The World's Most Powerful Smartphone...

Holy moly, would you look at that? It's a lot of things on the table today. It is a very

comprehensive device. This is probably the biggest smartphone I've featured possibly ever

It's, in the old days they would have just called it a tablet. The smartphone inside this box has a

7.1 inch display. It dwarfs even the Galaxy S20 Ultra. It's a monster with a focus on gaming

And that explains all of these extra components around the box that actually go with it

It is the Black Shark 3 Pro. It's a non-pro version for those that don't want to go all the way to the extreme

which is what this one does. It has fancy cooling. It can be overclocked

It has a 270 hertz touch input. The entire focus is on the ultimate gaming experience

It has shoulder buttons that pop up from the frame and then go away when you're not in game mode

Ha! Of course it has RGB lighting. It has this accessory over here, which gives you tactile controls if you want them

It has this giant cooling component, which actually functions as an enormous air conditioner for your device that actually works

And for some reason, they gave me two of them, one in the retail box. Am I going to throw two coolers on a smartphone

Yeah, maybe I will. Maybe I will for that little advantage because I need it and I deserve it

It has a 65 watt charger. 65 watts for a smartphone? Crazy

Let's do the phone first and we'll get to the accessories. It's obviously a massive video, so kick back and relax, why don't you

I don't know if this is the final retail box because the device isn't officially out yet

but that's what you're looking at for now. You see the 5G on the front because it does support 5G

It has the top tier Snapdragon as you would want in a device like this

It's a Snapdragon 865 5G. Okay, very cool. Black Shark. Little bit of paperwork

Tencent Games. We have a SIM tool. They've included a case. This is about as standard as you get

Minus, of course, the fact that you have these cutouts. Because you've got to show off the geometry so people know you're gaming

Oh, and then, of course, the shoulder buttons still need a spot to pop out

So, that cutout is going to be important. You have that on the first party case included in the box. This looks like an eSports

inspired sticker. Smartphone gaming is blowing up even in the competitive sense if you're talking places like China

It's crazy. It's blowing me away. So anyways, they got the stickers in there to go with it. This is the phone

Holy moly. Alright, just take it all in. Look at this enormous

beast Let's just do a quick size comparison before we continue you. Look at that puny little S20 Ultra. This thing dwarfs it in every way, height, width. What can I say? It's tremendous. But hey, that's the idea. It's like a gaming PC in your pocket. Well, it's definitely not a gaming PC. But you see what I said? If you're one of these people, you get the big gaming setup at home. Now it's time to think about it on the mobile as well. That's the idea. That's who they're focused on. And of course, in those markets as well, where people just don't even think

about owning a game console or have a game console there's places there's people that just want

everything portable and that makes sense too so that's another target for this okay just let me

put that down for a quick second here also in the package oh here's some specs 7.1 inch 2k plus

amoled display 90 hertz but it has that even faster touch input 5000 milliamp hour battery 65

watt fast charge it's because the device actually has two batteries in it that's how they're able to

achieve that charge of both rapidly this is the north american charge brick for some reason they

gave me the european one as well maybe just because they have both and identified right on

there just so you don't forget it 65 watts right on the brick that's tremendous power you guys know

i'm always talking about charge bricks it's too much now we've heard it already lu relax but i like

a 65 watt brick it means i don't have to just charge my smartphone i can also i can charge the

laptop anything 65 watts ladies and gentlemen. Also in the package we have a

type C cable obviously. Now how about this? This is the cooler. This is one of

the two coolers that they've included. In case you don't know many smartphones

will toggle back to performance when they start to get really hot because they can dissipate that heat This phone is designed internally and of course externally to allow for greater heat dissipation and also presumably some degree of overclocking

by clipping this thing on, which also happens to be powered, by the way

It has a USB Type-C connector right there. And then clipping it onto here and having it sit over top of the internal components of the smartphone

this is going to pull heat and blow it out the back and dissipate

and then also, at the same time, exchange that heat for cold and this pad is going to cool down this section of the phone

What does this mean for you? Well, it means you can have longer gaming sessions

let the phone heat up and still get the same performance. And in certain games, this phone will actually be able to deliver

the high settings for those games along with 90 FPS. So you may actually be capable of taking advantage of that extra cooling

So they both have mechanical on-off switches, but they will need to be plugged into the USB cable to be operational

So you're going to need to be in a fairly static position in order to power this up

You could power it off of a portable power bank, but I think this is more of an at-home kind of environment situation

And this is spring-loaded to fit on the phone, and you need that spring-loadedness to get around the giant phone

And then this thing is also in there because, my goodness, I mean, it's just a whole accessory setup

Now this one's a bit weird on this device because this device does have these pop-up triggers

Which again, I'll show you in a moment when I power the phone up These actually extend out of the unit when you go into game mode and they're tactile

It's not just a capacitive button like the other gaming phones I've looked at if you didn't check out that recent video on the red magic the new red magic phone

Go check that out because it has a capacitive version of these buttons, which is helpful in game certainly

But having something tactile might be even better particularly on something as big as this phone

We'll find out now black shark in the past has also created these og controls

You have the shoulder buttons pop out, but then what about your joystick? Do you want an og joystick and some

Dedicated buttons they'll sell you this as well to give you kind of a Nintendo switch like experience on your smartphone with a

7.1 inch display now there's two pieces to this particular component The first one it has your og joystick. What else does it have on it has a couple of shoulder buttons LBLT

It has a power switch on the bottom and its very own type C connector that looks to be right to me

So that piece slides on that's pretty cool. So It's like a ratcheting system

And then a release switch in this situation you would still use your top right you would now skip your left side shoulder button and instead

you would be utilizing LBLT. So you'd get an extra button there

from what you have on this side. I mean, your whole rig, if you get this thing all kitted up

you could have that on the one side. Hold on, let's just do the monster rig real quick

I don't think this is officially supported, by the way. We're just doing this for the purpose of

well, for a couple of laughs, that's all. There you go. That's your smartphone in 2020

look at this beast if that doesn't remind you of a gaming pc i don't know what will that's the most

extreme looking smartphone package or anything related to a smartphone i've ever seen in my life

wow looking at the back of the device you can see this little four pin section some accessories i

guess eventually not really any of these but eventually some accessories will be able to

interface with that 5G logo right there. This section in the middle is going to light up capable

of RGB lighting. I like the fact that the camera portion up here with the triple camera setup is

not popping out of the body too much. Like the whole thing has some nice symmetry to it. Yes

there is still a headphone jack. And this is important on gaming devices because you want that

low latency audio with a nice amp on there so you can use a wired headset. Over on this side

of the device is where you'll find your volume rocker as well as your SIM card tray. The other

side is a bit more interesting. It's got a dedicated switch to launch into a game mode

and it also of course has those shoulder buttons that are recessed. The power switch is up here

Now this is an enormous phone Just holding it like this that a weapon right there I just switched from the S20 Ultra to the latest oneplus 8 pro Which was a slight improvement in portability this thing is completely in the other direction

This one says I don't care what you talk about Portability trying to game over here max full frame rate. I want to juice everything out of that snapdragon 865

5g then you get this phone right here All right, you don't care the coolers and once you're carrying these things around you tell me you care about

about a slim phone, I doubt it. Part of the reason that this phone is so big

is also because it has these stereo speakers facing at you. When it comes to gaming, all of a sudden

I feel like you have a real proposition for why a phone should be huge

You've gotta deal with cooling, you've gotta deal with sound, you've gotta deal with battery life. Like, these are all of a sudden, now you're saying

to yourself, alright, this is a proposition I'm willing to hear. And I should also mention

that for some reason, by default, it was only in 60 hertz, straight out the gate. You jump into settings. You want to go to display and make sure that you are

into 90 hertz. And you flick the little switch on the side. And all of a sudden you go into this

shark space. Now I've got a few different games installed. There's of course Call of Duty Mobile

You have PUBG Mobile. Bullet Force because it's one of those titles. It's a first person shooter

but it's one of those titles capable of going up beyond 60 FPS

I do expect that to change as these types of phones become more popular and people are starting to ask for those higher frame rates

and have the refresh on the device that's actually capable of taking advantage

There is tremendous configuration on a per-game basis. I can clock up the performance on a particular title

I can modify my display settings. Touch sensitivity controls the ability to turn off edge anti-mist touch or turn on anti-mist touch

Your palm taps an on-screen control. I mean, it's a lot of features in here that are specific to gaming and are things you didn't realize were annoying until you've messed with the feature and then you realize it straight away

Priority stuff for background traffic, which you can limit. you can limit your external notifications

On a per-game basis, there are device settings for the accessories, whether it's this particular controller, a keyboard-style controller, the cooler

or your gaming headset that you have associated with that particular. These are things that you can adjust system-wide through the shark arsenal, as they're calling it

or you can adjust it on a per-game basis. This is quite different than some of the other implementations that you've seen out there

Whether it's through some sort of accessory or through a capacitive button, which doesn't give you that same tactile feedback as a trigger gives you

I mean, it's a totally, I'm telling you, it's a totally different experience. So the other cool thing about these triggers is not only do they jump up in a motorized fashion when you actually go to play a game

they also detect if the phone is going to drop and retract for that purpose as well

If you're going to drop the phones, I don't know, let's test that real quick. Here we go

Yeah, look, they're gone. Master trigger alert. The cell phone is dropped and the master trigger is automatically retreated

Let's go ahead and play a match. I'll show you how this is mapped out for this particular game

This whole deal goes in your pocket. You have a massive display. You have a big battery

Of course, you have tremendous performance with the cooling and the Snapdragon 865

Now you have the tactile feedback, the ability to multitask in the game in a way you couldn't previously

because your thumbs are more available to you now that you're utilizing your index fingers

The sound is detailed and loud and facing you. And it almost makes up for the fact that you have these big bezels on the side

They needed some space for those large front-facing speakers, but at least they did it in a symmetrical way

So it's symmetrical top and bottom, and it's also symmetrical bezels on each side

With these games so many of the on-screen controls get jammed up on smaller displays

And so that brings me back to what I said earlier about the idea like why how do you justify a

7.1 inch display on a smartphone well did that's one of the reasons if your deal is primarily gaming

Oh, we're gonna have a fight right away look at this Okay, fine

Somebody they're gonna get a gun first. I'm gonna run this way Like surely someone is gonna come looking for me here

Has this been looted already Still not what I looking for There we go Now I show you how it works We can look down the sites like this and I mean like look at this experience right now now one thing

I'll mention it's different than say a console controller because you tap to look down the sites and you tap to remove the down-the-sites look

Boom you guys see what I'm saying now It just makes more sense in your brain and the experience because of it just becomes a totally better thing

There's so many touchscreen controls and your thumbs can only do so much and obviously we learned a lot with

Controllers over the years the shoulder buttons triggers are super useful, and this is just one title. This is pubg all the FPS games benefit from it

I mean so many different genres benefit from it. I'm starting to see the light as far as gaming

Smartphones are concerned. I'm kind of starting to see the light here. We could ratchet it up

Look at this ludicrous mode unleash the potential of the SoC push it to the limit boosting our performance

We don't care about battery life not right now if the thing starts heating up like crazy

You got the cooler potential this game with the gunshots and stuff I'm telling plus the the device it rumbles as well, and this is a thing that you would do one time

down the sights and fire and Just like that down the sights

and fire. Now this game is capable of a higher frame rate

There we go. You can see like this kind of movement right here

Having the shoulder buttons lets your thumbs focus on the important part. I want to show you the controller as well, obviously

You got to make sure that the shoulder button is down. You put this on. These are going to replace your shoulder button. Just like this

I mean this is a different level now. Now I do still have the problem of the sprint thing where you have to reach over here to sprint, but while you're playing..

Now that, at that point, once I have this thumbstick, I really start to feel like it's an advantage

Because it's just that fine-tuning, fine movement. I mean, you get the idea. There's many different ways to use it

They're trying to figure out, they're trying to land on sort of the ultimate scenario for how to interact with mobile games

And each mobile game is different, so it's requiring these kind of sophisticated approaches from the smartphone makers to give you different control schemes

letting you map out your hardware to your particular title you're playing

And it is a bit of a headache, certainly when you install a game. That said, once you have a configuration in there and saved

it's just a matter of booting up the game from within your shark space

Start playing with the shoulder buttons to say, hey, that feels great, and then maybe upgrade to the accessory after the fact

I just, look, I don't know. I think it's kind of cool. As we know, there's such a wide variety of homogenous devices

that aren't taking, aren't trying to be a different thing. I like the fact that there are these options out there

for people who might want something different. Somebody is doing something different

Plus, it's not crazy, ridiculous expensive. It's probably gonna be around 700 bucks

So again, if gaming is a thing that you do in a big way on your smartphone

or if it's something you want to do in the future or you're interested in, it's hard

I don't think there's a better experience than this particular phone right now as far as an all-in-one package

When you're watching a video, it's a zero distraction, no notch, no cutout experience and this is becoming harder to find obviously in 2020 and you have these

enormous speakers facing your ears and when i talk about the speakers it's not just the volume

it's like a detail thing and so much of it just has to do with the implementation

we got used to listening to down firing speakers because manufacturers had to go after these

aggressive screen-to-body ratios, and detail just inherently suffers when the sound is firing a

different direction than your ears. You start to say to yourself, hey, that's starting to look like

a valid substitution for some of the more traditional gaming experiences. It's getting

closer, and it's because of devices like this Black Shark and the Red Magic device. Just when

you think every smartphone you look at, it's going to be the same thing over again. You get something like this changes your mind that's kind of cool black shark 3 pro