Recently, the Nubia Red Magic 7 received a new wireless network certification. This certification shows that the gaming smartphone comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 898 SoC. According to a recent report from popular Weibo leaker Digital Chat Staion, another Snapdragon 898 gamer smartphone is in the pipeline alongside the Red Magic 7. This device is the Black Shark 5.
The Black Shark series boasts one of the most powerful smartphones in the industry. The AnTuTu recently announced ranking the performance of the latest Android mobile phones. This ranking shows that the Black Shark 4S Pro remains in first place with 875 902 points. According to the detailed run score data, the Black Shark 4S Pro's main score is MEM, or memory score, which is almost the highest score in the entire list.
The biggest reason is that the Black Shark 4S Pro uses a combination of SSD+UFS 3.1 flash memory. The SSD storage solution is the same NVME protocol that everyone knows from user PCs. Previously, Black Shark claimed that the SSD memory disk array system can increase read performance by 55% and write performance by 69%. This comparison was made against other smartphones in the industry.
As a gamer phone, the read and write performance brings a very big improvement to the user experience. The current product design suggests that the Black Shark 5 series will likely continue this configuration and further decentralise from the standard products. With the Snapdragon 898 high-performance chip, it is expected to once again be at the top of the list of the most powerful smartphones.
Ahead of the release of the new gamer flagship, Digital Chat Staion previously published some rumours. The Black Shark 5 will carry the model number KTUS-A0. The leaker notes that the new flagship will come with 100W+ fast charging. The Black Shark 4 series comes with 120W fast charging support, most likely the successor will also get this, as for now this is the maximum charging Xiaomi offers for its commercially available smartphones, this is by the way the current date brutal. The company already has 200W HyperCharge technology, but it has not yet debuted in a commercial product.
Black Shark 4
Unfortunately, other details such as display size, design and other game-related specifications were not disclosed by the company. In any case, we can expect the battery capacity to match or exceed the 4500 mAh capacity of the Black Shark 4. The display will have Full HD+ resolution and a refresh rate of up to 144 Hz, just like its predecessor. While QHD+ may mean that performance is sacrificed, an increase in resolution cannot be ruled out. After all, a faster processor can compensate for the performance.
The smartphone is likely to retain the same game-oriented, distinctive design as its predecessors. It's possible that Xiaomi will introduce a completely new cooling technology for the new gamer phone, but these are all speculations of course.
