ZTE and their RedMagic Astra 2, opinions

In summer 2026, at June ZTE announced their new model RedMagic Astra 2

ZTE RedMagic Astra 2 features

Available options for charge 80W wired Bypass charging.

Fingerprint (side-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass sensors are supported on this RedMagic Astra 2.

Body

ZTE made their RedMagic Astra 2 model with width 134.2mm, height 207.1mm and tickness 6.9mm.

RedMagic Astra 2 by ZTE has 1 colors - eclipse black and starfrost silver.

On this model made as LTPO OLED, 1B colors, 185Hz, PWM, HDR, 1000 nits (typ), 1600 nits (peak), on that point this phone was ahead from 86% existing mobile phones by diplay size, enforced by 9.06 inches, 238.3 cm2 (~85.7% screen-to-body ratio) screen with resolution 1504 x 2400 pixels having proportions 16:10 and with density 313 pixels in inch, about screen protection I can note that used corning Gorilla Glass (unspecified version).

Some info about camera

Video on main camera of this device is available with 4K@30fps, 1080p@30fps variants. This is quite good for example one of available devices at the moment, Xiaomi Watch S5,

Video recording on selfie camera of the RedMagic Astra 2 is available with 1080p@30fps options.

Is this beast?

Model contains CPU Octa-core (2x4.74 GHz Oryon V3 Phoenix L + 6x3.62 GHz Oryon V3 Phoenix M), using chip Qualcomm SM8850-1-AD Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (3 nm), Taking into account ZTE RedMagic Astra 2 rank video card on this phone is Adreno 840 (1.3GHz).

Capability on this model is 256GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 16GB RAM, 1TB 16GB RAM, no card slot available, OS is Android 16, Redmagic OS 11.5.

Communication

This model supporting networks 2G, 3G and N/A. , No cellular connectivity.

USB Daul USB Type-C 3.2 Gen2 & USB Type-C 2.0, Display Port, magnetic connector pins, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6, dual-band, Bluetooth 5.4, A2DP, LE.