RedMagic 11S Pro Features Liquid Cooling on All Models, but With a Price Bump

RedMagic’s $849 11S Pro, unveiled Wednesday, includes a few fixes from the past. RedMagic 11 Pro which started last fall. But as is often the case in the telecom industry, the new phone and receives a $100 price bump that may be caused by the rising cost of electronics.

RedMagic 11S Pro has two main changes: The phone now includes the “best version” of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, while the liquid cooling system that debuted on the 11 Pro is now prominently featured on all models in the lineup. This means you can see the liquid cooler moving around inside the phone when it’s activated, which appears to be just a cosmetic change. On the RedMagic 11 Pro, the Cryo system did not have a transparent back that allowed you to see the system, although it is there.

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Other than that focus, the phone is almost identical to the model that came out last fall, including features like a large 7,500-mAh battery, 80-watt wired charging and charger included in the box and a built-in cooling fan that can run at 24,000 rotations per minute. Many of these features benefit anyone who prioritizes mobile gaming at high graphics settings. These features extend playtimes with a large battery while avoiding overheating by using that cooling fan and liquid cooling system.

The cameras — which have never been the focus of this gaming phone line — include a 50-megapixel wide and 50-megapixel ultrawide on the back. The 16-megapixel selfie camera is placed below the display, which is great for viewing content since you don’t have any display cutouts, but this often comes at the cost of making photos and video chats look blurry.

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The RedMagic 11S Pro also continues Android 16 with the company’s overlay, which in my short time saw fixed some of the issues I’d seen on previous RedMagic phones. The company’s pre-installed web browser (now named “Browser”) no longer displays random advertisements when opened, which was quite annoying, considering the high price of that phone.

RedMagic also made the Google Discover feed the default when you swipe left from the home screen, instead of the company’s dashboard feed, which I think sounds a bit rubbish. (You can still select it in the settings menu, though, if you like.)

Unfortunately, RedMagic still adds a watermark to photos taken with its cameras by default, but it’s a setting you can turn off.

RedMagic fans will likely continue to love what the company delivers with the 11S Pro, considering the company’s focus on making powerful phones that make it easy to play games at high altitudes. But the $100 price increase over the model that just arrived last fall is annoying.

It costs $849 for the 256GB black model; stepping up to the 512GB model (black or silver) costs $949. This makes the RedMagic 11S Pro cost almost the same as standard high-end phones such as Samsung Galaxy S26 as well as OnePlus 15both are probably better suited all around for most people as they place more emphasis on camera quality over processing power.

And unless you already bought the previous RedMagic 11 Pro for its low price, you may be out of luck as the company’s website shows that the phone is out of stock as of this writing. Meanwhile, they are coming down RedMagic 11 Air — which uses last year’s Snapdragon 8 Elite processor — appears to still sell for $599 in its 512GB variant. Someone curious about getting their first gaming phone might be better off with that cheaper phone because it offers many of the same features as the 11S Pro without the liquid cooling.

Pre-orders will start on June 3, the phone will go on sale worldwide on June 10.