Nubia Red Magic 3 Officially Launched With a Number of Innovations
On the afternoon of April 28, Nubia officially released the new generation of e-sports flagship smartphone ‘Red Magic 3’ in Beijing. This is an outstanding smartphone in all aspects of appearance, configuration, performance, heat dissipation, gaming, and camera. But many still think it’s just the third-gen gaming phone of Nubia. Keep on reading to find out all of the biggest selling points of this perfects smartphone, which is mistakenly called the Nubia Red Devil 3.
The Red Magic 3 continues the previous models’ consistent vector aesthetic design concept. The diamond-shaped cutting design on the back of the fuselage is still derived from the ‘X’ future battleship shape. The overall body is as thin as 6.6mm. The new back arc shape and the side R angle design are still too large, and the grip is more comfortable.
In terms of color options, in addition to the ruthless black iron, there is also the passionate red flame and the battlefield camouflage variants. However, the company has also added the red and blue version, symbolizing transcendence and challenge.
The colorful lighting effect has also been upgraded. The new Red Magic logo Light, the so-called ‘Red Devil’s Eye’, is added. There are 16.8 million bright color lights, but we like the Aurora, Star, Strap, Rainbow, and Laser variants. By the way, the sound effects are customizable as well.
The phone adopts a 6.65-inch AMOLED screen and supports DC dimming. The screen refresh rate is up to 90Hz. The DC dimming prevents low-brightness stroboscopic eyes. The screen ratio is 19.5:9. And there are no notch or drop areas. The screen quality is also quite good. The FHD+ resolution, 90Hz high refresh rate, 10Bit color, and the brightness of up to 430 nits make it quite outstanding.
It also supports HDR, 3D stereo surround sound, dual BOX multi-directional sound-proof and anti-blocking design, dual Smart PA, and DTS7.1 channel.
The Nubia Red Magic 3 comes with an upgraded AI noise reduction function, which supports real-time elimination of game background noise, smart monitoring, and suppression of squeaky. At the same time, the phone still retains the 3.5mm headphone jack, and the sound hole is facing the user, avoiding occlusion. There are three different positions for game-specific mic.
In terms of game control, the screen touch refresh rate reaches 240Hz, which is twice that of the traditional mouse, and the screen response time is shortened to 4ms. The back fingerprint touch key is added.
There are also linear motors and independent drive chips inside. The vibration response is faster and more accurate. A deep cooperation with Tencent allows the Nubia Red Magic 3 to enhance the 4D shock experience.
The Nubia Red Magic 3 is one of the most powerful smartphones on the market. Of course, it is packed with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, an up to 12GB LPDDR4 memory, and an up to 256GB UFS 2.1 storage. The manufacturer claims its flagship scores 437524 in AnTuTu. This is far beyond the first Xiaomi Mi 9 Explorer Edition, which scores 372,000 points, and the Xiaomi Mi 9’s lab score of 4280000.
Such a high score is conditioned by powerful hardware. But this handset comes with the newest fan system. The Red Magic 3 is the world’s first smartphone with a built-in active fan cooling. The air inlet is on the back and the air outlet is on the side frame. The ultra-light, quiet and high-efficiency centrifugal fan is used for hot and cold air exchange. This actively dissipates heat.
According to the official introduction, the centrifugal fan of the Red Magic 3 has been tested and certified by the China Institute of Metrology. The fan speed can reach 14000RPM (rev/min), which is faster than the 11,000 rpm of the average aircraft engine. It can achieve – 50 degrees per second.
It uses a brushless motor and can adjust the wind speed. Thus, the Nubia Red Magic 3 is quieter and smarter, and the power consumption is ultra-low. The power consumption for 1 hour of continuous operation is less than 1%.
The Red Magic 3’s fan is made of 1 gram ultra-light nanomaterial and liquid bearing technology. It is durable and has been tested for 30,000 hours in the laboratory. It is also IP55 dustproof and waterproof.
In terms of the system software, the exclusive RedMagic OS 2.0 system comes with a lot of performance improvements, such as smart CPU/GPU scheduling, rendering system, combined with ET Evolution Tensor Technology 2.0, a new generation AI machine deep learning engine, Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite Gaming technology.
The newly upgraded game space 2.0 has a lot of useful features, such as personal center control, information screen hang-up, picture-in-picture, game strategy, game screen capture, and so on.
In the game industry ecological cooperation, the Red Magic 3 is also pulling up almost all mainstream game brands and platforms, especially Tencent’s performance optimization partners, and has online game acceleration services.
Though this is a top-notch gaming phone, the camera has not been ignored. There is a single-camera on the back, but it is the industry’s strongest Sony IMX586 48MP CMOS, with a 1/2 inch pixel, 1.6um unit pixel, F / 1.7 aperture, 80.32 ° wide angle, PDAF extremely fast focus for 0.1 seconds, supports for 8K recording, 1920fps 64 times super slow motion, and many more.
On the front, it carries a 16MP camera, with an F2.0 aperture and a 2-micron unit pixel size.
Under the hood, the Red Magic 3 carries a 5000mAh battery, which is the largest battery among the Snapdragon 855 phones. It can play 8.65 hours of ‘Honor of Kings’ or 7.6 hours of ‘PUBG’ or provide 13.66 hours of web browsing and 9.26 hours of video playback. At the same time, this battery supports 27W PD fast charge and is compatible with QC4.0. The overall battery life increased by 60%.
In terms of price, the Nubia Red Magic 3 6GB+64GB version costs 2899 yuan, the 6GB+128GB variant comes at 3199 yuan, the 8GB+128GB is at 3499 yuan, and the 12GB+256GB version costs 4299 yuan. They will go on sale on May 3.
