Nubia Red Magic 5S launched with 144Hz display and better cooling system

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Nubia is one of the OEMs that’s completely dedicated to making gaming smartphones. After launching the Red Magic 5G earlier this year, the ZTE owned company has today launched a redesigned variant of that, as Red Magic 5S. It’s similar to its counterpart in most specs but varies in he at dissipation system. Here’s what all it got;

Nubia Red Magic 5S Specifications

The Red Magic 5 has a 6.65″ 1080 × 2340p resolution and a 82.5% screen-to-body ratio. It has not notches but has a 144Hz refresh rate and a 240Hz touch sampling rate. Further, it has capacitive touch triggers that push the touch sampling rate to 320Hz! With 19.5:9 aspect ratio, the display is protected by the Gorilla Glass.

It runs on Android 10 based Red Magic 3.0 bloatware. Under the hood, it’s got the Snapdragon’s 865 SoC, which is an octa-core processor with 2.84GHz as peak clocking speed. Running on 7nm+ process, it has the Adreno 650 GPU embedded in. It has up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 onboard storage.

It has a triple rear setup as, one 64-megapixel (f/1.8) Sony IMX686 lens as the primary sensor, an 8-megapixel (f/2.0) as an ultra-wide lens and a 2megapixel as a macro lens. Upfront, there’s an 8-megapixel (f/2.0) lens for selfies. The rear cameras are capable of recording 4K videos at 30fps.

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With the in-display fingerprint sensor, it has an audio jack, NFC, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5, USB Type-C port. It has a decent battery worth 4500mAh capacity, that supports 55W fast charging. Taking about gaming capabilities, it overhauls the cooling systems in previous Red Magic 5G with a new silver-plated vapour chamber.

The usage of this ICE Ag silver plate is more beneficial than other gaming phones which use the cooling pipe technologies, which could throttle the performance. Further, it also retains the cooling fan of 15,000 RPM as in Red Magic 5G.

Nubia Red Magic 5S Pricing and Availability

This handset comes in two color variants as in Silver and Red/Blue splash. The prices are set as;

• 8GB + 128GB is for ¥3,799 (~$543)
• 12GB + 256GB is for ¥4,399 (~$628) and
• 16GB + 256GB is for ¥4,999 (~$714)

All these variants will be available in China starting August 1st, and sales for other markets may start in September this year.

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