 Yes guys, your eyes are not deceiving you. You're looking at the very first gaming phone of 2022. That is the Red Magic 7 and I've been using this device for a while and I've got to say though there's some truly unique and impressive things in here and they've done a lot to satisfy your gaming needs. So let's just start off with the hardware first. It's running the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 but of course you've got something that's really important to the Red Magic series which is the built-in fan. Now you've got vapor cooling chambers in there but you've also got a brand new fan that runs up to 20,000 RPMs to cool your device much better. Now we'll see how well that does but that allows you to extend your gameplay and push your games as much as possible and we're looking at you Genshin Impact will be getting to you in a second. The display on this device is 6.8 inches, 165 hertz refresh rate. Yes you heard that correctly 165 hertz refresh rate which is truly impressive but the other thing that's impressive of course is the touch sampling rate of 720. So you're playing a game like called UD Mobile you can feel it run smooth fast the display it's just it feels like butter right. Now it's a couple that the other unique feature you find on any red magic phone are the two side trigger buttons which are remappable trigger buttons on this device which is truly cool and they have a touch sampling rate of 500 hertz. So again this is pushing everything to the max as a gamer. Now the hardware feels very similar but still comfortable to use you've got your power button on top right above the power button is one of the air vents for the fan there's one right behind next to the camera module and there's one on the other side where you have of course your volume rocker and as well your game center button. When you have all that built in how is that gaming experience that's the first thing how does it feel just playing a game like I mentioned called UD Mobile plays well and great you can see the frames per second it's locked at 60 frames per second it does that pretty easy and well and then we take a game like PUBG Mobile where of course that runs just as well and I like the fact that I could remap those buttons for each of those games so that I can actually go ahead and save that and how do you actually do some of that stuff well that has to do with the game center now the game center has two options or two aspects to it if you actually slide that game center button it takes you into the the game center space that first of all shows you all your games you can have it in a carousel you can have the list mode and then you also have the power base where it has something that's brand new called plugins now the plugins are things you can download or at least activate to allow you to do a couple of things you've got the 4d vibrate which is a new vibrant feature that you can see in games like PUBG Mobile and honestly it actually works pretty well not as intense as maybe ours I would like but well enough that I really noticed and I said okay this is pretty cool you've also got aim assist if you need that while you're playing first person shooters you've got of course key position salad equalization all that stuff within the plugins there now and that aspect that just that's pretty cool now in the game space itself you can do a couple of things you can also check your network settings you can see you can actually just turn off notifications if you want to you can also customize the zones for miscellaneous touching in terms of your screen so you don't actually press the wrong buttons you can customize the lighting behind the device which is basically on top or below the red magic logo itself on there and then of course you can add water max and you have a few more options now that's one aspect of the game space now the other aspect that I think a lot of people will like is the fact that you've got the game space within the game itself this is where it truly shines and gives you so much more functionality compared to any other device so one of the things of course is the fact that within that game space itself you can go ahead and customize a couple of things so you swipe from your top left hand side across and that gives you a game space which gives you a couple of things you have a menu that slides from the right that allows you to change of course your refresh rate from 165 all the way down to 60 you can have a performance bar which you guys saw earlier giving you your fps for your game gaming sessions you can turn on and off your fan which is nice you can do recordings but the other key thing is you can access those plugins I mentioned on the left and you can customize your shoulder buttons and you can customize those buttons to be placed anywhere on screen and also the basically sensitivity of the buttons themselves so that aspect is also pretty cool customize the lighting if you want to as well and you can also customize your touch sensitivity from 360 to 720 so I mentioned a lot you can actually do and this software is really robust it allowed me to take advantage of the system itself and play the games I wanted to as I mentioned PUBG mobile we played that that ran well smooth extreme that was you know 60 frames per second locked in no issues and of course ultra ultra that also ran at 40 frames per second solid again that's what it's usually standard at so that wasn't anything crazy or nuts now how about 120 Hertz gaming so we do have a bunch of Android games that can actually play at 120 Hertz but this is a display that supports 165 Hertz so we actually went ahead and played a couple of those games one of them that I really enjoyed was actually playing one call modern ops and that actually ran 100 130 140 frames per second took advantage of of course the display high refresh rate played really well and then of course there's real racing 3 which is a game I haven't played in a minute and that ran very very well at 165 frames per second which is truly impressive to see something take full advantage of that high refresh rate so that aspect is cool now you're saying okay tundee that's great display works what about performance now before we even get into that major hardcore performance aspect let's take a look at some of those performance benchmarks you guys definitely want to see those so of course we start off with geek benchmark and we go in and we see what we have there we geek benchmarks and in our CPU benchmark you can see what it is here and the scores are typical for snapdragon hn1 if you look at it side by side with our galaxy s22 ultra it's very similar with that score and then we check the compute score this is where it's a bit higher compared to the s22 ultra at 6044 so those were pretty pretty impressive I want to add one more benchmark which I've been using lately which is the 3d mark wildlife stress test benchmark so go in to check those results so in terms of stability while doing this test because it runs for about 20 minutes this is stable at 98.8% so looking at the stress test chart you can see that line just goes right across compared to the s22 ultra which kind of just goes down continuously across the board so that really shows that this is capable of doing those longer extended gaming periods that you're looking for now the games you want to see that would take advantage of all that horsepower okay let's start off with black desert mobile now black desert mobile was locked at 45 frames per second we set it at the highest setting played well ran smooth looked like it had no issues whatsoever so I thought that was actually impressive I think that game is capped on android um that's one thing I can mention there the other game of course I played was pubg new state which is something a lot of people ask for pubg new state in terms of its frame rates we're getting about 50 frames per second you know the smack settings about 5051 again that's just something that I've I haven't experienced with any other device because this is the first time I'm playing that game so we'll see how other devices actually stack up to it but in terms of just the performance there it was pretty solid and actually played pretty well now again to the big bad boy that has basically shaken up every device we've tested this year and also last year the year before that which of course is genshin impact now if you guys recall on the s22 ultra on the s22 plus on the iphone 13 pro max none of them could hit 60 frames per second playing genshin impact at the highest setting well fear not your red magic seven can do that with ease I played for about 30 40 minutes I think 40 minutes and it stayed at 60 frames per second actually went up a little bit to like 61 frames per second did not dip it was it's pretty much capped at 60 frames per second so I was actually able to do that quite effectively and well and it just ran really smooth that was truly impressive and kind of you know it just takes the crown for what you actually want to do gaming wise as a gamer now being able to play at 60 frames per second which means you're going to be pushing a lot of performance on this so of course how about heat how well did that fan actually work it's a little bit of a mixed bag in terms of the way I would calculate it playing genshin for that amount of time this thing ran up to about 118 degrees yes with the fan on and with the fan at its turbo setting the fan actually has two settings which you can cycle through or you can actually just set it to either one and it went up to 118 which was not good so not something that I wanted to see right here but if the other games while I played like pubg mobile call of duty the fan kicked in and it ran rather cool it was fine I got some temperatures in the 90s so it was something that again yes it works but on for games that really push it as hard like genshin impact this is where you definitely will need an external fan to add to it so maybe something like the the razor fan with the razor rgb fan it's something you can actually use to complement it but that's just something to add to the mix there now in terms of battery life you're looking at a 4500 milliamp battery which is a reduction from last year which we had a 5000 milliamp battery so that's a bit of a bummer here I would say my battery life has been good overall I haven't seen any major issues or dips with it I have played for much longer periods of time but honestly I've only gone ahead and charged it like at least once after like after like a day and a half of just use so again battery life is is good but I would say 5000 milliamps would have been better with this device now before we round up we know that there are a couple of things you guys are looking for what about accessories what about you know playing on streaming services of course xbox game pass plays pretty well and I actually got to use the games are x2 type c and that actually worked and fit well with this device and if you're looking for a controller that will fit this device this will actually work if you know if you can't get the one from from red magic but this actually works out pretty well and again the streaming service ran well played around 58 to 60 frames per second is what I was getting but again pretty much 60 frames per second for that kind of gameplay session you do have a 65 watt battery we should charge your device pretty fast on there and the speakers are very good which you guys should take a quick listen now with all that though you do have cameras on this device and how well are those cameras well I could lament and tell you it's a gaming phone you're going to get images that are good not great video that is solid but not crazy and again that's not the main function of this device the one thing I would say that I'm a bit disappointed is the cooling of the fan especially for very high intensive games that is something that I wish was still greatly improved even though it's much better than last year I still need to see better improvements on there and also it's not out loud really actually just listen to this pretty nice loud okay so that is the red magic 7 now if you're looking to pick it up I have links down below and you're wondering how much is this device well this is not a snapdragon 8 gen 1 device that is priced at a thousand dollars no pricing starts at six hundred and twenty nine dollars for 12 gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage goes all the way up to 799 for 18 gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabytes of storage so you have a range there and a pricing that will fit everyone comes in three collars obsidian you've got also this rating here and you've got the supernova and honestly I do like the pricing for and I think a lot of people like it too so leave your thoughts down below guys if you have any questions any comments let me know otherwise don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy entertainment