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I’ve been using Android’s iPad Mini OLED for months, and it’s the better tiny tablet

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I’ve been using Android’s iPad Mini OLED for months, and it’s the better tiny tablet

Apple has just released a new iPad Mini with an OLED display and it looks great, but I’ve spent the past few months with Android’s equivalent in the Redmagic Astra 2, and it’s well worth your attention.

The new iPad Mini with OLED is a long-overdue upgrade. As 9to5Mac details, this new tablet delivers an 8.5-inch OLED display, a chassis that’s just 5.4mm thick, and weighs just 255g. By all means, it looks great.

But over the past few months, I’ve been using what has now turned out to be a close rival to that tablet. The Redmagic Astra 2 may be a gaming-focused Android tablet, but it matches or even beats the new iPad Mini in some crucial ways.

The 9.04-inch OLED display on the RedMagic Astra 2 is a bit bigger than Apple’s (it’s a slightly thicker and heavier tablet, too), but it’s still very much in that same ballpark. And it’s a gorgeous display. For everything from movies to games, it’s been an absolute pleasure to use. Colors are vivid, blacks are as deep as only OLED can do, and it beats Apple’s peak brightness at 1,600 nits too.

The biggest point in Redmagic’s favor is in that display, too. Where Apple is still refusing to give the iPad Mini a 120Hz refresh rate with this latest model – utterly insane in the year two thousand and twenty-six, if I do say so myself – Astra 2 has a 185Hz refresh rate. I’ve not found that inherently better than a standard 120Hz panel, but it’s way better than the 60Hz panel Apple’s latest will still be using.


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