so we're starting to see now more gaming focus to mobile phones now is it
something we actually need if you're into your mobile games you're a big pub
G gamer for example are you really gonna get a huge benefit out of going for one
of those gaming focus mobile phones so we've got ASUS's Republic of gamers
phone that came out with a 90 Hertz refresh rate screen so there's gonna be
a faster screen it's free high refresh rate you could say for a mobile phone
and even higher of course as Razers hundred and twenty Hertz screen we have
a 60 Hertz panel here and the gaming focused black shark now it's just simply
called the black shark there is no xiaomi branding on the box
they've separated their own name away from this even though this is a phone
you could say from like a sister company created full those now perhaps it's
because show me thought that this phone is a little bit of a risk they didn't
know if it would actually do well whether it would take off or not but
judging from my unboxing video it has actually generated quite a lot of
interest now to answer that question at the start a little bit of a spoiler are
you getting a benefit that's worthwhile going for one of these gaming mobile
phones I don't believe you are no I feel it's more just of a gimmick it's
marketing it's just another area that they can get more sales
so this mobile phone here obviously has flagship performance it has a flagship
chipset in here this temp track an eight four five four thousand milliamp hour
battery so that's a nice large capacity that's good for five hours of continual
gaming in my tests or up to ten hours of my typical mixed heavy use test that I
do on all the phones that I review it's a good battery life you've got six
gigabytes of RAM up to eight gigabytes so plenty there for all of the latest
android games and for heavy multitasking so it comes with androids eight and the
UI is new to me it's joy UI is what they call it and it is focused a little bit
on the gaming because it has the gaming shark option but the UI is basically
just a heavily skins Android 8 with some Xiaomi me--why apps in there for example
the camera application so you will see the build of
obviously it looks like a gaming phone it's got a bit of gamer bling oh they're
gonna love it or hate it I don't particularly like it myself it's just it
stands out a little bit too much so we've got the S on the back edge does
actually have RGB lights on it but I can't turn them on for you
there's only way you can do it really is just in one of those engineering test
menus unless you play certain Chinese games of which I have no clue which ones
will support the lighting on this so we have dual cameras on the rear so the
secondary one is a 20 megapixels sensor that is used for your depth effect
photos the main scene says 12 megapixels F 1.8 the front-facing camera is a 20
megapixel one as well with an F 2.2 aperture now it will take a good photo
and good light you've got basically the same exact cameras as show meas me 6x as
you can see from these samples these photos look good low-light performance
is okay it's only not the best I've seen video looks good but we don't have any
electronic image stabilization or optical with 4k video which is a
disappointment they're not even using a third-party application like open camera
will correct this we still have that shakiness there so not great video
quality so down the bottom we've got a loudspeaker that sounds better than my
mix mimics to s which is interesting it actually has been an audio then
charmese flagship type c port up the top there no IR transmitters and you'll see
there is no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack which is a real shame so you're
either gonna have to use the adapter or if you want to charge at the same time
then go with a Bluetooth headset there but of a shame they've done that no
micro SD card support either now the charge times for this very quick 1 hour
and 59 minutes to fully charge that 4,000 milliamp hour battery so that's
excellent it's quick recharge 3 from Qualcomm of course and you will also
note that there are metal buttons on the side they've got a good feeling to them
the build quality is excellent it feels good in hand and they've also used a
very good display on this it's bright and it is better than the Xiaomi mimicks
2's screen again and even better of course then say the ribbon Note 5 screen
it is an 18 by 9 the resolution of 2160 by 1080 but I'm
glad they have not put an option Asst now you will notice that the air piece
is a little bit longer than normal that's because it actually houses on the
left side of it a front-facing microphone so that's great for games
that support voice chat something like pub G so this is of course the best
feature of the phone as you do in fact have this tiny little joy pad now it
connects up via bluetooth and I've had a lot of comments about this now first off
most people been asking me can you use it on another mobile phone you can and
you can obviously but bluetooth you can connect it up to any mobile phone any
Bluetooth device but you need to have the case on it because it clips into the
top into the case here as you can see and that's secured in place it's not
going to go anywhere you can hold it one-handed and the other question that
popped up a lot in my unboxing video was does it actually give you an itch for
gaming it does it does it does make movements a little bit easier so they
have what's called shark space now flipping the switch on the left hand
side will let us go into the shark space mode and that kills background tasks
it's just a menu where you can launch all your games a lot quicker you've also
got other settings you can see things like gaming statistics and you can
control few things you can clear the RAM you can put even a do not disturb mode
in gaming and you can even block out voice calls which could be a little bit
risky if someone's trying to get hold of you urgently why don't you answer your
phone I was gaming I was playing pub G so that
is there even if you want that to so on to really setting it up so for every
single game you need to configure the overlay for the joystick so all you need
to do is just drag that out to the size and you've only got two extra buttons
here so at the top you've got the two buttons now for pub G for example I use
one to look down to the scope the trig of course for the trigger in game for
shooting and then that is of course my movement using the joypad so I'm moving
around there you can see and this works quite well it works a little bit better
than using an on-screen joystick so that does aid you and it makes things a bit
quicker now aiming of course is going to be used by then my right hand so you
move that around as you normally would I find it works well now I would like to
see from Xiaomi like the earlier concepts they showed perhaps another
joystick for the right-hand side as well something that even the azuz Republic of
gamers gaming phone is going to have like it plugs into its own joystick so
this to me is really quite a concept mobile phone now gaming performance
first amp dragon 845 is really good now they have advertised and marketed quite
heavily that it has water cooling now what they mean by that really is a
liquid cooling I think the translations got a little bit wrong so I have one of
those thermal transfer liquids within the heatsink and the cooling transfer
pipe that's on the chipset so that means yes okay it does actually get quite warm
when you're charging but nothing to warrant me breaking out my film or probe
it just gets up to around about 37 38 degrees only when charging when you're
gaming it stays relatively cool a little warm sometimes when you play a very
demanding game again like pub G there if you'd like to see more games make sure
you check out my gaming review I test out quite a few titles there and I've
recorded this clip in 60 frames per second to give you an exact idea of just
how smooth gameplay is isn't any faster than say another snapdragon 845 mobile
phone like my show me mimics 2s absolutely not
unless of course you break out a synthetic benchmark and you see perhaps
it's another 3,000 points higher that is really it so that's when it comes down
to that this is really I feel just marketing they're hyping it up saying
it's going to give you an edge it'll give you maybe an edge with the joystick
but then you can go and grab yourself something like this I have a Bluetooth
controller and then use applications like octopus and you can map out
controls for those and then you can play where one of these joysticks on any game
out there and this is actually a lot more comfortable using this joystick
holding it mounted in the mount it has now one of the features that came in
with a recent over-the-air update whilst the screen record settings because when
it was first there when I first looked at this mobile phone about four weeks
ago it recorded video but there was no sound whatsoever and it was quite
disappointing the quality but now we have a lot of settings here so you can
set the frame the video quality the bitrate the
resolution which I would not change your orientation and of course the sound
source so you can't record system sounds mute it or now record even the mic as
well which is good because when it first was released
it wasn't no sound whatsoever internal storage speeds from the u FS 2.1 storage
very fast a game that's really good Wireless speeds very quick so yes it is
a high-performance mobile phone it is a flagship phone and the battery life of
that controller that you plug onto the side is up to approximately about 10
hours little depends on what you're doing and how often you are using it of
course and it charges up with a Type C cable the type C plug so the charge
that's included in the box is all you need to charge it ok so don't get me
wrong this is a good phone I just don't believe we really need a phone like this
yet because the gaming performance from any other flagship Snapdragon 805 mobile
phone is exactly the same when gaming I even noticed that the difference between
when it would thermal throttle or the thermals from my me mix 2's was the more
less about the same or it could even trigger thermal throttling even sooner
on this one here they're all going to throttle down that's the way the chips
work after extended periods of working will lose about sometimes about 20% of
the performance out of it so it's not really giving it anything extra but
we've got those gaming modes we can kill background tasks you can also do that on
other mobile phones there are a couple of things to also be aware of with this
phone so it doesn't have at the time of this video a global ROM so there's no
other versions it says English and Chinese on us at the moment there is no
Google Play Store installed you have to install that yourself or our sellers
will put that on there for you but apart from that yes okay we've got fantastic
battery life it is really quite good five hours a straight full-on gaming
with quite a high brightness I thought was really good up to 10 hours of screen
on time for snap three and eight for five mobile phone with a four thousand
and whenever our battery seems about right there good call quality nice
loudspeaker on it that is good the other thing to note that the cameras can take
a very good photo okay there's no electronic image stabilization on 4k or
optical which is a little bit disappointing but it's not really I feel
super cam focus on my iPhone we've got a decent
camera they're not flagship spec it's very similar to the than me 6x in terms
of photo performance everything is really the same as the same exact
hardware that they have used show me with this phone here so I'm looking
forward to seeing the version 2 of this this I feel is a concept phone so maybe
the second version will have a dock setup similar to say the Republic of
gamers phone you can get one of these joypads dock the phone into it increase
your battery life and have a nice comfortable grip like this and dual
joypads of your canoes I feel well it'll be a lot better than the single one and
also giving us a lot more buttons than just two we have here the concepts there
the idea is really great I do like this phone and I hope to see you back in the
channel with my up-and-coming show me phone reviews I'm also expecting the 1
plus 6 and the me 8 next weeks I hope to catch you then thank you so much for
watching bye for now