While mobile gaming has been enjoyed by most smartphone users over the past years, the COVID-19 outbreak saw it achieve an exponential spike as people cope with lockdown around the world. A study showed a 62% surge in time people spent on playing mobile games with a 46% increase (per month) in the number of mobile gamers since March 2020. This trend was also seen in the Philippines, which posted a 55% increase in consumer spending on mobile games and became the fastest-growing market in Southeast Asia for mobile game downloads in 2020.
As people spend more time playing mobile games, they are beginning to demand more from their smartphones when it comes to gameplay experiences. Aside from stability, smoothness, and stunning visuals these smartphones generate, the two of the biggest challenges standing in the way of ideal gaming experiences are jitter and lag.
Jitters can lead to inaccurate visual displays, making it hard for gamers to react and respond appropriately. These happen when there are fluctuations or variations in the travel times of data packets from the server to the gamer and vice versa. However, because frame time is not always consistent for mobile games, gamers often experience shifting visuals that look neither stable nor smooth. This can be challenging, most especially for games that involve shooting, as it is not easy to shoot precisely based on inaccurate visual cues.
Lagging is another key challenge in mobile gaming. Many of today’s popular games are power-draining and require strong CPU and GPU capabilities to process billions of instructions per second for their visual outputs. If the chipset is unable to support the intensity of the processing required, gamers will experience lag. As games are often designed to perform best on certain screen sizes and resolutions, playing them on a smartphone that does not have the right display puts pressure on its chipset’s processing power to adjust and accommodate the visuals. This results in lag, which contributes to a frustrating gaming experience.
Given its commitment to creating powerful but affordable smartphones for today’s growing number of mobile gamers, Infinix equipped its latest budget gaming smartphone, the HOT 10S, with specs meant to address these pressing pain points. MediaTek’s Helio G85 gaming chipset drives the HOT 10S with a 64-bit octa-core processor, featuring two performance core ARM Cortex-A75 and six power-efficient core Cortex-A55 CPUs clocked at 2.0GHz and 1.8GHz and integrated with one of the fastest GPUs’s – the ARM Mali-G52 MC2 GPU, clocking at 1GHz. In addition, Infinix designed the HOT 10S with a 6.82HD+ display with a 90Hz refresh rate, providing fluid response when users swipe the screen and a smooth visual experience when playing high-speed moving footage.
Infinix does not just stop with hardware solutions, as their optimal performance can only be realized by working together with the appropriate software. This is why Infinix built its Dar-link Ultimate Game Booster Technology into the operating system of the HOT 10S, improving graphic display and touchscreen sensitivity and enhancing the smartphone’s self-learning capabilities. Dar-link generates predictive rendering in advance based on the various scenes in the game, making game scene switching much faster and easier. Dar-link can further enhance the handset performance in terms of energy consumption and temperature control. Chipset performance tends to deteriorate over usage and time due to heat generated especially during demanding games. Infinix has intelligently adjusted the operating speed of the CPU/GPU, and manages and allocates according to different game scenarios. This maintains the efficient operation of the handset allowing the game to run more smoothly.
Infinix HOT 10S 4GB+64GB (P5,990) and 6GB+128GB (P6,990) smartphones are now available at all Infinix retail shops nationwide and at https://shopee.ph/infinixofficialstore. To know more, follow @infinixphilippines on Facebook and Instagram, @InfinixPH on Twitter, or visit https://www.infinixmobility.com/ph/
