RedMagic, the gaming brand in the ZTE Nubia subdivision, launched a new smartphone in collaboration with Chinese gaming and technology giant Tencent. The RedMagic 6 and 6 Pro are state-of-the-art devices available to order now in China, with a global launch coming 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 165 Hz, making it the fastest phone screen on the market today. RedMagic is also claiming a single finger touch sampling rate of up to 500 Hz, or up to 360 Hz with multitouch. The capacitive “shoulder triggers” that are touch sensitive on the side, meanwhile, are sampled at up to 400Hz.
The RedMagic 6 Pro is practically identical, but comes with up to 18 GB of RAM and has a 120 W faster charging system than RedMagic says it can fully charge the 4,500 mAh battery in just 17 minutes. The non-Pro 6 has a larger battery of 5.050mAh, but a slower 66W system that takes 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 apps like WeChat and QQ, with 50% faster read and write speeds. Tencent’s Solar Core game software is also preloaded and the company promises to improve game response speed, frame rates and network latency.
RedMagic 6 costs from 3,799 yuan (~ $ 585) for a model with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage, but you can pay almost double for a fully loaded 18 GB / 512 GB RedMagic 6 Pro – which will cost 6,599 yuan (~ $ 1,020). Global prices are likely to be different, however; RedMagic will announce international launch plans on March 16.