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TL;DR REDMAGIC has launched a 9-inch gaming tablet with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, liquid cooling, RGB lights, and dual USB-C ports.
The tablet features a 185Hz OLED and natively supports PC emulation, along with Steam login support.
The tablet launches globally as REDMAGIC Astra 9 on July 17.
Even though the market for Android tablets has slightly more options than it did nearly half a decade ago, none of them are as snazzy as this one. The REDMAGIC Gaming Tablet 5 Pro is a liquid-cooled Android slate with Elite-tier performance. It launches officially today in China, with a promise to arrive globally in the coming months as the REDMAGIC Astra 2.
The ZTE Nubia-owned brand stocks the Gaming Tablet Pro with a 185Hz OLED backed by a dedicated chip for faster touch response than most flagship Androids. The display comes in a 9-inch format with a 2.4K resolution, unchanged from the previous Astra.
The liquid cooling system is a total flex
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The inside houses a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, cooled by a “fluorinated liquid coolant” that is claimed to stabilize temperatures ranging between -60ºC and 125ºC (-76ºF and 257ºF). While the chipset is less likely to reach those temperatures, it could help mitigate performance changes caused by extreme temperatures outside the device, and might even prevent it from stalling. A similar solution has also been used on the company’s latest gaming phone.
REDMAGIC is so proud of it that the cooling mechanism shines through a transparent window on the glass back. Pushing it further toward “overkill,” the brand has put RGB LEDs under this system as well as under its logo. However, unlike previous generations and a host of REDMAGIC phones, the tablet doesn’t come with a cooling fan, yet the company calls it an “active” cooling system.
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