This is also where you can configure your triggers, refresh rate, touch sensitivity, audio settings, network preferences, and even the RGB light effects. Usually shining a steady neon green, the RGB light on the back can be set to change colors in response to a game’s audio or even when you’re just listening to some tunes.
Our review unit came in a black color, but there are other color options. The full selection is Shadow Black, Misty Grey, Cosmos Black, Dark Blue and Silver. It’s worth noting that there’s no waterproofing here, so you’ll have to be careful with the phone when you’re out in the rain or close to a kitchen sink. The Black Shark 4 Pro is a great phone for a particular subset of users, but we admit it probably doesn’t have broad appeal, for the masses in general.
Overnight charging is simply no longer necessary to get a day of gaming out of these devices. As a new generation of gaming phones, there is not much doubt that Black Shark 4 is equipped with a powerful Snapdragon 888 mobile platform. In addition to the screen, performance should also be better, but there is still a lack of specific information. The Black Shark 5 Pro is the new flagship gaming smartphone from Black Shark, the brand supported by Xiaomi (but not owned by Xiaomi).
- 6.67 inches, 107.4 cm2 (~85.8% screen-to-body ratio) is the screen size of Xiaomi Black Shark 4 Pro.
- Xiaomi Black Shark 4 smartphone display flaunts 6.67 inches super AMOLED touchscreen stock ROM (firmware) with a 1080 pixels X 2400 pixels’ resolution.
- Both models include a pressure-sensitive display, too, which should mean that the level of your taps will correspond to different in-game actions/movement.
- The bezels were surprisingly thin all around, with a little tiny cutout for the front-facing camera.
However, we do not include external storage in our matrix score calculation because several modern users prefer to use cloud storage services instead of physical expansion memory. Furthermore, cloud storage services offer many benefits such as ease of use, safety, and lower cost, as opposed to buying external memory expansion, which is more expensive and less safe. In this situation, we use a calculation methodology with a technology approach. If a device supports more features on the WLAN function, uses the latest Bluetooth version, and has a modern universal connection port, we can assign a high score to the device. This means that a higher score will bring a more flexible user experience in terms of connectivity. In our matrix calculation, we calculate the mobile network score using a technology adoption approach.
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- The higher the score, the faster and smoother the processing will be for the user’s needs.
- Unsurprisingly, the iPhone SE’s A15 Bionic demolished this with 4,482, but as for this gaming phone’s real competition, the RedMagic 6R hit a multi-core score of 3,652 and matched the average FPS.
- We’re more used to seeing this design on regular smartphones, so it’s interesting to see Xiaomi buck the gaming phone trend somewhat.
- All of this in a package that’s priced at less than $500, and it’s definitely one of the best phones of the year.
- This is often done to address bugs, improve performance, or add new features to the device.
In terms of graphics processing, the Snapdragon™ 888 packs a brand-new GPU – Adreno 660, which improves performance by 35% and reduces power consumption by 20% compared to the previous generation. As for storage, the Black Shark 4 pro is equipped with the LPDDR5+UFS3.1, which significantly increased the read and write speed. As one of the flagship mobile chipset, Snapdragon™ 888 adopts an advanced 5nm EUV process and has a brand-new Cortex X1 large core architecture. Black Shark 4 features dual-symmetrical stereo speakers, a high-power amplifier, and an oversized sound cavity for surprisingly-bold audio in games and movies.
