RedMagic, the gaming brand of the ZTE sub-division Nubia, has launched a new smartphone in collaboration with the Chinese technology and gaming giant Tencent. The RedMagic 6 and 6 Pro are luxury devices now available in China, with a worldwide launch appearing later this month.
The RedMagic 6 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor, active fan cooling and a 6.8-inch 1080p OLED screen with a refresh rate of 165Hz, making it the fastest phone screen on the market today. RedMagic also claims a single finger-touch sample rate of up to 500Hz, or up to 360Hz with multitouch. The touch-sensitive capacitive “shoulder triggers” on the side are meanwhile sampled to 400Hz.
The RedMagic 6 Pro is mostly identical, but it has up to 18 GB of RAM and has a faster charging system of 120 W which according to RedMagic can fully charge the 4500 mAh battery within 17 minutes. The non-Pro 6 has a larger 5.050mAh battery, but a slower 66W system that lasts 38 minutes for a full charge.
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The Tencent collaboration is quite unusual. RedMagic says the phone’s software is optimized for Tencent applications like WeChat and QQ, with 50 percent faster read and write speeds. Tencent’s Solar Core gaming software is also preloaded, and the company promises to improve speed response speed, frame rates and network latency.
The RedMagic 6 starts at 3,799 yuan (~ $ 585) for a model with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage, but you can pay almost twice as much for a fully charged 18 GB / 512 GB RedMagic 6 Pro – it costs 6,599 yuan (~ $ 1,020). However, global prices are likely to be different; RedMagic announces international release plans on March 16.