In front of us today we have three bezel-less,
wall-to-wall displayed smartphones that not only have a 5th generation hidden under-screen camera,
but also no camera bump on the back. No camera rings, no humps, lumps,
or rumps whatsoever on the back panel. The Red Magic 9 Pro comes in textured sleet,
cyclone, or my favorite, snowfall. I’ll be giving away the two untouched
phones at the end of this video. Snowfall, however,
is about to go through some things. I’ve noticed during my career that all the
cool smartphone features seem to appear on gaming phones first. The rest
of androids get them a few years later. And iPhone users will be seeing all
this tech for the first time around 2030. Let’s get started. No lips
catching lint and no snagging pockets. In a world where everyone else seems to be competing for the biggest bump, Red Magic is not only eliminating the protruding rear lenses,
but also hiding the entire front camera under the screen. Red Magic is nice enough
to include a plastic screen protector. It looks completely non-existent, but I assure you
there is a 16 megapixel front facing camera hidden under these pixels. I got to thinking, which is dangerous I know,
if a camera can peep outward through these pixels, what if we use a microscope camera to
peep our way back into the pixels to see what’s behind the screen? And it works surprisingly well. We can indeed see the camera, and if we enhance some more,
we can see the individual amoled diode, that the 16 megapixels are peeping through. There is a surprising amount of free real estate in between these pixels, and feel free to take a good long look, because if you’re under 40,
it’s the only real estate that’s left. We’ll check the camera quality in a second. I feel like my mind has already been blown so many times by this phone, and we haven’t even gotten to the 10 layer cooling system and
programmable RGB turbo fan on the back. Red Magic says that this fan, and an internal sandwich of thermal dissipation, can reduce the overall temperature of the processor by 18 degrees Celsius,
while only being 4 decibels. It sucks air in through the right side, and
spits that air out near the fan on the left side of the phone, strong enough to blow
little slivers of paper across my desk. Spinning at 22,000rpms, my tweezers aren’t
quite able to reach the ultra thin fins. But, if you happen to have a motherboard of a torn down OnePlus Open Lane around, as one often does, which also has a frayed signal wire,
the cooling fan is most definitely penetratable, and transparent enough that
we can count the fins rotating inside. It spins back up again after getting stopped,
so I don’t think we’ve harmed it permanently yet. That will come later. First, we’ve got to put that underscreened selfie
camera of the Red Magic 9 Pro up against an iPhone 15 Pro. I’ll turn off the beauty filter,
since my head is already smooth enough. At first glance, it’s actually pretty solid. There is a bit more glare off the lights, and
the overall image is definitely softer than the iPhone 15. But the Red Magic 9 Pro’s underscreened selfie
camera still takes very usable pictures. While the camera itself is still very much entirely
positively invisible to the outside world, pretty wild. With the camera being hidden under the display,
it means that the display itself is now the lens. And luckily for Red Magic,
as we work our way up through the Mohs scale of hardness, we see that indeed the 9 Pro scratches at a
level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7. Red Magic is using Gorilla Glass 5. The sides of the phone are made from aerospace grade aluminum, with corner triggers on each end of the frame for extra gaming functionality. At 520 hertz, these non-scratching shoulder triggers
can sense your fingers touch, before your finger
even realizes it’s touching something. The textured red gaming mode switch is metal, the circular power button is metal, the volume rocker is metal,
and the fan grill is also metal. The grill leads to a sealed metal channel
running over the top of the processor. Making our way to the top of the phone,
whoa, it’s been a while. This circular hole is actually a really cool
port for audio called a headphone jack. This guy eliminates phonic delays by allowing a hardwire
connection for extreme gaming scenarios where milliseconds matter. An ultra-premium
port these days and a rare sight indeed. The bottom of the Red Magic 9 Pro has our lower stereo speaker, 80 watt USB-C port, which apparently charges dual batteries inside,
and also has our metal cover dual SIM card tray with a red rubber ring. With the fan and everything else going on inside of this phone,
there is no official IP rating, but it’s good to see that
some ingress protections have been made. Making our way to the extraordinarily flat back panel,
we see it’s made from glass and includes the camera lenses. We have our 50 megapixel main camera up top
and a 50 megapixel wide angle camera in the middle with our perfectly aligned turbo fan
aesthetically complementing the array. The only thing protruding
ever so slightly is the dual LED flash. I gotta point out though, that the sleet covered
Red Magic 9 Pro has an absolutely wild texture on the back, like a DJ record scratch or someone trying
to operate a ham radio in an Apocalypse movie, but both panels are made from glass and
won’t be scratched up by a razor blade. The wall-to-wall display
Red Magic installed on this thing is 6.8 inches and has a 120 hertz refresh rate with an instant
touch sampling rate of 2000 hertz. Again, the screen knows you’ve touched it before you know you’ve touched it, which means you can’t blame hardware for lag anymore. The fire doesn’t really have much to do with anything,
but the AMOLED screen does last for about 20 seconds
before going white and mostly recovering. If we crank the internal turbo fan up to full blast,
it is capable of blowing out a fully lit lighter, which is cool… or hot. Pretty sure this Red Magic 9 is the first phone
that can actually defend itself against the burn test. Thumbs up for that. Finally, setting my fingerprint with another sensor that sits below the pixels, everything goes pretty smoothly. And after adding some level 7 deeper grooves to the glass surface, the 9 Pro is still able to read and unlock my phone every single time. However, with regards to the bend test, if
you’re looking for a gaming phone that you can rage quit by snapping in half, this
is not going to be the phone for you. The Red Magic 9 Pro is most definitely solid from both the front and the back, with the flat glass pieces inlaid inside an aluminum
frame and additional metal for the internal air ducting. This Red Magic 9 Pro, just like all of its predecessors that came before, has the structure to survive my durability test. Nice work, Red Magic. I’m already looking forward to the teardown. There’s also a link down in the description
if you want to check her own pricing. Thanks a ton for watching. I’ll see you around.