The Red Magic 10 series is the generational upgrade of the gaming Red Magic lineup from nubia. The company is sticking to its bi-annual upgrade and we...
A Snapdragon Elite phone with giant 7000 mAh Silicon Carbon battery, 100 W charging, 144 Hz refresh rate and even a 3.5 mm jack. All of it is let down by the fact that it’s promised only one major OS upgrade.
Yeah it’s certainly interesting that at least one vendor is trying to push for such a specific extreme niche. You do have to give up pretty much everything else for it, only 1 year software support, on buggy software made by a very small and not-resourceful company with poor software quality and support track record, no SD card slot, no IP rating, and no unlockable bootloader even so no root and not custom ROM after they end the official software support, etc.
But yes, looks like if the only thing you need is the best of the best sustained performance, this one is the best choice among all phones with this SoC.
Permalocked bootloader is a hard pass for me. If I buy a device, that device is mine. If I want to install something on it, I will. If they prevent me from doing that, I will simply not buy the device.
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Holy crap that’s awesome
Yeah it’s certainly interesting that at least one vendor is trying to push for such a specific extreme niche. You do have to give up pretty much everything else for it, only 1 year software support, on buggy software made by a very small and not-resourceful company with poor software quality and support track record, no SD card slot, no IP rating, and no unlockable bootloader even so no root and not custom ROM after they end the official software support, etc.
But yes, looks like if the only thing you need is the best of the best sustained performance, this one is the best choice among all phones with this SoC.
Permalocked bootloader is a hard pass for me. If I buy a device, that device is mine. If I want to install something on it, I will. If they prevent me from doing that, I will simply not buy the device.
Cool concept. Very, very poorly implemented.
Exactly