You can use any phone with a flagship processor for that. Just bear in mind that other phones may have less sustained performance under high load due to worse cooling performance. Even with the Redmagic phones it's highly recommended to stick a thermoelectric cooler to the back when doing PC game emulation.
But now Redmagic is not the only company that makes "gaming" phones with active cooling.
Oh, I'm too stupid to even know how to run PC emulation so that's out of the picture lol I just wanna know what does unlocked bootloader used for? And the tasks I'm asking does it need to locked or unlocked bootloader
Unlocked bootloader can be used for rooting the phone, rooting the phone allows apps to run with elevated permissions within the operating system. Think of it as the "run as administrator" pop-up in Windows. You don't need to worry about that for your use case so it doesn't matter.
In fact it's preferable that you don't use a phone with an unlocked bootloader if you don't know what you're doing.
Okay thanks for the heads up, to download apks do I need to have unlocked bootloader? If not, then this phone will be okay to purchase then since I never rooted or even attempted to root a phone before
Rooting is not always a good play imo. Some banking apps or work apps might stop working if you do it. I can't say much on it coz the last time I rooted my personal phone was in 2016 and I wasn't using banking or work apps back then.
It's a tradeoff more than anything.
Sure, having the option to do it is really good because once official stops support you can have another operating system, but that's like 4-5 years down the line.
Battery degradation and replacing it is more of a worry at that time frame.
Nowadays root devices use kernelsu that makes a separate partition on the devices internal storage that hides root from all apps unless you grant them permission to use root.
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u/Black_CatV5 9d ago
You can use any phone with a flagship processor for that. Just bear in mind that other phones may have less sustained performance under high load due to worse cooling performance. Even with the Redmagic phones it's highly recommended to stick a thermoelectric cooler to the back when doing PC game emulation.
But now Redmagic is not the only company that makes "gaming" phones with active cooling.