Moving the port to say the middle left or right side would have been a unique feature and way for a gaming phone such as this to distinguish itself from a “traditional phone”. Between all that, you have a 4500mAh battery that supports 120W charging (and that’s not a typo), whcih can charge the phone to full in less than 17 minutes. Even using the standard 67W charger, you’ll charge to 100% in less than 25 minutes.
The 4 Pro being a gaming phone, you can also use these additional buttons to control gameplay when the phone is in landscape mode; it’ll almost feel like you’re holding a gamepad. It’s a nice touch, as is the illuminated Black Shark logo that lights up in green on the back casing when the phone is unlocked. That light can also be used to notify you of calls and messages – or you can turn it off entirely. For starters, it has a 144Hz refresh rate compared to last years’ 90Hz. You can keep up with fast movement more easily whether gaming or just scrolling because more frames are shown each second compared to lower refresh rate screens.
- This website provides you a detailed information about factory reset, hard reset, soft reset, recovery mode, download mode, safe mode, etc.
- It was the kind of thing I got used to, but I could easily see it getting annoying over time.
- The XIAOMI Firmware flash file shared on this page is officially released by the company and helps you to recover your device if you ever got boot loop, software error, update error, hanging or dead issues.
- The Black Shark 4 Pro won’t work with LTE or 5G networks on most carriers — at least reliably.
- In the warm-up poster, there is a suspected outline of the new mobile phone, and it seems that the phone does not have a front camera.
The featured Snapdragon 870 5G works hard on the Black Shark 4, with most non-gaming apps running at 120 (except YouTube). There was nothing on the Play Store (game-wise) that the Black Shark 4 wasn’t able to run.
(It suggests that you buy an accessory to help keep the phone cool while this mode is active). At £429, the entry-level model is one of the cheapest dedicated gaming phones you can buy. For comparison, the Red Magic 6 series starts at £509/US$599, while you’ll pay at least £799 (approx. US$1,100) for the Asus ROG Phone 5. There are also a few software tweaks on both phones, as we’ve come to expect from gaming handsets. The most notable is Xiaomi’s ‘Shark Space’, an area of the phone where notifications can be silenced and performance boosted.
Black Shark informed me that there should be no ads in the global ROM and that the teams will work on removing them. However, sensitivity is far more customizable on the Black Shark 5 Pro.