set at, which is quite handy in case you bump it up all down and then forget about it. The screen certainly seems bright enough on that maximum level as well. It's around 600 nits that it hits, so you'll definitely be able to see what's going on, even when you're gaming outside as long as you're, not in like direct super crazy sunlight, which, frankly, here in the UK, is quite unlikely anytime soon, and the good news is well.

If you want to do away with controllers and just use. The touch controls is that you get a 240 hertz touch sampling rate, so basically, every spoken swipe will immediately register here on the red magic 5s. I'm also definitely a fan of the dual stereo speaker set up here on the red magic 5s, with the DTS ultra support as well, so that can help give you that stereo effect that you need when you're gaming, even if you're not using a pair of headphones. Of course, I do always recommend gaming with a pair of headphones, and you don't actually have a headphone jack built here in the top of the red magic 5s. Otherwise, you've got full Bluetooth, 5.1 support, and this is a bit of a question for you guys, there's something here in the audio settings called elephant voice Denise, which I've got. I mean that's a new one on me.

I got no idea what that even means. So, if you do know, definitely slap that down in the comments below please and sort of educate me on that and see it's the end of a very stressful day, you're ready to start murdering people online. What you'll need to do is find this little red switch here on the left edge. It does stand out quite a way with that lovely coloration, just push that upwards and what you'll do is enter the red magic gaming UI. This gives you fast access to all of your favorite mobile titles that you have installed and if you flick from the right edge of the screen, like, so you'll, open up a fresh new menu with loads of gaming related features, and that meant you can actually be dragged out at any point, while you're gaming alike.

So if you want to fast access any of those features on the fly. Definitely very handy indeed. Now, amongst these gaming features, is a performance boost at all, but that's not really needed here on the red magic 5s, thankfully, because what you got is the snapdragon 865 chipsets, backed by either 8 or 12 gigs of ram. I've got the more basic eight gigabyte model, so during all of my gaming sessions, I basically didn't touch that game enhancement tool. I just left it on the auto mode, so you do have the likes: the GPU turbo, the CPU turbo or the super performance.

If you really want them and sure enough that snapdragon 865 chipsets, backed by eight gigs of ddr5, ram, absolutely tore through PUBG mobile and college early on this maximum detail. Settings at a dependable, 60 frames per second, basically, never really fluctuating at all. You've got a perfect frame rate at all times, so you've got the edge over the competition and to keep the red magic 5s from getting too toasty. You've got the trinity coolant system. This is a combination of your traditional liquid coolant, plus an actual built-in fan made from aircraft grid.

Aluminum alloy, just like previous models of red magic. When this fan is in action, it does make a bit of noise, but it's certainly nothing offensive. Nothing like the jumbo jet taking off gales churned out by gaming laptops and when I left the coolant tech to get on with its job. It did the trick game bench recorded battery temperatures, leveling off around the sort of 35 to 36 degree mark, while the back of the handset only got slightly warm to the touch even after a couple of hours of non-stop gameplay, and if you really want to you, can even buy the optional eye stock which slaps onto the ass end of the red magic 5s and basically adds another whopping great fan to it. If you're just using the red magic 5s as you're kicking about a standard not really necessary.

But if you're going to be doing a lot of gaming with the phone plugged in then it is actually perfect. Not only will it help to keep the battery and everything cool while you're gaming and charging at the same time, but also it moves that charging port to the back end of the device. That means you've got cables. Trailing out the side of the phone, which will then get in the way of your hands and make gaming really awkward on the edge of the red magic.5S. You've also got two built-in shoulder trigger buttons, as well, with a 320 h, touch sampling rate, so there's no delay at all.

You can mount these to any on-screen controls and I found them absolutely invaluable in the likes of PUBG and in Call of Duty, of course, as well. If you're not going to be using the game pad you've also got some proper haptic feedback with them, so you get some proper rumble every time you use them perfect, there's also a 4d shock, haptic feedback option for PUBG and a couple of other titles as well, which gives you an extra bit of rumble again when you're, using those on screen controls and as usual. Yes, you do have the obligatory RGB lighting on the ascent of the red magic 5s, just like every other game and smartphone. Basically, but at least it's once again pretty subtle, just like the rest of the design, you do have limited control, unfortunately, over this led. So if you're hoping to get it to flash all kinds of different colors and in pretty patterns, then you're, basically out of luck, what you've got is either having it on full time, otherwise having it breathe like so now, Nubia has stuffed a 4 500 William battery inside the red magic 5s, which sounds pretty good, but it is actually smaller than a lot of other gaming smartphones out there, especially when you get into the likes of the rogue phone.

I found that a full charge would give me just under four hours of non-stop gaming on the likes of PUBG or Call of Duty with all of those settings turned to max, including a good bit of 144 hertz screen, refresh action and the red magic 5s charges at a rather poultry 18 watts, if you just use the bundle charger, but apparently it's capable of up to 55 watt charging if you spunk up a bit of extra cash for the optional fast charger and as for your connectivity, you've got a good bit of Wi-Fi six on board here, as well as full 5g support as well, so basically you're covered. If you want to do a good bit of online gaming, wherever you roam now, let's finish up with a quick squint at that camera tech and what you get slapped on. The back here is a triple n setup. It's a 64 megapixel primary lens using Sony's mix 686 sensors. You've also got an 8 megapixel ultra-wide angle lens and a 2 megapixel macro lens.

So when you're not killing strangers online and tea bagging their twitch and corpses, you can take lovely close-up pics of daffodils and frankly, the number of camera modes and different features packed into this thing is absolutely insane. You've got your standard photo mode. Of course. You've also got your pro photo. Mods you've got full control over basically absolutely everything you could possibly want.

This is dedicated night mode which basically takes lots of different shots of different exposures and then melds them all together and, of course, you've got the obligatory portrait mode, which just adds a nice bit of a both style background effect to really help your subject stand out. If you want to shoot video, the good news is, you can capture those whole movies at up to ultra HD 4k level at 60 frames per second, which is great to see, and you've also got a whole bunch of bonuses. Camera modes slapped on here as well, just too many to even fathom frankly, and so far from a quick play, gotta say really liking the results from this red magic 5s, not too surprising, given the IMAX 686 sensors slapped on there. But of course the software usually plays a big part in image quality as well, but yeah looking good even with something. You know fairly strong contrast and everything get some nice details packed in there, some nice realistic, looking tones and colors, and while that primary lens shoots in 16 megapixel resolution by default, you can actually bump it up to 64.

If you want that full finer detail and if you want to take a selfie, shoot yourself uh doing a bit of commentary on some games, something like that. You've got an eight megapixel front facing camera as well. So it's all fairly big, but hopefully should do the job nicely. When needed and right there, in a nutshell, is the red magic 5s. So it's not the most fully featured gaming smartphone out there, not the one packing the perfect performance or battery life, but you know what for value for money, definitely right up there, and it will satisfy anyone who wants to do a good bit Call of Duty pub g, anything like that on the move.

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