Last week, Chinese manufacturer, Nubia, announced the RedMagic 6R gaming smartphone. The phone arrives as the third model in this year’s RedMagic 6 series. If you have been wondering if it will get a global release, then there is good news for you.

The official RedMagic Twitter account has announced today that the RedMagic 6R will get a global release soon. Thankfully, we don’t have to wait for the launch date as the official website has revealed that the phone will be unveiled on June 19.

The lil' bro of the RedMagic 6 Family has entered the chat. #RedMagic6R

— RedMagic (@redmagicgaming) June 3, 2021

The promo page also shows that the device will be available in two color variants – Blue and White.

The RedMagic 6R is a Snapdragon 888 powered gaming smartphone with a 6.67-inch AMOLED display that has a centered punch hole and a 144Hz refresh rate. The phone comes in multiple configurations, packing up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage.

For cameras, there is a 16MP in front for selfies and video calls while the rear packs a 64MP quad-camera setup that also includes an 8MP ultrawide angle camera, a 5MP macro camera, and a 2MP depth sensor.

This is a gaming phone, so it is no surprise that it has shoulder buttons on the right side of the frame. Other features are stereo speakers, DTS:X Ultra, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, and a 4200mAh battery with support for 55W fast wired charging. The device runs RedMagic OS 4.0 based on Android 11.

The RedMagic 6 and RedMagic 6 Pro are priced at $599 and $699 respectively, so our guess is that the RedMagic 6R will have a launch price of $499, and that may be for the 8GB RAM + 128GB version which sells for about $470 in China.

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Last week was packed full of announcements. Not only were there several new phones but we also got a handful of new tablets from two tech giants, a new operating system, and new CPU and GPU cores from Arm.

Redmi Note 8 2021

The Redmi Note 8 2021 was one of the devices announced last week. The refreshed phone which originally launched in 2019 now comes with a new processor and the latest version of Android. There is no price tag yet but it will be sold in Europe.

Fuchsia OS is official, rolls out to the Nest Hub

Fuchsia OS, the operating system in development by Google since 2016 is now official and the tech giant is pushing it out as an update to the first-gen Nest Hub which originally runs Cast OS. Google has bigger plans for the operating system but it is starting with its IoT devices, so expect to see the new OS power a lot more devices soon.

US drops Xiaomi from its trade blacklist

The United States has had no other choice than to Xiaomi has officially been removed from the US trade blacklist following a ruling from a US court. The company had taken the US Govt. to court following its addition to a list of companies designated as Communist Chinese Military Companies. The court has now ruled in favor of the Chinese tech giant.

Lenovo and Samsung’s new tablets battle it out

Both Lenovo and Samsung announced new tablets last week. The latter announced the Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021, Xiaoxin Pad Plus, and the YOGA Pad Pro while Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab S7 FE and the Galaxy Tab A7 Lite.

Arm’s new CPU cores are powerful and boast a new architecture

Arm’s CPUs and GPUs are the basis for a lot of mobile processors. Last week, it announced new ones that are not only powerful but also mark a big shift in architecture as they drop the 2011 Arm v8 for the new Arm v9.

The new CPUs include the Cortex-X2 performance core, the Cortex-A710 big core which succeeds the Cortex-A78, and the Cortex-A510 which succeeds the Cortex-A55 that was announced back in 2018. As you can see, Arm has switched from two digits to three for its big core and little cores.

For the new GPUs, we have the Mali-G710 and Mali-G610 for high-end chips and the Mali-G510 and Mali-G310, successors to the Mali-G57 and Mali-G31 for budget and mid-range chips. All of this GPUs are available with different cores, so that will play a role in their performance when they begin to appear in chipsets.

OPPO Reno6 series

The Reno6 series made its debut in China last week. The three devices come with high refresh rate displays, MediaTek and Qualcomm processors, and support for 65W fast charging across board.

Realme could switch back to ColorOS

When Realme first began shipping phones, the devices ran ColorOS. Along the line, it announced its own UI called realme UI, which is actually a fork of OPPO’s ColorOS. Now a recent survey carried out by the brand realme could switch back to ColorOS for its smartphones, though with some features exclusive to its own phones.

Redmagic 6R is a more affordable gaming flagship

Nubia’s RedMagic gaming smartphone brand announced a new model for its RedMagic 6 series last week. The RedMagic 6R is a proper flagship in its own right with its AMOLED display, 144Hz refresh rate, Snapdragon 888 chip, and support for 55W fast charging, but it is more affordable than its siblings with a starting price of under ~$450.

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The RedMagic 6 series is about to get a new member. Earlier this year, the gaming smartphone brand announced the RedMagic 6 and RedMagic 6 Pro. Now it is set to announce a third device that will be sold as the RedMagic 6R, and ahead of the launch, it has revealed some of its key specs as well as its AnTuTu score.

A Weibo post by the official RedMagic account has confirmed the gaming smartphone will have a Snapdragon 888 processor, the same one inside the other RedMagic 6 phones. The chipset will be combined with LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage.

The image attached to the Weibo post shows the device’ AnTuTu score of 845, 210 points which puts it just behind the Black Shark 4 Pro, the top device on the benchmark’s ranking for the month of May.

According to a TENAA listing, the phone will have a 6.67-inch OLED display with a 1080p+ screen. It will be available in different configurations with the highest having 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. There are 64MP quad rear cameras, on the back, an in-display fingerprint scanner, and a 4100mAh battery that is expected to support 55W fast charging. Nubia will ship it with Android 11 out of the box.

The RedMagic 6R is scheduled to be announced on May 27 in China but there is no info yet about it getting a global release.

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Last week, a smartphone called RedMagic NX666J was certified by TENAA. The listing revealed the design as well as all the key specifications of this handset. Now, we have learned the official name of this phone, thanks to its Bluetooth SIG certification.

The upcoming RedMagic NX666J smartphone has been certified by Bluetooth SIG with Bluetooth v5.2. According to the certification, this device will launch as RedMagic 6R (shortened). The handset’s exact brandings will be RedMagic 6 Racing and Tencent RedMagic Gaming Phone 6R respectively.

As per TENAA, this smartphone will sport a 6.67-inch FHD+ (2400 x 1080 pixels) OLED display. It will be powered by a 2.842GHz octa-core processor with support for 5G connectivity. This SoC will be coupled with 6GB/8GB/12GB RAM and 128GB/256GB/512GB internal storage.

Further, the phone will house a 64MP quad-camera setup on the back and a 16MP centered punch-hole selfie camera on the front. It will include all the essential sensors, such as an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, and in-screen fingerprint sensor.

The RedMagic 6R (NX666J) will run Android 11 and will be backed by a 4,100mAh battery (rated capacity). Lastly, it will measure 163.04 × 75.34 × 8.20mm in dimensions and weigh 186.4g.

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