The above three components when used excessively when you perform activities such as recording long videos, gaming, and editing videos. Other hardware notables include shoulder buttons, which might remove the need to use a dedicated Bluetooth controller of clip-on accessory with the Black Shark 4 and 4 Pro. That doesn’t mean that added accessories are not available, as you can grab an addition cooler priced at around $30.
- Follow the How-to Flash Guide as provided on the XIAOMI BLACK SHARK stock rom page to Flash your XIAOMI device.
- 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.
- Modern devices can typically endure for more than 20 hours under normal use, although some may only last for 16 to 18 hours.
In terms of performance, the Snapdragon 870 is used as the SoC, so it is not the absolute top league in terms of performance, but it is still a powerful processor. Thus, the review sample is superior to its predecessor Black Shark 3 by about 10% in some areas in terms of performance.
The 4500 mAh battery is charged via the provided 120W charger in the box. At first I thought it was overkill, but considering that the battery was only able to last about a day on a single charge as a gamer, being able to charge back to full under 20 minutes offsets that problem. This however, is proprietary technology, so you can’t just use any 120W charger AND cable.
- However, the image becomes a bit pixelated in only one lux of brightness, but colors and the image content can still be recognized in general.
- Turning to the cameras, Xiaomi includes a triple camera array with a 48MP primary lens, along with an 8MP ultrawide camera and a 5MP macro sensor.
- Once you follow the above steps and still facing the problems, then try connecting to different Wifi connections.
- At 163.93mm long, 76.35mm wide, and 9.9mm thick, it’s a slim phone that fits nicely in your hand and pocket.
- Meant to be a kind of assistant that helps with getting you acquainted with this phone’s many settings, the anime Shark Chan character is a feature that stands out on an otherwise ho-hum gaming phone.
- The last-gen Snapdragon processor never gave me any big issues with stutters on anything I tested—which were mostly multiplayer battle royales and the occasional card game.
The gamer-ish look and feel is great for a small audience, but others may be looking for something that just isn’t quite awkward to be caught with in public. You may need to do some work on removing some of these stock ROM visual tweaks. Plus, you’re stuck with Android 11 instead of the more recent Android 12 for now and so far, there’s been no word on how many Android versions or security updates you will receive. As for video, it is technically capable of shooting 4K, but really, you already know where this is going.