‘Red Magic 5G’ to be Powered by Snapdragon 865, Confirms Nubia

Dec. 5, 2019



Following theofficial unveilingof the Snapdragon 865 and 765 mobile platforms in Hawaii earlier this week, awhole host of smartphone vendorshaveannounced plansto launch smartphones powered by the two SoCs. Nubia has now become the latest brand to jump on the Snapdragon 865 bandwagon by confirming that its next-generation gaming handset, theRed Magic 5G, will be based on Qualcomm’s newly-announced flagship chipset.

The announcement, which was made via the official Red Magic Weibo account on Wednesday, revealed precious little about the device itself other than claiming that it would be first dual-mode 5G gaming smartphone powered by theSnapdragon 865. The same platform will also very likely power the next-gen gaming smartphones from Asus (ROG Phone 3), Xiaomi (Black Shark 3) and Razer, so it will be interesting to see who will be the first one to launch a flagship gaming device with the new chipset.Image Courtesy: Nubia (Via Weibo)

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