The gaming smartphone segment may still be niche, well, at least the flagship space. But, there are select few phone makers who are fueling growth in this segment. This includes Xiaomi-backed Black Shark, Asus ROG, and Nubia’s gaming-centric Red Magic brand. The latter has today taken the wraps off its much-awaited Nubia Red Magic 5G smartphone in China. And it’s the first phone with a 144Hz display and has the Snapdragon 865 chipset, 64MP triple camera, 55W fast-charging, and a lot more.
Right off the bat, you can notice that Nubia has polished the design but still kept most of the gaming-centric elements intact. Nubia Red Magic 5G features an X-shaped pattern on the rear, with the RGB light strip now being replaced with the RGB Red Magic logo. It’s flanked by the triple camera at the top and Red Magic logo at the bottom.
Since this is a gaming phone, Nubia Red Magic 5G also includes Dual ICA touch shoulder buttons on the right edge. This means the shoulder buttons have two-touch support, with up to 300Hz touch sampling rate (it’s an industry first). Each shoulder button can be programmed to perform two separate tasks, such as scope-in first and then shoot on the same button. There’s also pogo pins on the left edge to dock different accessories, which Nubia launched alongside the device. You can check them out right here.
Nubia Red Magic 5G has been priced at 3,799 yuan (around Rs. 40,300) for the 8GB+128GB base variant. It comes in three attractive color variants (translated from Chinese) namely Cybershow Rainbow, Hacker Black, and Mars Red. There are 3 other configurations for this device and we have listed them below:
