Nubia launched its first-ever 5G-enabled gaming phone, the Red Magic 5G, in March earlier this year. It was a feature-rich smartphone with a 144Hz display, Snapdragon 865 chipset, 64MP cameras, and more. Today, the Chinese giant has taken the wraps off its successor – Red Magic 5S with major upgrades on the thermal front.
With the announcement of the Snapdragon 865+ chipset earlier this month, we were expecting Red Magic 5S to have this new overclocked chipset onboard. The company, however, has stuck with the Snapdragon 865 on the Red Magic 5S — the same as its predecessor.
Nubia has included a silver-plated heat sink in the middle of the back panel of the Red Magic 5S. The RGB Red Magic branding is gone and is replaced with silver, which offers better thermal conductivity. In addition, there are also liquid cooling tubes, high thermal conductivity copper foil, thermal gel, multilayer heat dissipation graphite, and L-shaped liquid cooling tubes
Red Magic 5S has been priced starting at 3,799 yuan (around Rs. 40,600) for the 8GB+128GB base variant. You will have to shell out 4399 yuan (around Rs. 46,999) for the 12GB+256GB variant, and 4,999 yuan (around Rs. 53,500) for the 16GB+256GB variant.
The smartphone will be available to buy in two color variants, namely Sonic Silver and Pulse. It will go on sale from 1st August in China. There is currently no information on whether Nubia plans to brings its 5G-enabled gaming phone to India.
