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 in the event you purchase direct from Nubia.
There’s at all times a catch with aggressively priced telephones. Assuming you don’t thoughts the large, angular design, which isn’t very pocket-friendly, you might balk on the barely janky software program, the inconsistent digital camera efficiency, or the shortage of wi-fi charging. However keep in mind that {hardware} just like the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset right here is usually solely out there in far dearer telephones.
Gamer Stylish
I examined the clear RedMagic 10 Professional, which Nubia calls Moonlight, and it’s an eye catching industrial design with thick steel framing glass that affords you a view of some internals and RGB lighting that involves life whenever you play video games. There are vents on both aspect of the body with a visual fan designed to maintain the processor cool. This may be helpful for longer gaming classes, nevertheless it does make some noise, and you’ll generally really feel the nice and cozy air venting.
Nubia has included customizable capacitive-touch shoulder triggers on the highest edges whenever you maintain the Redmagic 10 Professional in panorama orientation, and a shiny textured crimson 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 might show tough to fish out of a jean pocket. I’m speaking 6.5 inches tall and three inches large.
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The Redmagic 10 Professional is clean and tremendous slippery, and has slid off tables, chairs, and my leg a number of instances over the previous couple of weeks. Surprisingly, the Gorilla Glass end stays unscathed up to now, however I worry for its long-term survival. In all probability greatest 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 value noting that the entry-level Nubia Redmagic 10 Professional is simply out there in opaque black or white (Shadow or Lightspeed), and you must 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. In the event you crave the sci-fi gamer aesthetic, stretch for the clear mannequin.
Supersize Me
{Photograph}: Simon Hill
It’s an enormous brute, however the measurement of the Redmagic 10 Professional affords avid gamers two necessary benefits. First, there’s an unbroken, nearly bezel-free 6.85-inch AMOLED display screen that’s merely pretty. It has a barely odd decision of two,688 x 1,216 pixels, as much as a 144-Hz refresh price, and brightness peaks of as much as 2,000 nits. It’s preferrred for gaming, watching films, or internet searching. There’s a fairly responsive fingerprint sensor on the backside and a front-facing digital camera underneath the display screen up high.
