RedMagic Astra 2 review Comments
- Bussilum.UL
- m}B
Penguin, 19 Jul 2026It looks cool. You keep enjoying your dumb, brick-like iPhone, Galaxy, and Pixel devices.why would i get a pixel or iphone? samsung made the thinnest phone by the way
motorolas are good, especially the signature
- Alb0s
- LTd
No micro sd slot?
- Anonymous
- raM
Throttles and will have virtual zero support or updates. Another landfil Android device.
- Akinaro
- SYy
So we have 700$ gaming device that after 30min of heavy gaming have performance of 400$ tablet... Great... Thanks Snapdragon...
- Anonymous
- B4r
Anonymous, 19 Jul 2026Any news on OS and security updates?If it's anything like recent models it'll be 3 years (2 major updates + 1 year security updates) in most of the world, and 5 years (3 major updates + 2 years security updates) in the UK and Europe.
- jayDAWG
- YPd
Goliveira, 19 Jul 2026Why not support for SIM card with 5g and calls? II'd love this as a phabletPhablet? I didn't know that word is still used.
- Anonymous
- mFd
swired, 19 Jul 2026emulationEven D8300 can emulate, what are you saying. Are you living under a rock?
- Penguin
- U@M
Bussilum.UL, 19 Jul 2026looks like one of these toy ABC tabletsIt looks cool. You keep enjoying your dumb, brick-like iPhone, Galaxy, and Pixel devices.
- Goliveira
- iBm
Bussilum.UL, 19 Jul 2026looks like one of these toy ABC tabletsWhy not support for SIM card with 5g and calls? II'd love this as a phablet
- Anonymous
- B4r
It seems to me that their answer for not being able to keep the thing cool is throttle it from the beginning, which can kind of work for most mobile games but there are quite a few games (and PC emulators, which it includes out of the box) that will be able to use that extra performance so really it's a fail. For general use the battery life seems laughably bad given how big the battery is supposed to be.
Will be waiting for the Xiaomi Pad Mini 2 and hoping the battery life ends up being worlds better than this. If I wanted to play PC games on the go my phone (ironically a Redmagic) is just more convenient because my telescopic controller won't fit a tablet, and the few times I need a bigger screen then the phone I'd rather use the Switch 2 or even a laptop.
- Johnny Wealthy
- XBB
With the transition into the snapdragon elite chipset, especially the SG8Eg5, we should expect nothing less than super speed and an awesome gaming quality in modern mobile devices.
Technology has really come a long way
- Garry
- iIa
And the price will be insanely high, just like every tech in the world these says !
- Anonymous
- TKj
Any news on OS and security updates?
- MrSTTEK
- KgP
Anonymous, 18 Jul 2026They all can! They just consistently run worse frametimes and at higher power margins, because... morefor most games the performance is already enough, and this is a tablet, endurance is not the very first concern. if you really need to play most recent and demanding chinese gachas, then go for snapdragon.
- MrSTTEK
- KgP
swired, 19 Jul 2026emulationyep, as my initial comment stated, if for emulation, Snapdragon is obviously better
- swired
- tu6
RushGamer, 18 Jul 2026Who said its throttling if you dont even owned the device yet? I've owned several Redmagi... moreLenovo and Asus also never throttling than average flagships due to high thermal throttling limit , matter fact on Asus u can manually adjust thermal limit to 55°c without root needed. Idk if Lenovo has similar feature but my friend had old y70 2022 model and never throttle even at 46°c temp during emulation test. Realme tryna implement same feature thru Geek Tuning but it failed miserablely since it barely bother the system level kernel so it counts as gimmick feature.
- swired
- tu6
MrSTTEK, 18 Jul 2026Can you elaborate a game that cannot run on MTK? Dimensity 9400/9500 is not that bad.emulation
- Bussilum.UL
- m}B
looks like one of these toy ABC tablets
- Anonymous
- PhI
MrSTTEK, 18 Jul 2026Can you elaborate a game that cannot run on MTK? Dimensity 9400/9500 is not that bad.They all can! They just consistently run worse frametimes and at higher power margins, because most modern games favor multiple prime cores (2+6 like in the 8eg5) instead of one super prime core like in the mtk chips.
