RedMagic 6 unboxing and first impressions By Neowin

Hi everyone- this is Roy Edwin, and this is the world's first phone, with 165 hertz refresh rate for the display, yeah red magic recently launched or announced, I should say the red magic 6 series, which includes the six and the six pro- and this is the one I got is the six. There are some differences that I'll get to in a bit, but they are the world's first phones, both of them with 165hz refreshment display. They have the snapdragon triple eight the have 12 gigabytes of ram or 16 in the case of the pro and gigabytes of storage or 256 in the case of the pro. So these are obviously very high-end phones, they're made for gaming. I've done a bunch of rad magic reviews, so you're already familiar with all of that, and I'm weirdly excited about this one more so than usual. I mean I'm always excited about something about products.

I'm sure you've noticed. Furthermore, I say that a lot, but I've I've been really yearning to start use this, but I have to wait for the review for the hands-on video before I could actually get fully into it. So, let's open up the box and right away the phone is here in this plastic wrapping, so we're just going to go ahead and take that out there. I want to take a look at the content of the box, because there are some upgrades here compared to previous generations. So just a quick look here this box here that contains the manuals also contains a case, but not for me.

I guess they didn't want to send me one because it's just a review unit, but I almost always end up dropping these phones, so I kind of wish I got a case, but in the return packaging there will be a case. So that's fine, but what's really cool about this is that here this is the charging brick and by the way mine is an American one, even though I'm in Portugal, but that's fine, I can get an adapter, but the thing is um. This is a 30 watt, charging, brake and up until now, even though the red magic, 5g and 5s supported 55 watt charging, you need to buy it separately, and it came only with an 18 watt charger in the box. So it was fine, but 18 watts isn't really impressive anymore. So now it comes with a 30 watt charger, which is way cooler and also this uses USB type-c, which is not super common just yet in phones, so a type c adapter here and of course that means the cable is type c to type c, so that will work with a bunch of things, because type c is more and more everywhere.

Now so that's pretty cool. I'm really glad you're moving towards that standardization. So this is really nice, and you still get the charging brick which not every phone can say nowadays um so about the phone, we'll just slide it out of the sleeve here and there it is, so we'll take a closer look at the design uh once I switch cameras, but this is eclipse pack, it's the camera, that's available for the red magic six. If you get the pro it's in moon silver and the big difference here, aside from the camera itself, is that this little air? Well, I don't know- but this area here that you can kind of tell- is a little different from it's, not the full frame, but there's this area. That's that I'm saying on different on the six pro instead of glass, which is what it is here on a six pro.

It's actually a momentum and that should have dissipated heat from the phone. That's the goal unleashed. So I kind of wish I got to try that, but this is still pretty, pretty nice, and they brought back RGB which wasn't in the 5s, but we'll get to that in a little. I'll show you the phone more, of course, once we switch cameras, so um pass it off to off camera me, okay. So let's take a closer look at the red magic uh six here so going and looking at the back, the design is definitely very similar to what red magic has done in the past uh.

What I was saying before about the six pro it's this whole area here, uh around this, this part on the six pro that won't be aluminum to um dissipate heat, but it'll still have a little of glass around it. So it's uh an interesting mix of materials they're using there that I wish I got to see but well. This is what I got so there are some changes here: camera module. Now is this venting and looking thing it's got the same very similar setup, so 64 megapixels, primary camera, eight megapixel ultrawide and a two megapixel macro. The flash for the camera is now in this little triangle here, which I think is a really cool way of integrating it with the design of the phone uh.

The red magic over here still lights up in red. These little strips here on the side are RGB, so, instead of being on the red magic name. Now they have these two little strips here, which is pretty cool uh and going around the phone uh there's flat edges that I think really give it a better grip when trying to use the phone. I really appreciate that, and also the power button here now seems to be further up, because the display is bigger. It's 6.8 inches now, and I think the phone is bigger, so they were able to push things as far up as possible, and it just feels so much better here. I always complain about how this is too low, and it's not comfortable in previous red magic phones.

But here it's awesome. It's in a perfect position for my thumb to press it. So this is really, really good. And yes, there is an air experiment here. An air intake vent here and the fan now goes up to 20 000 rotations per minute, and they promised a 500 percent increase in the air transfer.

Air heat transfer coefficient. So it should really help uh keep the CPU much cooler. Now, there's a homecoming system with a vapor chamber and a graphite sheet. I think so it's a whole thing. That's really meant to keep you gaming for longer and keep the phone as cool as possible, even more so on the 6 pro because of that aluminum backplate.

So that is pretty much the design uh, of course, volume rocker on this side lots of antenna bands- you still have that game mode button here. So if you slide it up, you don't go into game mode and turn on the fan right away. But we'll take a look at that in a bit done right now, uh here we have the headphone jack a rare sight these days, but it's still here and on the bottom, USB type c port for charging and the spray out. But if you have the right magic, adapter or some other dock bottom firing, speaker sim card, smart microphone and here front facing camera, an earpiece that doubles as a second speaker for stereo, sound uh. That is pretty much it in terms of the design the display, like, I said, 6.8 inches 2400 by 1080p. So yes, it's not quad HD, but this has always been fine to me uh.

I think this is pretty cool one. The fact that you get a 165 hertz refresh rate. That is just awesome. So that's what it's set to, of course, you're not going to really see that on video, because I can only record at 60 frames per second, but it's super, super smooth, very nice. So lets the software here is android 11.

, it's running red magic, OS 4.0, which is very, very similar to the previous version. It really hasn't changed that much uh. There are some things I dislike like how this near page is just information. There's no setting here. It's just telling you think I wish this was like in an about section just for this, but whatever nice strip settings for the RGB light cooling fan settings, so you can have it on even without game mode.

But why would you do that? Uh, an example of the awful translations in this phone uh enter the game, space and open if automatically uh? If you don't know what that means, then what this is pretty much the same as before, still some pretty bad transmissions, but the software is okay, uh. One thing that I really hate is that the power menu has gone bonkers right now, and this wasn't like this when I first set up the phone, but then I risked restore the backup from a different phone and this thing went crazy, so I think uh, red magic phones really don't like being restored from backup. So if you buy, this you'll probably want to set it up as a new phone and some apps from scratch, because there 's always seems to be some problem when I restore a backup. So don't do that so yeah, let's just go ahead now and turn on the game mode here and take a look at that uh. This is the big draw of this phone.

Is the whole game? Stick? So you get these two? I only have two games. You get this interface where you can see all your games, you can change it. If this is too fancy, you can have it like this, or you can just have it as a list. So nothing is they don't force it to use this. I just kind of actually like how that looks.

Can turn the fan on or off from here or the RGB lights which, by the way, are on right now? So if I turn the phone around, you can see it light up in different colors, I'm using a gradient right now, but there are options for a song with colors or other gradients. They used to give you more options with the red magic, 3 and 3s, so I kind of wish they did that it feels much more limiting the way they're doing it now. But it's whatever there's a bunch of settings here that you can do stuff related to game. Recording uh. You can lock the brightness, so it doesn't change around your gaming if it's something that distracts you or prevent network changes and stuff like that, so that is all very pretty cool.

So this thing that appears when I swipe in from the right. This is also pretty cool um, but it's more useful when you're in a game. So if I launch a game, this is always there and in game mode you, you can't just go back to your home screen, so you have to slide the trigger down again to do that, so this is going to be the default. When you swipe from the bottom here- and you have all these options, you can adjust the refresh rate for shooters. You can create an aiming radical for aiming so if, if the game itself doesn't have one, you can have it there, so you always know what you're aiming at that's pretty cool.

You can record the gameplay, you can take screenshots and all that, and you can also turn off the fan, so this is always accessible. Furthermore, you also have these shortcuts for apps, which I don't think this is new, but before it only supported WhatsApp. So now there's a bunch of apps that are supported, including telegram, which is my favorite. So I'm really glad that's there um, and it's the interface is way better. I don't think it looked like this before, so this is really cool um and my favorite thing here: let's just close this uh.

Okay, no, no, this game enhancement thing helps you improve the performance or two in the performance. So if you're using the GPU more, you can focus on that or if you really need to you, can go into super performance mode and max out everything. But I don't just leave it at auto. You can change the way that the converse looks, so there are these options here for the display of them look um for games, so that sounds pretty cool. Why is there a default and an auto I feel like auto should be to the phone right, and then you can.

You use the gyroscope for certain controls, which I guess depends on the game, and it can't be here, but that's new that wasn't there before. But my favorite thing about this game is the show the phone is the shoulder triggers. So here on the side, you can barely see them, which is why I didn't even mention them um. But we have these two shoulder triggers here, and these are touch sensitive. They have a 400 hertz response rate and when you tap them, you don't see them activate there.

On the screen you can make it so that they activate in any area of the screen, so they always do that action. So this is especially useful for games like uh pub g or something, or you want to aim and shoot. This is probably the best use case for that, but I actually really like using it in as font as well, so I just do it so that one button uh boosts and the other drifts. So I can. I can try to play here uh, and we don't race, so the race is starting and here's what I why I like, because these you see the buttons there for tapping, but now I can just do this, and I never have to obstruct my view of the game, and I can do all of this stuff just with the triggers- and I think this does make it way easier to play, and it's just so much more immersive too, to be able to see the game, because this, this huge display really warrants um, really helps with that immersion, and now that I don't have to cover up the screen.

It's just. It looks so much cooler this way, and this is my favorite feature, and they've actually upgraded it in this version of in this phone. Because now not only can you do single taps like I was doing, but you can do it so that when you tap the one of the shoulder triggers, it does two actions and what it does is that now, when I, when I press the button, even though it doesn't show here in the UI, it will do both of these actions at the same time. So if there's something where you need to touch two areas at the same time, for some reason you can do it, you can do it with a shoulder trigger and have those two actions at the same time, or you have this app option here, where it has different actions for pressing and lifting the finger from the sensor, and I think this is super useful for something like a shooter. So for me, if I was playing PUBG, I would have it so that when I press here it won't shoot and then, when I lift it, don't reload my weapon automatically.

So that way, I'm almost at ammo- and I don't have to think about it. I think that's a pretty valid use case, but I'm not really a very good pub g player. So I could be wrong about that uh. But you know you can have these actions where it just does more with a single button. That's pretty cool and of course you can also record macros and uh it.

When you touch it, it will do the whole thing. So that's also pretty darn cool oops. Okay. There was a thing that when the macro menu was open, the triggers responded when I wasn't um in the game, but whatever uh. So there's a lot of options there with the triggers- and I think, that's also very, very cool, so the gaming features here are really one of the highlights.

There are some things I don't really like about the software, but either way I'm very interested in reviewing this phone. I've been really wanting to start using it for a while. So I'm excited to do that I'll, just pass it off to on cameramen to wrap things up all right, just to wrap things up. We so the red magic 6 will be available for pre-order on April 9th. So it's not yet uh.

Just a couple more specs that I forgot to mention. It has a 5050 William hour battery, so they went back to that really large size, and I'm really interested to see how long that will last me, because I love phones. That last me two days. I'm sure just that's awesome and this phone starts at 5.99, which I think is actually a fair price. So that starts at 20 more than the previous version started, but you get a bigger battery again, you have a higher refresh rate display, and again it's the or the first one in the world.

It's 165 hertz. They increased the ram for the base version. So this is now as 12 gigabytes. Instead of eight, it used to be eight for the base version, and you get a 30 watt charger in the box now, so you get a lot of little upgrades there that I think twenty dollars is a fair upgrade, a fair increase in price. So you get a lot of little upgrades like that I think really helped justify that price.

Also, the display has this technology called chip uh, which is promising to use like up to 45 percent less power. I think that's what they said so uh that should really help the phone last even longer on the charge, and I'm just really interested to see all those benefits in action and if, if they do all come together nicely, I think that 20 dollar increase is more than justified um and I want to mention as well. The vibration motor seems way better than before, because in previous red magic phones, that was always something I complained about. It was really loose. I guess maybe that's the right word.

It just didn't feel that great, and now it really does- or at least so far in the haptic feedback feels way better than it has in past phones. So I'm really interested to see all of that come together and- and I think it will probably justify that price increase. But anyway, thank you for watching, and I'll see you guys next time.

Source : Neowin