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During the presentation dedicated to the release of the 11S Pro+ smartphone on May 19, RedMagic officially confirmed that the release of the Gaming Tablet 5 Pro model – known internationally as Astra 2 – is scheduled for June 2026. This event will take place about a year after the original Astra version appeared on global markets.
In the line of devices, the brand decided to move from the Gaming Tablet 3 Pro name to 5 Pro, completely bypassing the number 4. Such a decision is traditional for Chinese manufacturers and is related to tetraphobia, as in the Mandarin dialect, the pronunciation of four coincides with the word “death.”
Thanks to technical data leaks from a Digital Chat Station insider, it became known that the new product will have a 9-inch OLED screen with a resolution of 2400×1504 pixels that will support a refresh rate of up to 185 Hz. The hardware will include a top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, a liquid-circulating cooling system, as well as up to 24 GB of LPDDR5X RAM and a 1 TB storage capacity. The battery capacity, according to preliminary information, will be approximately 8300 mAh or even more, which exceeds the figure of the first version of Astra with its 8200 mAh. Some sources claim that the developers are still considering the possibility of integrating a 9000 mAh battery. Pre-orders for four versions of the device have already started in China: 12 GB/256 GB, 16 GB/512 GB, 16 GB/1 TB, and 24 GB/1 TB. Customers will be able to choose from three color schemes, including Tritium Transparent Silver Wing, Tritium Transparent Dark Night, and Gold Legend.
RedMagic’s decision to jump from the third series to the fifth, ignoring the fourth due to superstitions about this number, may seem like a minor nuance, but it clearly demonstrates the depth of cultural influence on product development in the Chinese tech industry.
The most striking changes relate to the display characteristics. The previous Astra model was equipped with an OLED matrix with a frequency of 144 Hz, which provided it with a good position in its price range. The introduction of 185 Hz, while maintaining the same 9-inch diagonal and using a new generation chipset, is an obvious and very significant step forward. The closest competitor, Lenovo’s Legion Tab Gen 5, offers a 165Hz screen, so RedMagic is trying to surpass that result.
The 2400×1504 resolution creates a 16:10 screen aspect ratio, which guarantees an image density of about 313 ppi on 9 inches. This makes it impossible for the human eye to see individual pixels under normal conditions of use. The use of OLED technology provides deep blacks, high contrast, and also allows you to reduce the brightness to almost a minimum during night gaming sessions, completely eliminating the problem of backlighting, which is inherent in liquid crystal analogues.
Placing a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, which is the basis for the most advanced flagship smartphones of 2026, in a 9-inch tablet inevitably raises questions about heat dissipation efficiency. To solve this problem, RedMagic used a liquid circulation cooling system. This active solution is used in the 11 Pro+ smartphone, and now it has been adapted to larger dimensions. Since the 9-inch design has a much larger internal surface area than the phone, engineers were able to create a more powerful cooling system without having to increase the thickness of the case, which is common in smartphones.
The presence of up to 24 GB of RAM in a portable gaming device allows it to compete with powerful laptops. In real-world gaming scenarios, this will ensure faster loading times, seamless switching between games and streaming utilities, and create a safety margin for future projects that require large amounts of memory. The maximum amount of permanent storage of 1 TB is no less impressive for a gadget of this class.
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