"GAMING" style / millet lineage | Black Shark Games Phone Review

For us who are accustomed to the Internet life, “pesticides” are not sprays of crop insects, but rather heroes after the game. “Chicken” is not a delicious and tempting dish, but a three-and-five friend. Together to experience the stimulation of island survival. The continued popularity of mobile games in recent years is quietly changing our lives and refreshing our awareness.

In this context, the emergence of gaming handsets has become a matter of course. In 2017, Razer, the famous gaming peripheral brand, took the lead to create a gaming PC and launched the Razer Phone. With its arrogant shape, With the ultimate hardware stacking and professional competitive experience, the Razer Phone is a game for mobile phones.

Since then, people are more looking forward to the emergence of the next game phone, curious about its design, concerned about his configuration, and attracted endless speculation. Fortunately, this product did not allow everyone to wait too long, April 13 in Beijing, The black shark game mobile phone is officially released. Has the star pedigree of Xiaomi, is the "material" of the black shark mobile phone enough? How is the game experience in the end? We will chat with everyone carefully in this evaluation.

Millet injection, configuration is doomed

Although Black Shark is a new face in the mobile phone industry, it is behind the support of “old players” such as Xiaomi. In the early days of the establishment of Black Shark, Xiaomi Technology invested 11 million yuan in the name of Tianjin Gold Star, which accounted for more than two shares. Cheng, is the gold owner behind the black shark. In addition to funding, Xiaomi also provided strong support for products, such as technology, supply chain, and sales channels. Therefore, we can feel how much we can do on black shark mobile phones. The shadow of Xiaomi's mobile phone, "Sportsman" and "Born for fever," is a hint in the slogen of both.

This heavy millet background, has been destined for the black shark game phone has the current top hardware parameters.

In addition to the configuration, the design of the black shark game phone must be the focus of attention. Whether the phone's shape is "GAMING", we will continue to chat.

"GAMING" modeling, domineering exposed

In the PC industry, whether it is Nvidia's high-end graphics card or Razer's cool mouse and keyboard set, the color matching of "GAMING" equipment is extremely uniform - dark and bright green. The black shark game phone is also drawing on this, under the sleek styling, The dark body is embellished with green highlight diamonds. Occasionally, the green light is low-key but extremely aggressive, echoing its game positioning.

On the positive side, the black shark game has a regular shape, rounded corners, and is somewhat similar to Huawei's. The reason why such a design is largely ergonomic considerations, after all, the phone needs a long time Maintaining a single posture, the rounded chamfer will feel more comfortable on the hand and won't feel awkward.

In addition, there is an interesting detail. We learned that the founder of Black Shark, Wu Shimin, was responsible for Huawei's McMang/G series product line. Combining this experience, it seems to explain the writer's feeling that he is just like the Maiman.

The screen, the black shark game phone uses a 5.99-inch LCD screen, mainstream 18:9 aspect ratio, FHD + resolution, support DCI-P3 color gamut, the perception is still good. After the author's scratch log verification, this is A piece of screen from Tianma Microelectronics.

The back is a killer for the appearance of the black shark game. The mature “GAMING” elements are readily available. The 'ladder' style is similar to the muscle lines of the sports car, while the high-gloss green lines outline the X pattern. It is rather alien. Looking closely, the middle of the fuselage is covered with etched triangular dark lines, like old text totems, highlighting mystery and unknown.

The black shark logo in the center is actually a breathing light. It not only flickers when receiving an incoming call, but also provides a cool lighting effect in combination with the game scene. It is like a "lamp factory".

The black shark game phone has a two-section sliding Shark button on the left side of the camera. You can turn on Shark Space by toggling.

Thanks to the built-in 4000mAh battery and the optimization of heat dissipation inside the body, GAMING itself exaggerated the need for design. The thickness of the black shark gaming phone is 9.2mm, and the weight of the 190g is also very solid. Difficult, but in the hands of the game, this is a good specification, not too floating.

On the whole, the design of the black shark game handset combines ergonomics with a variety of "GAMING" elements. It is more aggressive, has a distinct player style, and is very attractive to the eye.

Xiaolong 845 is just the foundation

Relying on Xiaomi's advantage in the supply chain, the Black Shark gaming mobile phone was the first to carry the Xiaolong 845 mobile platform. Prior to this, only the Samsung Galaxy S9 series, the Sony Xperia XZ2 and the Xiaomi MIX 2S were equipped.

Simply comb the parameter information of Xiaolong 845: 10nm LPP FinFET process, 4+4 core dual cluster design, all Kryo 385 architecture. Among them, the performance clusters are up to 2.8GHz, energy efficiency cluster 1.8GHz, and Adreno 630 GPU, X20 LTE. Modem, Spectra 280 ISP, Hexagon 685 DSP, Compatible with Qualcomm Snapdragon Nerve Processing Engine. Undoubtedly, this is currently the top Android flagship SoC. It can comfortably deal with all mobile games.

If quantified by running software, the combination of the Xiaolong 845+8GB RAM has a standard of around 270,000 in the security Bunny Run, GeekBench single-core breakthrough of 2400, and the multi-core 8400 is also leading the Android camp.

Independent DSP processing chip

In addition to the flagship SoC's blessing, the Black Shark gaming phone also adds an additional DSP-assisted image processing from Pixelworks. Unlike the GPU's direct rendering screen, this DSP is mainly responsible for the image display optimization. On the one hand is the quality enhancement, so that The image is richer in detail and richer, and the dark scene is clearer. On the other hand, the MEMC interpolation frame technology is used to insert a frame of motion compensation between the traditional two frames of images to eliminate the jitter and smear of the moving picture and make the display effect. Smooth and stable.

Similar technology is already common in television. Today's display on mobile phones also has an immediate effect. For example, in nighttime scenes where chicken players swim, black sharks tend to provide better dynamic contrast ratios, and the colors of the screen are distinct. The picture is richer in detail, which helps to find the enemy.

Liquid cooling black technology

As we all know, high-performance SoC heat is relatively large, resulting in more obvious problems of down-clocking, so that the performance of SoC can not be fully played, the reaction is in the game is the screen Kartun, slow response and other issues. In order to avoid this situation, An efficient heat-dissipation system is needed to "live" the chipset. The black shark game is equipped with a patented "multi-stage direct-contact integrated liquid cooling system."

If we further understand, "multi-stage direct contact integrated liquid cooling system" includes three levels of heat dissipation. First, the heat of the SoC is transferred to the heat pipe through the high thermal conductivity material, and then the liquid in the heat pipe undergoes thermal phase change to conduct heat to the heat-dissipating graphite substrate, and finally passes through. The large-area graphite substrate spreads the heat evenly throughout the machine to complete the overall heat dissipation process.

It should be emphasized that the "multi-stage direct contact integrated liquid cooling system" of the Black Shark covers all the high-heating modules, and combines the above-mentioned three levels of heat dissipation through a compact structure to ensure the heat transfer efficiency and increase the efficiency compared with the conventional heat dissipation. 20 times.

When running the security rabbit, GeekBench and other software, the black shark's CPU temperature reached 86 degrees Celsius at the highest instant, but the body does not feel the heat of other mobile phones, the whole is very calm. 20 minutes of the "Jade survival: stimulation In the battlefield game, the CPU core temperature is maintained at about 55 degrees Celsius, which is cool.

In terms of performance and heat dissipation, the Black Shark has also worked hard on the signal, equipped with an X-shaped smart antenna, and supports multi-antenna intelligent switching, so that regardless of the posture, the signal performance can be guaranteed and the death grip can be avoided.

Is JoyUI MIUI?

The black shark game phone runs the JoyUI system. In fact, this is a game version of the MIUI system. The basic functions are exactly what MIUI looks like. Further experiences, cloud services in the system, application stores, game centers, etc. are all directly connected to the millet. The service, system folders are even named after 'MIUI'. JoyUI's change is to customize the new UI and add Shark Space game mode for the game scene.

The author also confirmed from the black shark that Xiaomi did give many technical support to Black Shark on the system side. JoyUI directly invoked the MIUI underlying code, completely inheriting the smooth and easy-to-use features of MIUI. If you were previously a user of MIUI, JoyUI absolutely Allows you to seamlessly switch.

Exclusive game space Shark Space

Shark key on the left side of the fuselage will turn on the Shark Space. This is similar to the one-key overclocking in the game PC. After the system is turned on, the system will automatically increase the performance to “full blood” status, and at the same time give priority to the resource scheduling of the game. Block unnecessary push messages. Important phone information will be presented in a small window, which will not block the view and ensure the best gaming experience.

Even more extreme, Shark Space offers an optional “dive mode.” In this mode, only mobile data services are retained, and voice calls are forcibly turned off to prevent 4G network disconnection caused by incoming calls in non-VoLTE state.

Under Shark Space, the system UI was redesigned. Game applications in the system were presented in the form of cards, similar to the game library of the PS console. Intimately, the system will automatically count the recent players' game conditions, including game time, category , duration, etc., give reasonable game recommendations.

Shark Space also provides a dedicated game Dock. By sliding the Fingerprint recognition on the top of the Dock, you can view real-time CPU and memory usage, and you can quickly set the handle, turn on DND, switch networks, etc. Compared to ordinary mobile phone must screen The edge of the slide call the logic of the Dock bar, Black Shark's game Dock can only rely on a single finger to operate, Will not delay the game in the game.

Unilateral game handle show operation

The system re-optimization is only an aid, and the game is ultimately an operation. For the player, the responsive screen response is not as good as the physical joystick feedback. The black shark is equipped with a Bluetooth game controller, unilateral design, built-in The directional rocker and two custom side buttons (LA/LB) combine with the mobile phone to make the Black Shark mobile phone more childlike.

The gamepad's directional joystick and Nintendo's Switch are from a supplier, and the feedback is more sensitive, but the texture of the colloidal particles is still worse, and the long-term press fatigue is more obvious.

But I have to admit that, compared to simply pressing the screen, the handle operation significantly enhances the gaming experience. Take "eat chicken" as an example, control the direction with the joystick, and slide the screen with the right hand to control the visual field, two custom sides The buttons map open and shoot respectively. This button design shares the right hand's complexity in operation. When tapping, the right hand can focus on accurate direction operation. The left hand uses the side buttons to achieve the shot. It is reasonable and efficient.

Everyone's habits are different, and the game to get started is different. The joystick of this Bluetooth joystick can be custom mapped by pressing keys. For most games, there are active adaptations.

By the way, take a picture

As a game phone, the black shark's photo does not seem to be so important, but according to the habit, I simply experienced the camera function.

On the hardware, the Black Shark is equipped with 12 million+20 million pixel dual cameras, including 12 million pixels as the main camera, 1.25μm unit pixels, F1.75 aperture, support for beauty, HDR, portrait mode and other functions. The black shark is bright and full in color, and details are preserved. The look and feel is good. The brightness of the screen under dark light is sufficient, but the smearing is obvious. There is a certain gap with the flagship product, but it can basically meet daily use.

to sum up

Overall, the black shark game phone has the appearance of “GAMING” and is internally supported by the flagship SoC Xiaolong 845, supplemented by an exclusive liquid-cooled cooling system to provide fine-tuned gaming experience. It is a game with distinct attributes. .

However, the overly strong millet gene, the price of 2,999 yuan is also limited to a certain extent, the black shark mobile phone specifications, so that the hardware stacking is not the ultimate, in the screen, the vibration motor to leave a large room for improvement, these Some sensitive hardware players are undoubtedly a pity. However, it is undeniable that the Black Shark is the cheapest model of the Snapdragon 845. Based solely on this, he is a good choice for game phones.

In 2018, game handsets ushered in a wave of release climaxes. For such an unknown new market, it is clear that various companies are also exploring and trying to make breakthrough products from hardware and software, services, etc. to create differentiated products to win. First opportunity. Now that the black shark has a sword, are other products ready?