Nubia, a ZTE brand has launched the Red Magic gaming smartphone in China. One of the key feature of this smartphone is its design, featuring a 16.8 million colour RGB LED panel at the back and an aviation-grade aluminium alloy build with a diamond-cut surface and vector aesthetics. The Nubia Red Magic sports air-cooling technology with nine air radiation slots to assist in thermal dissipation, apart from three-layer graphite lamination technology. The dedicated gaming button lets users activate gaming mode, which gives users the option to disable incoming calls, messages, and other notifications for an uninterrupted gaming experience. The button also enables increased gaming performance with a turbo acceleration mode, and the company says it has been optimised for 128 games for now to provide improved performance and faster game loading speeds.
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Let us take a look at the specifications of this new gaming smartphone by Nubia
The Nubia Red Magic features a 6-inch full-HD+ (1080×2160 pixels) LTPS TFT display that provides an 85 percent screen-to-body ratio. It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC (four cores clocked at 1.9GHz and four cores clocked at 2.36GHz) coupled with two Ram variants such as 6GB/8GB. This smartphone also comes in two internal storage variants such as 64GB/128GB which is not expandable. This dual-SIM (Nano) device runs the Nubia Red Magic OS that’s based on Android 8.1 Oreo. Coming to the camera department, the Nubia Red Magic packs a 24-megapixel camera on the rear side with a ISOCELL image sensor and a 6-piece motor driven lens. Up front, it packs an 8-megapixel camera with a BSI sensor, 76-degree wide-angle lens and a 3-piece lens.
In terms of connectivity options, it includes 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac (dual band, 2.4GHz and 5GHz), Bluetooth v5.0, GPS/ A-GPS, USB Type-C, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. About sensors on board, it includes an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, gyroscope, magnetometer, and proximity sensor. The new Nubia Red Magic is fuelled by a huge 3800mAh non-removable battery with NeoPower 3.0 and Nubia fast charging support. It also bears a TAS2555 amplifier for improved audio performance and DTS Audio support.
Now, let us take a look at the price of this new gaming smartphone
The all new Nubia Red Magic cost starts at CNY 2,499 (roughly Rs. 26,000) for the 6GB RAM, 64GB storage variant. On the other hand, for the 8GB RAM, 128GB storage variant it is priced at CNY 2,999 (roughly Rs. 31,000). The smartphone is up for pre-orders and will go on sale from April 25.
