ZDNET's key takeaways The Redmagic 10S Pro will be available now, starting at $699.
The 10S Pro harnesses impressive power, making it an absolute delight for gamers and power users.
Average users might find they have to do a bit of tweaking to get the 10S Pro to their liking. View now at Redmagic View now at Amazon more buying choices
I've been using Pixel phones for a long, long time, and every so often I think, "Is it time to try something different?" But each time I stray, I inevitably come back to the Pixel way of thinking.
Every once in a while, though, a phone comes across my desk to make me think, "This could be the one!" One such phone is the Redmagic 10S Pro. I recently reviewed the Redmagic 10 Pro and found that to be a phone worthy of replacing my Pixel 9 Pro.
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Little did I know that Redmagic had something even more powerful up its sleeve, in the 10S Pro. Even though the 10 Pro was a stellar device, with more than enough power to run all the apps and games I wanted, the 10S gives the performance a bump.
My experience
Physically, the front of the 10S Pro is fairly typical-looking. But the back of the phone is transparent, revealing the battery, the cameras and lights, and an engraved Snapdragon logo on the CPU. It looks sweet.
Speaking about the phone's performance, let's go beyond sheer power, because blistering speed (which the 10S Pro has) isn't the only important aspect when selecting a new phone. I've been saying, for a very long time, that Google needs to up the ante with the Android UI because it's grown so boring and stale.
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