{"id":226413,"date":"2026-01-10T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226413\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T07:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:54:08","slug":"this-gaming-brand-is-copying-apple-to-launch-an-air-phone-but-the-specs-are-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226413\/","title":{"rendered":"This gaming brand is copying Apple to launch an \u201cAir\u201d phone, but the specs are heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmochina.com\/category\/red-magic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RedMagic<\/a>, a brand best known for gaming phones with unapologetically extreme specs, is stepping into the thin-phone conversation with the RedMagic 11 Air.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"503\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Red-Magic-11-Air-Launch-teaser.jpg\" alt=\"Red Magic 11 Air Launch teaser\" class=\"wp-image-722922\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The company officially shared the first teaser today, confirming the name. But what exactly should you expect from an ultra-light phone made by a gaming-focused brand? Thanks to tipster Smart Pikachu on China\u2019s Weibo, we already have a near-complete picture of the specs.<\/p>\n<p>Red Magic 11 Air Specifications (Rumored)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the leak, the device is built around a 6.85-inch OLED display and is powered by last year\u2019s Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. The latter has, in fact, been confirmed via its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmochina.com\/2026\/01\/06\/red-magic-11-air-geekbench-snapdragon-8-elite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Geekbench appearance<\/a>, where it scored 3075 points in single-core and 9934 in multi-core tests. As for the battery, it packs a 7,000mAh cell with 120W fast-charging support.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Red-Magic-11-Air-Specs-Leak.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-722921\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>All of these specs are what you would expect from a regular, decently weighted smartphone: a big display, a top-tier chip, and a large battery. It also seems that the Red Magic 11 Air is a regular smartphone disguised with an \u201cAir\u201d moniker.<\/p>\n<p>The tipster suggests that the phone will be 7.85mm thick and weigh 207 grams. That aligns more with a standard slab phone than the slim iPhone Air, which weighs just 165 grams and measures 5.6mm thick.<\/p>\n<p>The only justification we can think of is that Red Magic\u2019s regular phones are even more heavily specced and heavier, so the 11 Air counts as a thin smartphone by the company\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Red Magic 11 Air could pack up to 24GB of RAM and will also include a built-in active cooling system to keep thermals under control.<\/p>\n<p>For more daily updates, please visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmochina.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">News Section<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stay ahead in tech!\u00a0Join our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/gizmochinaofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Telegram community<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmochina.beehiiv.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sign up for our daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0top stories.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/m.weibo.cn\/detail\/5253141446789351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RedMagic, a brand best known for gaming phones with unapologetically extreme specs, is stepping into the thin-phone conversation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,116156,122818,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-226413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-red-magic","13":"tag-red-magic-11-air","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}