Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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While Apple fans celebrate the 2016-era vapor chamber in the latest iPhone 17 Pro, the new RedMagic 11 Pro throws every cooling system ever found in a smartphone into a blender and adds one we’ve never seen before.

It’s a heat-dumping, bubble-pumping Franken-phone—but the real question is whether any of this sci-fi cooling survives a date with our spudger.

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Chapters
0:00 – RedMagic 11 Pro’s Sci-Fi Cooling Challenge
0:20 – Inside the RedMagic 11 Pro Thermal System
0:38 – Opening the RedMagic 11 Pro
1:19 – How the RedMagic 11 Pro Liquid Cooling Works
2:27 – RedMagic 11 Pro Battery Removal Problems
3:26 – RedMagic 11 Pro Modular Parts & Ports
4:25 – RedMagic 11 Pro Liquid Metal Cooling on the SoC
4:53 – RedMagic 11 Pro Repairability Score

This teardown is not a repair guide.

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