Nubia Red Magic 3 unboxing & first impressions By Tech Advisor

Hi everyone- this is DOM from tech advisor, and I'm here with another new phone to unbox. This one is the Nubia red magic 3, the latest gaming phone from the Chinese company, Nubia and yeah. Let's get a look at it, it's pretty ridiculous from what I've seen online I'm quite excited to see this thing in the flesh. So new viewers are you, you might sort of know the red magic gaming phone line. I think we review the red magic Mars. Not that long ago my colleague Lewis had a look at it and I also looked recently at the newbie alpha, which is the sort of flexible like ND, Smartwatch phone hybrid thing, with a flexible screen, which is very cool, so a lot of their phones are kind of wild a little interesting.

This is no exception, though it's kind of familiar, if you know the red magic line already, so we've got our nice moody, black and red box, very gamer, aesthetic as you'd expect, and there we go straight to it. Let's get it out so here we have the red magic 3. Let's peel that off. If it wants to peel give it a bit more fight than normal yeah, ok here we have the red magic 3 in all of its absolutely ridiculous glory. Yes, so this is an in the black finish.

As you can see, it's also available in red. It's sort of full red body and I. Think there's like I, said a gray camo version, which is pretty nifty. We've also got I mean it's actually not as thick as I thought. It was gonna, be the phone's got a lot of oomph in it, and also a lot of cooling oomph in it which I was worried, was going to make it really substantial and really chunky.

It's actually not. You can maybe see it just sort of like lifts a bit here, there's a sort of angle them two the back. So that's a bit. It is a bit thicker in the middle, but overall it actually doesn't feel like a giant phone. So yeah we've got all this sort of gamer II red detailing stuff on the back, diamond-shaped fingerprint scanner.

You know a little different and that is the single rear camera. So obviously they haven't gone sort of big set of camera lenses. The focus here is on gaming stuff, rather than on photos and camera, but still that camera is a 48 megapixel sensor, so it should do fairly well, even on its own, and they actually say it couldn't shoot 8k video, which is pretty nuts well, so we got right, headphone jack or is nice, especially for a gaming phone I. Think that's one area you, you really do need to have a headphone jack. If you want to go gaming phone, oh yeah, we'll get to these parent volunteer buttons or see if I can show them off in a bit, but these are designed for when you're, actually gaming, and you have they aren't- they are basically they're- not actually buttons they're sort of touch sensitive pads, so they can essentially act as shoulder buttons like you'd get on the game controller and then just getting down here.

Yeah, we've got USB-C port, you'll notice, there's a speaker grille here on the bottom of the phone and one on the top. So it's actually dual front-facing stereo speakers. Again, that's a big focus for gaming stuff. The expectation is, if you're gaming on your phone, you might want very good sound being blasted at you if you're not wearing headphones, also having them on the front helps because you're less likely to sort of block the speaker's with your hand while you're holding it. If you hold it like that, most of the speaker is still going to be uncovered.

Yeah I, think that yeah and that this is a sort of another hardware to alter like enter like the gaming mode of the phone. Basically and then this is for, if you want to attach controllers and stuff like that, I believe it doesn't come with one and are there in some gaming phones that sort of ship with controllers and stuff in the box. This doesn't come with one, which is part of why they've sort of put these buttons on, but I think that's so that you have the option of attaching one if you would still want we'll get into the rest of the box before I dive into the phone. So right we're charging cable! Very OnePlus that doesn't want to close up again. Does it no I'm going to get rid of that power, brick yep and not a UK one helpfully, but yet that is our charge.

It's got, I want to say 27 what fast-charging, which is pretty good, but actually what's more interesting than the fast-charging, is actually the battery. Another reason I thought this one might be massive. It has a five thousand William hour battery in it, which is massive detective, most phones, most flagships come out in this sort of 3000 something range. So five thousand million powers is a lot more, so Bachelor should be great, but it's got a lot of power as well, and that's just yes'm key and instruction e stuff. Let's get all that out the way and get onto the phone right.

This should hopefully have something charged in it, and we can get going there. We are okay, so looking at the front of device, we've got our selfie camera up here, just a 16, megapixel selfie shooter again, you know it's. A single lens cameras are not the focus of this phone. It's top-spec everywhere, except the cameras. The cameras aren't low spec, but they're, just not that kind of you know super super super high-end, they're, not gonna, be a best-in-class, let's get through setup, okay, oh my god that was unexpected.

Okay, here we are. We are in the phone with a nice nude sort of Mass Effect desk space man in the background, I love it okay. One thing one knows is this: is a bit dim. Let's see if this makes it a bit clearer, yeah there we go, so we can see it is quite easily, so you may not like that. It does still feel a little old-fashioned, maybe depending on your taste.

Obviously, if you're just really not a fan of notches or like pinhole cameras, you may prefer we often hear from people in the comments you say they actually like it. When a phone has bezel because, they still don't like a camera that interrupts the screen. So this very much that it's not really massive bezels. You can see this just a little there at the bottom, below the controls there and a little, half a centimeter or so at the top. Not massive bezels I mean it's still like less than an iPhone 8 or even like a pixel three or something like that.

But it is bezel. It's not a full screen display by any measure. Still it is a nice display. As you can see, it's pretty enormous. It's six point, six inches something around there.

I comment exactly it's also ninety Hertz. So as we've seen with most gaming phones that sort of higher refresh rate it's becoming more and more the standard in a gaming phone as people look for that responsiveness when they're watching content and playing games. So this should deliver on that front. The rest of the specs are also pretty top-end. Snapdragon 855, like you'd, expect it goes up to 12 gigs around two five, six gigs of storage.

So again, this is like as good as you're going to get in any phone. Basically, though, there are some lower spec tiers as well and, like I, said massive five thousand William hour battery, which is pretty nuts okay. So one of the other things that you get on this phone is an RGB LED strip which I'm pretty sure is this bit on the back. What we've hopefully cut out this video is a montage of me struggling and failing to turn it on I think this is pre-release software, which is probably why it is not working. I've found the app that runs it, which I can show you, but unless I'm, just being a massive idiot, I cannot make this thing like up right now: I'm sure it does work, I'm sure it will just be that this is nearly model of the phone, but basically what it is that I think it's this bit can light up.

You get sort of different color effects, flicker flow, flash, Collider and beacon you get to customize brightness color. Some of these you can see there are choices of like the upper half being one thing, the lower half being another. You can sort of have it change between colors. All that kind of stuff you'd expect from a gaming phone or laptop with RGB stuff. It's just currently not working.

For me. The other big sort of gaming feature that you get is like. I was saying this toggle, which puts you in game mode. So if I flip that we now go, I think you can turn that sound off. If you don't want that sound, but we now it sort of takes us into the dedicated gaming space of the phone.

I, obviously haven't just taken the phone of the books and no games on it yet, but so you can ads with the games, you can control what notifications you get block calls that sort of thing that will let you turn on or off the RGB lighting. You know when it wants to work, and the other thing we'll note here is cooling fan, so this phone has a fan in it. It also has liquid cooling. Nucleus es is the first phone to have active cooling. It says it has up to 500%, better heat transfer, which I know sounds good I, don't really know how to measure that, but yeah basically combined with all these specs.

That's the reason it's folks out a little. The back is there is a fan inside here, I think that's the fan vent, probably and a liquid cooling. So this thing should stay cool. Even if you want to play sort of five hours straight a fortnight and with the five thousand William hour battery, you can probably get away with five hours straight a fortnight, but yeah it's just that kind of continued focus. Here we go fan adjustments, or you can actually hear it.

If you can hear that coming through the mic, but yeah, that's sort of you can hear the whirring of the fan coming out of there as I sort of turn it up and yeah more led effects that refused to work. For me right now, which is great and there we go the screen refresh rate as well. Okay, a little of Chinese on the software yep like I, said pre-release phone, but yet the choice between I think that that one is Auto. So again it will pick depending on the app you're in, or you can lock it at 60 or 90. And then, if we tall that back, we are back in the regular phone so yeah.

This is the Nubia red magic. We'm. Actually a fan I went into this a little skeptical. It's not my kind of design, aesthetic, but like it's a lot slimmer than I thought it was going to be. The RGB lighting is fun if you can make it work which I apparently can't, but it's like I mean the specs, and this thing, if you just want a phone, that's going to be like top-end, flagship, specs great for gaming fact.

You've got these extra shoulder buttons up here. This dedicated gaming toggle, the cooling I mean it's OUT. Don't get me wrong. You know this is the equivalent of buying like a top spec Alien ware gaming laptop or something but I kind of love it for that and glad that this gaming phone market space is really opening up a lot more, and this looks like it's gonna- be a real competitor in that space because it doesn't require you to have an extra fan attachment or an actual controller attachment. You can do a lot more through just the phone itself than you can with some competitors.

I, don't know pricing right now. It's out in China says Chinese pricing not UK. Us pricing, though it is coming to the west. The pricing works out to kind of like the base model, starting around 400 and 450 pounds / dollars, probably the actual Western pricing will be a bit higher than that. So I'd probably think it'll start around 500 and go up as the specs go up going to sort of 7 800, but yeah I mean at the low end.

Actually, that pricing seems fairly competitive if that is what it ends up as and yeah I like it, it's probably not. The phone I would buy myself, but if you're looking for a really top spec gaming phone, it's probably hard to beat and yeah remember to Like and subscribe. If you want more from tech advisor, we have some other gaming phone videos as well, and I think, hopefully we're going to pit this against some of the other ones that we have in at the moment to see which comes out on top thanks very much. You.

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