You’ll have to rely on a bright source of light to get something out of it or settle for super fuzzy images. The 5MP macro camera is a real piece of work, which is probably why Xiaomi buried it deep within the camera app. Once you do find it, you’ll realize that your efforts were in vain.

• To do so, you start the game and then swipe from the top right corner for a pull-down settings menu.
• All of these numbers may seem like a bunch of nonsense, but what it shows us is that the Black Shark 4 performs almost as well as the Snapdragon 888 flagships.
• The front camera is a 20MP sensor with an f/2.2 sensor covered with a 5P lens.
• As smooth as the Black Shark 4 Pro looks and feels, the biggest test for a gaming phone is its performance.
• 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.

For the past few weeks, I’ve tested a number of long gaming sessions to see if the phone ever got hot to the touch or uncomfortable. Black Shark has upgraded their liquid sandwich design cooling system, which it claims is 30% more effective at heat dissipation. More graphically intensive games like Genshin Impact do stress the phone more and after a few hours, it can still get too hot. What’s more impressive, however, and in my experience actually more beneficial to gaming, is its 720Hz touch sampling rate. Black Shark claims this to be “the most responsive smartphone touchscreen ever”. This high pressure-sensitivity makes it super easy to get precise movements for even the most competitive games.

Though it’s a niche feature that not even all gamers will use, it’s a handy option for the power users among us. That means that touch input is detected much more quickly than traditional smartphone displays, resulting in lower latency and faster response times – especially crucial when playing competitive online games. There’s no question that the Black Shark 4 Pro is a capable handset, but for how long on a single charge? That’s with heavy social media browsing, an hour or two of YouTube, music streaming, and of course, gaming. With heavy gaming, which you’ll likely do if you’re reading this review, expect to get about three hours of usage before needing to charge up the phone.

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• So, in this article, we have covered all the problems and their solutions that you are facing on the Xiaomi Black Shark 4 smartphone.
• When not in use, the triggers disappear seamlessly back into the edge of the Black Shark 4.
• As long as you can live with the mediocre cameras and the abysmal battery life, the Black Shark 4 Pro will serve you well.
• As you can see in the sample below, the Black Shark 4 Pro’s macro sensor fails to capture the finer details of my e-reader’s leather cover.

But even for SVOD (streaming video on demand), the mids are heard audible and the sound doesn’t saturate even at high listening volumes. But in practical terms, I can make it so that when I press a key in my game with a force of level 2 out of 7 (7 being the maximum), the smartphone will perform an action. For example, I can decide that a press on the “shoot” key in a firmware files FPS is repeated 5 times in a row. In Apex Legends Mobile, my game of the moment, I can shoot 5 times in a row with my semi-automatic rifle by pressing the “shoot” button only once. The 20 MP selfie camera here does so-so, passing in exposure and skin tones.