Kings of mobile gaming: 5 top gaming smartphones

"Black Shark" in the third generation is an affordable entrance ticket to the arena of mobile gaming from Xiaomi. The model will pull any games "at maximum speed", remaining cold even after many hours of virtual marathons.

The gaming ins and outs of Xiaomi Black Shark 3 gives out an interesting design with a luminous logo in the center of the back of the device. Two triangular plates are placed equidistant from it: the upper one is reserved for the triple main camera 64 + 13 + 5 MP, and at the bottom there is a contact pad for connecting a modular 18-watt charger for the duration of the game. Optionally, you can also purchase a special gamepad or external cooling system FunCooler Pro for your smartphone.

The liquid cooling of the “innards” helps the smartphone to stay in the “cold mind”. He can reduce the temperature of the Snapdragon 865 chipset by about 14 ° C in just 1 minute. In general, the elements on the board of the device were dispersed as evenly as possible in order to avoid even a hint of overheating. The RAM is 8 GB of LPDDR4X standard, the permanent memory is 128 GB of UFS 3.0 type without the possibility of expansion.

As part of the screen, the third “Shark” got hold of an AMOLED panel with a diagonal size of 6.67 inches and a refresh rate of 90 Hz. A fingerprint scanner lives under the outer shell of the display. An even larger screen is installed in the Pro version of the model(7.1 inches). In addition, "Proshka" has retractable triggers on the upper end of the case - access to them opens if you hold the smartphone in landscape orientation. Believe me, in the same PUBG, learning how to control shooting and aiming is much more convenient with triggers than playing four fingers right off the bat.

The smartphone is equipped with newfangled Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and Bluetooth v 5.0 modules, there is a 3.5 mm audio jack for connecting headphones, but there is no NFC chip. For a snack, they left a 65-watt battery charging with a capacity of 4720 mAh - the energy reserves in it are replenished from zero to hundreds of percent in just 38 minutes. And note that all these delicacies are cooked at a very democratic cost.

In the field of specialized gaming smartphones, one of the leading positions is played by the delegates of the Nubia Red Magic line from ZTE. The 5G generation model is a defiantly bright device with a lot of cool bells and whistles. What specifically? Let's figure it out.

Acquaintance with any smartphone begins with the external appearance. The gadget is notable for interesting patterns on the “back” with a luminous logo of the series and customizable illumination of the “REDMAGIC” inscription. But this is just a pretty wrapper. The main thing in the smartphone is the AMOLED panel on the “facade” with a diagonal size of 6.65 inches and an adaptive refresh rate of up to 144 Hz. The touch response time of the display is even longer - 240 Hz. Like it or not, but in dynamic mobile shooters, a high frame rate decides.

The speed of the ZTE Nubia Red Magic 5G does not disappoint. The smartphone is among the tops in terms of performance, which is due to the use of Qualcomm's 865 "dragon" in the engine compartment, paired with 8 GB of RAM and Adreno 650 graphics. The model is protected from performance drops by an active cooling system with adjustable fan speed. Access to expanded game settings opens in the Game Space gaming environment, where you can also control the LED backlight, buttons and notifications while wandering through virtual worlds.

At the end of the device there are touch triggers operating at a frequency of 300 Hz. Those. they recognize touch even faster than the screen. Triggers are attached to any point on the smartphone display. And under the touch layer of the ZTE Nubia Red Magic 5G AMOLED panel is a fingerprint scanner.

The cameras of the smartphone are quite ordinary: a triple photomodule 64 + 8 + 2 MP is installed on the back, an 8 MP front camera lens is visible in the front. Video on the main camera of the device is recorded in resolution up to 8K with a frame rate of 15 fps. Separately , the 55-watt 4500 mAh battery charging is pleasing - it charges half in less than 15 minutes. The memory expansion slot model is missing. Among other shortcomings, the easily soiled body of the gadget and the difficulty in translating some menu items are noted. However, the last flaw is solved with each subsequent update of the system. And in general, the model shows itself in a gaming role purely positively.

Gaming products from Asus are united under the auspices of the Republic of Gamers family. Adepts of the mobile gaming genre should pay close attention to the ROG Phone 3 smartphone. And here's why.

The model is the quintessence of an exemplary gaming smartphone. Judge for yourself, it has the strongest hardware components (an eight-core Snapdragon 865+ chipset and 12 GB of RAM “in the base”), as well as a fast AMOLED panel with a flexibly adjustable refresh rate. Several fps options are available to the user: 60 / 90 / 120 / 144 Hz. With such data, absolutely any game will run on top graphics settings.

Asus ROG Phone 3 does not detect throttling. All thanks to the advanced GameCool 3 cooling system, which includes a large evaporation chamber and a large heat sink for heat dissipation. In addition, the smartphone comes with an external cooler AeroActive Cooler 3. It not only reduces the temperature under load, but also solves the problem with the lack of an audio jack on board the device - wired headphones are connected to the third Rogophone via a 3.5 mm jack in an external turntable. The fan is powered by two additional USB-C connectors located on the left side of the device.

To increase productivity in games and resource-intensive applications, the smartphone has a special space "Mode X". The task manager in it allows you to control the amount of free RAM and various parameters that affect stability and performance. AirTrigger ultrasonic sensors on the right side of the device body are worthy of special honor to be mentioned. Areas respond to finger touches and swipes.

You can praise a smartphone indefinitely. Here you have a full range of high-speed communications, and a very good triple camera (64 MP main image sensor, 13 MP ultra-wide, 5 MP macro module), and customizable RGB backlighting, and a powerful 6000 mAh battery with support for accelerated wired "refueling" 30W and 10W reverse wireless charging. The icing on the cake is the DTS:X front stereo speakers. You will only have to put up with the sickly size of the device and the lack of a memory expansion slot in its arsenal. In order not to experience a lack of free space, you can look at the version of the device with a 512 GB drive.

Sony smartphones occupy a narrow niche in the mobile phone market. The highlight of the latest generations of gadgets comes from the Land of the Rising Sun - a screen with a cinematic aspect ratio of 21:9, which exposes the brand's products in the light of perfect multimedia.

Model Xperia 5 II was released as a compact version of the flagship Sony Xperia 1 II. Well, how compact? The screen was stretched diagonally by 6.1 inches, but thanks to the aforementioned cinematic proportions, the body of the smartphone turned out to be narrower than usual. And this contributes to the convenience of gripping the gadget in your hand. Unlike the older “one”, the screen here is FullHD + (2520x1080 pixels), but its refresh rate is 120 Hz. The substrate for the display was a juicy OLED matrix with support for HDR display, BT.2020 color gamut coverage and CineAlta calibration.

The gaming ambitions of the smartphone are revealed by the powerful “iron” combination of the Snapdragon 865 chipset, Adreno 650 graphics and 8/128 GB of memory. Moreover, graphene plates for cooling are built into the body of the device and a special Heat Suppression thermal control mode is provided(while playing on charging, the smartphone remains cold). But the speed of "refueling" Sony Xperia 5 II does not shine - using a complete 18-watt unit, it takes about 1 hour 50 minutes. Optionally, the smartphone supports charging up to 21 watts.

All three cameras on the rear of the device have the same 12 MP resolution. The leader is a 1/1.7" sensor supported by a fast f/1.7 lens. The handset also has a telephoto lens with a 3x optical zoom and an ultra wide-angle camera with a field of view of 124˚. The most chic in the camera is professional photo and video shooting modes Photo Pro and Cinema Pro: Smartphone photos can be taken in RAW with manual settings, and video clips can be shot in 4K at 120 fps.

The model carries on board a package of the latest wireless communications, including a Wi-Fi 6 module and a 5G modem, has front stereo speakers, and has IP68 dust and water protection. Separate buttons on its side face made to release the camera shutter and call the voice assistant Google Assistant. The latter often has "miss clicks", i.e. accidental clicks. Therefore, in hot game battles, it is advisable to turn off notifications about incoming events and block unnecessary controls. Fortunately, this option is available in the smartphone out of the box.

The iPhone 12 Pro Max is a desirable model for many walks of life. Yes, she is expensive. However, you will not find equal smartphones in terms of performance during the day with fire.

The guarantor of the consistently high power of the device is the homegrown “six-core” Apple A14 Bionic, supported by 6/256 GB of memory. The hardware of the smartphone is the first line of the podium in the discipline "Labor Productivity" as of the time of the announcement. iPhone 12 Pro Max pulls out “gluttonous” applications and games at maximum graphics settings without fps subsidence. But the refresh rate of its screen is declared within 60 Hz, which upset many mobile gamers.

Does not lag behind the "iron" components and the screen of the "mobile phone". The model has a Super Retina XDR OLED panel, which is characterized by a picture resolution of 2778x1284 pixels with a 6.7-inch diagonal dimension, automatically adjusts the white balance to the lighting conditions (True Tone function), and supports displaying HDR content. The screen is “under cover” of the Ceramic Shield protective glass. And in the upper segment of the display, the notorious “monobrow” is visible, where the sensors of the FaceID system, the earpiece and the lens of the 12 MP selfie camera are located.

The main photo module of the smartphone consists of three image sensors of 12 MP each: the leader, ultra-wide and telephoto. The rear camera can shoot HDR video in 4K at 60 fps and takes high-quality photos regardless of the ambient lighting conditions (with sufficiently direct hands of the photographer involved). The model has the necessary set of wireless sensors (Bluetooth 5.0, dual-band Wi-Fi, NFC chip for contactless payments), IP68 water protection of the case is implemented, fast wired charging and wireless “charging” of the battery using a MagSafe magnetic device are supported.