Black Shark 5 Pro unveiled with SD 8 Gen 1, SSD+UFS storage, two more models follow

30 March 2022
Three Black Shark 5 models were announced: vanilla, RS and Pro with Snapdragon 870, 888(+) and 8 Gen 1, respectively.

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  • Anonymous
  • LkB
  • 30 Mar 2022

Does it still belong to xiaomi?

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    • Anonymous
    • P@c
    • 30 Mar 2022

    I'm no so sure if I'm going to upgrade my BS 4 to BS 5. Is there a big difference between Amoled and Super Amoled screen display? Is it worth an upgrade from BS4? Need your opinion guys

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      • Anonymous
      • 0wq
      • 30 Mar 2022

      AnonD-1018516, 30 Mar 2022The Black Shark 5 is the best one here not gonna lie. The P... moreYou are just repeating everything that was in the article, do you think we can't read

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        • Anonymous
        • SHp
        • 30 Mar 2022

        chris1998, 30 Mar 2022Would someone care to explain to me why gaming phones are a... moreFor me the appeal is in sustained performance because of the better cooling and the headphone jacks.You could also repurpose those trigger buttons into useful shortcuts.As for mobile games...yea they just suck generally.

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          • Soto
          • m}3
          • 30 Mar 2022

          Forces punchhole on gaming device...

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            • Anonymous
            • ftb
            • 30 Mar 2022

            Eric20, 30 Mar 2022Gaming phones and no support for USB 3.1? Why shouldn'... moreMy black shark 2 has usb 2.0 but DOES support HDMI AV out, i've connected it to multiple TVs over a type C to hdmi adapter

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              • JustSomeRandomGuy
              • EwD
              • 30 Mar 2022

              chris1998, 30 Mar 2022Would someone care to explain to me why gaming phones are a... moreit's like having a smartphone and a smartphone with a very good camera. any smartphone can capture great photos and videos but some others excel at it. this will psychologically make the user use the camera more often as the results are much more pleasing.

              I can say this is similar to gaming phones. the majority of phones I've own are flagships but I barely had any enjoyment in playing mobile games. throw in a simple Plants vs Zombies and some graphically intense and great game but those are rare. Like you said, this isn't a PC or a console, mobiles games, for the vast majority of it, to put it bluntly, are crap

              however, now I owe the ROG Phone 2 and it made me enjoy mobile gaming significantly more. I greatly enjoy emulators, though like the recent AetherSX2 for PS2 games. been playing God of War for example and the should triggers were immensely helpful. no need for additional gamepads of hardware

              to summarize, it's the experience of playing the game on a gaming phone that makes gaming phones unique. it doesn't necessary makes the game better or graphically enhanced, but it's how you experience playing the game because I never really paid any attention until I tried the ROG Phone 2 and now I never wanna go back

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                • AnonD-1018516
                • 2IJ
                • 30 Mar 2022

                The Black Shark 5 is the best one here not gonna lie. The Pro with SSD+UFS sounds kinda like marketing trick, the SD 8 Gen 1 performance is good but ain't sustainable. The RS is just a Black Shark 4 Pro and 4S Pro. The Black Shark 5, while using an older chipset, it's still cooler than both the S888 and S8Gen 1, more sustainable, still vastly more powerful with most of the features from the 5 Pro being inside anyway.

                  chris1998, 30 Mar 2022Would someone care to explain to me why gaming phones are a... moreYou need special cooling support to get rid of heat.

                    Gaming phones and no support for USB 3.1? Why shouldn't we enjoy game playing on big screen? 😢

                    At least, Motorola has started supporting USB 3.0 on their phones.

                      Would someone care to explain to me why gaming phones are a thing . There might be a handful of graphically demanding games but this is Android. It's not like GTA 5, Crysis or Fallout on PC in which are very heavy on RAM and CPU

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                        • 7XM
                        • 30 Mar 2022

                        Let look inside, China version teardown video
                        https://youtu.be/dDYszcHpD_A

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                          • Anonymous
                          • M}3
                          • 30 Mar 2022

                          The SSD+UFS makes about zero sense and is just a marketing talk. SSD/NVMe/UFS is all the same thing/interface. I bet what they are doing is RAID0 between those two storage "drives" or something similar which boosts speeds. Otherwise it makes very little difference between UFS and NVMe. Probably none actually. Caching SSD with another SSD is idiotic and only somewhat makes sense if cache drive is Optane which can endure more writes.

                            Bypass charging???

                            Bypass charging should be a mandatory feature in every smartphone on the planet..

                            Then again maybe in doing so we will have the damage moving away from the battery but to the charging port burning out more quickly

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