Xiaomi-backed
Black Shark is all set to launch its top-end gaming smartphone on Friday, April
13. In the run up to the launch, the company has already revealed that it runs
on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 flagship mobile SoC, and now, in its latest
teasers, the company has partially shown off its design. A separate leak shows
it would be using a new ‘X antenna’ technology. The smartphone is also thought
to have been spotted on benchmarking sites in the recent past, tipping some
other specifications.
In a post
on Weibo, Xiaomi-backed Black Shark teases the gaming capabilities of the
smartphone, whilst also showing off the design. Most of the right half of the
smartphone can be seen, and curved edges are visible, apart from the power
button on the right.
In a
separate post, a tipster claims leaked design sketches of the upcoming gaming
smartphone show it will use an ‘X antenna’ technology – something the company
had teased itself back on April 1. The schematics (seen below) emphasise curved
corners similar to the what we see in the official teaser, with GPS, Wi-Fi,
LTE, and MIMO networks placed correspondingly across the four corners.
Previously, an
AnTuTu listing tipped the Xiaomi-backed Black Shark gaming smartphone will
sport a full-HD+ (1080×2160 pixels) display with an 18:9 aspect ratio and 32GB
of onboard storage. Similarly, a listing on Geekbench highlighted that the new
handset will run Android 8.0 Oreo and include 8GB of RAM. There haven’t been
many gaming-centric smartphones launched in the recent past, and Black Shark
appears to be taking on Razer and the recently unveiled Razer Phone. We can
expect it to be cheaper of course, continuing in the Xiaomi tradition of
placing products at price points that under-cut the market.
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