Today, ASUS announced the ROG Phone 2 – the first smartphone powered by the new Snapdragon 855+ processor. It has been reported it won’t go on sale until September but we will confirm after the launch in China tomorrow. Nubia also teased that it will launch a Snapdragon 855+ smartphone. The teaser poster even has “Red Magic 3” written on it but new info has surfaced, revealing the official name of the device.
According to a tweet by Sudhanshu Ambhore (Sudhanshu1414), Nubia’s Snapdragon 855+ smartphone will launch as the Red Magic 3S. This makes for a good name and even seems better than adding the “Plus” suffix if the only thing that will be changing will be the processor. Devices with “Plus” in their names usually denote that it is a bigger version of the standard variant.
The upcoming Snapdragon 855 Plus phone from Nubia is the Nubia Red Magic 3S. pic.twitter.com/Ee0vVZc6NQ
— Sudhanshu Ambhore (@Sudhanshu1414) July 22, 2019
The info is unconfirmed, so we advise you to take it with a pinch of salt. However, it doesn’t sound far-fetched. We also can’t confirm if Nubia won’t be changing anything else from the standard variant. We presume the Red Magic 3S may also get a special color variant unavailable for the standard edition.
Nubia is yet to announce a release date. We hope it is near and we hope when it launches, we don’t have to wait until September before it is available for purchase.
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