Nubia Redmagic 10 Pro Review: Value for Gamers Leave a comment

If gaming is your precedence for a smartphone, the Nubia Redmagic 10 Professional is aimed squarely at you. This huge cell gaming beast combines spectacular efficiency with an expansive high-quality show and sufficient stamina to maintain you gaming for days. It even has a built-in fan to maintain cool, programmable buttons, and extremely customizable gaming software program. All of this comes at a comparatively reasonably priced beginning worth of $649 (£579) for the 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage mannequin for those who purchase direct from Nubia.

There’s all the time a catch with aggressively priced telephones. Assuming you don’t thoughts the large, angular design, which isn’t very pocket-friendly, chances are you’ll balk on the barely janky software program, the inconsistent digicam efficiency, or the dearth of wi-fi charging. However do not forget that {hardware} just like the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset right here is mostly solely accessible in far dearer telephones.

Gamer Stylish

I examined the clear RedMagic 10 Professional, which Nubia calls Moonlight, and it’s an attention-grabbing industrial design with thick metallic framing glass that affords you a view of some internals and RGB lighting that involves life if you play video games. There are vents on both facet of the body with a visual fan designed to maintain the processor cool. This may be helpful for longer gaming classes, however it does make some noise, and you may typically really feel the nice and cozy air venting.

Nubia has included customizable capacitive-touch shoulder triggers on the highest edges if you maintain the Redmagic 10 Professional in panorama orientation, and a shiny textured pink swap that launches the gaming hub software program by default. The oblong profile and spherical energy button remind me of Sony’s previous Xperia design, however it is a a lot larger telephone and may show difficult to fish out of a jean pocket. I’m speaking 6.5 inches tall and three inches huge.

The Redmagic 10 Professional is easy and tremendous slippery, and has slid off tables, chairs, and my leg a number of occasions over the previous couple of weeks. Surprisingly, the Gorilla Glass end stays unscathed to this point, however I worry for its long-term survival. Most likely finest to make use of the clear case that comes within the field. With fan vents, restricted water resistance is to be anticipated, and it gained’t survive a dunk.

It’s price noting that the entry-level Nubia Redmagic 10 Professional is barely accessible in opaque black or white (Shadow or Lightspeed), and you need to shell out extra for the clear fashions ($799), although you do get a spec bump to 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. For those who crave the sci-fi gamer aesthetic, stretch for the clear mannequin.

Supersize Me

{Photograph}: Simon Hill

It’s an enormous brute, however the dimension of the Redmagic 10 Professional affords avid gamers two essential benefits. First, there’s an unbroken, nearly bezel-free 6.85-inch AMOLED display that’s merely beautiful. It has a barely odd decision of two,688 x 1,216 pixels, as much as a 144-Hz refresh fee, and brightness peaks of as much as 2,000 nits. It’s perfect for gaming, watching motion pictures, or net looking. There’s a fairly responsive fingerprint sensor on the backside and a front-facing digicam underneath the display up high.