If gaming is your priority for a smartphone, the Nubia Redmagic 10 Pro is aimed precisely at you. This massive mobile gaming beast combines impressive performance with an expansive high-quality display and enough stamina to keep you playing for days on end. It even has a built-in fan to keep it cool, programmable buttons, and customizable gaming software. All this comes at a relatively affordable starting price of $649 (£579) for the 12 GB RAM and 256 GB storage model if you buy directly from Nubia. There is always a catch with aggressively priced phones. If you don’t mind the bulky, pocket-friendly angular design, you might not like the slightly janky software, inconsistent camera performance, or lack of wireless charging. But keep in mind that hardware like the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset here is generally only available in more expensive phones. Gamer ChicI tested the transparent RedMagic 10 Pro, which is called Nubia Moonlight, and it is a very nice industrial design with thick metal frame glass. you display some internals and RGB lighting that comes on when you play games. There are vents on either side of the frame with fans that seem to be designed to cool the processor. This can be useful for longer gaming sessions, but it doesn’t make any noise, and sometimes you can feel the warm air vents. and a shiny textured red switch that opens the game hub software by default. The rectangular profile and round power button remind me of Sony’s old Xperia design, but this is a larger phone and could prove difficult to fish out of a jean pocket. I’m talking about 6.5 inches high and 3 inches wide. The Redmagic 10 Pro is smooth and super slippery, and has slid off the table, chair, and leg several times over the past few weeks. Surprisingly, the Gorilla Glass finish remains unscathed until now, but I fear for its long-term survival. Probably best to use the clear case that comes in the box. With fan vents, limited water resistance is to be expected, and will not be dunk resistant. It is worth noting that the entry-level Nubia Redmagic 10 Pro is only available in black or opaque white (Shadow or Lightspeed), and you have to make more transparent models ($ 799), although you get the specs for 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. If you want a sci-fi gamer aesthetic, go for a transparent model. Supersize Me It’s a big brute, but the size of the Redmagic 10 Pro affords gamers two important advantages. First, there’s the stunning 6.85-inch AMOLED screen, with almost no bezels. It has a slightly odd resolution of 2,688 x 1,216 pixels, up to a 144-Hz refresh rate, and a peak brightness of up to 2,000 nits. It is ideal for gaming, watching movies, or browsing the web. There is a fairly responsive fingerprint sensor at the bottom and a front-facing camera on the screen up top. Another advantage of going big is the battery. The Redmagic 10 Pro has a massive 7,050-mAh battery, and it can last for days between charges, even with heavy usage. Now, you don’t get wireless charging, but there is a red USB-C cable and an 80-watt charger in the box, and you can charge the battery from empty in around 40 minutes. Nubia has been big on the performance front as well. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite can handle the latest mobile games and is supported by fast RAM (LPDDR5X) and storage (UFS 4.1). I played a mix of Diablo Immortal, 80 Days Around the World, and Asphalt 8 for hours on end on the Redmagic 10 Pro, and never broke a sweat, although the fan noise can be annoying when you’re working with that processor. Benchmark results are excellent across the board, and you’ll struggle to get that level of performance anywhere else without spending more. Compromises and Cons Perhaps the main compromise here is the camera. You can take good pictures with the main shooter of 50 megapixels in good light conditions with good detail, although it tends towards desaturated and unnatural colors and can struggle with very bright areas. The good sensor size and aperture allow for solid light shots, and it has optical image stabilization, although I found moving subjects often looked blurry. Unfortunately, the 50 megapixel ultrawide isn’t up to par (there are significant color differences), and it produces softer, more noisy images. The 2 megapixel macro lens is useless. Below the 16 megapixel screen, the selfie camera is OK for the odd selfie, but you need decent lighting, or you can expect lots of noise. There’s a Pro mode if you like to tinker, and various effects and filters in the camera app, although I’m not a fan of Nubia’s processing, and the portrait mode sometimes gets in the way of the edges of the subject when trying to apply that bokeh. blur.Nubia’s Red Magic OS is much better compared to the previous version, but I prefer Stock Android 15. Nubia’s Android skin is loud and frankly unpleasant. Everything is very big, and it is peppered with perplexing options you have to click to understand. There is too much useless bloatware, so I suggest cleaning it up and switching to the Google suite where you can. Thank you very much, this usually works, and you will also find Google Gemini onboard. One of the useful software features that stands out is the Nubia Game Space, where you can tweak and manage all sorts of settings to get the look and feel you want for the hardware, create configurations for different games, and delve into an impressive library of plug-ins. While the extra buttons are handy, I prefer pairing the Redmagic 10 Pro with a mobile game controller. One of the biggest cons of the Redmagic 10 Pro is Nubia’s disappointing update commitment: You’ll only get one Android version upgrade, two Redmagic OS updates, and three years security updates, which do not conform to the norm. guide. The most obvious competitor to the Nubia Redmagic 10 Pro is the Asus ROG Phone 9, and it has superior software, a better display, wireless charging, and an IP68 rating, but starts at $1,000. In the end, for the price, the Nubia Redmagic 10 Pro is probably the best display and performance combo that gamers can buy today.
