Sub-10” gaming tablets are a rising development – extra transportable than a typical slate, whereas nonetheless providing flagship efficiency. The REDMAGIC Astra (generally known as the REDMAGIC Pill 3 Professional in some areas) is simply such a pill and it has the identical silicon because the REDMAGIC 10S Professional and an analogous cooling system in addition.
Right here’s how one can be the primary in line to get one, whereas additionally scoring a reduction and a few freebies. It’s fairly easy – you want an Early Hen voucher. However first, let’s meet the Astra.
REDMAGIC Astra Eclipse (black)
REDMAGIC Astra (Silver)
The pill has a 9.06” OLED show – a 16:10 panel with 2,400 x 1,504px decision. It runs at as much as 165Hz and has 240Hz contact sampling charge. There’s a skinny, symmetrical 4.9mm bezel across the show. With the excessive refresh charge, this show is constructed for gaming, however it additionally gives an immersive expertise for watching movies. It has studio-level colour calibration (deltaE of round 0.7) and assist for the DCI-P3 colour area. Being an OLED, it additionally has nice distinction. Plus, it has been licensed for Blue Mild Eye Safety by SGS.
9.06” OLED show with 165Hz refresh charge
The Astra is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite plus the RedCore R3 Professional, which is accountable for picture and body charge interpolation amongst different issues. The pill is supplied with quick LPDDR5T RAM (as much as 24GB) and UFS 4.1 Professional storage (as much as 1TB).
The improved ICE-X cooling system options liquid metallic – it’s referred to as that as a result of it begins softening at 50°C and carries rather more warmth than thermal paste. The metallic is over the Snapdragon and the battery charging chips. Preserving issues cool throughout charging improves effectivity by 13%. REDMAGIC additionally employed the trade’s first twin layer vapor chamber. And, as we’ve come to count on from the model, there’s a 17 x 17mm shark-fin cooling fan that may spin as much as 20,000 RPM (and it has the requisite RGB lighting per gaming machine custom).
Snapdragon 8 Elite with dual-layer vapor chamber, liquid metallic and fan
Talking of charging, the 8,200mAh battery wants 71 minutes for a full cost. Bypass charging is an choice to additional cut back warmth and lengthen the battery’s life. This capability is sufficient to final over 5 hours of enjoying Honkai: Star Rail or Area of Valor. Or when you simply wish to veg out and binge your favourite exhibits, the pill will last as long as 33 hours of steady video playback.
8,200mAh battery with bypass charging
The REDMAGIC Astra is designed for gaming and multimedia. Apart from the performant chip, it has a display that may attain 1,600 nits full-screen brightness and stereo audio system with DTS:X Extremely, plus twin x-axis linear motors for gaming suggestions.
The USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port helps video out, so you need to use a big exterior monitor with choices together with 2K @ 240Hz, 4K @ 144Hz and even 8K at 60Hz. You may also hook up exterior storage and different equipment because the port gives as much as 10Gbps bandwidth.
Stereo audio system and USB-C port with DisplayPort
So, sure, you need to use the Astra for work too – but when gaming is extra your velocity, right here’s what this pill can do. It already has assist for top refresh charge gaming in some titles with extra on the way in which later this month:
| Accessible | |
|---|---|
| Name of Responsibility: Cellular | 120Hz |
| Minecraft | 165Hz |
| Area Breakout | 144Hz |
| Coming July 2025 | |
| PUBG | 120Hz |
| League of Legends: Wild Rift | 144Hz |
| Delta Power | 144Hz |
| Extra coming quickly! | |
The Sport Middle launcher gives a efficiency monitor in addition to management over video games. For instance, the RedCore R3 Professional chip can upscale Genshin Affect from 60fps to 120fps by going into the Image High quality settings and choosing Excessive Body Fee.
Some cell video games are locked to portrait mode – you’ll be able to power them into panorama utilizing Sport House plug-ins. Moreover, you’ll be able to choose totally different side ratios, together with full-screen, 4:3 and 16:9. The latter is nice if you wish to forged gameplay to an exterior show. There are extra plug-ins – from customized crosshairs to sound equalization. There’s even a multi-screen gameplay mode.
Alright, right here’s the deal. The REDMAGIC Astra will likely be obtainable globally beginning on July 16 – however you may get it a day early when you purchase an Early Hen voucher.
The voucher prices simply $1 and comes with a $30 low cost when it comes time to purchase the pill on July 15 (a day earlier than individuals with no voucher). Moreover, you get a free 80W charger and gaming finger sleeves with the voucher.
You will see pricing particulars for the Astra beneath, together with a full listing of nations the place the gaming pill will likely be obtainable.
| 12GB/256GB (Eclipse, Silver) |
16GB/512GB (Eclipse, Silver) |
24GB/1TB (Eclipse) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| US | USD 550 | USD 700 | USD 900 |
| Canada | CAD 750 | CAD 950 | CAD 1,250 |
| EU | EUR 500 | EUR 650 | EUR 850 |
| UK | GBP 440 | GBP 560 | GBP 740 |
| Singapore | SGD 780 | SGD 1,000 | SGD 1,250 |
| Mexico | Mxn 11,000 | Mxn 14.500 | Mxn 19,000 |
| UAE | AED 2,000 | AED 2,500 | AED 3,300 |
| Remainder of World | USD 500 | USD 650 | USD 850 |
- North America: Canada and the USA.
- Europe: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia, Luxembourg, the Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Poland, Estonia, Portugal, Finland, Romania, France, Slovakia, Germany, Slovenia, Greece, Spain, Sweden, Hungary, Eire, Italy, Latvia, Malta.
- The UK: England, Wales, Northern Eire, and Scotland.
- Asia Pacific: Australia, Hong Kong (China SAR), Macau (China SAR), Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, India, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam.
- GCC: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, The Sultanate of Oman, The Kingdom of Bahrain, Qatar.
- Latin America: Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay.
- Others: Israel, Turkey, Egypt.
