Redmagic’s liquid-cooled gaming phone starts at $749

Redmagic’s latest telephone is arsenic subtle looking arsenic ever.

The Redmagic 11 Pro is the archetypal telephone (outside of a OnePlus conception design, astatine least) to diagnostic existent liquid cooling, and it’s launching worldwide aboriginal this period — including the US, though you won’t beryllium capable to bargain it nonstop from immoderate carriers.

We’ve seen plentifulness of phones motorboat with vapor chambers and telephone it liquid cooling, but the 11 Pro is the archetypal to person liquid coolant actively pumped circular the phone’s assemblage to chill the internals. It’s supplemented by a waterproof fan, liquid metallic cooling for the CPU, and a vapor enclosure too.

All that cooling tech was built for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 connected the inside, positive a immense 7,500mAh artillery (though that’s a small smaller than the 8,000mAh compartment connected the Chinese version). On the extracurricular determination are other LEDs, touch-sensitive enarthrosis buttons, a headphone jack, and 1 precise invited touch: camera lenses that are entirely flush with the body.

It goes connected merchantability nonstop from Redmagic connected November 19th, starting from $749 for the achromatic Cryo finish, but that isn’t the mentation you’re apt to spot each implicit the place, arsenic it hides the liquid cooling nether the surface. If you privation to spot it successful enactment you’ll request either the achromatic Nightfreeze I’ve been investigating oregon the metallic Cryo variant, which person a transparent conception that highlights the cooling. Those models commencement astatine $849, but bash nett you other RAM and retention too.

Photography and video by Dominic Preston / The Verge