It features premium styling, has some meaningful gaming phone features, showcases games brilliantly on its high-refresh-rate display, has fun physical triggers, and even its camera mix impressed us. They’re manufactured by Xiaomi, although both the Chinese tech giant and its gaming sub-brand downplay the relationship between the two. The slight issue is that top-end Snapdragon chips can become very hot through use, and the 8 Gen 1 is no exception. This console also displays the strength of your WiFi signal, frame rates and general performance load.

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It’s still in line with flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and Honor Magic 4 Pro, but there are options that’ll last longer. The exceptions are the two sliders that sit along the right edge of the device, one at the top and the other at the bottom. Some devices opt for haptic spots that you tap with your finger; others with curved-edge screens that house trigger spots here instead. The Black Shark 5 Pro delivers a superb audio thanks to the pair of permier flagship speakers and the 4-deriver chips audio system.That latter might actually be a feature, but we can’t be sure – the phone was quick to turn off background apps even when we didn’t ask it to, and sometimes this included apps that we were actually using (such as Spotify). There's just one USB-C port, so it doesn't scream gaming phone anywhere near as loudly as the competition, and its RGB lights are seriously subtle, with a tiny flourish to the right of the main camera.