Life is hard on the innovative. Lower than a yr has handed since REDMAGIC launched the ten Professional, its (then) flagship gaming telephone, however the firm has already felt compelled to comply with it up with a fair newer, slicker mannequin.
In case you want reminding, we thought the REDMAGIC 10 Professional was a “stable smartphone with critical gaming grunt”.
To develop on that a bit, we additionally described it as “a video games console within the form of a telephone, with highly effective audio system, capacitive shoulder buttons, ostentatious RGB lighting, and even an audible fan which you could activate to maintain the telephone cool throughout notably intense gaming classes”.
That brings you just about up to the mark on what the REDMAGIC model of smartphones is all about. Whereas we undeniably reside in an age when smartphones are able to giving all however the newest consoles a run for his or her cash, REDMAGIC additionally leaves most smartphones within the mud.
So what can REDMAGIC presumably have accomplished within the final six months to enhance upon the innovative REDMAGIC 10 Professional?
Seems to be
When it comes to appears, not a lot has modified. The REDMAGIC 10s Professional is a lean, angular gadget with sharp corners and a defiantly minimal aesthetic. Girding the slim gadget is a strip of brushed graphite-looking materials, and the glass behind the telephone is clear, revealing some well-packed digital innards.
There are unobtrusive buttons for activating gaming mode, powering on/off, and a quantity rocker, together with two speaker grilles and two touch-sensitive shoulder buttons. Except for the intense crimson gaming mode button, the REDMAGIC 10s Professional appears prefer it’s making an attempt to not be observed.
But it surely’s nonetheless a powerful piece of design in an understated manner. It boasts a tiny bezel and a beneficiant 6.85” display screen (just like the earlier mannequin). In keeping with the assessment information we’ve been given, it has a 95.3% display screen to physique ratio, which is “the very best ever”.
We’re undecided whether or not that applies to all telephones or simply REDMAGIC’s vary, however both manner the !0s Professional is a horny, shiny slab of enjoyable.
An attractive slab of enjoyable.
Specs
It’s truthful to say the 10s Professional is a modest improve on the ten Professional, which is just about as you’d anticipate. The margins get finer on the entrance of the pack.
So in lots of respects there’s been no change. The 6.85”, 144 Hz, 1.5k display screen continues to be a 6.85”, 144 Hz, 1.5k display screen, the twin speaker continues to be 1115K, and there’s nonetheless the identical 0815 X-Linear Motor. The battery, as soon as once more, is a beneficiant 7050mAh, with an 80w GaN charger.
However there are some marked enhancements by way of {hardware}. The headline enhancements are, in fact, within the CPU and GPU, which have crept up from 4.32 GHz and 1100 MHz to 4.47 GHz and 1200 MHz respectively.
The all-important cooling system has additionally obtained an improve, from Liquid Metallic 1.0 to Liquid Metallic 2.0. Which means this innovative, T1000-sounding materials now covers a 30% bigger space. Together with some rejigged pipework, this has resulted in additional than double the thermal conductivity and a 5% cooler CPU general, even with the additional Hz.
In case you’re not technically minded, right here’s all you’ll want to know: the REDMAGIC 10s Professional is highly effective sufficient to take just about something in its stride. And the battery is large enough to maintain the lights on for a few days between prices beneath regular use.
What we stated in regards to the 10 Professional nonetheless holds: “the REDMAGIC 10(s) Professional has a stunningly vivid, crisp, colourful show and loud, punchy audio system, making it excellent not only for gaming however for watching movies and TV reveals”.
Oh, and as soon as once more there’s a 3.5mm jack, if you happen to care about that kind of factor.
Buttons!
Software program
Different enhancements are restricted to software program, and the usage of AI to create additional efficiency and effectivity.
For example, whereas the (if something, now barely extra underwhelming) twin 50 Megapixel rear cameras are nonetheless the identical, the front-facing 16 Megapixel digicam is now powered by an upgraded AI algorithm, permitting you to take clearer and extra pure selfies. The distinction is refined, however detectable.
Likewise, the brand new Snapdragon 8 Elite Main Model processor comes with an enhanced neural processing unit and GPU, designed to advance on-device generative AI whereas dealing with complicated multi-modal AI duties. This purportedly offers this new processor a 30% energy increase over its predecessor.
The upshot: the REDMAGIC 10s Professional is quick. Whether or not you’ll discover the distinction within the regular course of your phone-using life is unsure. However if you happen to exist on the bleeding fringe of smartphone gaming chances are you’ll nicely profit from a lift in efficiency.
Gaming
Appropriately sufficient, the largest software program enhancements have been reserved for the REDMAGIC 10s Professional’s raison d’etre: gaming.
It goes with out saying that it is a fairly formidable handheld console. It has loads of energy, a gaming-oriented interface, and even a pair of capacitive shoulder buttons. However Recreation Area is arguably the factor that elevates REDMAGIC into the large leagues.
This software program offers you fast entry to plugins, peripherals, photos, and numerous different settings and options.
To present you a taste of the out there tweaks, you may change the side ratio, view achievements, make notes and retailer them in your image board, report gameplay, hook up with a monitor by way of Host mode, and have interaction a complete vary of various plugins resembling Somatosensory Management, which helps you to flip gestures and motions into inputs.
The REDMAGIC 10s Professional’s software program allows you to report and monitor stuff like gacha pulls and in-game occasions, extract hard-to-see data so that you could learn it, show recreation information resembling enjoying time, and rather more. In the meantime a intelligent AI-powered clever studying perform lets your gadget monitor your habits and begin developing with bespoke management schemes.
You possibly can even create a customized crosshair, and a customized zoom zone to simulate the impact of a scope. All of those modifications and tweaks are viewable in an space referred to as, with customary modesty, the Tremendous Base.
Some folks can nonetheless get sniffy about cellphones as critical gaming gadgets, however the REDMAGIC 10s Professional does as a lot because it presumably might to silence the critics. Arguably, no console provides the identical quantity of customization and suppleness.
It’s only a disgrace that the casting performance stays fiddly, and Chromecast stays unsupported.
Reflections inside reflections.
Conclusion
The REDMAGIC 10s Professional is a powerful little bit of package. Then once more, so is the REDMAGIC 10 Professional. Do you have to get a 10s Professional if you happen to’re newly out there for a devoted gaming telephone? Positive. Are you prone to discover a dramatic distinction between the 2 fashions? Most likely not.
There are enhancements on paper, associated largely to cooling and AI-powered processing velocity. And there are enhancements which you could truly see, together with varied software program options.
However solely essentially the most ravenous early adopters ought to contemplate upgrading from the earlier mannequin to this one, or paying considerably extra for the newest model.
The REDMAGIC 10s Professional is an incremental improve in a distinct segment the place each nanotweak issues. In case you belong in that area of interest, you received’t be dissatisfied with the nanotweaks on supply.
However, if you happen to’re something like us, you may safely maintain off on upgrading for a pair extra years with out FOMO.
The nice
- Extremely highly effective gaming guts
- Minimal, elegant design
- Function-packed gaming software program
The unhealthy
- Not a lot of an enchancment over the earlier mannequin
- Underwhelming cameras