It's still a bargain buy if you want the most power possible on an Android phone, and its gaming optimizations can prove genuinely useful. With only a handful of upgrades since the previous model, the RedMagic 7S Pro stands out and falls down in the same areas as the RedMagic 7 Pro and the RedMagic 7. That’s worth the effort, though, as the trigger buttons make for a far more natural gaming experience if you're used to playing on a gamepad. You can set these up to activate a specific area of the screen on a per-game basis, meaning you can use them only when you want to. The RedMagic 7S Pro also features two capacitive trigger buttons on the phone's right side. That means a thick handset with a plastic and metal back and thicker-than-average display bezels, but also some welcome touches like a headphone jack and a smooth back with flush-fitted cameras that keep the phone stable when you lay it flat on a table. Here's a quick rundown of some of the RedMagic 7S Pro's other abilities.ĭesign: The overall design of the RedMagic 7S Pro hasn't changed that much from the basic RedMagic 7 or 7 Pro. RedMagic 7S Pro review: Other featuresĪ gaming phone is still a smartphone with all the same features and functions as more typical handsets. It takes the Black Shark Pro 5 18 minutes to go from drained to fully charged. That puts the RedMagic 7S Pro at almost the top of our fastest charging phones.
Still, a 65W brick is pretty powerful.Ĭharging from 1% (with the phone’s cooling fan on), I got to 60% in 15 minutes and 95% in 30 minutes. a little disappointing since the Chinese version of this phone gets a 135W charger for even quicker refueling. The RedMagic ships with a 65W wired charger in the U.S. That's high enough to land it a spot among our best phone battery life champions, but it doesn't quite beat the amazing 15-hour-plus result managed by the ROG Phone 6 Pro. In our testing, we found the phone lasted 10 hours and 48 minutes on our custom TG battery test when set to its maximum 120Hz refresh rate, and as high as 12 hours and 48 minutes when locked to a basic 60Hz. RedMagic 7S Pro review: Charging and battery lifeĪs with the Red Magic 7 Pro, the sequel sports a 5,000 mAh battery, which should make for impressive battery life.
As you'd hope, this gaming phone plays games very well. At max graphics settings, with the sunlight glinting off of the roof of my bright yellow touring car and mud sprayed on the fenders, the game ran perfectly smooth, and even the furthest details of the stands around the finish line looked sharp. In a more typical test of the RedMagic's abilities, I raced a few laps in Grid: Autosport, and was thoroughly impressed.