Nubia Red Magic 5S

The game-centric series from ZTE has always been ideal in its domains while upholding high values and providing an upright smartphone with transitional specifications. After launching RedMagic 5G, now the smartphone company has come up with the latest device the RedMagic 5s for extending the game-centric series. It’s suitable to say that the RedMagic 5S is a full-fledged gaming smartphone with multiple other features. With that said, let’s dive deep into this new gaming beast from ZTE.

Nubia RedMagic 5S Price in India

What has been offered in the RedMagic 5s is exciting to see. But first, let us look at the price tag at which this smartphone is available. ZTE has launched The RedMagic 5s with two variants and the first one is featuring 8GB RAM and 128GB of internal storage and the price is Rs.40,630, the second one comes with a 12GB RAM and 256GB internal storage under the price tag of Rs.47,035. You can buy this device in two colours and those are Silver and Pulse.

At the bottom side, there is a dual SIM card slot. There is no expandable memory card slot, which is a discredit. Also, the bottom edge includes a microphone and a USB Type-C charging port along with a down-firing speaker. The right edge comes with a power button and volume rockers and there is a cooling exhaust vent. Apart from that, there are 320Hz built-in shoulder trigger buttons placed on the right side.

The left side is mounted with magnetic pins for attaching the accessories and there is another vent for taking the air in the cool air. The RedMagic 5S is also having a red button on the left edge for accessing the game space. The top edge comprises a headphone jack and a noise-cancelling microphone.

The back portion is where it gets interesting as the rear panel features a cool gaming design and there is a huge RedMagic logo in the middle and it also has a chemical symbol Ag right beside the RedMagic logo which means the device is equipped with silver heat pipes as compared to copper heat pipes. Also, there is a triple camera setup on the back.

Looking at the front, there are few things that you will notice at first and those are the notches at the top and the bottom side along with noticeable bezels. The RedMagic 5S is already beautiful enough, so the notches don’t take away from that. The notches will ensure that you will be able to securely grip the device without your hands partially obscuring the screen. There is an in-display fingerprint sensor included with the smartphone for unlocking it.

Reasonably, the RedMagic 5S is a chunky device with almost 10mm thickness because of its large screen size and integrated fan cooling system.

RedMagic 5S features a 6.65-inch AMOLED display with FHD+ resolution. On top of that, there is an insane 144Hz refresh rate and 240Hz of the touch sampling rate. Offering a display with 1080 pixels of resolution and 600nits of peak brightness along with an aspect ratio of 19.5:9, the RedMagic 5S is having the fastest displays in any smartphone currently in the market.  

Here the performance is governed by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 5G chipset, featuring 2.84GHz of clock speed. For handling the graphics, there is an Adreno 650 GPU included with the RedMagic 5S. Along with the chipset, there is 8GB or 12GB LPDDR5 RAM and 128GB or 256GB UFS3.1 internal storage available with this smartphone. For ensuring a smooth user interface you are getting RedMagic 3.0 UI with Android 10 in the RedMagic 5S.

The most outstanding feature of RedMagic 5S is its trinity cooling system, which combines a liquid cooling pipe with an active internal fan. The cooling kicks in when playing games or charging and you can choose if you want to have it constantly running at maximum speed or if you want to adapt to the CPU temperature.

If there is one thing that can’t be defined in superlatives for the RedMagic 5s is the camera setup. The triple camera setup here can still capture great pictures and shoot some high-quality videos but it isn’t comparable to the cameras found in newer or even some older flagship phones.

Here the main camera is using Sony’s IMX686 64MP sensor along with an 8MP ultra-wide and a 2MP macro-camera. The pictures across all the three sensors look great only in good lighting conditions, but as soon it gets too dark or too bright, the picture quality will deteriorate. When it comes to recording videos, the RedMagic 5s is one of the few smartphones capable of recording 8K videos at 30fps.

In terms of overall quality, the front-facing 8MP camera is somewhat of a mixed bag as well. While it is also capable of shooting natural-looking detailed images, things get uneasy as soon as the lighting conditions are not ideal.

If you are doing full gaming on the RedMagic 5S, you are going to be using this for maybe half a day, but what is nice about this is the Super Fast charging. You will be able to charge the device up to 55 watts, which means it, will take you to fully charge the phone from a single digit to 100% in less than an hour.

However, the 4500 mAh battery that has been provided with the 5s is not quite impressive, because for a gaming phone the minimum battery capacity should be 5000 to 6000 mAh.

RedMagic 5S is an exciting high-end device with outstanding specs like brilliant performance, average camera, long battery backup, ample storage and a nice display. Further, there is charging support of 55 watts and 5G connectivity along with an in-display fingerprint sensor. However, the overall weight of this smartphone and non-expandable memory are some of the anomalies of the RedMagic 5S.