Month: April 2022

Chinese phone maker Nubia has been selling a line of gaming phones under the RedMagic brand for the past few years, but the new RedMagic 7 Pro marks a bunch of firsts for the series.

It’s one of the first RedMagic phone with an under-display camera, which means the screen is obstruction-free. It’s also the first to feature a new co-processor that Nubia calls the Red Core 1, which the company says can lead to improved gaming performance and efficiency. The RedMagic 7 Pro will be available for pre-order April 22, 2022 for $799 and up, and it should be available for purchase starting April 27.

At 166 x 77 x 10mm and 235 grams, the phone is a bit on the chunky side, but there’s a lot of technology under the hood.

Like several of the company’s recent phones, the RedMagic 7 Pro has a souped-up cooling system that includes a vapor chamber, liquid cooling plate, an air cooling duct, and a fan that spins at up to 20,000 RPM. While those are the kind of features you’d expect to find in a laptop, they’re fairly uncommon in phones, but they could help keep the mobile device from overheating during extended gaming sessions.

Other game-specific features include dual shoulder trigger buttons with 500 Hz touch sampling rates, a 6.8 inch, 2400 x 1080 pixel AMOLED display with a 120 Hz refresh rate and 960 Hz multi-finger touch sampling rate, dual X-axis motors for vibration and haptic feedback, stereo speakers with DTS: X Ultra Surround Sound support, and RGB lighting.

The Red Core 1 processor is a chip that can “operate mobile gaming functions that aren’t directly related to graphics or higher frame rates,” including audio, RGB lighting, and haptic feedback. The idea is that by offloading those functions to the co-processor, it frees up the phone’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor to focus on games and other applications.

The phone ships with the Android 12-based RedMagic OS 5.0 and features Game Space software with new features for snapping and sharing screenshots in games, making notes, setting game-specific reminders, and other things.

The RedMagic 7 Pro has three rear cameras (64MP primary + 8MP ultra-wide + 2MP acro) and a 16MP under-display camera, a 3.5mm headphone jack, 3 microphones, an in-display fingerprint sensor, and a case made from aluminum and glass with a “synthetic metal” rear cover. The phone supports WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2.

Two versions of the RedMagic 7 Pro will be available at launch:

• Obsidian (black) with 16GB LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB UFS 3.1 storage for $799 / €799 / £679
• Supernova (transparent) with 16GB LPDDR5 RAM and 512GB UFS 3.1 storage for $899 / €899 / £759

Both models can also use up to 6GB of storage as virtual RAM. And both version of the phone include RGB lighting effects customized to match the color and design of the case.

The RedMagic 7 Pro comes a little over a month after the global launch of the RedMagic 7 (non-pro), which has a similar design, but a smaller battery (4,500 mAh), a slightly lighter weight (215 grams), and no Red Core 1 chip.

Interestingly the non-Pro version has at least one feature that seems to exceed the Pro model: a screen with support for refresh rates up to 165 Hz.

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In November 2019, the US federal government shut down IPTV services operated by Bill Omar Carrasquillo, aka ‘Omi in a Hellcat’.

IRS and FBI agents seized “at least” $5.2m from his bank accounts along with a fleet of supercars. The US government says that Carrasquillo’s platforms redistributed Comcast, Verizon, Spectrum, DirecTV and Frontier Communications broadcasts, reportedly earning Carrasquillo a cool $34 million.

Earlier this year, Carrasquillo announced he would plead guilty, presumably in the hope of receiving a lighter sentence than the 514 years in prison suggested in the government’s indictment.

There have been no public developments on that front but Carrasquillo now faces new problems relating to a spin-off business.

Carrasquillo’s ‘Reloaded’ IPTV Branding

Carrasquillo operated several IPTV services, variously branded Reboot, Gears TV, Reloaded and Gears Reloaded but with those no longer in operation, he needed to make money in other ways.

The YouTuber was already considering the apparel/merchandising business and has since used his already well-known ‘Reloaded’ IPTV brand to sell a range of clothing and sneakers through ReloadedMerch.com.

While Carrasquillo wisely avoided promoting his ‘Gears’ branding (ripped-off from Epic Games’ Gears of War), the decision to go with Reloaded has now resulted in yet another lawsuit.

Company Claims Ownership of ‘Reloaded’ Trademark

In a complaint filed this month in an Indiana court, clothing and apparel company NuStar Enterprises LLC states that since September 2016, it has continually used the ‘Reloaded’ trademark in commerce.

“NuStar’s clothing and apparel products, including its RELOADED® line of merchandise, are available for retail purchase in brick-and-mortar stores, and were also marketed, distributed, and sold through NuStar’s ‘Reloaded’ storefront on Amazon.com,” the complaint reads.

“To protect its rights in the RELOADED trademark NuStar obtained and owns U.S. Trademark Registration No. 6,376,399 in International Trademark Class 025 for the mark RELOADED in connection with ‘clothing and apparel, namely, shirts, jackets, pants, hats, belts, scarves, gloves, socks, underwear, swimwear, and wristbands.’ The RELOADED® trademark was registered on June 8, 2021.”

NuStar Tried to Negotiate With Carrasquillo

According to the complaint, NuStar learned that Carrasquillo intended to launch an apparel business under the ‘Reloaded’ brand in July 2019. In response, NuStar says it informed Carrasquillo via his agent that NuStar has rights in that name so the parties entered into a negotiation.

“Over the following months Mr. Carrasquillo’s agent sought to work out a licensing arrangement with NuStar. These efforts fell apart in late 2019, on information and belief, due to Mr. Carrasquillo’s legal and financial troubles,” NuStar says.

The complaint says that Carrasquillo formed Reloaded Merch LLC in November 2020 to sell ‘Reloaded’ products under “an identical mark” NuStar claims to own. Due to the “Omi in a Hellcat” persona, the market became so saturated with Reloaded products that the trademark is now associated with Carrasquillo, not NuStar. That has reportedly caused problems.

NuStar Received a Violation From Amazon

According to the lawsuit, NuStar sold its products on Amazon but when some Amazon customers saw the company’s ‘Reloaded’ footwear products, they complained to the online marketplace that they “were not made by “Omi in a Hellcat.” In response, Amazon hit NuStar with a violation.

“As a result of this undeserved violation, Plaintiff’s RELOADED® footwear products were removed from Amazon, the largest retail e-commerce site in the world, at great reputational and financial damage to Plaintiff,” NuStar notes.

“As a result of these and other similar instances of reverse confusion, Plaintiff has lost the ability to control its brand identity, lost control over its goodwill and reputation, and has lost the ability to move into new products and markets.”

Plaintiff Seeks Damages and Injunction

Due to the alleged damage to its business interests, NuStar seeks judgments that its trademark has been infringed and Carrasquillo’s use of the ‘Reloaded’ mark amounts to unfair competition. The company also demands an injunction to prevent further use of the ‘Reloaded’ mark where that “would create a likelihood of confusion, mistake or deception.”

NuStar also wants an order compelling Carrasquillo to “deliver up and destroy” any material bearing the infringing designation plus damages related to infringement and unfair competition. The company also demands all profits generated by Carrasquillo and Reloaded Merch LLC times three, as per 15 U.S. Code § 1117.

The complaint can be found here (pdf)

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