POCO F3 Review: A High-End Budget Phone, But What's The Caveat? By Simplified

The Poco brand, a sub brand of Xiaomi, has made a name for itself by providing high-end specs with mid-range price, and this year they've again delivered the most powerful mid-range phone. The Paco f3, the new Paco f35g, has a premium, look and feel to it. It is protected by corning, gorilla, glass 5 in the front and the back, a very common design for most premium phones, but a pain to keep it fingerprint free. We also like the fact that the screen doesn't curve as much and have fewer chances of unintentional touches on its edges. Speaking of fingerprints, the fingerprint sensor has been changed from under the display on the Paco f2 to the right power button in the Paco f3. We are not sure why it was changed but for left-hand users it will be almost impossible to unlock your phone with your left thumb while holding the phone.

The 1080 by 2400 pixel display is similar to what you get from last year's model, but it has been bumped to a higher refresh rate of 120 hertz. You do get better experience when gaming and watching videos, but compared to higher end flagship phones with higher resolutions. You will see a subtle hint of over saturation and, of course, less sharp images. The phone is now powered by a snapdragon 870 g. This chipset is just an overclocked version of last year's 865g which can be found in the Paco f2, but it is still a very speedy processor.

Just that you shouldn't expect a huge jump in performance. The heat from the overclock processor will be managed by Paco's new, liquid cool technology on our CPU benchmark tests on geek bench. We are getting 976 for single core and 3220 for multi-core performance. The single core performance is slightly better than Samsung's s21 Enos processor, but loses to the s21 on snapdragon 888 for multi-core performance. It is surprisingly slightly below the previous Paco f2 pro, but ahead of Samsung's galaxy s21 ultra for the graphics performance.

Our benchmark result on 3d mark is at 4173 just slightly below OPPO's find x3 and Samsung's s20 running on Enos. Paco f3 is also the first phone from Paco that supports Dolby Atmos, but don't expect to get any sound stage or assume that it will sound close to a decent pair of portable Bluetooth speakers. All we can say is that it can sound really loud and do expect it to have some distortion when in full blast the three and a half millimeter jack has also been removed in the camera department, you will get a 48 megapixel, 26 millimeter wide lenses, a 5 megapixel macro lens and an 8 megapixel ultra-wide that has very little distortion. This setup is pretty much what you will get in most current phones. If you are into sports photography, or you struggle to take fast-moving subjects, you'll be glad to know the Paco f3 can shoot bursts of 100 pictures in seconds for the macro and white cameras and 30 pictures for the ultra-wide camera.

It also performs decently in low light, and you can shoot videos of up to 4k at 30 frames per second. The front-facing camera has been improved with a large aperture to give you a tad more both for your selfies. Lastly, charging time is slightly improved with 33 watt charging at 52 minutes for full charges, but there is a slight downgrade to the battery size to 4520 William an hour, and it still doesn't support wireless charging. The Paco f3 will come in three colors arctic white night, black and deep ocean blue and will also be available in two variants of 6 gig gram, plus 128, gig storage or 8 gigs of ram plus 256 gigs of storage. The recommended retail price is 549, sing dollars and 599 c dollars respectively.

So, in summary, this is still the fattest mid-range phone. You can get at a very affordable price, but if you have already owned last year's model, there's really very little reason to upgrade now, thanks for watching this video, if you have any questions or suggestions, please do feel free to drop us a message. If you like our videos, please give us a thumbs up subscribe to us on YouTube. Facebook and Instagram, we'll see you on the next one.

Source : Simplified