Black Shark — the gaming brand operating under Xiaomi’s wider hardware ecosystem — is teasing what looks like its most compact device yet. The company dropped its first meaningful preview on Instagram, showing off an 8.8-inch form factor that firmly positions the device as a small, travel-ready gaming tablet with serious power under the hood.
It’s also a clear sign of Xiaomi’s broader strategy: pushing deeper into high-performance portable hardware while the mobile gaming market surges. And this form factor hits a sweet spot. At 8.8 inches, it’s large enough to feel like a real gaming display but small enough to toss in a bag without thinking twice.
Black Shark’s early teasers kept things short and punchy — phrases like “Small in size. Big in power.” and “8.8-inch Ultra Portable” set the tone. No model name yet, but the messaging makes one thing obvious: this isn’t a budget entertainment tablet. It’s a performance-first device targeted at players who want console-like responsiveness in a handheld footprint.
Under the hood, leaked specs point to the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, one of Qualcomm’s newest high-end platforms and a go-to chipset for Xiaomi’s upper-tier phones. If accurate, that gives this mini-tablet a major advantage. The 8s Gen 3 promises better thermal behavior, more stable GPU output, and improved efficiency — all essential for longer gaming sessions where legacy chips tend to throttle or overheat.
For Black Shark, this would be the first time the brand brings a flagship-grade Qualcomm processor to a tablet. It suggests the company is aiming far higher than past mid-range experiments and wants to carve out a proper niche in the portable gaming segment — one that sits comfortably between a smartphone and a full-sized Android gaming slate.
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