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The Worlds most powerful liquid cooled superphone has arrived. And it is truly a technological masterpiece. Plus the REDMAGIC 11 Pro has a surprisingly reasonable price tag: https://bit.ly/48nBaE2
REDMAGIC smartphones have been some of my favorite since forever. With an installed 24,000 rpm turbo fan on top of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, this gaming phone is more of a pocket sized PC than it is a smartphone.
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REDMAGIC smartphones have been some of my favorite since forever. With an installed 24,000 rpm turbo fan on top of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, this gaming phone is more of a pocket sized PC than it is a smartphone.
Get my portable tool kit here! https://www.ifixit.com...
What is your favorite video game? let me know in the comments and Ill pick one random winner within one week to get my extra REDMAGIC 11 Pro. (Anywhere in the world
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00:00This is the world's first mass-produced liquid-cooled super phone.
00:05Not only does it have dual forms of active cooling, but it also has the largest passive
00:10cooling vapor chamber of any smartphone we've ever seen – all for gaming.
00:15If you ever lose a round on this beast, you won't.
00:17There's no more blaming it on the hardware.
00:20And the hardware looks amazing.
00:23This is the Red Magic 11 Pro in silver Sub-Zero.
00:27And the blue circle you see on the back is the actual visible liquid from inside the
00:31liquid cooler.
00:32When the phone is turned on, the blue coolant gets visibly pumped around inside of the phone,
00:37distributing heat across the phone's back surface.
00:40Being a Red Magic phone, the internal cooling fan also got upgraded to 24,000 RPMs.
00:48This tag teams the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 to help keep it cool.
00:52Since the cooler you can keep your processor, the higher you can clock it.
00:56Alongside Silver Sub-Zero, Red Magic also has a black Night Freeze variant.
01:00I did get two phones just to show it off, but I only need one.
01:04And you know what that means.
01:06Hit the like button and let me know your favorite game and why down in the comments.
01:10And I'll pick a random winner somewhere in the world to give this undamaged Night Freeze
01:142 for free.
01:16It's hard to say which of the three different cooling systems is doing most of the work.
01:19I'm hoping they're all paired together.
01:21As in the water loop is using the internal air duct as a radiator, but we'll have to
01:25check on that from the inside here in a second – voluntarily or involuntarily if you catch
01:31my drift.
01:32As of now, this Red Magic 11 Pro is the most powerful smartphone on the planet, and it's
01:37time to get durability tested.
01:39Unfortunately though, it looks like the world's most powerful smartphone has a screen that
01:43scratches at a level 2 with deeper grooves at a level 3.
01:48That is until you remove the pre-installed screen protector.
01:50Got em.
01:51The really nice underrated feature of these Red Magic phones is that they are totally flat.
01:56No camera shelf, no camera bumps, just a pure smooth unrocking uniform flush panel on the
02:02back.
02:03It's kind of refreshing.
02:04We also see scratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7.
02:09You know, 6-7, just like we normally see.
02:11Right about here is where you might start noticing something is different on this phone.
02:16There is no front camera.
02:17There's no hole punch, no dynamic island, at least not one that's visible.
02:21The Red Magic 11 Pro does have a 16 megapixel hidden under screen selfie camera, protected
02:27by the same slab of gorilla glass.
02:29I'll turn off beauty mode since my mom says I'm beautiful just how I am.
02:33The camera is peeping up through the pixels, so it does soften the image textures a little
02:37with its algorithms.
02:38I imagine this would be a much better side by side comparison if I had some hair or detail
02:43to zoom in on.
02:45But alas, I look like a default NPC no matter which camera takes the picture.
02:50The sides of the Red Magic 11 Pro are made from aluminum.
02:53Here on the left we have the 520Hz shoulder trigger.
02:57Also a red texture dedicated gaming mode button that can max out the phone's performance and
03:02silence notifications while you're gaming.
03:04There's also the power button and volume rocker which aren't removable.
03:08The air intake vent is over here as well as the upper shoulder trigger, which is not scratchable.
03:13The top of the phone has a headphone jack, last from the past.
03:16Having lagless and lossless audio while gaming is essential for hearing the battleground footsteps.
03:22There's a reason top esports athletes always have corded headphones.
03:27Even Red Magic isn't messing around.
03:30The left side of the phone has the exhaust port from the internal turbofan and an RGB light
03:35strip on the side.
03:36The Red Magic 11 Pro is like having a desktop PC in your pocket.
03:41The bottom has its 80 watt USB-C 3.2 charging port and a dual sided SIM card tray.
03:47No expandable memory, which is a bummer, but the internal storage can be upgraded to 1 terabyte.
03:53And since the entire phone is water resistant this time around, IPX8, the red rubber ring
03:58helps keep the exterior water out.
04:00The interior water system is obviously allowed to stay.
04:03I can't tell if these are air bubbles flowing through the system or just different colored
04:08liquids.
04:09You know, like a lava lamp.
04:10I imagine it's an oil of some kind that doesn't mix with the coolant.
04:14The back glass is completely transparent and flat, no textures to be had, not even around
04:19the camera bones.
04:20We have a 50 megapixel normal camera, a 50 megapixel wide angle, and a 2 megapixel third camera
04:27along with a quad LED flash for some reason.
04:30Four LEDs does seem a little overkill, but then I remembered what phone I'm holding.
04:34This whole thing is over the top in the best way possible.
04:37I imagine that Red Magic has managed to seal off the internal ducting from immersion, which
04:42is really cool.
04:43But since there's an X in the IPX8 rating, there is still no protection against dust.
04:48Which makes sense since I can touch the turbo fan with my tweezers.
04:52Not that you should or anything, but sometimes the intrusive thoughts just win.
04:57Something else you should probably not do is light your phone on fire.
05:01The Red Magic 11 Pro has a 95.3% screen to body ratio.
05:06For reference, the iPhone 17 Pro has a 91.1 screen to body ratio, meaning that the iPhone has
05:12much less screen in its screen when compared to Red Magic.
05:16At 144Hz and 1 billion colors, the Red Magic lasts for 20 seconds before a white mark starts
05:22appearing on the display.
05:24But then the AMOLED completely recovers.
05:26As for kicks and giggles, I decided to light the cooling loop on fire as well.
05:30But the fire had no effect, probably because the liquid is circulating and moving that heat
05:35away from the flame just like it was designed to do.
05:38We'll dive more into this in a second.
05:40Finally, the bin test.
05:42The eSports industry is valued at about 2 billion dollars right now, so rage quitting
05:46has a bit more weight to it when money is on the line.
05:49But for the people who haven't seen Miss Rachel or learned how to handle big feelings just yet,
05:54it's good to know that this phone can handle the physical aggression of losing just fine.
05:58No bending, cracks, kinks or damage when bent from the back nor the front.
06:03This brick of a Red Magic phone is just as solid this year with its cooling loop as it was
06:07last year without it.
06:09The Red Magic 11 Pro survives my durability test.
06:13But is the cooling loop effective?
06:15Does it actually accomplish anything?
06:17Only the insides of the Red Magic 11 Pro can answer that question for us.
06:21I'll grab my 32 bit precision toolkit collab with iFixit – link in the description – and
06:26use heat to soften the adhesive around the transparent back glass slab.
06:30If brute force won't open the phone, maybe some finesse will.
06:34If you look closely, the bubbles inside the cooling loop disband into much smaller dots as
06:38the glass gets too hot to touch.
06:40This is definitely how oil or wax would react under heat, so I definitely don't think the
06:45dots are air bubbles.
06:46The tinted oil groups back together again as the glass cools back down.
06:50Red Magic says the internal cooling loop is filled with an unfreezable server grade fluorinated
06:55liquid, which is good for heat dissipation.
06:58It's good to know that if you leave your phone out in the snow, you won't be breaking any pipes.
07:02With the back glass entirely removed, everything still looks the same since the glass is transparent.
07:08But if we remove the decal covering the lower half of the phone, we reveal the loop in
07:12its entirety.
07:13And I for one am surprised that Red Magic decided to cover most of this up.
07:18It's like alien technology in here.
07:20And at first glance, it does look like the loop is using the air duct and cooling fan as
07:25a radiator up top, just like in a gasoline powered vehicle engine.
07:29I'm kind of extremely impressed.
07:31Apple's going to go wild when they discover this in 10 years.
07:34I'll remove the 20 T4 screws holding down the back metals on the phone frame.
07:39I was a little too excited to find out how the cooling loop works that I forgot to turn
07:43off the phone.
07:44Hopefully that doesn't come back to haunt us later.
07:46I would make a terrible doctor.
07:48The top NFC pad and camera rings come off first.
07:51Then the internal air duct, cooling fan, active cooling loop, and piezoelectric ceramic micro
07:56pump come off next.
07:58You can see the liquid is still squishy inside the loops.
08:01At this point we see where the ducting sits on top of the top of the line Snapdragon HN5 as
08:06well as where the fan touches the vapor chamber on the backside of the battery, helping to
08:10conductively pull heat away from both objects at the same time.
08:14The red gaskets at either end of the duct are for waterproofing.
08:17It looks like water is allowed to enter into the air duct itself, but the red rubber rings
08:22keep liquid away from the rest of the phone's sensitive electronics.
08:26The mesh over the air intake will help keep larger dirt and debris from entering the air
08:30duct itself while the red gaskets seal off the main board and keep it protected.
08:34Kind of ingenious.
08:35The blue cooling loop circles around an 80 watt wireless fast charger, which I totally
08:40forgot to even mention since everything else in this phone is so cool.
08:44An 80 watt wireless fast charger doesn't even register as a feature even though that's the
08:48main event on some other phones.
08:50We can see where the tips of the cooling loop touches the metal ductwork.
08:54It is just the tip however, which gets the job done, but I wouldn't mind seeing some
08:59more coverage in the future.
09:00The pump that moves the liquid is a piezoelectric ceramic micro pump down in the bottom corner.
09:05This guy basically vibrates like a piezoelectric speaker, but thanks to the one way check valves
09:10in the liquid, the vibrations act like a pump, moving the liquid around inside the loop.
09:16It's kind of fascinating, and I hope it all works when I put it back together.
09:20Speaking of speakers, the lower loudspeaker comes out next.
09:23There is a small hole in the top, but I don't immediately see any balls inside.
09:27I'll unplug the two plugs on the battery.
09:29Red Magic has included pull tabs on either side, but even with the pull tabs, the battery
09:34is not budging.
09:38So why drop some isopropyl alcohol down around the edges to assist the tabs?
09:43Then the massive 7,500 milliamp hour battery comes right out.
09:51For reference, this is more than double the capacity of the iPhone 17.
09:55Tim Cook is not cooking as much as his name implies.
10:02I'll pop off the flash plastics just like a little Lego, then make my way down to unclip
10:06several extension ribbons that traverse along the battery cavity.
10:10The front 16 megapixel camera looks pretty normal from the inside, even though it can peep
10:14through pixels.
10:16There is one silver Phillips head screws along the bottom edge of the motherboard holding
10:19it all in place.
10:20After that, the board is still pretty stuck into the frame, but with a little finesse we
10:24can wiggle it out and take a look at the optical image stabilization on the 50 megapixel main camera.
10:30The 50 megapixel wide angle camera still in the phone does not have any physical OIS.
10:35If we make our way down to the 4D vibrator and charging port board, I'll unclip the display
10:39ribbon and underscreen ultrasonic fingerprint scanner.
10:43And we can see that the USB 3.2 port has a red rubber ring to help with that IPX8 water
10:48resistance rating.
10:49And of course we can finally see the industry's largest vapor chamber back behind all the components.
10:55Between this passive vapor chamber and active fan and active cooling loop, I imagine the
11:00Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will have the highest frame rates of any phone in the galaxy since
11:05nobody else even comes close to matching what Red Magic is doing internally.
11:10Red Magic is so far ahead of the pack they'd need a telephoto camera to see their competition,
11:15but they obviously didn't include one since winners never look back.
11:19With everything placed back in the phone, she boots up and blasts off into a gaming utopia.
11:25And I'd like to personally thank Red Magic for keeping the rest of the smartphone world
11:29on their toes.
11:30It's always a pleasure seeing new age, bleeding edge technology from the inside.
11:35The pricing is down in the description.
11:37And thanks a ton for watching.
11:38I'll see you around.
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