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Xiaomi Black Shark Helo

Announced: October 2018.OS: Android 8 Oreo. VDRD-summary: It is better not to buy!
Starting price of $450 after the release dropped by 7% and now the average price is $419. Starting price of 27 846 ₽ after the release dropped by 7% and now the average price is 25 928 ₽. Starting price of 16 605 ₴ after the release dropped by 7% and now the average price is 15 461 ₴.
Status: Almost gone.
  • Screen 6.01" AMOLED
  • Rear сamera 12 MP 2 modules
  • Selfie camera 20 MP Wide
  • CPU 8 cores Snapdragon 845
  • Memory 6/10 GB RAM
  • Storage 128/256 GB ROM
  • Memory cards
  • Battery 4 000 mAh
  • Thickness 8.7 mm
  • Sim Cards 2 items dual sim
All characteristics

Short description Xiaomi Black Shark Helo

This is a smartphone on Android 8 Oreo with a very fast and productive processor, with a huge touchscreen size, with a great camera that has 2 modules (12 MP, 20 MP), and the front camera here turned out to be very high quality, which can make beautiful selfies. And Xiaomi Black Shark Helo has such features: a slot for two SIM cards.

Versions: AWM-A0.

Disclaimer. The table shows the main technical characteristics of the device. For a full list of features and capabilities of this model, see the manufacturer’s website. We can not guarantee that the information on this page is 100% correct.

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Android version and market relevance

The company Xiaomi in October 2018 officially announced its new smartphone Xiaomi Black Shark Helo in the series of mobile devices Xiaomi Black Shark. In our subjective opinion, this year one of the important parameters for smartphones has become support for 5G networks, and this new model, unfortunately, it did not receive such an opportunity and will not be able to work in 5G networks. Therefore, if this is important to you, then go to our page in the catalog where all 5G smartphones are assembled.

“Out of the box” on the new smartphone installed Android 8 Oreo, which did not receive any version updates. And besides, it is important to note immediately that the model Xiaomi Black Shark Helo supports two SIM cards (view all smartphones with 2 sim cards in the catalog).

Screen, body and battery

Good big 6.01-inch screen, made by technology AMOLED installed in the smartphone Xiaomi Black Shark Helo.

The larger the screen, the larger the case. But in addition to the width and height of the hull, its thickness is important. At Xiaomi Black Shark Helo the thickness of the case is 8.7 mm, which turns out to be very thick. Today, there are many smartphones with a slim body.

The battery and the operating time also depend on the screen size. At Xiaomi Black Shark Helo installed battery for 4 000 mAh, and this is a fairly good reserve of capacity, which is exactly enough for you for one day with average usage.

Main camera and selfie camera

The main camera has several modules (dual camera smartphones): 12 MP with a regular lens + 20 MP with a regular lens and, as usual, it is located on the back of the smartphone. When a smartphone camera has multiple lenses, it allows zooming with high image quality. You can also take photos with the Bokeh effect. This is an effect where the background is blurred and the subject in the foreground stands out very nicely. It’s better to see it once than hear about it a hundred times, so look at examples of photos from this smartphone. The frontcamera at Xiaomi Black Shark Helo has one module: 20 MP Wide. And this, of course, is very good. Your selfies will look beautiful and high quality. This model has a front camera as usual at the top of the screen, like 99.9% of all smartphones. But, if this makes you bored, then we can offer smartphones with pop-up front camera. In these models, the front camera is located inside the body and goes up only when you activate the front camera mode. It sounds interesting, but how convenient it is and how long this mechanism will work is not yet clear.

Processor and Internal Memory

The speed of the smartphone affects not only the optimized software (the newer Android, the better), but also the characteristics of the hardware: the processor and the amount of RAM. Xiaomi Black Shark Helo has 8-core Snapdragon 845. You can select the RAM 6 GB or version 10 GB.

Available versions Xiaomi Black Shark Helo with different amount of built-in memory: 128/256 GB. Note that the more memory, the more expensive the smartphone.

Price for Xiaomi Black Shark Helo: buy or not to buy?

The smartphone Xiaomi Black Shark Helo got into our price segment “Above average smartphones from $400 to $500” and began to be sold in November 2018 at a price of $450. Evaluation of the characteristics, probably, you have already folded, and if not, here is our result. Xiaomi Black Shark Helo is a very smart smartphone with a huge screen and a cool main camera, and the front camera at it turned out simply smart. And to all this we add that the battery is of high capacity.

Is it worth buying now this model of the smartphone, we are talking about our status “Droid-or-Junk”. Of course, at the beginning of sales, almost every smartphone becomes a Droid, and we advise buying such models. But over time, the situation is changing, no one updates the Android version in the smartphone, and in six months or a year this smartphone can already become a Junk. In this case, we advise you to go to the DROID smartphones page in our catalog, where we always show the most current models on sale for today. There are variants from different price segments, so you will have plenty to choose from.

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