Gaming smartphone maker Black Shark and world’s largest gaming company and with hits like PUBG: Mobile and Arena of Valor, Tencent Games are joining hands to work on a gaming smartphone. While Tencent Games have been long rumoured to build its own gaming phone, it will now be able to do so, thanks to Black Shark. The two companies will work together on devices for both hardware and software optimizations.
The development comes from Black Shark’s Weibo account where it announced the partnership with Tencent Games. The new deal with Black Shark is said to focus on cooperation in the field of gaming phones with the end goal of giving users an improved mobile gaming experience. There is no information when the device may actually be unveiled, there is a possibility of upcoming Black Shark 3 benefiting from the collaboration.
Black Shark 3 is expected to come with a 120Hz refresh rate. It is likely to be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset and have up to 16GB RAM. It could have UFS 3.0 flash memory and LPDDR5 memory. Black Shark launched Black Shark 2 Pro smartphone in July last year
Interestingly, it is not the first time that Tencent Games is collaborating with a smartphone manufacturer. Last July, Asus launched a Tencent Edition ROG Phone ll as well.