what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back so the poco f3 is finally here well
it's been here since yesterday but obviously a day is not enough so i can give you a full review
but i feel that it's plenty of time to give you like a first impressions video so exactly what we
are doing now first of all we have to talk about specs because that's what pocophones are all about
crazy good specs for a very low price so inside this phone we have the snapdragon 870 and in my
case i have eight gigs of ram and 256 gigs of internal storage you can also get a version of
this device with six gigs of ram and 128 gigs of internal storage but keep in mind that the phone
cannot take an sd card so buy the one that has enough internal storage for your needs
so probably this one is ideal the one with eight gigs of ram and 256 gigs of internal storage
now for those of you that like benchmark scores well this phone gets a higher benchmark score than
the samsung galaxy s21 and funny enough this phone is half the price of a samsung galaxy s21 all
right so let's start with a very quick unboxing i know that some of you like to know what comes
in the box so first of all you're gonna find a clear case for the phone that's definitely a good
addition you're going to find the usbc to a 3.5 mil audio jack adapter that's also a good addition
because the phone doesn't actually have a 3.5 mil audio jack i was kind of hoping it would have one
since this is kind of like a budget phone and most budget phones have that but no there is no
3.5 mil audio jack on this device next time you're going to find a 33 watt fast charger and charging
the phone from 0 to 100 is done in just under one hour which is quite impressive but again the phone
doesn't have the biggest battery out there and of course you're gonna find the usbc charging cable
all right and going back to the phone well another thing that's super impressive about it has to be
the screen so this is a 6.67 inches amoled screen with 1080p resolution and also a high refresh rate
so 120 hertz refresh rate this is not something that you typically find for a lot of budget phones
the screen looks super good the viewing angles are really good the colors are nice and vibrant
the blacks are obviously very deep because we have an amoled screen so those pixels actually turn off
and the screen gets bright enough to be used outdoors once again something that doesn't usually
happen with a lot of budget phones so very very impressive screen on this device and the screen is
also covered by gorilla glass 5. so it shouldn't get them scratched that easily and the back is
also made out of glass and that's also gorilla glass 5 on the back now the frame seems to be made
out of plastic that could be a downside for some but it doesn't look bad so the phone doesn't look
or feel bad by any means on the right hand side of the device we have the volume keys and the power
button then the power button is also a fingerprint scanner so unlocking the phone is super simple you
just touch that fingerprint scanner and the phone will unlock in less than half a second and the
fingerprint scanner does work really well and the phone also supports face unlocking just in case
you don't want to use that fingerprint scanner on the top we also have holes for the second speaker
so the device has two speakers one at the bottom and one at the top and yes the speakers do sound
quite good and i'll show you a quick example in just a second at the top here we also have the ir
blaster so yes the phone can be used as a remote control for your tv just to give you an example
at the bottom here we have the slot for the sim card so the device can take two sim cards
at the same time we have the usbc charging port and of course the holes for the other speaker
and the microphone so let me show you a quick example so you can hear how the speakers
like sound light has just never stopped
and as you've heard for yourself the speakers do sound quite decent alright moving to the front
and more specifically to the front-facing camera so this is a 20-megapixel camera but personally
i'm not a big fan of that silver ring that we have around the camera i feel the phone would
have looked better if that silver ring would have been black the camera wouldn't be as noticeable i
guess it depends what wallpaper you're using um of course and of course some these are some examples
of some selfies that i took the device today and um yesterday so yes the pictures are on par with
other budget friendly device that we've seen from xiaomi lately moving on to the back of the device
here we have a 48 megapixel main camera we have a macro lens and then we have an ultra wide camera
and the phone can also record in 4k at 30 frames per second so that is the maximum recording
resolution with the main camera and we have image stabilization available at that resolution
the phone also supports a night mode for the main camera and the ultra wide lens and
basically all the pictures that you are seeing on the screen right now were taken with this device
today and yesterday so pretty decent pictures for a budget phone i'm also working on a camera
comparison between this and an iphone 12 just so i can show you what this device can
do when compared to a much more expensive phone so hopefully i will have that video ready later today
or early tomorrow so overall the cameras do seem quite decent for a phone at this price
the poco f3 runs miui 12 which of course is based on android 11 and we have the same poco skin that
we've been seeing with a lot of poco devices lately so this is slightly different than the
skin that you would find on a xiaomi device but overall this is still running miui even though
there are a couple of extra features in here when compared to a xiaomi phone a feature that i really
like and the feature that's also available on a bunch of xiaomi phones is the always-on display
so you can keep the screen on them so you can see notifications times and so on and of course that's
possible because we have an amoled screen with the 8 gigs of ram that we have available of course you
can do multitasking you are going to be able to play any games out there i actually played them
call of duty for about an hour yesterday and yes the phone did get a bit warm but not crazy warm
so it can lower its graphic performance so the cooling for this device seems to be pretty decent
as well of course i need to try the phone and test it out a bit more but for the first impressions
the phone does perform well for graphic intensive tasks of course the gps unit inside it works
great but that's the case on most xiaomi phones no matter how cheap or how expensive they are we have
a variety of sensors and the phone even has an nfc chip inside so you can make payments with it so
definitely another great addition not to mention that the phone also supports 5g connectivity
personally my carrier doesn't have 5g connectivity quite yet so i wasn't able to test out the phone
on a 5g network but depending where you live you may actually be able to use this on a 5g network
so to quickly conclude this video after using this phone for just a day of course a day is not enough
but after using it for just a day does feel like an impressive phone mostly taking consideration
the price we always have to take the price into consideration because well otherwise you're gonna
spend more money and potentially get something better but for the price i don't think you can
get anything better and anything that's faster than this device i expect that on one charge i'll
be able to get somewhere between eight and maybe ten hours of screen time but if you play a lot
maybe a bit less because it doesn't have the biggest battery out there but as i said for the
price the poco f3 is quite an impressive phone hopefully i'll get that camera comparison ready
maybe early tomorrow so we'll uh we'll have to see how that goes if you did like the video
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