Mobile Gaming has come a long way from those Java-powered flip phone games, and holding Xiaomi’s Black Shark 4 Pro in my hands is a firm reminder. It maintains the stock ROM sleek design of a standard smartphone, but upon closer inspection, you’ll find a powerful machine for the gamer on the go. For $50 extra, you could get the RedMagic 7 with additional power and a faster display refresh rate, all of which is worth far more than that additional 50 bucks. But in picking that, you’ll get 65W charging rather than the full 120W of the 4 Pro. In the Geekbench 5 test, the 4 Pro hit a multi-core score of 3,742 and a 3DMark Wild Life average frame rate of 35.2 FPS. 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. The Black Shark 4 Pro features last year’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor with up to 12GB LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage.
Additionally, we provide interesting benchmark data from trusted sources. For those who love listening to music, watching movies, and playing competitive online games on their device, it’s important to pay attention to the audio and sound quality.
- Of course, as a gaming phone, the new Black Shark 4 is bound to bring new upgrades.
- I took them on walks and comfortably used them in the studio.
- The only additional apps that you get right out of the box are designed to improve your gaming experience.
- But it’s just a couple of companies making powerful yet very similar (and, apparently, sometimes very fragile) phones that aren’t really worth the effort of tracking down — even for the most die-hard of mobile gamers.
- No matter how hard I tried, I could never make the Black Shark last me the entirety of 24 hours.
- The Xiaomi Black Shark 4 Pro has an internal memory of a capacity of 256 GB / 512 GB.
No matter how hard I tried, I could never make the Black Shark last me the entirety of 24 hours. In a world where most gaming phones offer 5,000mAh to 6,000mAh, this is unacceptable.
- You may also repair your Black Shark 4 Android device using Stock ROM Firmware Flash File.
- On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.
- Though the Black Shark 4 Pro does improve on its camera offering compared to its predecessor, it’s still not what most would consider flagship.
- This happened more than a handful of times with me, so I eventually disabled the trigger buttons for everything but gaming.
- The display could do with being a bit brighter, which I primarily wanted when gaming outdoors.
It’s a little hard to recognize at first because the phone employs a sort of faux-futuristic gaming aesthetic. The device’s AI assistant is an anime character that struck me as odd at first, but it never obscured anything important. 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 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.