The Black Shark Helo also comes with what seems like a more ergonomic exterior. More importantly, though, there are now LED strips on the edges and the logo is backlit, similar to the Razer Phone 2. Under the hood too, the Black Shark Helo is laden with hardware. For starters, it has a 6.01-inch OLED screen with a resolution of 1080p and an 18:9 aspect ratio. The Black Shark Helo, apart from the 10GB of RAM, is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845, up to 256GB of onboard storage, and runs on a 4000mAh battery which does support quick charging. There are two camera sensors on the rear — a regular 20-megapixel lens and another 12-megapixel snapper. On the front, you’ll find a 20-megapixel selfie camera. Both the setups offer all the usual trappings such as Portrait Mode, Beauty Mode, and more. In addition, the Black Shark Helo offers dual front-firing stereo speakers, the output of which can be finetuned through software. The fingerprint reader is situated on the rear. The new Black Shark Helo handles heat much with a re-engineered dual-pipe cooling system which, in fact, sounds identical to what Xiaomi employs inside the Poco F1. One of the big new features of the Black Shark Helo is that it now ships with an external controller that can be plugged into the bundled silicon case. The Black Shark Helo starts at 3,199 yuan (~Rs 34,000) for 6GB RAM, 128GB storage and goes all the way up to 4,199 yuan (~Rs 44,500) for the variant with 10GB RAM, 256GB storage. Although the later model won’t be available until December 12th.
Xiaomi Black Shark Helo Specifications
Dimensions: 160×75.25x 8.7mm; Weight: 190g 6.01-inch (2160 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ display, 18:9 aspect ratio, 430 nits brightness Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 64-bit 10nm Octa-Core Mobile Platform, Clocked at 2.8GHz, Adreno 630 GPU 6/8/10GB LPDDR4x RAM, 128/256GB (UFS 2.1) storage Android 8.0 (Oreo), Joy UI Dual SIM (nano + nano), 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11ac dual-band (2×2 MU-MIMO ), Bluetooth 5, USB Type-C Rear Cameras: 12-megapixel primary camera, f/1.75 aperture, 1.25µm pixel size, dual-tone LED flash, 20-megapixel secondary camera, 1.0µm pixel size, f/1.75 aperture Front Camera: 20-megapixel, 1.0µm pixel size, f/2.2 aperture Fingerprint sensor Dual Smart PA, Hi-Fi Audio, Dual Front Speakers 4000mAh battery, Quick Charge 3.0
