The RedMagic 11 Air may have figured out how to fit one of the biggest phone batteries available into a slimmer design. Unveiled Thursday, the new gaming phone has a 7,000-mAh silicon carbon battery and a cooling fan, along with many of the same features as last year’s RedMagic 10S Pro.
The new phone has the same depth as the prior RedMagic 10 Air at 7.85mm (0.3 inches), and is a smidge heavier at 207 grams (7.3 ounces) versus the prior phone’s 205 grams. This is a comparable weight and depth to phones like Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro, but the specs list of the 11 Air largely mirrors the heavier RedMagic 10S Pro that I tested last year. That phone was 229 grams, and included a slightly bigger 7,050-mAh battery.
Like the 10S Pro, the 11 Air includes the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processor and starts at $529 for a model that includes 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Upgrading to 16GB and 512GB of storage brings the cost to $629.
The phone’s large battery can recharge at 80-watt speeds — which is incredibly fast for this price range — and the camera system includes a 50-megapixel main camera, an 8-megapixel ultrawide camera and a 16-megapixel front-facing camera.
RedMagic’s phones prioritize gaming over all else, and includes a larger 6.85-inch OLED display that runs at a 144Hz refresh rate. It will also include the RedMagic 11 software system, which I wasn’t a fan of when I tested the RedMagic 11 Pro. This software overlay includes specialized console-style menus for gaming — which I like — but it also makes questionable choices like a default web browser that includes advertising.
The RedMagic 11 Air will come in Phantom black and Prism white colors, and early bird vouchers for the phone will become available on Feb. 5 ahead of its Feb. 11 open sale date.
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