Earlier this year, Xiaomi launched the Black Shark 2 gaming centric smartphone which was soon followed by its beefed up variant, the Black Shark 2 Pro. Now, the company has shared a teaser on Weibo which reveals that it will soon launch another colour variant of the Black Shark 2 Pro which has Orange accents and high-lights.

As the teaser exhibits, the upcoming variant of the Black Shark 2 Pro will go on sale from the 18th of October starting 10 AM. In terms of RAM and ROM, this variant will have 12 GB of RAM and 128 GB of UFS 3.0 storage, which is also offered with existing variants. The Black Shark 2 Pro with Orange accents will retail for 2999 Yuan ($ 423).

Except for the new colour scheme, the innards of this variant remain the same as previously launched variants.  To recall, the Xiaomi Black Shark 2 Pro features a 6.39-inch Super AMOLED display that has offers full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels and 19.5:9 aspect ratio. The smartphone is powered by a 4,000mAh battery which is capable of fast charging with 27W of maximum power.

The Black Shark 2 Pro runs Black Shark OS which is built on top of Android 9 Pie. The uniquely designed rear panel houses a vertically aligned dual camera setup which consists of an f/1.8 aperture  48-megapixel Sony IMX586 lens and a 12-megapixel telephoto lens with 2x optical zoom. For clicking selfies, it has a front camera of 20-megapixel with f/2.0 aperture.

Under the hood, the device features the latest and greatest offering from Qualcomm which is the Snapdrgaon 855+. The SoC is manufactured using 7 nm fabrication process and it consists of an Octa Core CPU alongside the Adreno 640 GPU. There is no microSD card slot or 3.5mm audio jack on the handset.