The Poco F2 Pro cuts the RIGHT corners! (review) By Android Authority

This video is brought to you by nor to VPN check the link in the video description to get 70% off. Cast your minds back to mid 2018 Shan. We launched the fantastic value poker phone f1 to critical acclaim. The idea was simple: include lots of the bits that matter and leave out those that don't what show me was packing. His class-leading specs, a large battery, a decent screen all in a polycarbonate package and slapped a competitive, a $300 price tag on it.21 months later and Xiaomi has recently released this. The newly named Paco f2 pro, and it's a bit of a confusing device.

Let me explain the polo, not Hakka phone f2, pro that's been a branding change is the kind of price to spec ratio of a traditional flagship killer. The base model which I have here is $499, which will get you 60 gram, 128 gigs of storage, and there is an 8 by 256 gig model too. Either one will give you a snapdragon 865 system-on-chip, a four thousand seven hundred million power battery, a big OLED display and a 64 megapixel camera set up on the back on paper. Then, what's not to like: do you really need to talk about speed? It's a flagship set of specs with flagship level performance, whatever game you chuck at this thing, it will be able to handle it just fine. There was no question that this thing was going to be quick and me why 11 is pretty smooth on the active pro I ran a suite of games, including Real Racing 3 fortnight and others that really did need to push the GPU with 3d graphics, and this thing ran pretty much flawlessly.

Sure you'd expect the phone with a snap during a 65 to be just fine, but with this price and this display in this battery in this build quality, it's impressive, to say the least me. Why is a little love-hate with me? I personally love the aesthetic and the feeling of using it, but there are a few things that I have a problem with one. Where are the navigation gestures? The three button layout is great, but we're almost all just now, so they need to be brought in and a software update too, if you're in an app- and you click clear apps in the drawer, it doesn't close the app that you're in it just puts you back into that, which is kind of annoying and three beauty modes is still default, setting in the camera app and that's probably the most in honey one out of the three so in performance and software. This is business as usual, but it's now where things get a little confusing, because when I first saw the lack of 90 Hertz display or even 120 years display the inclusion of metal and glass, my initial impression was you're, getting rid of something that's important and replacing it with something there isn't. But here is why I was wrong.

You see the original aka phone had flagship specs with a mid-range shell. This time around we've got flagship specs in a flagship shell I genuinely don't feel like the lack of 120 Hertz display, severely impacts overall user experience of the f2 Pro. The six point, six seven-inch full HD plus 60 Hertz OLED display in the f2 Pro, is leaps, may bounce better than its predecessor. Not only is it uninterrupted thanks to the useful pop-up selfie camera, but it's bright, its vibrant, its sharp as nice as it would have been to have a higher refresh rate display, I'm glad they left it out and left the price at $4.99 any higher, and you'd be getting pretty close to flagship territory. But here's the thing well, the original Hakka phone felt like a flagship killer.

It felt like a compromise. They have two pro feels like a flagship and I really wasn't expecting that going into this review. Considering my use with the pocket phone f1, it's so ahead of its predecessor in terms of build quality and fit, and finish and user experience that it doesn't feel like a flagship, color anymore. The neon blue unit that I have here does pretty closely resemble the OnePlus 70 from last year, at least from the back, and that phone is a flagship, not a flagship killer around the front. It kind of looks like the 70 pro -.

The annoying curves on the sides, since the pocket f2s panel is flat, and it has a pop-up selfie camera, but the best bit is that we're treated to extras like dual sim support: a headphone port optical in display fingerprint scanner and an IR blaster. It's got pretty much everything you need now. There are some compromises like the USB running at two. We know speeds the omission of a high refresh rate display or ip67 water and dust resistance, the lack of a telephoto camera and no wireless charging. Also, that aforementioned fingerprint scanner isn't all that quick nor accurate, actually I found it to be pretty bad on my unit, but in my opinion, at this price, those are nice to haves and not knee taps.

It's the same story with the charging you get 30 watt fast charging which what's not the fastest or most powerful in the world. It's still rather impressive, topping up the forty-seven hundred million power cell from zero to one hundred percent in just sixty-four minutes with the included 33 watt charging brick and that forty-seven hundred million power battery got easily through a full day of setting up the phone downloading gigabytes of apps and games an average of 65 percent brightness with some hundred percent usage absent about in my garden, a mix of 4G and Wi-Fi connections and about 15 minutes of YouTube using the internal speakers throw in some Bluetooth connected earphones in there as well I found it hard to end my day with less than 40 percent battery. So if you're not so hard on, your device expect two days of usage before needing to top up and err. If you're more of a gamer you'll, be pleased to know that you should get a full day of playtime just funny. Unfortunately, I don't have time to play loads of games all day.

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The cameras are usually two things: a make or break feature on a modern smartphone and a compromise on less expensive smartphones. So is the pot graph to packing enough to impress well on paper, we've got a decent selection of hardware. There's a 64 megapixel Sony imx6 86 sensors that bends down to 16 megapixel images, there's Ultra, HD, 4k, video and up to a 60 fps and even 8k video at up 30 FPS 1080p goes up to 960 as well accompanying. It is a 13-megapixel ultra-wide camera, a 5 megapixel macro camera and a 2 megapixel depth sensor in the pop-up module resides a 20 megapixel selfie camera 2, in which quality is a bit hit-and-miss. Well, the 686 does manage to pick up a good amount of detail.

It does sometimes come up with these weird noise reduction artifacts even in daylight, which I thought was a little strange, as they only tend to appear in certain parts of the image. Colors are nicely balanced, in my opinion, no over saturation here, which is nice to see, considering that this is a Poco device on our flagship and its competitors do tend to overpower the colors. There is a bit too much contrast. My liking and I feel like it can make a normal scene, look pretty grungy and moody, though that might be your thing. It's not for me personally.

Portrait mode isn't too bad, though, is likely thanks to the multiple cameras and sensors on the back edge detection seems to be decent with some very minor haloing around the subject. We're focused kinds of rolls off, though that's more of a processing artifact than actually a styling thing. It did get a little confusing my lockdown here, but all things considered I find it to be pretty acceptable. There is a significant drop-off in quality when going from the standard camera to the ultra-wide, which makes sense, given the pretty radical change in sensor, size and resolution, the colors don't change massively, but there is a drop in dynamic range, with deep shadows becoming gloomier than real-life. There are heaps of modes, including a macro mode which was fun to play with, since the f2 Pro actually does come with its own dedicated macro camera.

It's kind of a gimmick if anything and I think I had preferred a 2 x telephoto, but the quality isn't too bad, and it was fun to play with. Like I said flipping around to the front. The f2 pro selfies are a little soft and grainy, but with some solid dynamic range and accurate colors, I'm kind of glad that there's less noise reduction here as it could have led to more artifacts in the selfies, then always isn't awful anyway. Light mode is a little disappointing. It's exclusive to the 64 megapixel sensor and the processing isn't great I noticed that it didn't seem to take us long to take the photo as other devices.

So naturally, there's going to be fewer data for the phone to work with that this results in overly smooth, not necessarily amazing, night shots with not a lot of detail, and these with blue / purple artifacts like a vignette round the image moving on to video the Ultra HD 4k 60fps is exclusive to the main camera, with the ultra-wide recording, just 30fps in 4k. Both of those are about 50 megabits per second footage seems to be a little shaky to me and there's a lot of contrast, which results in videos that look kind of cheap. The steady video mode uses electronic stabilization and drops the frame rate from 60 to 30 and the resolution from Ultra HD to Full HD. It does the job, but it crops in a lot and the quality loss isn't something that I would call worth it. As for the 8k 30fps video, it records a hundred megabits per second and shares.

The 4k is kind of shaky. In contrast, these properties it's cool to have but I, don't see anyone using this mode. A lot — — it taking up double the amount of storage space not being as smooth as the 60 P and the overkill resolution. Shimmies camera app is pretty good. In my opinion, there are plenty of motive features and everything you need is there, but there is a strange layout, whoever made the decisions, but the macro mode in the photo mode, instead of on its own little section on the carousel with the rest of the modes needs a stern talking-to and the default Beauty modes are annoying and shouldn't be on by default, so with the poker f to play with the right corners cut in the name of value.

Well, I believe so. The lack of high refresh rate displayed the lack of a telephoto camera and the lack of wireless charging a rule made up for in the fact that the f2 Pro no longer feels like a compromise. When you throw away the spec sheet, and you actually use the thing, the original Hakka phone was plastic, it had a subpar display, the camera really wasn't all there. The f2 Pro is glass and metal with a good quality, OLED screen and a camera that feels good enough for $499. There are very few phones with a snapdragon 865 that feel as well put together as the f2 pro it's not for everyone, and it's not perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than its predecessor.

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