The newly introduced gaming smartphone Xiaomi Black Shark 3 is beginning to write a new era of mobile gaming.
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The manufacturer introduced two versions of the novelty, Black Shark 3 and Black Shark 3 Pro, which differ mainly in the size of the display, battery and other parameters.
Symmetrical back design
The novelty brings a beautiful sophisticated design, which at first glance puts the smartphone into the Black Shark game series. This is indicated by the typical black-gray-green coloration but also by the X-shaped curves of the back cover, or the large green S-shaped logo in the middle.
The front of the third generation Black Shark consists of a large display with narrow side frames and a very narrow forehead and chin. At the front above the display is a thin hole for the speaker and the lens of the front camera.
All the physical buttons and connectors can be found around the perimeter of the smartphone. Let's start from the bottom where the USB port type C and the speaker perforation are located. It is also located in the upper part and together with it there is also a port for a 3,5 mm audio jack.
In the right peripheral edge, there are two recessed physical multifunction buttons at the top and bottom. Each of them has a length of 21 mm and, if necessary, the user extends them above the edge surface up to a height of 1,5 mm. This unprecedented mechanism significantly brings the smartphone closer to portable game consoles. However, these buttons are only included in the Black Shark 3 Pro version.
Below the buttons is a special mechanical system that enhances the gaming experience. You can map them to various functions in the JoyUI game interface, but not until later.
As we have already mentioned, the back of the smartphone is typically Black Shark, but it is nonetheless innovative. A distinctive design element consists of a backlit logo with the letter S, but also two triangular modules.
These protrude from the back cover and are placed opposite each other, and the conflict with other lines of the back cover forms the shape of the letter X - characteristic of the Black Shark series.
Three camera sensors are untraditionally placed in the upper triangular module. In the lower one, there is a magnetic charging connector, which ensures a comfortable grip of the gaming device even during charging.
Despite the fact that the Black Shark 3 is a robust and relatively heavy smartphone, the manufacturer tried to adapt its design to a comfortable grip when playing games. Gaming is a priority in the case of the Black Shark series, and the entire device is adapted to this.
Display with 270 Hz touch response
The display in Black Shark 3 is a separate chapter and comes in parameters that we have not seen in a mobile phone so far. It is 6,67-inch AMOLED panel with a resolution of 2400 x 1080. The refresh rate of the display itself is at a level 90 Hz.
Specifically, the display of the new Black Shark will be able to recognize our fingers at a frequency of up to 270 Hz. This means that it can evaluate up to 270 stimuli on the touchpad in a single second.
To this is added a minimum latency 24 ms for a single touch a 28 ms for multi-touchthat is, touching with multiple fingers at once. A player with Black Shark 3 will thus have a significant advantage of speed and accuracy over a player on another device in a possible multiplayer mode.
In addition, it supports technology HDR10 + and DCI-P3 color gamut, there is also a lack of certification TUV Rheinland. The display also boasts a very accurate color display and achieves value JNCD <0,55 and Delta E <1.
In reality, this means that the colors of the display come as close as possible to the real colors we see with the human eye. There is also intelligent adjustment of the TrueView color temperature according to the surrounding environment.
Technológia MEMC 2.0 dynamically inserts low-frame content into the high frame rate to achieve a true 90 Hz.
Massive game performance
Even before the performance, we knew that Black Shark 3 would get the latest and greatest components in terms of performance. We recently described these at the introduction of the Xiaomi Mi 10. So today, the processor was confirmed Snapdragon 865which is a guarantee of high performance but also 5G support. This makes the smartphone the first gaming smartphone to support both SA and NSA 5G mobile networks.
As we already know, a powerful smartphone would be an unnecessarily oversized fire in the chain without additional powerful and fast equipment. Black Shark 3 thus received the latest RAM module L also fast storage type UFS 3.0. Basically it will be available with 8 GB of RAM, more powerful models will get it 12 GB RAM.
The Black Shark 3 literally requires incredibly active cooling, which the manufacturer has also managed to integrate. The smartphone is equipped with a completely new liquid-based cooling system, which is layered on both sides of the motherboard. As a result, it has acquired the adjective "sandwich" and the cooling of the device is much more efficient than ever before.
For even more efficient cooling for real gamers, Xiaomi has introduced an additional fan specially adapted for this Black Shark model, which can cool the smartphone by another 14 ° C in one minute. It's basically a "Pro" version of the fan that was presented for Mi 10.
Without fine-tuned software optimizations, this would not be possible with these devices. Black Shark 3 runs on a special JoyUI superstructure with many game improvements. The phone is equipped with the SolarCore 2.0 game engine, thanks to which games load faster, complex scenes run more smoothly and the lowest energy consumption is used to achieve the best game results.
Dual battery and really fast charging
The gaming Black Shark 3 also received an interesting split battery and its maximum capacity is 4 mAh. It's not extremely much, but thanks to the magnetic charging connector and fast charging with a power of up to 720 W, it will definitely be enough.
The manufacturer states that dual batteries are 100% recharged when they are crazy 38 minutes. There is also a special one magnetic 18 W charging using the connector on the back. Thanks to this charging, the user will not be disturbed in any way by the cable from the charger.
Not much has been said about the 64 MPx camera
As we described in the introduction, the new Black Shark is equipped with three rear camera sensors arranged in a non-traditional triangle. Let's admit that photography is not the primary function of a gaming smartphone, but still the new gaming shark is not lagging behind.
The report contains main 64 MPx sensor, 13 MPx wide angle sensor with 120 ° angle of view and 5 MPx sensor for portrait photography. The camera can capture RAW photos and he has artificial intelligence.
Other equipment
Snapdragon 865 also foreshadows 6 WiFi as a standard for wireless communication. The latest 802.11ax network can achieve a maximum transfer rate of up to 9,6 Gbps. That's 2,7 times WiFi 5 - 802.11ac introduced in 2012 and 16 times WiFi 4 - 802.11n introduced in 2009.
Black Shark 3 Pro is even better
The manufacturer also comes with the Black Shark 3 Pro model, which got bigger 7,1-inch 90 Hz AMOLED display, which also increased the resolution to great 3120 x 1440 pixels Therefore be a 2K.
The display has all the other parameters identical to the model without the Pro designation, but it also has support for 10-bit color depth, which can display an incredible 1,07 billion colors.
A very significant difference between the Pro and the classic version of the new Black Shark are the physical slide buttons, which only the Pro version received.
Of course, the manufacturer also counted on higher energy consumption and equipped the Pro version with a battery with a capacity 5 mAh. The same is not missing either 65 W charge, which even in this case charges the battery from 0 to 100% in 38 minutes.
It also comes with improved ones for the model dual 1217 ultra-linear stereo speakerswhich provide a perfect sound when playing. The specialty is a horizontal linear vibration motor specially adapted for games. It contains 150+ types of basic vibration effects for various scenes and brings a greater experience.
The prices pleasantly surprised
The icing on the cake are the prices. In the case of the Black Shark 3, we were pleasantly surprised by the prices and the basic versions even start at even lower amounts than the main model Xiaomi Mi 10. It's certainly caused by weaker cameras, but the overall performance is similar, if not even better.
These are the news prices for the Chinese market:
Black Shark 3 with 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage for 3499 yuan ~ 450 € / 11 CZK
Black Shark 3 with 12 GB RAM + 128 GB storage for 3799 yuan ~ 489 € / 12 CZK
Black Shark 3 with 12 GB RAM + 256 GB storage for 3999 yuan ~ 515 € / 13 CZK
Black Shark 3 Pro with 8 GB RAM + 256 GB storage for 4699 yuan = ~ 605 € / 15 CZK
Black Shark 3 Pro with 12 GB RAM + 256 GB storage for 4999 yuan = ~ 645 € / 16 CZK
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