Black Shark Announces Partnership With Tencent Games

Xiaomi's gaming sub-brand, Black Shark, has announced a partnership with Tencent Games to "explore innovation in gaming, both in terms of software and hardware". According to statements posted by them on Chinese micro-blogging site, Weibo, the tie-up will enable them to offering gamers a "diverse gaming experience", but the specifics of the partnership, also every bit how it volition affect users, remain unclear for now.

While Black Shark is 1 of the more than pop gaming-focused niche smartphone brands that is expected to launch its 3rd-gen device this yr, Tencent is one of the biggest video game publishers in the world, responsible for pop titles like PUBG Mobile and COD Mobile. Information technology will be interesting to see if Tencent's partnership with Blackness Shark will be similar to the one it had with Asus final year for the ROG Phone 2, which came with a 'Tencent Edition' model that came with customized software, including a plethora of Tencent apps.

Every bit for the Blackness Shark three, the device is expected to be released in the coming months every bit an upgrade over the terminal-gen model, the Black Shark 2 Pro, which was launched last July in China. The device is said to transport with a 2K 120Hz panel that volition offering users the option to manually switch betwixt 60Hz, 90Hz and 120Hz refresh rates as a possible battery-saving feature. The handset will also apparently have an option to lower the brandish resolution from 2K to 1080p.

The device is besides rumored to ship with upwards to 16GB of RAM and offer dual-mode 5G connectivity, but the rest of the tech specs remain under the wraps for now. Yet, information technology won't exist totally out of place to expect it to be powered past the Snapdragon 865 SoC, which was officially announced by Qualcomm last calendar month. Non a whole lot more is known well-nigh the upcoming device at this betoken, simply nosotros promise to get more than info in the coming days.

Featured Image Courtesy: Tencent Games (via Weibo)