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Black Shark 3S Gaming Phone Product Review

The appearance of the Black Shark 3S is not significantly different from the Black Shark 3, but the coating texture has been changed and the color has been changed slightly, the splicing of sandblasted metal and glass is not mainstream in the game phone, ROG 3 and Red Magic 5S are covered with complete glass, the direction of the Black Shark 3S and the Rescuer Pro is relatively close, and the game flavor is relatively strong.

In terms of hardware configuration,Black Shark3SShe more conventional,There are dual stereo speakers with front sound and Z-axis linear motor,Not as good as the dual X-axis rescuerPro,There are also 3.5mmHeadphone jack,But there are no shoulder buttons,Instead, it is screen pressure-sensitive control and somatosensory control。 The two directions are different,The experience is also slightly different,Black Shark shakes the phone to change the bullet,The feeling of swiping the moving perspective and heavy pressure to shoot is very good,The king can also flash the heavy pressure while moving,It is very similar to the hardware advantages of the previous iPhone 8P to play chicken; The shoulder button is the thumb and index finger to control different buttons respectively, the division of labor is clear, but the direction of finger movement is different, sometimes the mobile phone will shake when operated, if you need it, Black Shark also has shoulder button accessories, and it is a physical button, and the feedback will be more direct than the shoulder button such as ultrasound.

In terms of screen, Black Shark3S is the first echelon of current game mobile phones, using a 6.67-inch Samsung AMOLED screen, FHD resolution, sub-pixels are arranged in Pentile diamonds, and the fineness is above Visionox, Tianma, etc.144HzOLEDThe screen. The screen refresh rate has been improved compared to the Black Shark 3's 90Hz, reaching 120Hz. It is worth mentioning that in gaming phones, the 120Hz and 144Hz refresh rates are more numerically different, while in the actual gaming experience, only a few games can support 120Hz, and the visual gap is not as obvious as from 60Hz to 90Hz.

In terms of other parameters,Black Shark3SShe screen is usedE3Material,The screen brightness belongs to the first echelon in the game phone,The maximum manual brightness is close to 500nits,The excitation brightness reaches more than 730nits,Slightly lower than OPPO ACE2,The screen content can also be seen more clearly in outdoor sunlight。 The average color deviation in cinema mode and natural mode is more than 3, and the standard mode is around 1. Judging from all aspects of data, Black Shark 3S is indeed an excellent representative of gaming mobile phones in terms of screen quality.

Because it is backed by Tencent,Black Shark3SSin addition to hardware configuration,It is also quite perfect in terms of game adaptation,More than 13Games support120Hz mode,Four mainstream mobile games support90Hz mode,Even optimized for GPU killers like Bright Mountains and Ark,It is currently the most comprehensive model with software adaptation among game phones。

In terms of performance, the SoCs of current gaming phones mainly include manufacturer overclocking Snapdragon 865 and Qualcomm overclocking Snapdragon 865, and the performance difference between the two mainly depends on the scheduling strategy and overclocking amplitude. Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 GPU frequency can reach 670MHz, but Lenovo Legion Pro will be much more aggressive, leading the performance release in its class, while the ROG 3, which also uses 865, often downclocks to 490MHz, and performance is also very limited.

Black Shark 3S this 865 in addition to 670MHz,There are also 725MHz and 905MHz two frequencies,The score of running GFXBench is higher than that of Qualcomm865,This high is that each project has improved,Projects with fewer frames are higher4-5 frames,Like Tyrannosaurus rex, the base will be higher than 20 frames,In some scenes, it also exceeds AppleA12。

In burn-in mode,Black Shark3S can indeed be maintained for a long time725MHz,Short time reached905MHz,Peace Elite and2K19The average frame of the 120 frame mode can reach more than 110 frames,However,In this scenario,Heating and power consumption will naturally be significantly improved,The maximum temperature can reach 48 degrees Celsius,Power consumption can reach9W,It must be used with a cooling fan。 If you run the game test in balanced mode, the heat will be much lower, 42-43 degrees is a more common situation, and the heat dissipation of the Black Shark 3S is also a better type.

In terms of system,JoyUI is based on MIUI 12,It belongs to the best mobile phone system in this category,It also adds the function of game space,Privacy mode、Small window mode is inherited,And you can project the screen to PC through the USB3.0 interface,Play games with mouse and keyboard,This experience is very close to plug-in,If it weren't for Tencent's cooperation,It's not unjust to be banned。

Taking pictures has never been a specialty of game mobile phones,Black Shark3SShe continuation of the previous generation of Samsung's family bucket,Main cameraGW1,Ultra wide angleS5K3L6,13 million pixels,Make-up number5 million depth of field,20 million front。 Although there is no optical image stabilization,But it's still very easy to use for daily photography,HDR algorithm is a little violent,Large light ratio scene can also retain dark details,It's that this color adjustment is more straightforward,The straight look is not good-looking。

In terms of battery capacity, the Black Shark 3S is 4720mAh, which is larger than the Red Magic 5S, and the less than 5000mAh Legion Pro and 6000mAh ROG Phone 3, as long as the oven mode is not always turned on, the battery life performance is better than that of the Legion Pro and Red Magic 5S, and not as good as the ROG Phone 3 with a larger battery.

In terms of charging, the dual cells of the Black Shark 3S are parallel discharge, series charging, the power of the adapter is65W, the peak power is 50W, it can last for 10 minutes, and it can be fully charged in 30 minutes, belonging to the first echelon in this class, and the other model is the same 65W OPPO ACE2, but the Black Shark 3S does not support wireless charging, and OPPO Ace2 supports 40W wireless charging.