Black Shark 4 Pro review

The Black Shark 4 Pro is a great gaming-focused smartphone despite the year-old internals.

Almost a year after the initial announcement of the Black Shark 4 Pro in China, the smartphone is set to come to UK shores.

Touting gaming-focused features like a 144Hz AMOLED display, magnetic pop-up triggers, RGB lighting and 120W HyperCharge support, the Black Shark 4 Pro sounds tempting, but can the early 2021 spec hold its own against 2022 smartphones? Well…

Design and build

Big and bulky, but not unwieldy

Clean design with minimal RGB

Built-in triggers are a game-changer

The Black Shark 4 Pro is a gaming phone, and that means that it’s not the thinnest or lightest in the market – likely down to the beefed-up internals and larger cooling components than standard flagships. If that’s not your thing, you’d be better off elsewhere.

But while the Black Shark 4 Pro is a chunk at 9.9mm thick and 220g, it’s not unwieldy thanks to the narrow 20:9 aspect ratio of the 6.67in display – although the trade-off is that it’s hard to reach the top of the display when using the phone one-handed.

Size aside, Black Shark 4 Pro is an evolution in the design of the Black Shark, keeping the same X-antenna rear as its predecessor but switching out the combination of metal and glass for an all-glass affair. The glass rear is matte to help resist fingerprints with the familiar X pattern visible beneath, with interesting light refraction effects that give it a premium, but not so ‘in-your-face-gamer’ look.

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