ZTE RedMagic Astra 2 Gaming Tablet

The RedMagic Astra 2 is a 9.06-inch gaming tablet with a 2.4K OLED screen at 185Hz, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, liquid cooling you can see through the back, and an 8300mAh battery.

Nine inches is an unusual size for a tablet, and here it is the whole idea. Held in landscape with both thumbs on the screen, a 12-inch tablet is a stretch and a phone is cramped. At 9.06 inches, 363g and 6.9mm thick, this one sits in the middle, and your hands are still comfortable an hour into a session.

The screen is a 2.4K OLED at 2400 by 1504 running up to 185Hz, behind 4.9mm bezels for a 90.1 percent screen-to-body ratio and with the front camera placed under the display so nothing interrupts it. Touch response matters as much as refresh rate in a game: a Synaptics S3930T controller drives a 300Hz global sampling rate that peaks at 2000Hz instantaneously. Brightness reaches 1600 nits, colour covers 100 percent of DCI-P3, and accuracy is rated at ΔE ≈ 0.7.

Running it is the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with Oryon cores up to 4.6GHz, alongside a separate RedCore R4 gaming chip that takes over rendering and resource work so the main processor is not doing everything at once. The result you feel is a frame rate that holds rather than one that spikes and drops.

Which brings up the part no other tablet does. Sustained performance is a heat problem, and the answer here is liquid cooling — a 12-layer AquaCore Cooling System 2.0 built on three things working together: flowing liquid coolant, Liquid Metal 3.0 at the thermal interface, and a large vapor chamber. It is the kind of solution you normally only find in gaming laptops and desktops. And you can watch it work: the back panel is transparent over the cooling channels, lit by reactive RGB.

Power comes from an 8300mAh dual-cell battery charged through two USB-C ports at up to 75W. Two ports means the cable goes into the side rather than the bottom, so it is out of the way while you play in landscape, and bypass charging feeds the tablet straight from the adapter during long sessions instead of pushing current through the battery — less heat now and a healthier battery later.

Around that: DTS:X Ultra 3D stereo through dual 1227 speakers with N'Bass materials, dual X-axis linear motors for 4D haptic feedback, a 13MP rear and 9MP front camera, wired video out at 4K 144fps or 8K 60fps, Bluetooth 6.0, a fingerprint sensor, an IP54 rating, and REDMAGIC OS 11.5 on Android 16.

RedMagic Astra 2 Key Features:

• 9.06-inch 2.4K OLED at up to 185Hz — 2400 by 1504 with 4.9mm bezels and a 90.1 percent screen-to-body ratio, sized so landscape gaming stays comfortable in both hands.
• 300Hz touch sampling peaking at 2000Hz — driven by a Synaptics S3930T controller, which is what makes taps register the instant you make them.
• 1600 nits peak brightness with 100 percent DCI-P3 — and ΔE ≈ 0.7 colour accuracy, so it holds up outdoors and for colour work, not only for games.
• Under-display front camera — the 9MP camera sits beneath the panel, leaving the screen uninterrupted edge to edge.
• Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with Oryon cores up to 4.6GHz — the current flagship Qualcomm platform, built on a 3nm process.
• Dedicated RedCore R4 gaming chip — a second chip that handles rendering acceleration and resource management, keeping frame rates steadier than the main processor could alone.
• 12-layer AquaCore Cooling System 2.0 with real liquid cooling — flowing coolant, Liquid Metal 3.0 and a large vapor chamber, the combination that lets it hold peak performance instead of throttling down.
• Transparent back with reactive RGB — the cooling channels are visible through the panel and lit as you play.
• 8300mAh dual-cell battery — sized for long sessions rather than for a thin spec sheet.
• Dual USB-C ports at up to 75W — charge from the side so the cable is not under your hand in landscape, and both ports carry audio.
• Bypass charging — powers the tablet directly from the adapter during play, which cuts heat and spares the battery from constant charge cycles.
• DTS:X Ultra with dual 1227 speakers — N'Bass acoustic materials for the low end, plus dual X-axis linear motors for 4D haptic feedback you feel in the frame.
• 4K 144fps or 8K 60fps wired video output — connect it to a monitor or a TV over USB-C and play on the big screen.
• REDMAGIC OS 11.5 on Android 16 — with Bluetooth 6.0, a fingerprint sensor and an IP54 rating for dust and splashes.
• Two colours — Eclipse Black and Starfrost Silver, both in metal and glass with precision etching. Pick the colour and the memory option you want from the product options before ordering.