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I never thought I'd be saying this but I just played Puggsy mobile using controllers on an Android smartphone and I got a winner winner chicken dinner hey this is PocketNow and I'm Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody here's your first hands-on with the Black Shark - this just might be the gaming phone now aesthetically this is the equivalent of getting a large heavy gaming laptop and using it for all of the general notebook purposes the screen is an AMOLED panel at 6.4 inches and is meant to really show off media and games obviously in vivid fashion as it is tuned to the DCI p3 standard now it is a full HD plus screen which might be a small bummer to those of you spec hungry folks who want quad HD in a flagship device but trust me that might be the only spec that's kind of missing what is otherwise an incredibly stacked device and we haven't even gotten to the accessories yet given that touchscreens are the inherent method of input for mobile games black shark did ensure that the touch latency in this screen is at an all-time low clocking in at forty three point five milliseconds and touch response the black shark to is able to achieve better latency than phones like the iPhone or the Galaxy S ten this particular feature was actually demonstrated in incredible fashion on stage by a champion gamer playing an insane level in a Guitar Hero like game pushing all of this as the Snapdragon 855 in the audrina 640 these are already the latest and greatest chips but they can be pushed even further thanks to black sharks additions and tweaks these include what they call liquid cooling 3.0 which is a vapor cooling system consisting of two different parts one for both halves of the phone top and bottom so that all parts of the device that might get warm are addressed of course that means dissipating heat from the processor but that also means the charging port stays cool as well all of the bits around it that means that this phone can achieve 27 watt fast charging but you can also charge the phone effectively while you're playing a game so you don't have to worry about topping up this battery even when you continue your intensive gameplay the four thousand milliamp hour battery always has a way of getting more juice as for the external aspects of the gaming experience loud dual front-facing speakers blast the audio right in your face while the phone actually uses its vibration motors to give them more immersive experience to gameplay via contextual feedback the cameras are actually an afterthought of sorts in phones that are this we hope that black trucks affiliation with Xiaomi has rubbed off well enough on their development and will lead to good pictures and videos on the final product that said this is a dual 12 megapixel system and one of them is made for 2 X optical zoom the front shooter is a 20 megapixel shooter capable of portrait mode effects and AI Beauty modes and all of this is housed in a body with the gamer specifically in mind the X shape of the back panel allows for the user to rest their fingers naturally on parts of the back making long gameplay easier on the hands that X shape by the way is how the antennas are aligned that way no matter how you might be holding the phone there's always Wi-Fi or mobile signal unimpeded by our palms and fingers but what if you want to take things to the next level overclocking is a term you might know from the gaming community and it's only now just getting into gaming smartphones and the black shark 2 is no exception black shark calls it the ludicrous mode think of this as hitting the sport mode on a car it frees up resources that are otherwise taking up the engine or in this case the CPU so that all resulting available power goes to better performance as the games that I have played so far on your including pub G have shown me that CPU usage is still at a low so it's not like I needed to push things further anyway it should be a setting along with many other gaming settings that are found inside of the shark space a portion of the operating system that is accessed by hitting a toggle above the power button when shifted the phone does a memory dump and clears out any background application so that every little bit can be put toward the game of your choice if all of these things put together actually do make the phone kind of warm and let's say hot there is a cooling case that is available that helps with further airflow but that's just one accessory that is used to make one of the most robust gaming phone packages ever other accessories include an HDMI cable to make the phone sort of like a ultra portable console and then a gamepad that can actually be split apart and connected to the phone via compatible cases to create something like an android switch now while all this adds length and weight to the original smartphone package that is plenty powerful on its own those hardcore gamers that really play their online games for hours on end and need the best experience in both performance and input will probably not mind they might actually prefer the black shark to in this highest configuration but the setup that you're seeing right now I actually unboxed already over on my channel youtube.com slash Josh over so if you want to get that and some quick reaction some early reactions to some gaming experience on the black truck too you can head over to my channel as well the hardcore mindset is what the black shark too strives to satisfy the goal is to be the definitive Android gaming experience and with all of this thought put into properly prioritizing aspects that really appeal to power gamers they might have indeed created the most compelling case this is still an Android smartphone capable of doing everything that you would throw at it productivity media consumption and of course in gaming but once you're done doing all of the regular stuff just a little click of this toggle right here get you to an area that transforms this phone into a gaming machine and it has all of the bits and pieces to transform it physically into one as well the black shark 2 is available now in China and is going to be released in India as well European markets will be getting their hands on this gaming device fairly soon and we'll see what other markets they might actually penetrate later in 2019 if you were to take the price of the Black Shark - in China and just converted one to one to the US dollars the base model at six gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of on-board storage coming at around $500 and the top tier model can get up to six hundred and twenty-five dollars I already got sucked into a few games when trying to get the footage for this and also my video after unboxing this device so I'm pretty certain that I'm going to get into some new games simply because the input and the power and the gamepad make it a lot easier to do so I might actually get into some online games because of this thing but in any case I'll give you all of my thoughts here on a final review in Pocket now but also over on my channel I'll probably do some more gaming videos using this after all this can actually do some live streaming as well but I have to get that set up and I also have to get used to doing that but until all of that comes out I'm just gonna go ahead and call it on this one thank you so much for watching subscribe to pocket now if you haven't already and you can head over to my channel as well to see even more content from the black shark too with all of that said get into the comment sections let me know what you think about this stacked gaming device but from there we'll just see you in our next video