A few days ago Nubia’s Red Magic 9 Pro was officially launched outside China, where it was initially launched last month. We’ve already put the gaming beast through our usual in-depth review pace, so check it out if you haven’t already.
Also as usual, YouTube channel JerryRigEverything brought out Jack tools and subjected the Red Magic 9 Pro to its traditional ‘durability test’ to see how it withstands scratches, burns and bends.
Spoiler alert: Very well, as it turns out. The scratch test is pretty much the same for all devices these days, except for foldables. All non-folding screens are covered by glass, and the glass scratches at level 6 on the Mohs hardness scale, with deeper scratches at level 7.
Subjecting the display to an open flame – that’s a pretty extreme use case, isn’t it? And regardless, all OLED displays behave almost the same in this case, the affected pixels turn white after a short time (usually less than about 30 seconds, in this case 20), and in most cases, but not completely recover. So far, then.
This is the bend test where most phones do well, but some do very poorly from time to time. It’s a long shot to cut a handset in half, especially if it’s a gaming phone, and since the Red Magic 9 Pro has some weird openings for fans, we were anxious to see how it would do.
We’re happy to report that it survived without a hitch. It was bent in both directions with force and nothing happened – structural integrity was never threatened. It’s commendable, the designers have really done a great job with it.
