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for the longest time now I've wondered why gaming and Android hasn't taken off in a bigger way while there are lots of good games on Android the Play Store caters by far more towards the casual audience and when I sit down for a proper gaming session even I find myself reaching for the Nintendo switch or my GPD win - it's not the power the best-selling game on the switch is fortnight and that runs just fine on Android as we all know it's not development making games for Android is really easy in fact I showed you how to do that once in just seven minutes using unity it could be the battery but then again that doesn't explain why people don't play more Android in their living rooms or using a power bank so maybe it's buttons and if that's the case then the nubia red magic Mars might just have the solution but let's rewind for a moment the nubia red magic Mars is an Android phone sporting a snapdragon 845 chipset along with 6 gigabytes of RAM at the base model or all the way up to 10 if you want to go full spec the version I'm using has got a gigabyte and storage is also very generous you can get 64 gigabyte X 128 or 256 for those keeping track that's the same chipset that's found in the note 9 the azusa rogue phone the razor - lots of far more expensive devices this one comes in at 399 dollars for the starting price it also puts this way ahead of the similarly priced on a play with its Kirin 970 processor in terms of price to specs ratio then the closest competition comes from the extremely good value paka phone f1 and in fact this one performs even better than that when it comes to benchmark scores you have dual heat pipe cooling and convection cooling both of which seem to do a really good job and when running some rather demanding apps I didn't notice to get warm at all so that was very impressive it is worth noting at this point that the snapdragon 845 is a 20-18 processor and we can expect the 850 to find its way into the likes of the samsung s10 and also lots more gaming phones presumably in the year ahead that said there haven't even been any game phones announced with the 850 on the horizon so for now this is still the best performance you're going to get and especially at this price in terms of design the red magic Mars is very much a gaming phone through and through with lots of random lines all over the place RGB lighting and Aurora band they call it they kind of point on the back which annoyingly means you can't lie flat on the table if you're into the gamer aesthetic then you'll like it if you're not then it might be a bit much to swallow this is definitely a case of form over function also it does have dual speakers when I say dual speakers it's jewel in the same sense as the note 9 that means that you're using the earpiece and a small speaker down the bottom it's not quite as impressive as the razor 2 but it's still a big sound and it's very decent for the price then there's the 4d Rumble engine but unfortunately for now that's only supported by pub key and maybe a handful of other games and yeah it has shoulder buttons or at least shoulder touch capacitive patches and I actually clicky buttons there just touch sensitive areas I'll get more into those in a moment enough jibber-jabber what is this thing actually like to game with well performance wise I am very happy to report that this is up there with the very best still play anything that the play still has to offer on the highest settings with minimal frame drops it competes with the likes of the razor to the note 9 far more expensive devices this is G of course to the impressive specs the great cooling and if you went for the 10 gigabytes of RAM model I'm sure it'd be even better but I was most impressed of all with the emulation performance I was able to play Metroid Prime at a playable framerate without doing any performance tweaks oh and also Sonic Heroes this is the best game cube emulation experience I've had on an Android phone I even used the GPU segment of Garry's speedtest G and putted it against me razor - and the note 9 these are two phones I have lying around which is why I keep comparing it to those and it actually performs better than those devices in terms of its frame rate sure the screen doesn't show off these games in the very best light it's only 1080p any an IPS LCD display but most people aren't going to notice it's comparable to the poco phone f1 and it's better of course in the switch which has a 720p display in fact that slightly lower resolution should mean that the battery life lasts a bit longer whilst you're gaming and something that every gaming phone needs this device does have a very impressive battery life thanks to a 3,800 milliamp hour battery as for those shoulder buttons well yeah they're definitely a thing so the shoulder buttons might be a good idea in theory but in practice they maybe leave a little bit to be desired as I mentioned they're not actually or buttons despite being called miles triggers their capacitive touch sensors this means that they sit flush to the device they're very difficult to find so you'll find yourself often missing them when you're trying to press them which of course means that you get killed in whatever game you're playing at the same time there's a big lack of support most games aren't going to support shoulder buttons the time they do come in a bit handy is in emulation I did manage to map a couple of emulators so that the shoulder buttons would be the triggers on the control pad however not even every emulator is going to support this because some will force you to choose between the controller or touchscreen controls here you can definitely put these in the gimmick camp and that might be a bit of a shame but it's a good thing that the phone performs so well in terms of pure specs and speed and power but it doesn't really matter but I found myself actually liking a bit more is the switch at the top left you flick that and then you enter a game launch show where you can pick your games from a scroll wheel it can also access all sorts of game eccentric features like blocking notifications or overclocking the CPU to get a bit more performance out of the device and yeah it just made me a bit more inclined to get gaming and with performance this good being out to play Sonic Heroes and be able to jump into the games like that I actually found myself playing more android games than I have done for a while and really enjoying it so that's definitely a win for this device as a gaming phone yeah the good news is that it's actually also a really good phone in general even if you're not into gaming I've already hinted it actually gives the poker phone f1 a bit of a run for its money in terms of value a bit more expensive at $399 but you get some more features like Lee lighting like the cooling and you get a more stock vanilla Android experience and in terms of the camera it's nothing exciting to write home about you get one 16 megapixel shooter on the back with an F 1.8 aperture around the front you get an 8 megapixel shooter big surprise service that actually perform pretty well certainly better than have any right to they're not amazing don't get me wrong but there seems to be some post-processing it add some saturation to make photos nice and punchy the dynamic range and the exposure seems to work really well better than say the do GS 90 that I reviewed last you can't do any Bakke effects because there's only that one lens and doesn't have any a eye trickery but the aperture is wide enough that you can get some natural depth effects anyways in general it's not gonna blow your way and it's not as good as the Apocrypha and f1 in this case but it is a really decent camera considering every else getting for that price fear in conclusion this is not only a great gaming phone actually one of the best especially given the price but it's also a really good value for money phone for anyone if you love gaming and Android if you love pub G if you want to try some emulation in your pocket then you're gonna really like this phone especially if you can't afford something like me razor phone 2 or the rogue phone the other hand if you're a general user who wants just good value for money and great performance then this is a contender as well the only question then is whether you'll be able to live with that somewhat garish gamer aesthetic so there you go that's the new begin read magic Mars one to watch I think I hope you found this video useful and interesting if you did then please leave a like please share around that helps us out immensely head over to Android or authorities com if you want to read the full review the link will be in the description down below and whilst you're there why not take a look around we are your source for all things Android