hi yo
so the Pocophone F1 from Xiaomi is a
device that got a lot of attention when it had a dicccc
It has amazing specs for the price tag. So this thing launched for the equivalent of like $12,000 US
in the place where t series is and it was just I mean, that that's a price point that gets a lot of eyeballs
So I've been using this for a little while and I thought I'd give you my thoughts on this phone
So the specs of this phone are fantastic. It has a lot of the features of flagship phones while being very competitively priced
It's not every day that you see a Snapdragon 845 with liquid cooling and 4000 mAh battery
For three hundred dollars, the screen is high-res. It's got a headphone jack, microSD
This thing is packed with great features. Now when you hold it, it's a nice weight. It's comfortable to hold
It doesn't have any weird curvature or sharp edges to the device. It's a great phone to hold
The plastic, however, feels cheap
I hate using that word because "cheap" implies like- I mean, there's a lot of negative connotation with that word
But it just doesn't feel particularly premium, and when you hold other devices like an aluminum or a glass backed phone
It's just - after using this for a week and switching back to a OnePlus even just picking up a OnePlus 6
Which isn't like a super premium phone, but it has good material design
it feels so much more elegant and just more polished of a product the plastic on this device is
Noticeably less premium when you pick it up, you know that it's a plastic device.
Now, I do like the fact that it's plastic for a couple of reasons
One, it keeps the cost down. But two, on the OnePlus 6
So this is something I've been using for a while
When you drop an aluminum phone, forget about the fragility of glass, just the frame can dent quite easily
I dropped this on the bathroom floor
It's now dented and it looks, well, it's not a big deal, but it dents you drop this at that same height
It wouldn't even leave a mark on the plastic. That's just the nature of a plastic phone
It's more resilient to stuff like that. Other things. Other things I like, I like the face unlock up front
It's a fast unlock and it has an infrared light for nighttime use
I also like the stereo speakers and honestly that was surprising me
I did not expect these to have stereo speakers
Like when I looked at the original spec sheet
But just my mind didn't even think that I would have stereo speakers and they sound good. They're loud. They're stereo
And well, I like stereo speakers on my phone. I also like the battery life. It's a four thousand milliamp hour battery
It's still not a comfortable 2-day battery, but you can easily do a full day of heavy use on a single charge the screen
It's an IPS screen. Not an OLED. So the colors aren't as vibrant
The blacks aren't as black. Like they're just not super inky
You can tell that it's an IPS panel, but it's a really good IPS panel
This is an aspect of the phone that I thought that would cheap out on the Pocophone is like $200 cheaper
Than the OnePlus 6. The OnePlus 6 has a better screen. It's more vibrant
It's an OLED panel, but the Pocophone has an amazing screen for the money. It's bright
It's pretty color accurate and I wouldn't expect a screen like this on a $300 phone.
The notch, however, is big I think it's actually bigger than the iPhone notch, and there's a pretty sizable chin on the bottom
It's not an ugly look or anything
It's just compared to other flagship devices that have like a Snapdragon 845 those are bigger
but I mean for 300 bucks I let it slide the
notification lights actually on the bottom and this actually took me a while to get used to I think it's because all the other Android
phones I've used has had the notification light up top
But this phone has it on the bottom just above the USB-C port so you just have to train your eye to look down there
Instead of up top for that light
There are some other deficiencies the big one for me is the lack of NFC
So this phone does not support NFC payments and I guess it depends on where you live and what you do with your phone
I'm someone that uses Google payments pretty regularly. I live in Canada. Most of the retailers out there support NFC payment
So this phone doesn't have it
I can't use it which is a bummer for me
But I understand like the market that this phone was originally intended for maybe they don't have a lot of NFC enabled stuff
So it would've been nice for this phone to have NFC but it doesn't the camera is also
Expectedly weak. I'm not bothered by it
I've been using a lot of budget phones recently particularly the OnePlus 6, which also doesn't have an amazing camera
But the Pocophone F1 has a noticeably worse camera, particularly in low-light
So for daylight photos, it's fine; the camera launches fast,
the focusing is fast, but for low-light photos the Pocophone has quite a bit of grain in them. Okay software, it's running
Xiaomi's MIUI, I don't love the software. It's just personal preference
There's nothing inherently wrong with it and it has an app drawer, which is a little different for a Xiaomi phone
But I just don't love the software. I'll probably run a launcher on this phone
So the Pocophone F1 is an incredible value at 300 dollars
It's gonna be very difficult to get a better phone for that kind of money that being said
It's actually very difficult to get it at 300 bucks
I think realistically speaking if you're gonna buy this in North America, you're gonna have to spend like
350 maybe 400 bucks to get this phone just because of import taxes and buying it from Asian websites and stuff
It's still a good phone at $400 just as not a steal of a product
The brand Pocophone. I think they have a bright future
this is like the first phone Xiaomi did a great job on this thing and
Yeah, if you're interested in this phone and you have 300 bucks, you're wondering if it's worth, it it absolutely is. Okay
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