Nubia was all set to launch its next-generation gaming smartphone named Nubia Red Magic 5G at the Mobile World Congress 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. However, the launch is now postponed as the MWC 2020 has been cancelled.
The company has said that it will soon announce a new launch date for the smartphone in the coming days or weeks but so far we haven’t heard any regarding this. It seems that instead of global launch, the Nubia Red Magic 5G smartphone will first launch in China and then make its way to other markets.
Ahead of the official launch, the smartphone has now appeared on Geekbench benchmarking platform, which has revealed some key specifications about the phone. It reveals that the device has codenames SUPER_DEVICE and SuperCharger SC-B0. The tipster also claims that the phone will come with 2K resolution display.
With those model numbers, Geekbench 4 has listed two variants of the smartphone packing 8GB RAM and 12GB RAM. The 8GB RAM model has scored 4,308 points in single-core and 13,537 in the multi-core test while the 12GB RAM model has scored 4,333 points in single-core and 13,489 points in the multi-core test.
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Nubia’s president and co-founder Ni Fei had earlier confirmed that the Red Magic 5G will be the “world’s first 144Hz 5G gaming phone”. It was also revealed that the phone will come powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC along with Snapdragon X55 modem for dual-mode SA and NSA 5G connectivity.
As per the leaks, the smartphone is expected to be the first to come with a massive 16GB of RAM in its top-end variant. It was previously revealed that the phone will have LPDDR5 RAM, which will be supplied by Samsung.
Recent image leak of the phone’s About section reveals that the smartphone is running the latest Android 10 operating system out of the box with a custom Redmagic OS version 3.0 user interface, along with January 2020 security patch. The smartphone is also said to have triple rear cameras, Wi-Fi 6, 240Hz touch sampling rate, and a built-in cooling fan.
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