There is a saying about the domestic game market. The host asked the people in Tencent's game department, how far do you think the domestic game companies and the game market are lagging behind foreign countries, and what should be improved? Answer: We are the world's largest game company, and China is the largest game market

The mobile phone ecological chain tends to mature and is oriented to the rapidly expanding move In the game market, game phones are an inevitable category. You should know that even in the Symbian era of Nokia more than 10 years ago, N-Gage was already a mobile game device with unlimited power. After so many years, now the most powerful game phone on the earth is the Black Shark game phone we evaluated this time.

Appearance and workmanship

Pure black paper box similar to Xiaomi MIX series, with accessories including instructions, pins, data lines, charging heads, as well as the attached film and box shaped hard glue protective case. The charging head and Xiaomi MIX 2/2S series are the same model, MDY-08-ES， The maximum output is 18W, which is made by Chenyang (some may be made by Salcom).

Both the black shark game handle and the protective case are green and black. The protective case is set to be thick on the side and thin on the side. It mainly provides anti abrasion and side fall protection, and will not become thicker after the phone is put on. However, the front of the protective case is slightly lower than the mobile phone, and the screen will be hit if the cover is removed from the ground (for the edge feel after carrying the case?).

The difference between the front and back appearance of the Black Shark game phone, the mode switch key of the entity and many other small details will remind people of the word "contrast":

• The front is very conventional large round corner and large arc 2.5D glass, which should be very gentle, right? But once turned over, the painting style changed abruptly, exaggerated lines and complex X double level design, a layer of smooth plastic decoration was sandwiched between the outer circle and the inner circle, the pure black anodized back cover was decorated with bright green coating with bright surface chamfers. Even the injection antenna is an extension of X design. Then we saw the first mobile phone with an inclined antenna. It's good to see benevolence and wisdom, but it's definitely unforgettable.

• The back with very complex concave and convex changes should be very handy, right? It turned out to be smooth and smooth. All kinds of bulges and triangular lines are very shallow, which does not affect the grip, but only provides a very special touch and look.

Galaxy S9+、 Thundersnake mobile phone, Black Shark game mobile phone iPhone X

There is no doubt that it is for the recumbent handheld. The back of the Black Shark game phone is an extremely rare strict symmetrical design. Even the back dual camera and logo patch are completely symmetrical. The corner radian is very large. Except for the heavy body, it has no problem with the feel. It is much more comfortable than the square shape of the Thundersnake. Black Shark game mobile phone is one of the few mobile phones in the era of full screen with the three Android King Kong entity touch keys. The home key cannot be pressed, but it integrates fingerprints. But it would be better if the keys on both sides could have backlights.

The most special layout of the Black Shark game phone is the shark key on the left, which is similar to the mute key (used to switch to the game handheld mode), and the "faith light" in the middle of the back. This belief light is usually a call and notification light. In adaptive games such as King Glory, it provides the AI light effect officially advertised (we will discuss it in detail in the next part of the game).

The Black Shark game handle also comes out with the Black Shark game phone. The handle is fixed through the key clip and will not loosen. The front material is a little like a skin like coating, and the back and side are soft glue. One side design, the handle is a little short, and the palm is empty. In addition to this, the handle of the rocker and keys is OK. 340mAh battery, claimed to have 30 hours of life.

In terms of function, it provides a directional joystick and three keys. The physical keys can be customized by projecting and clicking operations on the screen. Some games may be misoperated and may require later OTA or game adaptation. However, the physical keys of the Bluetooth handle can free the vision of the left side, and the rocker and left side operations are not easy to be touched by mistake. They are legal physical extras, but the absence of the other side will lead to different operation planes of the left and right hands, which requires some time to adapt. Compared with third-party handle accessories, the biggest advantages of the Black Shark Bluetooth handle are portability and easy installation. Although I also hope that the handle can have the right half, I would never have brought the handle without a bag before. Now I can go out with the left pocket phone and the right pocket handle. There is nothing wrong with them.

screen

The Black Shark game phone is a 5.99 inch 2160 * 1080 IPS screen with a nominal brightness of 550 nits. The measured maximum brightness is 557 nits, the minimum brightness is 2.2 nits, the contrast is 1566:1 at 100 nits, and the limit brightness difference between the center and the edge is less than 30 nits. The highest and lowest brightness, contrast and uniformity are all good.

Cinema mode color accuracy test

The system has its own theater mode (for DCI-P3 color gamut), natural mode (for sRGB color gamut) and eye protection mode. When the color accuracy test is conducted at a brightness close to 100 nits in daily use, the color gamut of the cinema mode is far more than sRGB, and the coverage of other modes and sRGB are not large respectively. The average deltaE of 104 colors in natural mode is 2.7, with a maximum of 7.2, and the performance is completely OK. As a contrast, among the top phones in terms of color accuracy, iPhone 7 is 1.6, Note5 is 1.8, S6 edge+is 2.6, and S7 edge is 2.9. The most surprising thing is that the color temperature of the first two modes is around 7700K, which is slightly cold. The eye protection mode is actually adjusted according to the D50 standard, and the color accuracy performance is also OK.

On the whole, the performance of the screen is OK. When the PWM dimming A screen is on the road, this kind of LCD screen has become less and less. It's a pity that the refresh rate is not high, and the smear is a little obvious.

performance

Snapdragon 845 adopts Samsung 10nm LPP process, and its power consumption control is better than the previous generation 10nm LPE. The big and small cores are based on the A75 and A55 semi autonomous architectures. They are respectively the "Gold and Silver" Kryo 385. The frequency of the big core is up to 2803MHz, and the small core is 1766MHz. The core codes are 0x802 and 0x803. The GPU is Adreno 630, and the driver version is V283, the same as Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 test machine, which is higher than the V269 of Xiaomi MIX2 (Android 8.0) and the V258 of Pixel 2 series (Android 8.1). The GPU frequency is 710MHz, the same as that of Snapdragon 835.

In this performance test of the Black Shark game phone, we used the previous generation Snapdragon 835, the same generation Kirin 970, and the Samsung S9+, Xiaomi MIX 2S and Qualcomm engineering machines that are the same generation Snapdragon 845 for comparison.

CPU operation performance test

Memory performance test

GPU graphics performance test

Storage performance test

The basic performance of the Black Shark game phone is very stable, and the CPU part and other Snapdragon 845 models have won or lost each other. In addition to the GeekBench test, which has become a "optimized professional", the RAR and Pi performance of the Black Shark game phone are good, especially for the test items related to multi-core performance, its heat dissipation advantages have brought better results.

In the GPU part, a mass production machine finally beat Qualcomm's own engineering test machine. GFX and 3DMark both slightly exceeded the existing records and performed well. In terms of flash memory, in addition to the originally large capacity 256G MIX 2S (in the same case, the larger the capacity, the faster the speed will be) and the Huawei P20 Pro with the F2FS file system bonus, the Black Shark game phone is the best one, basically meeting the performance expectations of 128G UFS2.1.

Game experience

The Black Shark game phone is equipped with JoyUI system which is the same as MIUI, Android 8.0 On the bottom layer, the system has been greatly simplified, fresh and without much advertising interference, and the pop-up window has been changed to half screen (application installation is also half screen pop-up window). A large number of game optimizations, such as light effects, game dock bar and MEMC, have been added, and the rare smart dock bar triggered by the home key sliding left and right (fast access to music and payment code, which is OK in practicality, but needs to get used to), In addition, there are familiar and practical Android three diamond entity keys. The experience of the whole system is good.

In terms of game optimization, the Black Shark game phone can be directly switched to the handheld game console mode through the unique entity shark key on the left, and the home key will be turned on by default shield To prevent the game from being touched by mistake, it has many practical game functions such as game information statistics, information shielding, etc.

In the game or game mode, when the home key slides up and down, it can call up the game Dock bar, harassment free, extreme performance mode, background cleaning, eye protection mode and many other functions.

The key customization function of the Black Shark game handle is also here. For the time being, only L1 and L2 entity keys can be customized except for the three keys of the direction joystick. They are mapped and clicked on the screen, and their indicator points can be dragged to the screen location where they need to be mapped and clicked.

In addition to extreme performance and game auxiliary functions, the core of the game phone is the heat control. For performance oriented products, heat dissipation is the core configuration at the same level as the performance parameters. Configuration determines the limit height, while heat dissipation determines how long the limit height can last.

The negative factor of the Black Shark game phone is the extremely positive CPU regulation. High frequency tuning at any time will bring more performance output, but also more heat. The positive factor is the multi-level direct contact integrated liquid cooling system of Black Shark. In the officially publicized structure, heating module, liquid cooling unit, heat dissipation substrate, multi-layer graphite, 6000mm ^two The heat dissipation area is 20 times the heat dissipation efficiency, which is metaphysical. The effect is based on the actual game below.

Glory of Kings Frame number record

Glory of the King Temperature Record

In the glory of the king, even if the Black Shark game mobile phone is used in an unoptimized version, it almost maintains 60 frames in the whole process, and the minimum of 53 frames in the extreme moment of big group warfare. The temperature is maintained between 41-42 degrees throughout the whole process. The pressure of the king is too light for the liquid cooled full blood dragon 845.

Stimulating battlefield frame number record

Stimulating battlefield temperature record

In the chicken eating battlefield, the game lock frame is 40 frames, and the Black Shark game mobile phone has been running against the frame limit. There is no big difference between the stability of the frame number and the glory of the king. This more performance oriented game finally reflects the fever. During the game, the temperature of the mobile phone is 1-2 degrees higher than that of the king Rongyao. I have to say, it's really a liquid cooling method.

Of course, liquid cooling is not omnipotent. Its biggest negative effect is that the heat of the CPU dissipates faster than normal mobile phones. In the large-scale game, the black shark game phone soon rose to 41-42 degrees, and then the temperature was fixed. In the stimulating battlefield, the temperature is maintained between 42-44 degrees, and the extreme temperature is 45 degrees, but the performance output still has margin.

Endurance&Charging

After 30 minutes of large-scale games (NBA 2K15), 30 minutes of wifi and 4G Internet access and 30 minutes of local video playback, a total of 2 hours of endurance testing, the remaining power is 80%, close to the mainstream flagship, and the overall data is OK. The power consumption of the game part of the Black Shark game mobile phone is very low (special game optimization?), but the power consumption of web browsing, video and other parts is higher than expected, and the radical frequency control still has a certain impact on the endurance.

The Black Shark game mobile phone uses QC 3.0 fast charging, with a maximum of 18W. The measured peak power off charging can reach 19W, and the screen off charging power is 18W. The charging power is relatively active, but the bright screen is controlled at 10W.

The Black Shark game mobile phone is one of the fastest QC fast charging models ever encountered. Even with a 4000mAh battery, it is faster than a machine with a smaller battery capacity. From 5% to 100% charging, 10 minutes to 19%, 30 minutes to 56%, 45 minutes to 79%, and 1 hour to 90%. It takes 1 hour and 25 minutes to fully charge.

summary

The product logic of Black Shark game mobile phone is more like giving priority to one mobile phone, and then doing well in the game. Even despite the identity of the game phone, the Black Shark game phone is also a relatively balanced phone. Its positioning is a bit like the flagship of the Xiaomi main series before the MIX series came out: high cost performance, priority is given to ensuring the SoC, memory and storage configuration related to performance, charging speed and system are very good, and there are choices in screen and photography.

In terms of games, the Snapdragon 845, liquid cooling, heat dissipation and game optimization of the Black Shark game phone have determined that it is the best and strongest game phone from the very beginning. However, the screen does not have 120Hz, which is a little shadowy. The touch sensitivity of some games still needs to be adjusted by OTA. There were some bugs when it was first released, but OTA repair speed was high. However, under the violent aesthetics of 2999 yuan, it seems that nothing else is a big problem.

The cheapest Snapdragon 845 model, if there is any big shortcoming, it is very difficult to grab it.

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