Black Shark Phone.

  Hi guys so Xiaomi's just been pumpingout mobile phones have it now they've even created now their own gaming brandof mobile phones and this is the first model this is called the Black Shark soit's powered by Snapdragon 845 with adreno 630 GPU it has six to eightgigabytes of RAM 64 go outs of storage or 128 now I've got the 64 gigabytemodel so here's the optional control and they're the slots on to the top so it'sgoing to be connecting up via bluetooth because there are no connections on thetop there it seems very lightweight that box and you can see we do have somelittle triggers on the side of it and here is the black sharp and you can seethat its logo that's gonna be throughout on this mobile phone so a bit of gamerbling of course it's got to have the gamer black the red or the green likeall gaming devices in case you questioned whether. 

        It was a gamingdevice or not okay so this little slip on the top here that says you're a gamerlet's shark alright so here's the phone and that is huge it's not actually asheavy as I thought it was gonna be so that's a good thing it's got aprotective slip over it there so first impressions it definitely looks gameryou because you can see around the edges here that green now there's that switchI think it is for the gaming modes you just switch that up or down it's got alittle bit of a texture on there and we do have the dual SIM trader on the sideso at the top there you can see the dual LED flash dual tone we've got the twocameras here so one 20 megapixels, one 12 now it's got this area here is like aplastic this is well like have a matte plastic but the build quality of thissays excellent actually feels really good in hand not bad at all and not asthick as I thought it was going to be I'll measure the weight and thethickness of it in just a second so you can see down the bottom here it saysblack shark obviously and then we have what looks like two speakers perhapswere probably actually one of these will be the microphone the type C port therethese are the antenna strips so this type C port has another green accent inthere just to remind you again that it's a gaming deviceso we've got some volume buttons there they're made out of metal and the poweron button that does feel really good curved edges but excellent build qualityno problems whatsoever with this so a home button, slash fingerprint readerthere on the front taking a closer look at the cameras I can tell straight awaythat this does not have optical image stabilization.

         I don't think it wasactually advertised I was not expecting it and there is that s logos so it's notas offensive as I thought it was gonna be the press images made it look likethat this cuz was gonna be like some super hyper fluorescent green that'sgonna stand out but it's not as bad as I thoughtso 198 grams and this is probably why it doesn't actually feel that heavy to mebecause I'm used to a very similar weight with the Xiaomi mimicks 2sthey're almost identical so the thickness comes in at nine point fivefive millimeters there is really no thickest point there is no camera boldit doesn't actually stick out any more than the rest of the mobile phone so onething I've noticed too that because of the way they've styled us that it maybefeels a little bit better when you're using it in landscape mode here justgives a little bit more grip it does not feel slippery either which is good solet's take a look at what else we get inside the box I think there's a case inhere and least.

         I'm hoping there is so in this area here we've got the Sun tooland yes there's the case so it's just one of those well bumper style caseshere so it's just going to go around the outside protecting the edges cutoutsthere for all your ports form that little switch at the top and of courseit's branded there with black shark so that just clipped on very easily andit almost looks like it is part of the phone so it's not giving too muchprotection really it's gonna cover the edges here but it looks like it's notreally going to protect the screen if you light down flat it's not going toactually raise up there because it's it's lying flush with the screen edgethere and it's not gonna protect along here but all the corners and things areprotected at least from drops so that's one good thing there and you can stillaccess that switch the gaming mode and then the power and volume buttons easyas well so we also get like a Quick Start Guide there that is in Chinese andhere we have just a warranty card thing and they have included a screenprotector which is great so here we have two other little boxes on here so inthis compartment is actually labeled power adapter in English see here it isso this should be a Qualcomm quick charge one and the maximum output thereis 12 volts 1.5 amps a black type C 2 USB cable and also a type C 2 3.5millimeter adapter and now the controller of course if you'reinterested in checking this one out see there it is you can see and it's got arubber textured little thumb controller and that is very light that only seemsto weigh like a 20 grams or something like that there is a button right herewhat looks like an LED within it and there probably should be a type C porton this to charge it okay there we go that is up the top and there is a littlebutton here so this must be.

         I have the release button when you clip it on itlooks to be actually there's like a mechanism in there you can just seethere so that's how it's going to latch into it so that must be those littledimples either side to keep that clipped on that was on the case and at the tophere one little button there and two triggers now they're not an analogtrigger trigger this one is just digital to straight on and off the same with thetop button there so you can see if you want to use the joystick you must usethat case because otherwise it's just not gonna stay in place and will fallout oh and the back of it it says Black Shark and it's a textured rubber so thisgives quite a bit of grip to it so it looks like they've used quite a largedpi here and here's the programs we've got installed on this it doesn't seem tohave a lot of bloatware normally with the xiaomi phones they crammed on a lotof chinese stuff that's completely irrelevant to people outside of china sofirst have a look and see what's asking for permission locations just to go intosettings that's interesting so here we go about phone running Android 8 Oreo soit's only 8.0 I was expecting hope for the 8.1 now there could be some patchescoming out for this it's got some joy UI build as the first one as well so that'sthe uija this is using this is not me UI this is joy UI which is somethingcompletely different here now they've got room down the bottom on the bottombezel to have hardware keys here and they do have them. 

        But just they don'tlight up so that's good to see so there's a recent apps back of course andthen tapping this will take us home so you can see the memory use on first boothere we get free 4.2 gigabytes so that's plenty Android is taking up 1.8 let'shave a look at its storage to this being a 64 gigabyte model not a lot of freespace there we've already used 12.6 so I'll quickly test out the fingerprintreader and that's pretty quick but not the fastest actually there bit of a seea delay of about one second you can see that's definitely not as fast as my memacstew is perhaps some optimization is needed there but I mean that's not badat all it's literally what about under that's definitely under a second atleast so here's the end to to score very very good score here this is really highfor an Android device but it's not really that much higher than the show meme mix 2's with the same exact chipset so they more or less got the sameperformance so you would have noticed that the case has these two littleindentations here these tiny little dimples there's actually where thehandles going to clip on so the joypad will clip into this show you now so youjust gotta line them both up and it slots in you will hear a little clickand that is on there that is really solid that's not to go anywhere becauseit's got their whole case around it so that's supporting it keeping that lockedon you can hold it one-handed there it's very rigid and it does feel comfortablebut this is definitely not Xbox 360 Xbox one or ps3 4 controller comfortable yeahit has small it's designed to be portable of course so you can see alittle light here so that's below because I've paired this up withbluetooth of course it turns red when you're charging and then it will turn Ithink it was green or blue once fully charged it does not take long at all tocharge I connected it up it probably really came with quite a bit of batteryin there and you can see how it is on the rear so that's very sturdy of coursewe've got that rubber on the back here so it gives us plenty of grip whengaming and it is quite comfortable so I'll show you the gamer mode now so youflip the switch up and that is going to enable it it just warms you so what thisis going to do is gonna kill background tasks it's going to put you.

         I think intodo not disturb mode or silent mode so you won't be interrupted with calls andI'll just test it out till I think tapping the home button if itaccidentally tapped that it's gonna do nothing no you can see there you need toflip the switch it's just telling you there that you need to toggle that andthat's good so that means it's gonna keep you gaming you're not accidentallygoing to end up on the home screen which can often happen on a lot of othermobile so it's good having that switch there so it will automatically detect afew games here and then add them now ones that weren't added automaticallyI've just added them in here I've got a couple of settings here at the top nowthis is to do with the joystick I've already got it connected up it tells youyour power and I did have a firmware update for the little joy pad for italready so it seems they've done some sort of patch or something and you canhave a look at the calibration here unfortunately this parts got a bit ofChinese in fact not all of it is in Chinese here so it's just telling youyou can see there for example the CPU use the GPU use and things like that Ithink it's when you swipe the home button that's when you bring up thatmenu there so the other options we get are no notifications whatsoever it'sgoing to block them out completely so you can just toggle that on or off nocalls on or off of course extreme mode there so what I think that is doing isjust changing the governor from interactive just to force it on allclocks so all calls are running at maximum I'm going to give us maximumperformance that of course will choose through the battery life faster andwe've got here clear round two so you've got any background processes eating upthe RAM you simply just tap this and it'll let you know see there we go itjust cleared out 37 megabytes so looking now how it handles pub G so you use yourfinger to look around as you would be you don't need to use the joystick kidto control anymore because that's now taken over by the hardware joystick soit's gonna make things a little bit easy for moving around especially you cansort of strap to the left or something like that when you're aiming andshooting at people it's gonna make life a bit easier now the button at the topI've noticed that doesn't really well it makes you control the aim there but itcannot look at this it goes all over the place so.

         I don't think that isconfigured properly I'm not too sure just at this point yet how to configureit now the top big trigger doesn't do anything so you still have to shooteither that button which is gonna be easier or this one oh well someone'sactually trying to kill me and luckily I managed to kill them before they killedme so it's gonna make gaming a little bit easier and as far as the framerategoes I mean this is really smooth this is one of the smoothest experiencesyou're gonna get of course with a Snapdragon 805 in a game like pub G heresee when I go and zoom in they're really smooth so this is a question thatcommonly pops up here treble check so yes it's supporting treble because it'srunning Android eight Oreo and this is for more seamless OS updates and thegood news is it's both partition a and B so since this is a gaming mobile and itdoes not have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack it better have good speakers andluckily it does so the extra-wide earpiece at the top also houses anotherspeaker so it does have dual speakers on here this is great and I think becauseit's a little bit bigger is also why it has a little bit of meds in here andit's a little bit more punch here than the typical ones we see like on shammiesmmx2 all the mimics 2s it's a loud speaker down here on the bottom is doingmost of the work and it's just that one there that adds to it so I'll give you asample of it now so I'll give you a quick look at thescreen here so so far my tears no complaints whatsoever it's bright theviewing angles they're good for an IPS panel the touch sensitivity and accuracyis excellent color reproduction looks good no complaints with the whitebalance or everything like that it's just a little strange isn't it thatXiaomi didn't opt for a hundred and twenty Hertz panel in this with thathigher refresh rate just making things super smooth then but it's only just astandard 60 Hertz panel which is a shame then they could have competed directlythen with a braces phone but overall it is a decent screen and good and I feelit's actually better than the Xiaomi mimics two S's screen so quick look nowat the camera application no surprises here it's using Xiaomi's mui 9.5 cameraapp there's portrait mode for the rear camera so you can get the blurredbackgrounds there's no portrait mode with the front-facing camera even thoughwhether the sensor can.

         I think you can do it because it's software they usethat AI is what they've been advertising and the likes of the rid me note 5 andother mobile so if you want that on the front facing camera then you're going tobe disappointed unless they decide to later add that on so you've got the sametypical modes and settings here won't really go into this into too much detailso for video I've noticed that we're going to get the same modes you get onthe mimics 2s considering it's using the same chipset so the video encoder youcan actually set this to a TVC for that codec of course that's a highperformance codec whether the smaller file size but the compatibility isn'tthat great especially with a lot of video editors and Windows machines andthings like that for playback you're gonna have to install codecs imagestabilization of course this is just going to be electronic imagestabilization hopefully it's gonna work in 4k because it doesn't work on 4k onthe Memex to us yet now give you a few samples here from the camera this isjust an initial first look I will go into a little bit more detail and giveyou more samples in the final and full review of this mobile so this is asample from the front-facing camera and I can see that it's got the typicalshow-me problem that's popped up lately that it's overexposed because it'sactually really overcast here and a lot darker than what I'm seeing on screento be able to see the clouds up here but you can't see anything at all so that'snot good to see so I'll give you a short sample here from the rear camera this isshooting 4k I do have electronic image stabilization enabled but I can see thatclearly it does not seem to be working so just like this show me mimics 2saudio is better though than the show me mimics to us the focus .

        I've noticed asin as good this does not have dual pixel autofocus and unfortunately phasedetection autofocus you can see it does do a little bit of focus hunting now andthen but I don't mean it's locking on to the guy there that's not too bad andI'll just do a quick stability test here you can see it is shaking all over theplace so not good hopefully show me can patch this and enable key is with 4kvideo because the chipset can certainly handle it alright guys so first impressions thedesign of it the build quality is good the design is it's interesting it isdifferent the way it looks it definitely looks like a gamer mobile phone there'sno mistaking it with the green axon the typical black and red or black and greenaccents screen gaming doesn't I don't know why manufacturers must do that itdoesn't bother me as much as I thought it would when I saw the press images Ithought wow that you know that's that's a little bit ugly isn't it I mean it'snot wonderful looking I definitely prefer the Memex 2's over this one interms of the build and the style of it but it's great that we do have thisadd-on little joystick here so it just clips into the top and it really doeshelp with games especially running around in pop G it's just so much easierof course having Hardware controls versus your touchscreen controls Ialways prefer and I pretty much sure that everyone will agree with me thathardware controls are the way to go if you can of course if you can plug in ajoystick and use that you would so that is great and it's really easy to removeit but I mean it is a huge robot phone is massive compared to my me max to lookat it almost as tall so yeah big but.

         I do like the loud speakers on this aswell but else because they're good better than than me mix to s and that'stheir flagship and this has better audio as well in video better audio and voicecall so far the main one call and yeah that's actually better there which isgood so battery life I'm not too sure what its going to be but in my 20minutes of gaming of pub G I lost about 10% battery life so I've got acalculating there you're looking at around about 4 to 5 hours of full ongaming worth the performance gaming mode enabled and using that little switchthere on the left hand side so that's going to chew through through thebattery but it's going to give you the maximum most optimal performance so youprobably need to charge it at some point you're gonna have to use a Bluetoothheadset which comes to the obvious cons yes no 3.5 millimeter headphone jackit's kind of crazy this is a gaming device it really really really shouldhave it so that's not great they also the lacking microSD card Wow you knowshould have it so they're forcing us to get the hundred andgigabyte model really because gamers are going to need a lot of storage.

         I don'tsee a lot of people opting for the 64 gigabytes because some games can be like5 gigabytes can be really huge once you install everything different levels forexample like real racing 3 that game can take up a lot of space there so yeah nomicroSD card and they're missing that 3.5 millimeter headphone jack if you canget over there so far it's looking like a decent phone so what do you guys thinkin the comments they let me know about the designer but did like the greenaround here do you think it's a little bit over the top do you think you couldput up with it or would you go for something like charmese me max - it'spersonally I would go for the new MX 2s same trip set pretty much the same exactand performance but the slimmer bezels the shorter design and and I roll just anicer feeling phone with ceramic on there - now if you like Xiaomi productsI will have the new me 6x coming up on the channel so that's got the snapdragon660 also the Mi Gaming Laptop I hope to get that next week and also the Mi6x there so stay tuned to the channel for that please subscribe and if youlike this video please give a like my latest videos are right up here and ifyou haven't checked out already in my review of Xiaomi's Mi Mix 2S that's uphere.