The saving grace is that the charging experience is incomprehensibly fast, with support for Xiaomi’s 120W HyperCharge technology – and unlike many rivals, the full speed charger comes as stock ROM standard in the box. It really is impressively fast too, with our tests showing a 0-90% charge in 15 minutes, and it reached 100% charge within 30 minutes. The display is also pressure-sensitive using Black Shark’s ‘Magic Press’ tech, with the aim of being able to press down onto the display to trigger specific game functions like reloading or using a melee weapon.

Black Shark also claims it has HDR 10+ support, a 111% DCI-P3 calibration and a 1,300 nit peak brightness. For the players, instead of touch sensitive shoulder areas, you can flick the two switches on the right side and pop out physical shoulder buttons, which are so much better to use. The frame has been sculpted for decent comfort and the holographic finish on the back does look pretty cool. The device have build fingerprint sensors (side mounted) as the primary security with face unlock features support. Xiaomi tried to sweeten the pot by throwing in the fancy-schmancy 120W HyperCharge support.

  • It makes communication simple, helps you find places, and keeps you connected to your friends and family, among several other things.
  • It was the kind of thing I got used to, but I could easily see it getting annoying over time.
  • What’s more impressive, however, and in my experience actually more beneficial to gaming, is its 720Hz touch sampling rate.
  • Asus’ latest ROG Phone 6 is like a super deluxe version of a smartphone.
  • The Xiaomi Black Shark 4 is equipped with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 with 8GB/12GB of RAM, and best-in-class thermal design.

Although it is usually the case, our score is not based solely on battery life but also on the advanced battery features and support available on the device. To help users determine how good the battery sector is on a device, we calculate a score using several metrics. First, we calculate the battery capacity and also consider battery features such as whether it supports fast charging or not.

black shark 4 pros and cons

The level of detail is sufficient and the colorimetry rather natural, especially when you disable the AI mode. The Black Shark 5 Pro features dual stereo speakers with DTS and Cirrus Logic technology to enhance the audio quality. It also has three active noise-cancelling microphones for the clearest possible recording of your voice, which comes in handy for talking to your teammates while you play. The colorimetry of the Black Shark 5 Pro’s screen is faithful as long as you opt for the Standard color mode. I don’t have any measurement tools to see this precisely, but the tones seemed a bit too cool with the Vivid mode enabled by default. This is an observation I’ve made on quite a few other Xiaomi smartphones, such as in my Redmi Note 11 Pro+ review.