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the black shark too is a beast of a phone one that is hitting specific markets but has yet to find widespread availability outside of places like China and France there is one thing that all of these markets have in common their mobile gaming eSports industries have become huge commodities that's simply not the case here in the US where mobile gaming is still viewed as a second tier experience compared to PC and console gaming and I don't blame anyone for thinking that way as much as I have advocated for mobile gaming there are so many reasons why people might scoff at the idea of our smartphones being viable gaming machines but what the black shark too has done more so than any other so-called gaming phone is prove how a smartphone with a hyper focus can actually benefit many different types of users this is paka now and I'm Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody let's get some gaming done here on the black shark 2 in this review as many of you probably know by now the black shark 2 is powerful inside and out the internal specifications are top notch with the snapdragon 855 a lot of RAM and plenty of storage meanwhile the outer Hardware bolsters the overall experience with loud dual front-facing speakers and Hamor LED screen and an antenna array that ensures the phone always has a good wireless signal no matter how you are holding the phone there are some glaring and while widely publicized omissions like the 1080p resolution screen it also doesn't manage a high refresh rate compared to the growing number of its well-known competitors and at least black shark have made sure that the screen has the lowest latency possible even lower than that of the iPhones another missing features the headphone jack which baffles many users including myself I can see why this is something black truck just could not account for though because of the way the controller's fit into the phone case other gaming phones have tackled this issue in different ways but even black shrug themselves made it clear that they will pay attention to this more in the future for future devices and then there's the camera often the afterthought of the gaming phone that's kind of the case here too as the dual end set up on the back doesn't do anything exceptional when compared to all of the flagships we've already seen in 2019 pictures come out looking detailed but they like in vibrance I need a bit of a punch there's also a lack of extra modes outside the things like portrait and pro the front-facing camera also suffers from a lack of overall quality despite having a 20 megapixel sensor while I have used the black shark 2 for some vlogging content it is more because of the good pick up from the phones array of microphones and that brings me to why I think the Black Shark - at least in my eyes is an important step forward for gaming phones in general I just went through all of the run-of-the-mill features and specifications that you would expect the flagship to have some pros some cons but all in all expected where a gaming phone excels and one of the black shark - shines is in turning some of those features up to 11 and providing value to more than just the obvious specific users internet connectivity using this phone has been top-notch mainly because of the antenna array that was in there to make it so that no matter how you're holding the phone you can have high speeds via the wireless connections and then I just mentioned that the microphone array that makes this phone pick up audio better than most other flagships that we see right now the version that I have of this phone actually sports a stock version of Android just to make things a lot easier to control that way you're not really bogged down by extra features or extra software bits on the way to your actual gaming experience you have the pill on the bottom you swipe up to get to the app drawers and honestly it's a very familiar interface and it's a little bit refreshing to see this on what is essentially a Chinese phone there are a few features inside of the software that make it a little bit flashy er like the light settings which allow you to change up the black shark logo on the back but also the two LED bars that are over on the sides these LED bars can light up during gaming and can actually be used for notifications but I think my favorite use of them is for charging you could see over on the side just how much more of the battery needs to be charged while it's plugged in it's kind of ironic that the user experience as a flagship device gets maximized because black shark wanted to minimize the interface after all they put a lot of their energy into a secondary space here on the phone that you can trigger by hitting this little slider and that is of course the shark space you basically hit this trigger here and it dumps the entirety of the memory gives you some extra do-not-disturb features and then just displays all of your games ready to play this is what gaming phones have been needing the ability to morph into a completely different identity and in this case you can make it so that even calls don't disturb you during your gameplay as if dumping all of the memories so that you have it all available for your game is not enough you can also overclock the system the ludicrous mode can allow for overclocking of the CPU and the GPU so that you can get even better performance out of any game that you play and then of course there are the controllers that slot right into the case then adds a little bit of bulk to the phone but that's a small trade-off for a better tactile experience those controllers can be mapped to any on-screen control they're not actually controllers that are registered to the Android system the way that an Xbox controller or a regular game pad are registered this is the reason why this is basically the pub G mobile machine if all of your controls are strong about the display then you have ways of mapping those buttons however the one-to-one experience can be a little bit hard to recreate if you don't have a virtual joystick on-screen then the physical joystick is going to emulate touches all over the place it for that reason that I have so many games on here but it's really only pub G mobile that I've been able to use those controllers effectively after all there are so many games on the Google Play Store but the majority of them require touchscreen controls or they don't have controls on the screen at all it's all about contextual pressing for any games out there that makes sense with controllers you're still better off pairing this phone to some sort of game pad like the Razer ride you or the 8-bit Doe while there are some missteps in the black start to like the lack of a headphone jack and also the screen resolution and lower refresh rate of the screen it still provides the best gaming experience because it gives you an entire space to do that with the touch screen and also gamepad compatibility with this phone you can still get a good gaming experience you just have to have the tools needed to do so and as long as the gaming experience has the potential to improve the overall experience then I think we should be seeing way more of these in the future as always thank you very much for watching and I hope you enjoyed this review of the Black Shark - I love what this phone does and how it focuses on gaming it actually puts everything else away and then it's party time the thing is I might have gotten a little bit too bummed out about the fact that those controllers don't really work for more games than pub G mobile but this is still an Android device so that means you can still pair it to a regular game pads and then that's when the gaming experience opens up once again I do have some examples as to what games made me realize these things and I go through those examples in a video over on my channel youtube.com slash Josh or Vergara you can head to that channel subscribe to it if you can please and then also come back here for even more from pocket now and subscribe to this channel if you haven't already from there I'm gonna go ahead and call it on this one thank you again and I will see you in our next video