Charge the phone at least 50% without interrupting the flashing process with a low battery. Xiaomi USB drivers are required to connect Xiaomi Black Shark 4 Pro to a Computer or Laptop via USB cable.

• For starters, it has a 144Hz refresh rate compared to last years’ 90Hz.
• In the post, it’s stated that the Black Shark 4 is coming soon and that it’ll feature 120W charging that’ll fully charge its 4,500mAh battery in just 15 minutes.
• On this page, we shared a complete guide on how to download and install Custom ROMs, and stock firmware using Windows and Linux PC.
• The Black Shark 4 and 4 Pro were officially unveiled at an online event on 23 March.
• So, even though the 4,500mAh isn’t the biggest of batteries, especially for a gaming phone, it can be charged in just a few minutes.

Gaming phones still feel very much like an enigma, but we’ve seen more and more options hit the market in recent years. The latest duo to join the growing list comes in the form of the Xiaomi Black Shark 4 and Black Shark 4 Pro. Your number one source for all technology and smartphone news.

It is an open standard that is maintained by a nonprofit organization. This way the users can chose freely between different ID4me providers and can also change the provider anytime. In both cases, the times touted by the manufacturer proved to be accurate. In everyday use, I was able to run the game Apex Legends Mobile at a constant 60 FPS with graphics and framerate set to 4 out of 5. Apex Legends is a not very well optimized game, so it is very resource intensive.

• Moreover, it offers a mode to boost the charging speed and go from 0 to 100% battery life in 15 minutes.
• But where the Black Shark takes the cake isn’t the faster refresh rate.
• Besides, the main appeal of the Black Shark is gaming performance.
• There is an insane 720Hz touch sampling rate, too, which Xiaomi claims is the industry’s best on a mobile.
• The pictures that we took were, for the most part, pretty solid and really good considering the $500 price tag.

Prior to Pocket-lint he honed his video skills at PhoneDog, and wrote for 9to5Google. Other roles have seen him start projects from zero and grow their audience – covering Google, Apple and T-Mobile in depth. In that time, his areas of focus and expertise have mostly been smartphones and wearables, but he has a musician’s ear and is equally adept at judging headphones and audio products. He’s a graduate in Film and TV Production, and in his spare time, he’s usually running, playing the guitar, doing yoga or training in the arts of movie and coffee snobbery. Other details on the phone are scarce, but being a gamer phone we can be sure a few staple features will be there. Things like shoulder buttons, colour-shifting LED lights on the back and a highly efficient internal cooling system will almost certainly be there, stock ROMs as well as Qualcomm’s latest top-of-the-range processor. Black Shark 4 Pro is ranked first in the DXOMARK audio rankings.