The RedMagic gaming tablet with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was expected to launch soon, and the company has now confirmed that this compact OLED pad will launch after the 11S Pro, which is set for a May 18, 2026, release in China.
RedMagic has announced that its 11S Pro Series of gaming tablet, which is powered by the overclocked Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, will be available in China from May 18th, 2026. During this event, the company was anticipate to release a Gaming Tablet 5 Pro, which will be a new compact pad with an OLED display.
According to company’s product manager Jiang Chao however, the compact gaming tablet will not be released with the RedMagic 11S Pro series. The company official confirms there are some “bottlenecks” to resolve but the official representative does not elaborate on the issues.
It’s possible that the gaming tablet isn’t meeting the performance expectations, and as it will feature the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, this upcoming RedMagic pad already has tough competitors (such as the Legion Tab Gen 5). To the possible launch time frame, Jiang Chao says that the company will be able to provide some updates on this at the event of the launch of the 11S Pro series.
Apart from the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the gaming tablet will have much the same cooling solution as the RedMagic 11 Pro series, according to previous reports. Like the last-gen pad, it’s expected to come with a pre-installed PC gaming emulator, allowing users to easily play computer games on it.
In a report, Digital Chat Station has revealed that the tablet will be powered by a 1TB storage capacity, up to 24GB of RAM, a large 8,300mAh battery and an OLED display with a 185Hz refresh rate. RedMagic could confirm some of these specs at the May 18 launch event.
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Jiang Chao on Weibo (machine translated)
