After introducing true liquid cooling to its gaming phones final year, Redmagic is upping the ante in its 12 Pro by construction RGB lights into the transparent cooling loop, too.
And they work! Sort of. The lights do rotate on, and they can be set to glow in set patterns, activate for particular apps, or trigger for notifications and calls. The issue is that akin last year’s 11 Pro, the cooling scheme itself uses fluorescent blue liquid, which the lights have to activity against. Blue or pale lighting fair makes it appearance additional blue, green turns out turquoise, and red or orange lights mostly create colored bubbles swimming in a blue tide.
The liquid-cooling RGBs are joined by a few another lights throughout the phone, alongside a small circle below the chief camera, a flank ray that shines out from inner the chassis, and lean strips on the touch-sensitive high arm buttons. Those don’t have the liquid to activity against, so they radiance in the intended color and frequently appearance fairly distinct from the cooling ring. To complete the inconsistency, there are two strips of apparent liquid cooling without RGB lights in the phone’s top-right corner, about and below the Redmagic logo, so those volition be blue no matter what. Good fortune getting all of this to match.
The liquid cooling itself is improved beyond the lights, alongside output force of 130kPa, 85 percent up on the former generation. It’s formerly again joined by the two a built-in fan and a vapor chamber, which between them have to be adequate to keep the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 in check.
It’s joined by 12GB or 16GB of RAM (the 24GB type is apparently a casualty of RAMageddon) and 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB of storage. The 8,400mAh power division should final a day or two, equal during powering those lights and cooling, and the 80W charging is fairly fast. There’s an IP69 ranking for h2o and powder opposition throughout most of the phone, although that may not figure for much since the division about the fan is lone IPX8, alongside no rated powder protection, making for a beautiful ample feeble point. Existing Redmagic users may additionally be disappointed that the 3.5mm headphone jack has disappeared.
The cameras are predictably basic, too: a brace of 50-megapixel rear cameras, one chief and one ultrawide, neither alongside particularly ample sensors. The finest item concerning them is their design: entirely flush alongside the phone’s body, sitting underneath the identical pane panel that stretches throughout the remainder of the rear.
The another standout spec is the 185Hz refresh charge display, although akin most elevated refresh charge displays, it hits the max speed lone during certain compatible games. Redmagic boasts that this is the archetypal 185Hz display to characteristic an under-display selfie camera too, one of those achievements that’s a document by morality of its sheer specificity. The 16-megapixel camera current is extremely difficult to see — it’s much small apparent than the iPhone Duo’s under-display camera — but photo norm is limited. It’s fine adequate for video calls, but selfies appearance rubbish, and it uses assured AI beautification features that as finest as I can inform are unattainable to rotate off, perchance to assistance disguise how mediocre the norm is otherwise.
Redmagic isn’t immune to industrywide pricing pressure, so the 12 Pro starts at $949 — a $200 addition on the 11 Pro, and $100 up on May’s 11S Pro — climbing to $1,199 for the top spec. Every type includes the two liquid cooling and RGB lights at least, which wasn’t true the final period around. Preorders commencement November 12th, alongside shipping from the 18th.
Photography by Dominic Preston / The Verge
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