A couple of days ago nubia’s Red Magic 9 Pro officially launched outside of China, where it was initially unveiled last month. We’ve already put this gaming beast to the test in our usual in-depth review, so check it out if you haven’t already.
Also, as usual, Zack of the YouTube channel JerryRigEverything got out the tools and put the Red Magic 9 Pro through his usual “durability test” to see how well it can resist scratches, burns, and bends.
Spoiler alert: very good, apparently. Nowadays the scratch test is pretty much the same for all devices except foldables. All non-folding screens are covered with glass, and scratches on the glass are at level 6 on the Mohs hardness scale, with deeper grooves appearing at level 7.
As for subjecting the display to an open flame, that’s a pretty extreme use case, isn’t it? And regardless, all OLED displays behave more or less the same in this case, with the affected pixels turning white after a short period (usually about or less than 30 seconds, 20 in this case), and above all, but not completely resuming. So far, all is well.
It’s the bending test where most phones perform well, but some perform very poorly from time to time. A phone snapping in half is far from unheard of, especially if it’s a gaming phone, and since the Red Magic 9 Pro has some oddly placed openings for its fan, we were eager to see how the she would have gotten away with it.
We are happy to report, however, that he survived without any problems. He was bent hard from both sides and nothing happened: the structural integrity was never threatened. That’s commendable, the designers really did a great job with this.
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