Today, Xiaomi-backed gaming smartphone maker Black Shark has announced a new color variant of the Black Shark 2 Pro smartphone — Violet. This new gradient color variant is also being called “Flower Violet” or “Streamer Violet”.
This is the fourth color variant for the Black Shark 2 Pro which was earlier available in Electric Black, Ice Ash, and Orange. This new Purple color variant of the smartphone will be available for purchase in China from 1st November.
Apart from the new color, the internals of the smartphone remains the same. It houses a 6.39-inch Super AMOLED display with notch-less design and offers Full HD+ screen resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels.
The display offers features like DC dimming 2.0, DCI-P3 color gamut, 240Hz touch sampling rate and 34.7ms touch response speed. It also features an in-screen fingerprint reader. Under the hood, it is powered by 2.96GHz Snapdragon 855+ SoC that is designed to offer accelerated CPU and GPU performance for gaming.
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It is packed with 12GB of RAM and in 128GB and 256GB of UFS 3.0 storage options. However, the smartphone lacks support for microSD card slot. Coming to the camera department, is fitted with a dual camera setup that includes a Sony IMX586 48-megapixel primary lens with f/1.8 aperture and a 12-megapixel telephoto lens with 2x optical zoom.
On the front side, there’s a 20-megapixel snapper for taking selfies and video calling. The Black Shark OS UI based on Android 9 Pie operating system runs on the Black Shark 2 Pro smartphone, which is packed with a 4,000mAh battery that supports 27W fast charging.
As for the pricing, the 12GB RAM + 128GB storage and 12GB RAM + 256GB storage model are respectively priced at 2,999 Yuan (~$434) and 3,499 Yuan (~$507).
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