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RedMagic has actually turned the entire gaming smartphone phase on its head, and the RedMagic 9 Professional is the most recent instance of the way you don’t must spend upwards of $1,000 or extra to get a strong cellular gaming expertise. Incorporating most of the similar options as main units, the RedMagic 9 Professional is a extra reasonably priced choice for cellular gaming fanatics. I wasn’t fairly certain how that might pan out previous to testing. In my expertise, many units that have been priced decrease merely didn’t supply the identical nice expertise I used to be used to.
RedMagic nevertheless, has delivered what I used to be starting to assume wasn’t potential with a tool that begins at $650. A cellular gaming telephone that’s nonetheless extraordinarily highly effective with out breaking the financial institution. Critically, the telephone is surprisingly good in each side you’d need out of a gaming telephone. That doesn’t imply it’s excellent. However then once more, no telephone actually is, and there’s at all times one thing that might use enchancment. That holds true right here as nicely. So let’s dive into the evaluation and see how issues go for RedMagic with its latest gaming telephone.
RedMagic 9 Professional Evaluation: Construct High quality
In the event you’ve ever questioned how the construct high quality is on a RedMagic machine, or simply any machine that retails for a beginning value of $650, surprise know extra. The primary time I pulled the telephone out of the field I used to be impressed with how good the telephone felt. The smooth steel body offers the RedMagic 9 Professional that premium feeling that you just simply don’t get with a telephone that makes use of plastic or different supplies. However the construct high quality is greater than that.
Nothing on this telephone feels low cost. Prefer it ought to have price greater than it does. Proper down the buttons on the proper aspect of the telephone, the construct high quality was very good. And what’s good is that it virtually looks like one seamless slab. Some may not like this however I believe it’s good as there are not any sharp edges to catch your fingers on. Even the shoulder triggers on the highest are good and clean. As to be anticipated since they’re touch-based and never bodily buttons you press inward.
If there have been something in any respect for me to gripe about with the construct high quality, it will most likely be the SIM card tray. It simply looks as if you need to push the SIM ejector device extremely laborious to get the tray to come out. Which I discovered to be annoying at instances. The excellent news is this can be a very minor factor. And since most individuals aren’t going to be SIM swapping all that a lot, this probably received’t trouble you past the preliminary time you insert your SIM card.
General, it’s clear that RedMagic put a variety of effort into constructing a high-quality machine. One which feels good to carry and one which feels very premium.
RedMagic 9 Professional Evaluation: Design
Whereas the construct high quality is nice, the design of the telephone is extra of a combined bag for me. It’s a very fashionable design and that for essentially the most half is an effective factor. Piggybacking off of the superb construct high quality, the design of the RedMagic 9 Professional is tremendous premium as nicely. Save for one tiny ingredient that I actually didn’t like. The glass again panel. Now, there’s some nuance to this as I do like some issues about it however not the whole lot. The glass panel on the again is there for a motive. It’s so you’ll be able to see the detailing below the glass and it’s additionally what retains the digicam sensors seen as these sit below the glass panel.
Now RedMagic additionally makes this machine in three totally different colorways. Snowfall, Sleet, and Cyclone. We’re working with the Cyclone mannequin which I personally assume is the most effective colorway. Because it’s largely black with some matte gold logos and lettering.
It additionally has a light gaming aesthetic with out being too loud or brash. Plus, there’s one thing cool in regards to the look of see-through electronics. This isn’t totally see-through, in fact. You possibly can’t truly see any of the within parts. Simply the highest layer of paneling that goes over all of that. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless a neat look, particularly for a gaming telephone. The draw back of this glass again panel in terms of the design is that it’s a fingerprint magnet. Simply as you’d anticipate a chunk of clear glass to be. You see each single fingerprint on a regular basis. And this proved to be extra of an annoyance to me than I believed.
It wouldn’t be a dealbreaker for me personally. However in the event you’re like me and also you hate fingerprints in your units, get able to wipe this down a number of instances a day or just be taught to dwell with it. Apart from that, the design of the remainder of the telephone could be very top-notch. The corners of the body might do with only a contact extra rounding to suit the contours of my arms when taking part in video games.
However nearly each little element is nicely thought out. One explicit factor I actually love is how shut the contact triggers are to the sides. On some telephones I’ve used prior to now these have been additional in and this kinda made it laborious to press them. Right here although, they really feel like simply the proper distance to the place touching them feels snug and pure. In fact, this can be a gaming telephone, and like most gaming telephones, there’s RGB lighting.
Fortunately, it’s not too excessive right here. The RGB is just current within the fan that sits below the second rear digicam sensor, below the “09” on the again, and in two small skinny traces within the contact triggers. It’s sufficient to supply some visible enchantment with out being too flashy. Although I additionally wouldn’t thoughts if there have been no RGB in any respect. General although, the design is de facto strong and I believe it’s most likely the best-looking telephone RedMagic has ever designed.
The cooling system
I needed to the touch on the cooling system right here as a result of I believe RedMagic has executed a fantastic job at becoming it into this telephone. It largely works nicely however we’ll get into that later within the evaluation. For now, I simply needed to speak briefly in regards to the design of the cooling setup. This features a fan which you could see on the again after which two exhaust ports on both aspect of the telephone for air to move by way of. What’s good about that is which you could truly really feel the air transferring by way of these vents when the fan is at full pace. It’s faint however in the event you hover your finger over it with out utterly masking the vent you’ll be able to undoubtedly really feel the air transferring.
And that is going to assist with holding the telephone temperatures down. Whereas I can’t say that is the very best cooling design for a gaming telephone, it’s a neat strategy. And for some motive, there’s one thing about having the ability to really feel the air transferring by way of the machine that I like.
RedMagic 9 Professional Evaluation: Show
There’s actually nothing to dislike in regards to the show. It’s dimension for gaming and different leisure and it will get fairly brilliant. When it comes to decision, it’s Full HD+ which is about what to anticipate from a gaming telephone show. This helps each with battery life and permits for smoother body charges when taking part in video games with greater graphics settings choices. Whereas a better decision show on telephones is at all times good, I’ve by no means felt that it was wanted. The show is sufficiently small that Full HD+ and even Full HD seems to be completely high quality.
Fortunately, RedMagic has used a flat show right here. Curved shows aren’t typically used on gaming telephones however for example, the OnePlus 12R is positioned because the extra gaming-focused machine between it and the OnePlus 12 (that’s in accordance with OnePlus) and it comes with a curved show. This design has simply by no means been to my style so I’m joyful that RedMagic is sticking with the flat shows for its units.
Refresh price
Extra essential than the decision or whether or not or not the show is flat or curved, is the refresh price. Now on the RedMagic 9 Professional, this caps out at 120Hz. It’s not as excessive as it’s on the ROG Cellphone 8 Professional Version. However 120Hz remains to be actually good for a telephone show on the dimension of 6.8 inches which is what the RedMagic 9 Professional is working with.
What’s attention-grabbing is that previous RedMagic telephones have had greater refresh charges than this mannequin. And though it’s good to have, I’m not so certain that it’s actually wanted. Right here’s why. There aren’t a ton of video games on the Play Retailer that assist 144Hz refresh charges anyway.
A few of the hottest video games, like Genshin Affect and Honkai Star Rail, solely assist a refresh price of as much as 60Hz. Others like Fortnite and PUBG MOBILE assist as much as 120Hz. And I received’t be shocked if Name of Obligation: Warzone Cellular caps out at 120Hz as nicely. With this in thoughts, you’re actually solely ever getting the total advantages of the upper refresh charges on telephones just like the ROG Cellphone 8 Professional Version while you’re scrolling by way of the machine menus, searching the online and what have you ever. In all chance, you’ll by no means find yourself getting these refresh charges in video games.
Even with companies like GeForce NOW on Android, Final memberships max out at 120 frames per second. So there’s not a lot of a motive to have greater than a 120Hz show. Even when it does look good for scrolling.
Brightness
The brightness of the show is about what I might anticipate from most telephones on common nowadays. With out entering into figures, it seems brilliant sufficient to simply see in direct daylight or brightly lit rooms. Now by way of specs, RedMagic charges the show at 1,600 nits for the height brightness. We don’t have a strategy to measure nits however we now have began utilizing a tool that measures the brightness of the show in lux. And based mostly on the readings the show brightness measures 950.2 lux.
How we got here to this quantity was utilizing a lightweight meter. First, we turned the show brightness on the telephone all the best way as much as max after which introduced up an image of a completely white background so the show was all white with the brightness all the best way up. Then we used the sunshine meter to measure the lux and got here up with the quantity talked about simply above. In the event you don’t care in regards to the stats, simply know that the brightness of the show is greater than sufficient. It’s uncommon that you just’ll run right into a scenario the place the brightness isn’t sufficient to see the show. As I by no means bumped into this problem myself. So briefly, the brightness is nice and also you shouldn’t have points with it.
Colours
Coloration accuracy or simply usually how good the colour is on a telephone show is probably not one thing you consider. Except shows and the colour accuracy of them is one thing that’s an curiosity of yours. Nevertheless it’s a standard factor that we have a look at when reviewing telephones right here and I believe it’s particularly essential for a telephone that’s targeted on cellular gaming. In the event you’re taking part in video games in your telephone, then sooner or later or one other you’re going to be sitting down observing it for an extended time frame. And over the course of the telephone’s life cycle, you’ll be doing this typically.
So that you need the colours to be no less than respectable the place they don’t look muted or washed out. Vibrant, vivid colours with deep black contrasts make your video games look that significantly better. The blacks aren’t as deep on the RedMagic 9 Professional as some telephones (like these within the Galaxy S lineup), however the colours undoubtedly look lush and so they pop off the display fairly properly.
This comes out rather well in video games like Genshin Affect and Honkai Star Rail due to all of the flash graphical results of character particular talents. I wouldn’t thoughts a tad extra saturation however general I used to be fairly happy with how the colours look on this show. However like I mentioned I actually wouldn’t thoughts if the colours had a little bit extra weight behind them.
RedMagic 9 Professional Evaluation: Efficiency
In terms of gaming telephones you anticipate the efficiency to be top-notch. Doubtlessly the ultimate or on the very least, nicely above a lot of the competitors. Unsurprisingly, the efficiency of the RedMagic 9 Professional is superb. That is in no small half as a result of using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 cellular platform. However the mannequin we acquired for evaluation additionally comes with 16GB of RAM which is rather a lot. No points have been present in working immediately’s most demanding cellular video games.
Each Genshin Affect and Honkai Star Rail have been performed with max graphics settings and at a most of 60 frames per second and each video games ran flawlessly and appeared good whereas doing it. I even have little question that the RedMagic 9 Professional can have no issues with efficiency in terms of upcoming video games like Name of Obligation: Warzone Cellular. This may launch later this month so I had no strategy to check efficiency with the sport but. However I anticipate it should assist excessive refresh charges of no less than 60 frames per second and graphics do look fairly good from what I’ve seen in Activision’s official trailers.
With that being mentioned, you’ll need a high-powered telephone to run the sport easily with good graphics. The RedMagic 9 Professional will simply be capable of deal with that. I additionally checked the telephone out with video games like Diablo Immortal and Name of Obligation: Cellular briefly, and it carried out excellently there too. Even after longer intervals of time, efficiency stayed optimum with RedMagic’s cooling system in place. That being mentioned, the cooling does fall under my expectations in a single situation, however we’ll get into that in only a bit.
The Benchmarks
To check efficiency with some statistics, we’ve began utilizing benchmarks like Geekbench 3 and 3D Mark to measure the efficiency of every machine after which put that info right into a graph to visualise how the units stack up towards the competitors. Within the case of the RedMagic 9 Professional, we’re evaluating it to the likes of the ROG Cellphone 8 Professional Version, the ROG Cellphone 7 Final, and the OnePlus 12. All of those units run with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, except the ROG Cellphone 7 Final that’s utilizing the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. It’s nonetheless a gaming telephone, nevertheless, and was final 12 months’s prime machine for cellular gaming. So it suits with the comparability.
Beginning with Geekbench 6, the RedMagic 9 Professional scores greater than another machine we in contrast it to. The one-core rating comes out to 2299. In the meantime, the multi-core rating comes out to 7174 and the GPU rating comes out to 14785. This isn’t stunning in any respect. Qualcomm’s newest cellular platform is full of energy and RedMagic makes excellent use of it with the 9 Professional.
In the event you’re much less involved with what the benchmark scores are, simply know that the telephone goes to carry out nicely in most duties. Gaming, multitasking, you identify it.
Now the subsequent benchmark check we used is 3D Mark. Particularly, the 3D Mark Wildlife Excessive Stress Take a look at. The telephone scored very excessive on this check as nicely. In the event you’re unfamiliar with this check, it performs a really excessive graphics video that’s 1 minute lengthy after which loops 20 instances. So it’s basically working this video for 20 minutes straight. In response to the outcomes of the benchmark, the RedMagic 9 Professional scored 5210 on its greatest loop. Its worst loop was 4897. That is greater than the most effective loop of the ROG Cellphone 7 Final. The RedMagic 9 Professional additionally had a stability ranking of 94%. So, it knocked it out of the park.
For the ultimate benchmark we use what we name the CapCut Take a look at, This can be a check that we got here up with to see how briskly the telephone might export a 1-minute video with a easy animation at first utilizing the CapCut app. On this check, the RedMagic 9 Professional scored extremely and was as soon as once more very quick. In actual fact, it was quicker than another telephone we’ve executed this check with, exporting the video in 5.2 seconds. To maintain issues as at the same time as potential we use the identical video for each telephone. So there you’ve got it. The RedMagic 9 Professional is a efficiency beast. By and thru.
Thermals
One of many actually essential components in a gaming telephone goes to be the thermals. How good of a job does the telephone do staying cool whereas performing high-intensity duties? On this case, with gaming since this can be a gaming telephone. You wish to be sure that the telephone stays cool so it continues to carry out optimally. And in nearly each case the telephone stayed cool sufficient to carry out nicely with no issues by any means. To check the thermals, we checked the temperature of the telephone three alternative ways, utilizing an infrared thermometer for every methodology.
First, we checked the thermals after taking part in Genshin Affect for an hour with the sport working at max settings, with 60 frames per second, and the display at max brightness. We additionally checked the temperature after working the 3D Mark Wildlife Excessive Stress check. This was the one space the place the cooling kind of took a nosedive. After the check the telephone was too scorching to carry, burning my arms simply on the contact of it if I attempted to carry it for greater than a second or two. I principally needed to put it down and let it cool off for five minutes earlier than selecting it again up.
I do wish to emphasize the truth that this isn’t actually consultant of how heat the telephone will get throughout your each day use. As you’re not going to be working this check a number of instances a day, daily, if in any respect. However it’s price noting since there could also be duties that end in this sort of warmth sooner or later. For the Genshin check, the telephone continued to carry out nicely with little to no snags by the tip of the hour. The final check we ran was beginning up a video recording and checking the temperatures after 5 minutes, and after 10 minutes to see the place issues sit, because the telephone can get fairly heat when recording 4K video.
For the temperatures, the telephone reached 107 levels Fahrenheit after taking part in Genshin Affect for an hour. The 3D Mark Wildlife Excessive Stress check was fairly a bit greater at 129.3 levels. Lastly, the video recording brought on temperatures to achieve 91.7 levels after 5 minutes, and 95.9 levels after 10 minutes. All in all, not horrible throughout the board. In actual fact, in all instances besides the 3D Mark check the telephone temps have been greater than manageable.
RedMagic 9 Professional Evaluation: Battery Life and Charging
Battery life is at all times one of many issues I’m most crucial of as a result of I have a tendency to make use of my telephone so much. I largely use mine for cellular gaming however I do use it loads for watching YouTube, messaging, and streaming music as nicely. And with gaming being the majority of the utilization, the battery must final some time. Fortunately, RedMagic packed a 6500mAh battery on this machine.
Regardless of all its energy that might simply drain the battery, the mixture of the massive battery and the RedMagic 9 Professional’s good optimization helped it final all through the day with no issues. I would normally get near 10 hours of screen-on time with regular use. Which for me is normally an hour or two of YouTube in the direction of the tip of the night, some music streaming throughout the mornings, and some hours of cellular gaming all through the day with a bunch of messaging on Discord and Telegram. In addition to occasional Reddit use and searching the online. I don’t use my telephone as a lot as some customers however it actually doesn’t simply sit there. Removed from it.
So I can with certainty say that the battery on this telephone is fairly good. It’s additionally price holding in thoughts that there are going to be days while you use the telephone much less typically. Generally I solely actually have the display on for a few hours a day. And the remainder of the time it’s simply sitting idle. In these instances, it’ll be just a few days earlier than it’s worthwhile to cost the telephone.
Benchmarking the battery
Proper off the bat, I used to be anticipating the battery to final a very long time due to the bigger capability. And I’ve to say, I wasn’t disillusioned. Now to check the battery life rundown what we did was pull up a 4K video that runs for twenty-four hours with the display at max brightness. We use the identical video for each telephone to maintain issues as related as potential. Out of all of the units we’ve examined just lately, the RedMagic 9 Professional lasted longer than most.
Solely two telephones lasted longer — the Galaxy S24 Extremely and the Honor Magic6 Professional. The previous lasted for 25 hours and 35 minutes. Whereas the latter lasted for 26 hours and seven minutes. By comparability, the RedMagic 9 Professional lasted 25 hours and three minutes. Greater than an hour lower than the Honor Magic6 Professional and a little bit over half an hour lower than the Galaxy S24 Extremely. Fairly good. Particularly when you think about that when in comparison with different gaming telephones, it outlasted all of them by far.
For example, final 12 months’s ROG Cellphone 7 Final lasted 21 hours and 27 minutes. In the meantime, the ROG Cellphone 8 Professional Version with its smaller battery lasted 17 hours and 39 minutes. If a gaming telephone is one thing you’re in search of however battery life is most essential, then the RedMagic 9 Professional is likely to be your best option for you.
We additionally check the charging time to see how shortly you’ll be able to juice the telephone again up. The RedMagic 9 Professional comes with an 80W charger so it’s able to charging up fairly quick. And through my testing, it charged up in 42 minutes and three seconds. This isn’t the quickest charging telephone we’ve examined however contemplating the battery capability at 6500mAh, it’s fairly spectacular. In comparison with the ROG Cellphone 8 Professional Version, with a smaller battery capability thoughts you, that charged up in 40 minutes and 22 seconds.
Charging pace will range in the event you’re not utilizing the charging brick that got here within the field with the telephone. However generally, that is probably the place you’re going to be charging it up. Because it’s unlikely the battery will want charging throughout the day except you’re away from house for a number of days and convey a special charger with you. All in all, the battery life and charging speeds on this machine are excellent.
RedMagic 9 Professional Evaluation: Software program
As with every gaming telephone, the software program is a giant a part of the machine. As a result of there are normally some options which are baked into the Android OS that don’t come on regular telephones. These are largely geared in the direction of the gaming aspect of issues and every gaming telephone tends to be a little bit totally different in terms of these options. However to start out issues off, the RedMagic 9 Professional is working on Android 14. What makes the software program particular within the case of this telephone is the gaming-related options, although.
Issues like settings for mapping the contact triggers and naturally, the flexibility to vary the lighting results and colours for the RGB. There’s additionally the GameSpace app which homes a ton of settings for gaming. It’s right here which you could launch video games and entry settings like system anti-mistouch or the anti-disturbance setting. You may also launch proper into Sport House with the pink slider swap on the aspect of the telephone. If the telephone is unlocked, simply slide this upwards and GameSpace opens proper up. All of that is thrilling however it’s additionally fairly run-of-the-mill for many gaming telephones.
There’s at all times a piece that permits you to tweak all of the gaming options and simply launch your put in video games. Appearing as a hub if you’ll. For me, the software program that actually set the RedMagic 9 Professional aside was the X Gravity function. That is the telephone’s system for mapping exterior peripherals like controllers, or a mouse and keyboard. You’ll use this for mapping on-screen contact controls to the bodily peripheral you wish to use. Since a variety of video games don’t natively assist controllers, that is going to be an enormous profit to gamers preferring them over contact.
There’s additionally Sport Gravity, which is meant to be for cloud gaming however this merely has you tapping into the distant play apps for these companies particularly. As an example, the PS Distant Play app for PlayStation video games or the Sport Go app for Xbox. What some would possibly discover actually helpful is the Forged choice. This allows you to play cellular video games on a bigger show and when paired with the X gravity for enter mapping to a controller or mouse and keyboard, it’s a straightforward strategy to play cellular video games such as you would a PC or console sport. You’ll want a monitor or TV that helps Z-SmartCast function to make this work.
However in the event you do have one then the method is fairly easy. Within the X Gravity choices, there’s a button for “Projection” and inside that, you’ll be able to seek for screens that assist the casting. As soon as discovered you can begin utilizing the telephone on that bigger display after which dive into video games. I don’t have a display that helps this so I wasn’t in a position to check it, sadly. However the means of getting it up and working doesn’t appear overly sophisticated. How nicely it really works will rely in your Wi-Fi sign power and speeds, although.
General, the software program expertise was clean and there have been loads of gaming options to reap the benefits of. Nevertheless, I believe most individuals will get essentially the most use out of a few of the easier choices, like the sport casting the enter mapping.
RedMagic 9 Professional Evaluation: Audio system
Audio system are simply as essential for a gaming telephone as another ingredient. Whether or not that be battery life, show, or efficiency. Whereas I’ll virtually at all times advocate utilizing earbuds or headphones when taking part in cellular video games, as a result of this finally ends up providing a greater audio expertise, generally you simply don’t really feel like utilizing both and simply wish to play with the telephone audio system. However you need them to sound good in the event you’re going to do that. In my expertise, the audio high quality on the RedMagic 9 Professional was fairly good.
My solely criticism is that the audio system aren’t front-facing. So just like the ROG Cellphone 8 Professional Version, one of many audio system goes to be simple to cowl up a little bit which might muffle the sound. You possibly can place your hand in such a method that that is minimized, however it doesn’t stop masking the speaker totally. Even with this design setup although, the audio system nonetheless sounded fairly good at any time when I used to be taking part in video games. And even higher if I used to be watching movies or listening to music. I have a tendency to carry the telephone in another way when watching video so the audio system don’t find yourself lined in any respect.
And when listening to the music the telephone is simply sitting on my desk. In these instances, the audio system carry out fairly nicely and ship sound that isn’t too bass-heavy. At greater quantity ranges the audio system can get a bit tinny however that is actually solely an issue in the event you flip the quantity a lot of the method up. The telephone audio system get very loud so I by no means actually noticed the explanation to do that. And that’s nice as a result of it allowed for higher audio high quality whereas nonetheless having an honest quantity stage to listen to the whole lot.
Loudness
As talked about above the audio system get loads loud. Quantity ranges are loud sufficient that there was not often a scenario the place I wanted to show the quantity up all the best way simply to listen to one thing, even when I used to be in a louder surroundings. That being mentioned, in a louder surroundings, which is usually going to be in public, I’m simply going to make use of headphones. Not solely in order that I can hear my content material higher, but in addition so I’m not disturbing others. However for testing’s sake, turning the quantity all the best way up ends in the flexibility to listen to them completely high quality even in one other room.
For instance, I might set the telephone down and stream music whereas cooking, and I might simply hear the telephone from the kitchen whereas it was throughout the condo. Thoughts you, exterior you’ll undoubtedly discover that sound isn’t as simply discernable. In brief, simply use headphones if listening to audio exterior or in public.
Distortion
That is one thing that I observed when testing out the loudness of the audio system. That on the highest volumes, you’ll be able to undoubtedly inform there’s some distortion occurring. I didn’t use this quantity stage actually because there was merely no want for it. And ultimately, the audio simply finally ends up sounding worse. Nevertheless, the distortion wasn’t so dangerous that the sound was horrible. However the audio undoubtedly comes by way of cleaner if the quantity is say, round 70%-75% and under.
Bass
I’ve by no means been a lot of a bass fan however it’s good to have some punchy bass for sure issues. Usually with music, and for me that particularly finally ends up being EDM. The RedMagic 9 Professional audio system put out some respectable bass however I wouldn’t say it’s a few of the greatest bass a smartphone can produce. You possibly can inform it’s there and it’s respectable. Principally, I wasn’t disillusioned in how the bass got here by way of and I don’t assume most different patrons of this telephone can be both.
Treble
Treble principally dictates how clear greater tones are. With higher-quality treble, the extra clear these greater tones in audio will probably be. The RedMagic 9 Professional audio system supply respectable treble similar to the bass. However once more, I wouldn’t say it’s something to jot down house about. It’s good, however not excellent. Then once more, you need to keep in mind this can be a bassline $649 telephone. And a variety of emphasis has already been positioned on different parts of the telephone. Just like the efficiency, cooling, storage, and battery life.
Stability
Stability is general fairly good with the audio system right here because it was simple to listen to each greater tones and decrease tones. The decrease tones appear to overpower the upper tones just a bit.
Vocals
For me, the vocals are one of many higher elements of the audio system. I felt like these got here by way of fairly nicely at any time when listening to YouTube movies or when within the voice-acted scenes of some video games like Honkai Star Rail. Not excellent, however in my view by far the a part of the audio system that appeared to carry out the most effective.
Immersion
Immersion is without doubt one of the most essential elements of the audio system in a gaming telephone as a result of gaming might be what you’re doing most with a tool like this one. And the higher the immersion, the higher the gaming expertise. You need a full sound that envelopes you as greatest as potential. Whereas the audio system received’t maintain a candle to earbuds or headphones, they do a extremely good job of offering some immersive sound experiences. I nonetheless assume the audio system on the ROG Cellphone 8 Professional Version and the ROG Cellphone 7 Final are higher, however these aren’t far behind.
RedMagic 9 Professional Evaluation: Digital camera Efficiency
Gaming telephones have by no means been the best choice for telephone cameras, and that’s largely nonetheless true. However there’s some nuance to contemplate. One of the best digicam is the one you’ve got on you. In lots of instances, that’s going to be your telephone. And in case your telephone occurs to be a gaming telephone with a mediocre digicam, then that’s the most effective digicam for you except you’ve got different available choices. With that mentioned, digicam efficiency has come a great distance for telephones. And this consists of units which are geared in the direction of gaming, such because the RedMagic 9 Professional.
I believe one of the best ways to take a look at this digicam is to go in with none expectations. This isn’t as a result of the digicam is dangerous, however you’d be setting your self up for disappointment in the event you purchase this telephone anticipating it to be the most effective digicam of any smartphone out there. So, with that mentioned, that is what I did. I attempted not to consider how every picture appeared compared to one thing just like the Pixel 8, which I had already reviewed and know has one of many cameras of any smartphone available on the market. My purpose was to evaluate the digicam by itself deserves so I used to be actually solely specializing in what this digicam can do and the way the photographs look.
Now that that’s out of the best way, the digicam on the RedMagic 9 Professional performs higher than I used to be anticipating, however I believe that’s largely as a result of I’ve simply been conditioned to consider gaming telephones as having mediocre cameras. As that was the case for therefore lengthy. However ASUS actually confirmed that gaming telephones can produce some fairly good photos and the RedMagic 9 Professional follows in these footsteps. When utilizing simply the common picture mode for pictures, pictures come out with an honest quantity of element and colours pop good and brilliant.
There appears to be a little bit extra saturation than another telephones, and that is simpler to see when you’ve got actually brilliant and vivid colours within the picture. Just like the blue sky or pink wooden paneling within the picture I took on the meals cart commons. I used to be additionally as soon as once more fairly shocked with how nicely the portrait mode images got here out. There’s quantity of foreground element within the picture of the sakura tree whereas further branches and blooming sakura buds within the background are sufficiently blurred with out making the sides round the focus too fuzzy.
Generally when utilizing portrait mode on different units I’d discover that elements of the focal topic find yourself blurred after they shouldn’t be. However that didn’t actually appear to occur with the RedMagic 9 Professional which was a pleasant shock. Since I like utilizing portrait mode for images once I do truly use the digicam on my telephone. The digicam does okay in low mild situations however that is form of the place you begin to see the digicam and the software program are a little bit bit missing. Darker-lit rooms trigger the photographs to lose a little bit element. Macro pictures are most likely the place I really feel the digicam is weakest. At the very least for what I used to be in a position to check.
Irrespective of what number of macro pictures I took of the Gnocchi I made, the picture at all times got here out just a bit out of focus. Even after making an attempt out various levels of distance between the digicam and the dish. This can be a little little bit of a bummer since macro pictures could be actually attention-grabbing. However images can nonetheless look good shut up in the event you’re utilizing the common or professional modes. And in the event you actually wish to experiment, you’ll be able to take a look at the “camera-family” part all the best way to the left. This homes a wide range of totally different picture modes like slow-motion, starry sky, mild draw, time-lapse, and others.
I wasn’t in a position to check most of those since most of them require using a tripod, which I don’t have in the meanwhile. General, I believe the digicam is okay. I’ll say what I’ve at all times mentioned in terms of gaming telephones. You aren’t shopping for this for the digicam. And so long as you do not forget that, you’ll be high quality with the digicam’s high quality and efficiency. The photographs actually do come out simply high quality. And that’s a very powerful half. They don’t should be the most effective images of any telephone. They only should look respectable. And I’d say they do right here.
Now along with utilizing the digicam such as you would use one usually, we do check the digicam utilizing a check we got here up with right here at Android Headlines to see the way it compares to different smartphones. I did this after taking all the different pictures. The check is organising a photograph mild field and inserting a Rubix Dice inside it, then we take an image of the Rubix Dice with the telephone and evaluate it to different units with this similar picture.
The rationale we do that is so we now have a managed picture surroundings for testing functions. On this case, I’m utilizing the photographs of the RedMagic 9 Professional, the ASUS ROG Cellphone 8 Professional Version, and the OnePlus 12R since these have been the three most up-to-date telephones I personally examined, and so they’re all from this 12 months whereas additionally all being gaming targeted.
Do you have to purchase the RedMagic 9 Professional?
Whereas we are able to’t definitively reply sure or no for you on this, because you is likely to be in search of one thing totally different than what this telephone has, we are able to supply some explanation why you would possibly wish to purchase or skip it. I’ll say although, that there are some good causes to purchase this telephone.
You can purchase the RedMagic 9 Professional if:
– You need a fantastic gaming telephone
– Exceptionally long-lasting battery life is essential to you
– Affordability is an element
You shouldn’t purchase the RedMagic 9 Professional if:
– You possibly can spend extra for a higher-end machine
– A greater digicam is essential to you
– You need one thing with barely higher cooling efficiency