what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back in today's video we are checking
out the differences between the brand new poco f4 and of course the xiaomi 12. out of the two
devices the xiaomi 12 is the more expensive device alright so let's start by checking out the boxes
and see what comes in the boxes for both devices all right so in the boxes everything is pretty
similar we have the user manuals we have a clear case for um each device we have the usb a to the
usbc cable and we also get them 267 watt fast chargers so both devices charge equally fast now
inside the xiaomi 12 we have a 4500 milliamp hour battery and um inside the poco f4 we have another
4 500 milliamp hour battery so both devices charge from 0 to 100 in about 40 minutes 39 40 minutes
and i'm gonna say so pretty similar charging for both devices since we have the same 67 watt
fast charging and the 4 500 milliamp hour battery we even get pretty similar screen on time from
both devices so i was able to get about eight hours of screen on time on from both of them
now the xiaomi 12 has a more powerful cpu so we have the snapdragon 8 gen 1
inside the xiaomi 12. we're inside the poco f4 we have the snapdragon 870
so technically the xiaomi 12 is the more powerful device out of the two however for
this particular test that i've done i had both devices connected to wi-fi and i played a bunch of
videos and i also took some pictures but fairly similar screen on time from both devices about
eight hours for this particular test all right and since we are talking about the cpus inside these
two devices i said with the xiaomi 12 we get the snapdragon 8 gen one where the poco f4 we get the
snapdragon 870 and on the antutu benchmark these are the scores that we get so about 950 000 for
the xiaomi 12 and about 700 000 for the poco f4 now the xiaomi 12 we also have eight gigs of ram
so this particular model has eight gigs of ram you could also get this with 12 gigs of ram but with
this poco f4 i only have six gigs of ram however i could get this with eight gigs of ram but
technically yes the xiaomi 12 is the more powerful cpu now for day-to-day usage i haven't noticed any
difference in performance i've only noticed that the xiaomi 12 gets way hotter whenever you're
doing anything so if you're playing a game the xiaomi 12 will get way way hotter compared to the
poco f4 and after a while the poco f4 does perform better because is not as hot so keep that in mind
even though the snapdragon 870 is a lower performance cpu i'm gonna say in the poco
f4 because this one doesn't get as hot you can actually get more playing time from the poco f4
when compared to the xiaomi 12. so the xiaomi 12 does get extremely hot we also get faster reading
and writing speeds for the internal storage in the xiaomi 12. so of course you will notice a
difference if you're copying some files from the phone to the computer or stuff like that maybe a
bit of a difference if you're opening certain apps or if you're doing certain tasks on your device
so a bit faster on the xiaomi 12 when compared to the poco f4 moving on to the screen so the xiaomi
12 we get a 6.28 inches amoled screen that has a 1080p resolution where the poco f4 we get the
6.67 inch screen with the 1080p resolution and both screens support 120 hertz so fairly similar
screens now the peak brightness on the poco f4 so on the cheaper device is 1300 nits where the
peak brightness for the xiaomi 12 is 1100 nits so the cheaper device has a better screen in a way
i'm going to say now the screen of the xiaomi 12 is covered by gorilla glass victus where the
screen on the poco f4 is covered by gorilla glass 5. so technically if you'd be to drop the xiaomi
12 well maybe the screen is not going to break as easily as the screen on the poco f4 but again
that's debatable and it really depends how you're going to drop the phone but overall i would say
that the poco f4 has the better screen because it gets brighter and can actually see it better
indirect sunlight and of course the xiaomi 12 gets a curved screen so i guess that gives the device
a more premium feel and look i'm going to say well the poco f4 we don't get the curved screen
personally i am a bigger fan of a flat screen like the screen that we get on the poco f4 then
the curved screen that we get on the xiaomi 12 i feel that you can do things much easier if the
screen is flat design wise i feel that the xiaomi 12 looks a bit better we have more rounded corners
some i'm gonna say where the poco f4 we get a more flat looking design so maybe the xiaomi 12 is the
better looking device depending who you ask um of course they both have dual speakers so we have one
speaker at the top and of course some one speaker at the bottom and i guess next i'm gonna play
a little bit um of a recording just so you can hear how the speakers on both devices sound like
so in my opinion the speakers on the poco f4 do sound a bit fuller so once again i'm going
to say the poco f4 gets the better speakers when compared them to the xiaomi 12. with the xiaomi
12 we do get an in-screen fingerprint scanner so some people may actually prefer this kind
of fingerprint scanner but with the poco f4 we get a fingerprint scanner that's built in the
power button and i personally prefer that kind of a fingerprint scanner it's easier to find
you don't actually have to look at the device um whenever you're unlocking the device so personally
i do like the fingerprint scanner that we have on the poco f4 but i guess everyone is different and
having an in-screen fingerprint scanner could look a bit more premium maybe alright so next
we're going to move on and check out the cameras on the back of the two devices so the xiaomi 12
we get the 50 megapixel main camera over the poco f4 we get the 64 megapixel main camera
we also have ultra wide cameras and a macro camera on the back of each device so i took a bunch of
pictures yesterday with both devices and the main difference that i've noticed here well you can see
that on the screen right now is the fact that the xiaomi 12 has the somewhat wider field of view so
you can see a bit more in those pictures taken by the xiaomi 12 when compared to the poco f4
now other than that there isn't that big of a difference for certain pictures the poco
f4 does better for certain pictures the xiaomi 12 does better so for daytime pictures if you
have plenty of light there isn't that big of a difference i did notice a difference however
for nighttime pictures so as soon as it gets dark and i'm talking about super dark places the xiaomi
12 does do better the pictures are a bit sharper they're also a bit brighter they have less noise
with poco f4 you do get some more noise in those pictures they do look not as sharp as
the ones that i took with the xiaomi 12 so for nighttime pictures yes there is a difference and
the xiaomi 12 does seem to do a bit better also for video recording so i'm going to play a little
video recording type download both devices um the xiaomi 12 does seem to do slightly better the
image stabilization seems to be a bit better and the overall quality of the video from the xiaomi
12. so i'll let you guys watch um that short recording that i've done just to get an idea
how the video recordings from the f4 and the xiaomi 12 would look like
all right we have a quick video test between the xiaomi 12 and of course the poco f4 for this
recording i'm using the main cameras on the back of the devices and recording in 4k 30 frames per
second both devices can also do 4k at 60 frames per second so i'm going to walk a bit faster
just so you can see how the stabilization works if you're walking a bit faster of course we're gonna
stop somewhere around here i'm gonna pan left slowly so we'll stop here we're gonna pan left
and back right so yeah this whole recording done
with the main cameras on the back of these two devices would look like
performance-wise well as i mentioned earlier even though we have the snapdragon 8 gen 1 on inside
the xiaomi 12 and the snapdragon 870 so an older cpu inside the poco f4 performance wise i haven't
really noticed any difference both devices run miui 13 which is based on an android 12. so pretty
much everything that you're gonna do feels equally fast on both device so i can't really say that
one is faster than the other one however i can definitely tell you that you can play games more
on the poco f4 so you get a longer um playing time on the poco f4 when compared to the xiaomi 12. the
xiaomi 12 just gets super extra hot and then the thermal throttling starts happening therefore
the poco f4 is the better device in my opinion even though we don't have the most powerful cpu
out there another small difference would be the fact that the poco f4 doesn't get um wireless
charging where the xiaomi 12 does have um wireless charging both devices have an nfc chip inside and
that means that you're going to be able to make payments and put them as well so there you have
it a super quick comparison between the poco f4 and the xiaomi 12. i figured that this comparison
makes the most sense because both devices are some of the latest devices from xiaomi and poco alright
guys hopefully this video was useful thanks for watching and i'll see you guys in the next one