[Review] REDMAGIC 7S Pro gaming phone features, performance

I’ve been itching to get my arms on a gaming cellphone for some time now, ever since I acquired extra severe with gaming.

Previous to the pandemic, I wasn’t actually keen on immersing myself in digital worlds, however as soon as I used to be caught at residence, unable to exit and about, the fantasy worlds of RPGs started to look mighty attractive.

It simply so occurred that Genshin Affect had simply launched across the identical time, and for the sake of content material, I attempted it. Then I by no means stopped, taking part in it ever since.

Enjoying it on cell is sort of painful although, as I didn’t have a tool that would deal with it effectively. So, I truly ended up investing in a gaming laptop computer simply to play Genshin Affect, and I’ve not regretted the acquisition as soon as.

Nevertheless, it’s not precisely probably the most transportable of gadgets, that means that I might solely play it once I had a desk and chair, and admittedly, I’d typically get too lazy to set it up and don’t play in any respect.

With the 18GB+512GB REDMAGIC 7S Professional in Supernova now in my arms although, life could possibly be totally different.

Wonderful efficiency & lasting energy

I like my Samsung Galaxy S20, don’t get me fallacious, however boy, does it wrestle to run Genshin Affect, even on milder settings.

Loading occasions are extraordinarily sluggish and even simply shifting my digicam is laggy, so the benefit of fight doesn’t even must be talked about.

So, all these occasions that I believed I simply hated cell gaming on the whole wasn’t as a result of my cellphone was too small or that the controls simply didn’t work effectively—it was as a result of I wasn’t gaming on a tool made for it.

Performing completely on the opposite finish of the spectrum is the 7S Professional, with its Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor and nubia’s built-in Crimson Core 1 devoted gaming chip.

Loading into my recreation? Quick. Graphics on overclocked settings? Clean and lovely. Gameplay? Flawless.

All of the sudden I wasn’t dying each couple of minutes, I might truly sustain in fights and with my teammates, and I didn’t wish to off myself resulting from misclicking a capability.

It was truly enjoyable to recreation on the 7S Professional, even with different apps working within the background. However with in the present day’s cell gaming know-how, how spectacular is that this actually? Shouldn’t this be the usual for each cell gaming machine?

I don’t have any prior expertise with gaming telephones, thus I lack a correct comparability for the 7S Professional’s efficiency. 

So, maybe the place I’d say it actually stands out to me is in its lasting energy. 

First off, it’s acquired a monster battery of 5,000mAh, and its dimension does matter. 

One time, I performed YouTube movies continuous aws background noise within the workplace from about 11AM to almost 8PM, and by the top of the day, its battery had dropped from 100% to only under 30%, and I didn’t recharge it as soon as all through.

hour of continuous high-performance gaming (I’m speaking overclocked in-game settings, the Snapdragon Adreno GPU set to “Excessive High quality”, and the cellphone’s refresh fee at 90Hz, amongst different issues) would carry it down by about 20% on common.

In comparison with my previous cell gaming experiences on common flagship telephones, it is a main improve. 

I’m additionally used to feeling most telephones warmth up close to their digicam housing even earlier than hitting the one-hour mark into gameplay, however the 7S Professional stored its cool even as much as three hours in, with out breaks.

That is doubtless because of its multidimensional cooling system developed by nubia. You’ll be able to manually activate the fan or by tweaking the settings in Sport House, a gaming and efficiency dashboard activated by a purple button to the left of the cellphone.

In Sport House, you possibly can select which apps you’d like so as to add in, and this lets you monitor the utilization of every app, its file dimension, the kinds of efficiency settings you’d wish to run it on, and an added app will robotically set off the cooling fan when you open the app.

Surprisingly, although you possibly can hear the cooling fan, it’s not loud sufficient to be irritating, even after a couple of hours.

One other option to reduce down on the warmth buildup (if any) is to activate the cellphone’s cost separation setting.

This implies you possibly can recreation whereas charging simply the cellphone, not its battery, for those who’re gaming for lengthy intervals of time. It is perhaps kinder to the cellphone’s battery in the long term too.

Taking the battery from 0 to 100% spans nearly one hour, utilizing the cellphone’s 65W charger that comes within the field.

A UI that’s… usable, however could possibly be a lot, a lot better

Whereas utilizing the cellphone, each my colleagues and I got here throughout quite humorous dialogue containers from the UI.

We surmised that this was doubtless only a unhealthy translation job, and as unhealthy because the English translation can typically get, it doesn’t get to the purpose of being unusable. Possibly just a bit complicated at occasions.

Aesthetics-wise, the UI feels quite rudimentary too, however I fairly like how detailed the pull-down mini-settings menu could be.

From there, I can instantly activate the Splitscreen and Free Window options for multi-tasking, toggle Darkish Mode, swap my refresh fee to 60Hz, 90Hz, or 120Hz, and extra.

A short have a look at the cameras

Do nice cameras matter to players? If the reply is sure for streaming with a face digicam, then sadly, the 7S Professional’s 16MP under-display digicam shouldn’t be it.

For some cause, it feels extra like a 5MP one although, in all probability to not any fault of the lens, however to the under-display nature of it.

On the again although, the 64 MP primary digicam, 8 MP ultra-wide digicam, and 2MP macro cameras fared higher.

With a nonetheless topic and first rate lighting, pictures come out trying good by common requirements, which is nice information for these seeking to make the 7S Professional their day by day driver.

I really feel just like the Portrait mode is first rate too, although the unreal software program blurring can get a bit a lot. The Professional mode after all allows customers to train extra creativity with their pictures.

The decision

If you may get previous the oddly-translated and rudimentary-looking UI of the 7S Professional, at its core, it’s a nice machine to make use of as a day by day driver.

Admittedly, the cellphone’s again is just a little loud, however I’d nonetheless contemplate it tame for a gaming cellphone. It doesn’t attempt too exhausting, with only a matte, patterned column working vertically throughout a see-through, tinted again.

To the highest left of the digicam housing is the cooling fan full with RGB lighting so that you don’t overlook it’s truly a gaming cellphone, however actually, I received’t be embarrassed to indicate up in a enterprise assembly with this.

Being that that is my first expertise with a gaming cellphone, color me impressed, and I can’t wait to check out different new gaming telephones so I can widen my scope of understanding on this house.

The REDMAGIC 7S Professional is now accessible for buy in Malaysia and Singapore.

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