The release of the all-new Snapdragon 8 seems to be a watershed moment, separating the mobile phone market in 2021 and 2022. Before that, we have seen several devices equipped with this SoC, but for the performance limits of this chip, our cognition is still not clear, after all, for ordinary mobile phones, performance release is only one aspect of consideration, and can not be used as a pure performance reference, until recently we received the first game phone equipped with the new Snapdragon 8 SoC - Red Devil 7, we can really see its performance limits.
appearance
As a gaming phone, the appearance of the Red Devil 7 is destined to be extremely personalized. The one we have in our hand is a "Cyber Neon" color scheme, and the color base is blue and purple, supplemented by some yellow-green, forming a four-color gradient of color. In addition, the red devil is also quite detailed in the treatment of surface texture, and the three styles of glossy surface + concentric circles + metal-like brushing are presented on the back of the fuselage at the same time, with a grid decoration layer with great game elements, forming a punk style.
As a game device, the colorful light Buff is indispensable, the Logo under the Red Devil 7 fuselage has two modes of breathing and constant to switch, while the left and right sides of the fuselage are also placed RGB lights, with 16.8 million colors, 4096 levels of brightness adjustment, and even can be synchronized with some sound effects.
screen
Turning to the front, the Red Devil 7 uses a larger screen, the size of 6.8 inches, considering the problem of horizontal grip of the wrong touch, the Red Devil 7 still retains some upper and lower borders, so that when playing the game, the fingers can also be more comfortable.
According to official data, the Red Devil 7 screen has 100% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage and 1080P level resolution. In the game display device is the most concerned about the refresh rate, the Red Devil 7 is more than 165Hz, such a high refresh rate in the current market, is currently the highest in the industry. As a touch screen device, the touch sampling rate is also a topic worthy of attention, the refresh rate determines how much the user can see in a second, and the touch sampling rate determines how many times the mobile phone can detect the user's touch in a second, in theory, the higher the value, the more sensitive the touch of the mobile phone. The Red Devils 7 has increased the touch sampling rate to 720Hz this time, and the response time per click is as low as 7.4ms, which is also the top level in the current mobile phone.
In addition, the screen of Red Devil 7 also supports a new generation of under-screen fingerprint unlocking, which improves the unlocking success rate in cases such as wet hands, and can also detect heart rate, increasing many use scenarios; At the same time, many users are concerned about the low blue light, DC dimming function is not absent.
Gaming experience
The game experience is the core selling point of the Red Devil 7 and even the entire red devil mobile phone series, and the author believes that to form differentiation, performance and control are indispensable. At a time when everyone is known as the "Dragon Trainer", the performance of each family no longer depends only on what kind of SoC is used as in the early years, and heat dissipation and adjustment are more critical points. Red Devil 7 is the first mobile phone equipped with the new Snapdragon 8, in order to match this SoC, the Red Devil officially chose the full blood version of LPDDR5 + UFS3.1 memory and storage combination.
At the same time, this phone may also be the new Snapdragon 8 mobile phone with the most powerful heat dissipation specifications at present. According to reports, Red Devil 7 uses 9 layers of heat dissipation technology (high-speed centrifugal fan, aerospace grade heat dissipation material, ultra-flexible high thermal conductivity rare earth, canyon cooling air duct, superconducting copper foil, VC heat sink, high thermal conductivity gel, composite graphene, aviation aluminum middle frame).
In this heat dissipation material, we noticed an "ultra-flexible high thermal conductivity rare earth", according to the official introduction, this rare earth material can wrap the core heat source, improve the heat conduction efficiency, compared to the previous generation, this technology can reduce the temperature of the core heat source by 3 degrees Celsius.
The fuselage still has red devil's signature active cooling fan built in, and the new fan can be rpm at a speed of 20,000 rpm, which increases the wind pressure and reduces energy consumption and noise. The author actually tested it, the Red Devil 7 fan measured a maximum noise of 48.6 decibels when simulating the normal grip distance (about 30cm), although it is a perceptible volume, but this sound is far smaller than most of the game book' sound, if you turn on the game sound or wear headphones, its impact on the actual use is not large.
The fan is not turned on
Turn on Smart Adjustment mode
Turn on rapid cooling mode
In order to actually test the game performance of Red Devil 7, we also directly went to the most difficult project - "Original God" this test. We used the Red Devil 7 to play for 30 minutes in a row at the picture quality settings shown in the figure, and measured the frame rate curve.
As can be seen from the curve, the Red Devil 7 showed impressive stability in this level of "Proto-God" test, the average frame rate of the whole process reached 60FPS, the frequency of stuttering /Jank/BigJank was also controlled at 0.7 times/10min, and the author did only perceive two obvious stutters in the actual game, and they were all loaded in the game, and the time was extremely short, almost not affecting the normal game.
After 30 minutes of play, the author also gave the Red Devils 7 a heat test for the first time, and the test results showed that the highest temperature of the fuselage appeared near the lower half of the front, the surface temperature was 42.2 degrees Celsius, and the actual feeling was only a warm state, which the author thought was completely acceptable.
In terms of maneuverability, the Red Devils 7 has built-in dual independent IC touch shoulder buttons, touch sampling rate of 500Hz, with X-axis linear motor and 720Hz touch sampling rate screen, in response to "Peace Elite" such a game with a variety of buttons have a controller-level experience.
In fact, in the process of hand play, the author made a quick setting according to the recommendation, and it is easy to realize the operation of pressing the gun while walking. And because the touch sampling rate of these two touch buttons is already higher than the sampling rate of many flagship screens, there will be no perceptible delay when firing.
However, the X-axis linear motor officially declared by the Red Devils in terms of vibration feedback The author believes that there is still a lot of room for improvement, and the current stage of vibration feedback strength, texture and physical button gap is large, fortunately, the hardware foundation is in, and there is still a possibility of improvement in the follow-up.
Endurance
The Red Devils 7 fuselage is equipped with a 4500mAh battery, which is standard at present, and has a certain hardware guarantee for endurance. In order to actually test its endurance, we conducted a 3.5-hour endurance test on the Red Devils 7 as usual, and the test content is as follows:
1. One Hour Peace Elite Game (HDR HD + Extreme Frame Rate, Fan for "Smart Adjustment" mode)
2. One hour BiliBili online 1080P video playback
3. One hour of TikTok short video, refreshed every ten seconds
3.30 minutes 1080P video recording, turn on stabilization
4. All tests are conducted in a WiFi environment and the screen brightness remains 50%.
The test results showed that the Red Devils 7 had 47% of its remaining battery after 3.5 hours of testing. This data is inferior to ordinary flagship phones, but considering that this is a mobile phone with the main performance release, and the performance in the game is indeed quite good, the author believes that such a battery life is also a price that must be paid.
Compared with the battery life, charging is an important selling point of the Red Devils 7 this time. Thanks to the dual-cell technology, the Red Devil 7 can achieve a charging power of 120W, and the fan can be called for real-time heat dissipation during the charging process, making the peak power more durable. After our actual tests, it takes only 6 minutes for the Red Devil 7 to charge 50% of the power, which is about equal to the time of two songs, and it only takes 19 minutes to fully charge, which greatly enriches the use scenarios of the Red Devil 7 and allows users to forget about daily charging to a large extent.
Considering that many potential users of Red Devil 7 may be anchors, or users who have specially purchased a game phone to play games, this ability to quickly replenish the power is even more important, and it can be quickly charged to enough power at any time.
It is also worth noting that the red magic 7's built-in charging head is still a 165W gallium nitride charging head, which supports the PD protocol, which means that it can power the user's notebook, allowing the user to go out with less than a heavy charger.
image
The image part for the Red Devil 7 and the same category of game phones must not be as important as the ordinary flagship machine, the structural characteristics of the internal land of the mobile phone determine that manufacturers and consumers can not "I want it all", but the Red Devil 7 in order to ensure that users can have a better image experience, in the game hardware at the same time, but also for the player to provide mainstream image combination.
The Red Devils 7 is equipped with a 6400W pixel main camera + 800W pixel ultra-wide angle + 200W pixel macro lens, which can achieve quite a lot of photography gameplay with the Nubian family's "camera family". In the actual shooting, the main camera of the Red Devil 7 is still remarkable in a well-lit environment, due to its inherently high pixels, its resolution can be well restored in the face of architectural details. In addition, the camera is excellent in terms of anti-glare and tolerance, even when shooting at the sun, it can also control the overall accurate exposure, while suppressing most of the glare.
Filmed by The Red Devils 7
The Red Devil 7 is not equipped with a medium telephoto lens, but the high pixel of the main camera allows it to act as a lens with a focal length close to the equivalent of 50mm, and when the 2x crop zoom is performed, the overall sharpness of the photo is still remarkable, and there will be no excessive loss of image quality.
Shot by the Red Devils 7 2x cut
In contrast, ultra-wide angle performance is more general, and the overall exposure and color performance is normal.
Shot by the Red Devils 7 ultra-wide-angle lens
In terms of night scenes, the Red Devils 7 has a built-in night scene algorithm, which can be turned on when shooting. With the night mode turned on, the overall night scene performance is pure, the exposure is accurate, and the suppression of highlights is also quite excellent.
Shot in The Red Devils 7's main night mode
summary
The actual performance of the Red Devil 7 game phone is the same as its naming and appearance, it is very personalized and stylized, and its target users are also a group that has a large dependence on mobile games, and at the moment when mobile games are booming, the share of this market segment is enough to support a separate category. Among competitors, red devil 7 as the first equipped with a new snapdragon 8, 165Hz refresh rate screen, 500Hz touch shoulder button, 9 layers of heat dissipation technology, standard 165W gallium nitride charger, with 120W fast charging technology, mainstream image performance of the game phone, the first to deliver a satisfactory answer, with mature tuning experience and aggressive heat dissipation configuration, red devil 7 in the game experience first scored high, bringing a stable "Original God" performance, impressive. If you have a heavy demand for mobile games and want to have a full flagship performance, then the performance of the Red Devils 7 at this stage is already very worth considering.