The RedMagic 10 Pro is a $649 gaming phone with higher-end hardware, and it offers a great value in terms of what you get – at least on paper. When I played Dead Cells, I used the phone’s gameplay mode to remove the frame cap and toggle higher resolution graphics, and it still played at a solid 90 frames per second. Mortal Kombat Mobile instantly ran at the full 144fps, the highest the screen supports. And while Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is an older title, the Android version controls easily, thanks in part to the responsive 960Hz touch sampling rate — but I still recommend using a controller. Games like the aforementioned Dead Cells look vibrant and smooth; however, after a few days of testing the RedMagic 10 Pro, it’s otherwise largely hit-or-miss in terms of being a good phone.
The RedMagic’s beefy specs include a Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, whose fast speeds I first tested with the Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro. The RedMagic 10 Pro supports 100-watt wired charging speed to power…