Red Magic 6R Review (In-Depth Honest Review) By TechTablets

Hi Chris here and only a few months ago, I did review the red magic 6. We now have the 6r version, so the r stands for racing, but this really essentially is a cut down model priced a little better and to be just offering still a similar kind of package. So we still have that snapdragon triple eight gigabytes of ram 128 gigabytes of UFS, 3.1 storage that my unit here has now. This is a review unit that was sent out to me in exchange for the video you're watching right now. But what about the cutbacks from this phone? So we still have an OLED screen or AMOLED screen, and it's a 144 hertz now not 165, but hey that difference does not matter at all. Very good touch, sampling rate of 360 hertz.

We have the gaming triggers they're. Still there 400 hertz happening rate on this battery capacity has been reduced now to 4200 million hours, 30 watt fast charging, and we miss out on a secondary loudspeaker. It's not present in this phone. So if you needed that, sadly, that has gone and there seems to be some cutbacks when it comes to the 5g frequencies, so I can't seem to get onto 5g at all. With this phone inside the box, you will find a type, a to type c, USB cable, a 3.5 millimeter to type c adapter. So no 3.5 millimeter support on this particular phone, a clear CPU case. Our charger is 20 watts maximum.

It does actually support the phone, though up to 65 a warranty card and a quick start guide. So we've got a less of a gamer look with this new phone here from rear magic. So the six are. The r stands for racing now slightly smaller screen here. This one is six point, six, seven inches.

It is an AMOLED screen, maximum brightness of measure to be about uh, 750 nits, and it can be made out in direct sunlight, so gone. Is that real gamer? Look to the previous that we had with the previous models? Okay? So it's more simplistic! Okay, there's just a few little things on here: the red magic logo there, but it looks a lot more basic, so this phone, the weight, is not too bad, so when it is under 200 grams, I'm pretty much happy with considering the size of the screen on this one, so it is 188 grams. According to my scales and you're, looking at approximately eight millimeters, the thickness of this one so gone on the left and right side are the intake and exit vents for the internal little fan. So no longer is it fan cooled. So we have a middle frame around the outside.

We've got a curvature to it right here, and you can see on this side. We've got the gaming trigger, so they are still here. The gaming triggers with the 4 000, hertz, megahertz, sorry, sampling rate and all made out of metal. Those buttons have a good feel to them and easy access to that power. Button too, when I'm holding it one-handed.

Now the fingerprint unlocking speed on this one very, very quick, and I have found it to be actually very good. This is, I would say, perfect. I've not had any issues. The accuracy is fine. I've only added my thumb just a single time to with this one.

So when the screen is off, you can see the front facing 16 megapixel camera. It's got that ring around it like what Samsung does and yeah. I wish they didn't do this. It would be just better to have this black, and it wouldn't stand out as much having the cut out there for the front facing camera. Speaking of cameras on the rear here, so we have an uh 64 megapixel sensor, just like the previous models, no real changes here, two megapixel depth, camera five megapixel macro and eight megapixel ultrawide, which is the weakest camera of the setup here with it.

So I wish they'd gone and just changed the cameras a little given us a better ultra-wide, perhaps put a better main camera on there, but no changes here from them at all. So down the bottom. We have just a single loudspeaker, so no more secondary loudspeaker. They used to be very powerful. They are in the roomy six series and even the five models.

So this is a disappointment that we've lost that, of course, no micro SD card support with the sim tray. Here it just supports dual NATO sims, the type c port. Thankfully we didn't lose this feature, so it does support display out, which is a cloning feature, and it's good to have in a gaming phone. But in a gaming phone I would love to have a 3.5, millimeter, headphone jack, it's just much more immersive and a lot better for games, especially like PUBG gaming, with a headset and well you're. Going to have to use Bluetooth, because we don't have that here with this phone.

So it's just a secondary mic up here and then some antenna lines overall build quality of this phone. I do like it, it is solid. It's fine, and I do like the fact that it is not so much of a standout gamer, look to it anymore, so the screen size with this one, it is 6.67 inches, and we're looking at a 144 hertz maximum, with this particular display with the refresh rate. Now it does have a very good touch response. It is a good screen, but it's a step-down from the red magic 6, which has a 165 hertz screen, but trust me you're not going to notice that difference such a minimal increase in the refresh rate.

You will not notice that at all so the UI, it is running red, magic's own UI, and you cannot, unfortunately, use a custom launcher with us. You can't just go and use if you decided to that hey. I want to run nova launcher on this you're not going to be able to do that now. No problems here with notifications, they're all showing up just fine. I place calls on this phone too, and I've had no issues and I haven't really had any problems with bugs I've had a couple of little UI glitches, but so far it has been quite smooth and very, very fast, so great performance as phone as you see later on from the synthetic benchmarks too.

So with the display we've got dark mode. Of course, you've got a lot of different options there for screen preferences. You can change all of this and tweak it to you how you like it, but what is missing is DC dimming, which would have been really nice now. The refresh rate I find a good balance is 90 hertz, I'm very fond of this, because it's the good and real perfect balance between battery life and a fluid UI. But of course you can force an override, 144 hertz.

There is, however, one thing that I've noticed with this phone, and that I'm only on 4g. I can only sing to get 4g. I can't get 4g plus now the previous mod. Furthermore, I reviewed the red magic 6 no troubles to get onto 5g. Furthermore, I simply cannot get onto 5g at my house in town.

It seems that we are missing out on some 5g bands there, and this could be a result of just using a different modem, or they're cost-cutting, and I don't like to see this, so they've gone to step backwards with many things here missing the loudspeaker missing the fan missing, uh the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, and that the bands too, as well with this particular model here now, just jump into gallery just go through a few of the tests that I normally do run in my reviews so charge time here for our battery capacity, which again is a little less actually than the previous model you're looking at from 10 to 100.49 minutes, that's not bad! I mean under an hour for me, is great in my books, not a problem there too. So here is our battery life. Now this was run at the display at 90 hertz, and I do think that getting 9 hours and 20 minutes almost there is actually okay, but for 90 minutes, but I do actually see 120 phones being able to achieve this result. Now real world you're, looking around seven hours, six to seven hours on screen time, that's at 90 hertz, but if you put it on to 120 or 144 hertz, then you are going to get about an hour less so do expect that wireless speeds. They are pretty much well average, not the fastest.

I have seen for Wi-Fi six. This is, and the minimum speed down there was okay, but I would like to see better here. We have GPS, and it sees a lot of satellites because it does support the dual carrier. Frequency and the accuracy will not go any better than three meters, of course, being a Qualcomm chipset very good average signal strength, which is another important one there, and it did seem to follow me around just fine camera two API support level. Three maximum support, so look out for some Guam ports to improve the quality of the photography and even possibly video quality.

So it does have a security level, one here for DRM and that's wide vine level, one cert, so that again, is something we do want to see wildlife score. So this is a very, very good score here. Thanks to that, snapdragon triple eight 35 average is just like other phones that have the same chipset to that I have tested out and two. This is now version. Nine, a newer version perfect score here.

Of course, this is just a short burst, benchmark, gaming's, a different story which I will get onto shortly: internal storage speed, so UFS, 3.1, very, very good. Here I mean look at that random write score. That is right up there, 315 megabytes per second and excellent, sequential reads and writes so not holding me up there at all. I am on the latest firmware, so this is the android 11 and red magic OS version 4, and I do have the 8 gigabyte version with 128 gigabytes of storage and on first boot you get around about 108 gigabytes free, so, sadly, we're missing out on the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and the secondary loudspeaker earpiece that we had on the previous models. So it sounds okay, I mean it's loud.

It's fine for a loudspeaker, just that uh. I wish they didn't do this move here now the 3.5 millimeter to type c adapter, the quality is fine. Loudness is good, I would rate it as average. It certainly doesn't sound the best to me. I've heard better with other manufacturers, so I'm going to play a short clip here now of the speaker at 100 volume.

Now the gaming performance is exactly what you'd expect for a snapdragon triple eight, with eight gigabytes of ram pub g. This does allow me to run the extreme frame rate here under the graphics settings. Okay, and you can run that with HD balance or smooth extreme and overall, very, very smooth here, looking around absolutely no problems, this performance. Now, when you do play for about an hour, I have noticed that the longer you play, of course it's going to get quite hot now this phone will actually get up to about 50 degrees on the back, and I do find that it's quite hot now I've seen this with a lot of snapdragon triple eight phones uh over the months now I've been reviewing them, so it's a very hot chipset and the performance. Yes, it is perfect, but just be prepared for it to get quite hot and that 50 degrees Celsius, that's without the case on so with it on.

It is going to probably get even uh, two or three degrees hotter than that. So, like the other phones, we've got game space here. So this is where you can have a hub, but we used to have the switch to get into the game space, and that was a little easier to turn it on and off. Now it is simply done via toggles here. So when you swipe down from the top, you can turn it on or off now I have noticed that sometimes it is a little uh.

This is where I call up the glitches with an UI and a few little bugs that sometimes when you're running it, or you're in a game or an application stuff, I just try and launch here and tutu uh that it can sometimes be quite slow to respond and other times you get like stuck in the application. You can't even get out of it, because when you try to trigger the gestures that then will bring up uh our game mode here, the toggle. So you can change then, on the fly, the refresh rate, everything else which is great, and then you can go back to try and get out of it, but a lot of times that back it's working now, but a couple of times when it is auto, detecting the game mode, you get stuck in it, and you can't even go back. You can't get back here into the game, space and swiping from the top to disable it. So it's actually behaving itself at the moment and working okay, but certainly some firmware updates are needed from red magic to really improve the overall UI experience, and I'll show you how to set up those gaming triggers which are at the top, and they're very good to use, especially in a game like this, like Call of Duty or pub g, which this game of course right here so swiping.

Here from this side, you can bring up again that menu, and you've got shoulder triggers. I have that enabled, so we need to do is just drag the overlay for the left and right triggers to where you want it to be so, for example, I want the right trigger to look down the sights and left to shoot. You can adjust the sensitivity. You've got the vibration there, so the haptic motor in this particular phone isn't too bad. I mean it's a reasonable kind of strength, so then I'll just close that it has saved that, and this is per game setting.

Okay, so we'll save it for the games and then now I can just simply tap here so watch when I tap the right look down the sights and to fire. This is very, very easy and really quick to do it and of course it does have that high sample rate of 400 megahertz, meaning it's very, very quick to respond, and I do find it's great for a game like this and moving over to the camera performance here. So first up video with the red magic, 6r vlog footage with the front-facing camera. Sadly, as you can see, it shakes around all over the place, and it does not have any electronic image stabilization 1080p a maximum, so you can't shoot 4k, which I think flagship should definitely have 4k. So as I walk ahead, it shakes all over the place.

You really do need a gimbals now stepping into the sun that the exposure changes here with the automatic exposure don't seem to be too bad and moving around you're not going to see any rolling shutter or anything like that, because it's not using electronic image stabilization and the rear camera, you can shoot all the way up to 8k. So what you're looking at right now is 4k 30. Just like my timeline, it has electronic image stabilization. So as I walk ahead, it's well reasonably steady, but it's certainly not the best. I have seen now.

The weakness really of this phone is probably the cameras. I mean they're, not the best out there. Are they the same as other flagships? No, it does fall behind a little on that. So a quick little jog ahead, just testing out that stabilization, and you can see it's okay. It's definitely doing something now this camera, the 64 megapixel one here- does not have any optical image stabilization, it's all electronic.

What about stills? So this one on my cat Vera, it's quite detailed. It's not a bad photo at all, portraits, often look very soft. Now I turned off beautifying, but you can clearly see it's still applying a little there and the saturation just well over saturated. As you can see it's from these photos. That now is the ultra-wide, which is itbeing okay, the 8 megapixel ultra-wide, but it still doesn't capture a lot of detail.

This has a lot of clipping indoor photo here as well. Is okay, not too bad? Considering it's artificial lighting, the ultrawide again isn't bad here, uh it just lacks a little of detail. That's all and low light performance is well not really that good at all. They definitely need to improve the cameras red magic. So this phone is it the one to go for, or should you get the red magic 6? I would actually get the red magic 6 and because this phone is just missing out on, I think some essential things now the rear magic 6 does have the fan in there.

Now a lot of people think, ah the fan's a bit of a gimmick. It actually does push out a bit of hot air. It does lower temperatures down a little. Furthermore, it does something okay, so it's worthwhile to go for now the difference between 144, hertz and 165 trust me. You will not see this difference at all.

This still has a very good screen. It's a superfast phone snapdragon triple eight UI is blazing fast. However, no secondary loudspeaker, hmm, okay and there's no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, which would have been great to have on a gaming phone. It does tick one of the boxes, though, that is a must for me on a gaming phone, and that is display out. So there's display out support with this one, but I'm missing out then again on some 5g bands.

The UI has a few bugs in here, especially when it comes to the gaming mode. So to me, it's kind of a little disappointing and a bit of a puzzling release like why on earth did they release this just keep with the red magic six. It doesn't look like a game of phone anymore, which, for some people are a positive for others is going to be a con. Maybe you want that actual gamer look to it and, yes, the triggers are good and great to see they did not remove the gaming triggers. I really love them, especially in games like pub g or Call of Duty.

Those triggers do come in very handy once you get used to them. I really do prefer that over using touch the triggers to just so much quicker reaction times. For me, that is at least so. Thank you so much for watching my review here of the red magic 6r. I can't actually recommend it.

I would get the red magic 6 if you're into your gaming phones, so do subscribe and like of course, if you like this video- and I will catch you in the next one.

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