Unboxing of Xiaomi POCO F3 - Overview & First Impressions By HardReset.Info

Welcome and for let me say well, obviously, you can see Poco f3, and today I will go over unboxing along with an overview of this device. So, let's start off by actually popping it open. So there we go so up here, nothing and get some Poco branding, welcome to the Poco family, some signatures and whatever no one cares. So, let's pop this open- and in here we got some stickers, uh paperwork. So again, no one actually cares about that and just eat it out of the way uh. Then we got something that people might actually care about, which is an USB to a 3.5, millimeter jack. There we go.

You can sit right here. Nice inclusions always like when companies do actually include things that they decided to well remove at the first place, nothing in here, then we get a nice case uh, although I do have to admit I prefer when they make them matte. So they're not like clear as these are matte finish just makes it look a little more aesthetic, just the fingerprints and all the smudges aren't so visible on these. Then obviously you get the phone itself and set it to the side for now more paper. Then we got the cable USB c to a, can see it piece this arranging branding on it, and then we get the charger.

So this is a heck there. We go some reason it wasn't really applied nicely um. So this is a 33 watts charger. You can see it right, hopefully, it'll catch, his focus come on camera, hello. There we go um, I don't know if it's visible, but it's right above my finger 33 watt max.

So this is the max output of this charger and, I believe, also the device itself. So a nice charger even nicer that it comes with the device so yeah. Now nothing else is in the box. Let's get rid of it and let's get to the phone, so I will hold the power key to actually turn it on and there we go it's turning on now. So right off the bat, you can see a couple different, significant features of this device, so snapdragon 870, 5g, 120, hertz AMOLED, display Dolby Atmos, dual speakers, I'm kind of curious about this one.

Maybe they actually sound good highly doubtful, but I'm going to chuck it check it out and also a high resolution.48 megapixels uh triple camera. Now, there's only one 48 megapixels. So this is just an uh kind of lie, but oh well, so, let's pop it open there we go now. I have to say the finish on here is like really dark. This is uh, I believe some version of black.

Let's see how they calling it uh night black. I guess yeah that is fairly dark. So you know, I guess the name here is adequate. I'm going to skip through the setup quickly, just so we can get to the bread and butter of this device. Now, while I'm skipping through it, I'm gonna quickly mention the display.

So, like I already did mention a couple parts of it. It's a 6.67 inch display 1080 1080 by 2400 resolution, with an AMOLED display that runs at 120 hertz uh, with a peak brightness of 1300 minutes, uh 85.9, uh percent screen to body ratio so fairly nice, um, 395 pixels per end with a gorilla glass 5 on top of it. So there we go. There was a machine gun of information about the display and, if you're, not sure what I just said by that uh, the key takeaway from this is the display is nice, but that's basically the takeaway, and we will run smoothly because of the 120 hertz. It's our model display so to have this super dark, inky, blacks, where pixels are basically turned off when they don't need to be turned on and overly the display is fairly nice.

It has a super tiny cutout for the camera like this is tiny, I'm not sure if this wouldn't be even the smallest one. I have seen it looks really nice um now, while this is loading up, I'm going to go over to the next part of it, which is at the back, and it's the quad camera setup. So no, my bad! It's a triple camera setup. That's a microphone! I believe right here, uh. So the main sensor is a 48 megapixel wide sensor.

Then we got an 8 megapixel ultra-wide and 5 megapixel macro uh. If I remember correctly, this is basically the same thing as the 11 light. I'm gonna quickly check 64.85. No, the 11 lite has actually a better main sensor. Instead of 48, it has a 64.

, so that's kind of weird. But anyway now we can yeah there we go, so the setup is now complete. Gonna also go into these settings just to make sure that everything is running at 120, and it's not at least not at this moment. Let's go to display and 60 up there we go 120 voil?, and now we have this buttery smooth, 120 hertz display. I do recommend you to turn that on right away.

It does make the device feel so much better. So let's get my plant right here and open up the camera and capture a couple photos. So the first one is just a normal white sensor, and I'm going to do two times. Zoom. Just for comparison with the macro, this is going to be an ultra-wide and, let's also go to a portrait, and macro is usually hidden away.

So I try to not move much now. It is using a different lens. I need to move it a little to the side uh. It can't grab focus for some reason to move it closer. Okay, I can move it closer, and so I guess I will do that.

I want to have a fair comparison, so it looks like right here is good enough. Okay, so now that I got basically all the photos that I need uh just to show the most rudimentary photo comparison ever uh, let's start off now the first photo. You know we're basically starting backwards in this case, so we're starting off with a macro going to like ultra-wide uh macro wide and yeah. So this is the actual macro lens right here and uh right off the bat. I can't really say it's anything amazing, so it just looks okay.

To be honest, then this is the portrait I do like to capture a portrait, even though this one was awful. Not even in focus to the point that I don't really feel like this is a fair photo to compare to, so I'm going to do it again. There we go, so this is the portrait, and they did something astounding, whoa that that caught me off guard um. What I'm talking about is, if you look at right behind it right, it's uh super blurry, right uh as well portrait kind of does this, but most of the time um phones do struggle with detecting the actual like what is supposed to be blurred out and what isn't- and here I would presume just because it doesn't have that trash uh depth sensor, which makes the photos worse. It actually makes that portrait mode work fine.

So this is a decent portrait shot without any kind of like weird cutting off of the needles, which usually is done by the uh 2 megapixel depth sensor, and that is exclusively almost always 2 megapixels the trash is, you can basically put at 20 20 21. , so I'm going to do that once more because it didn't look weird when it's trying to grab focus on a live view, and I'm not sure if you can see well not from this perspective most certainly but like I don't know if you can see this, but it kind of tries to blur out above it, you see this will take. If I do it right now, okay, so now it's visible, so I guess sometimes it might happen uh. You can see it right here. This is just disgusting level of blur, so you can clearly see this like cut out where it messes up.

What is the background? What is the foreground? This looks hideous. This is that this is just ruined photo, and it's unusable, so yeah, so keep uh keep watch for uh for how the viewfinder actually works with the camera. Sometimes it might just create something like this: this abhorrent uh strategy of a photo. So let's go back to the so the macro. This was the portrait.

This was the ultra-wide, so ultrawide is fine by all means it's nothing outstanding. I will just call it fine, then this is a two times zoom and basically does this good of a job as the uh as the macro. So there we go. Micro is kind of useless here, and this is just gonna, be the white sensor again can zoom in fairly nicely it still keeps detail so going back to the camera setup, the triple camera that they market here as absolute bollocks uh at tops. You have two usable lenses, not three uh one can be substituted by the other, so five megapixel macro is out outperformed by the 48 megapixel wide sensor and the people that made this device we're fully aware of that.

Just so you know- and this is a conscious decision just to make the phone look better, because you know, as everybody probably right now thinks the more cameras it has. At least that's how my grandma thinks the better. The phone must be, but that is not the case and just to also put that in perspective uh. What I mean by the trash macro lenses here. This is a device that is gosh like what two years old.

Now, if not more- and this is the Huawei Mate 20 pro- I kind of do this comparison fairly, often with the devices, but I consider this to be an outstanding way to compare macro lenses now, which this device actually has a decent one. So, let's just grab our plant and show you what I mean and just you can clearly see the comparison there now. Unfortunately, I do need to get closer with this one, because it does do macro as it's supposed to which is really close up uh, but because of that, I do need to move the move, the light to give it enough light, because otherwise, I'm kind of covering and creating shade with the phone itself, which I still am as you can see. So there we go um. No, maybe I'm going to move it, so you can see what I'm doing and there we go now.

This is, I believe, not as close as I can get with this a lens right here, but it's close enough to give you a drastic comparison on how this can look like. So this is a macro shot. You can clearly see the just superior quality of the photo right here. The amount of actual macro part of the shot there is like you can zoom in really close, there's something wrong with the plant here uh. So if I go back to this one, just to compare these two, let's go to gallery and look at the was in the macro, or was it yep? This was the macro.

So let me just zoom in all the way, and you can compare it yourself. So, as you will see, these parts are the same parts. Both of them are zoomed in all the way, and you can clearly see the vast difference of quality here now. Also consider this is blurred out a little blurry, because the focus of the lens was a little closer, so this was more in focus than the further out part. So this is not the fault of the lens.

This is just. I guess it is, but it's more of how the photo was captured. So you can clearly see the way actual macro lens. That is good macro lens should work, and what is here is not one so now that we get out of the way that the trash lens and every other lens here, um apart from maybe the front one, I'm just gonna quickly mention it on the front. We have a 20 megapixel wide sensor, shoots at 1080p, 30 frames, so nothing really special here uh and when it comes down to video capability of the back uh, we can shoot at 4k, 30, 1080p, 3060 and slow motion of 120 240 and 970.960. My bad, which the 960 is like the super slow motion, which I believe is copped at just a second or so I don't think you can record uh continuous super slow motion here, but anyway, now, let's actually move to the internals of this device and what makes this actually thick.

So in here we have a snapdragon 870, and it's a 5d chipset. The device has several variants: it comes with either 128 gigabyte, storage or 256, and the 128 has a built-in six gigabyte ram. While the 256 comes with eight, so obviously one will be more expensive than the other. The one that I have right here is the 128 with six gigabytes ram. So this is the cheaper version of this phone, but you can spec it out higher if you want to, and when it comes down to the storage itself, you do not have the ability to extend the storage here from what I've read, so I'm gonna quickly check.

After all, this is an unboxing, so I'm taking everything from yep from internet, but it is correct, as you can see, there is only dual sim tray and no place for SD card. So if you plan to use more than 120 gigs of storage, I do recommend you to go for the 256 uh, because otherwise you have no other way of extending the storage and in terms of that storage, again uh. It comes with the UFS 3.1. That is the type of storage that comes here, and that is a good storage. What I'll call uh? It basically approaches the speeds of a SSD, meaning any kind of read, write speeds on it will be blazing fast, so you don't have to worry about the phone chugging in that department and, lastly, the battery and charging here we have the battery here is a 4520 William hour battery with a 33 watt charger which um by what Xiaomi advertises charges this battery and 52 minutes all the way to 100 from basically being fully dead.

So that is a what I would call a perfect charging speed, um and yeah there's not much more to really say it comes with all the things that you'd expect fingerprint sensor, although it's on the side, uh, these things are ridiculously fast right here we can actually click on the settings, whatever I'm going to quickly set it up just so, you can see how quick the fingerprint sensor is, and apart from that, it comes with NFC and most certainly doesn't have a doesn't, have a wireless charging and stuff like that. So don't expect that and from what I felt right now also has a really nice haptic feedback. High-tech feedback, meaning when you type the vibration motors, do feel really nice. They have this kind of like that. Click almost something like apple, does maybe not as refined but still better than the majority of the other devices.

Okay, so now that I added fingerprint, let's quickly lock it and yeah I can, you can see this is ridiculously fast and just to describe this, I'm not even pressing the button, I'm just touching it. So this is a gentle touch on it, and you can see that you can basically click on it and as long as you just hold it for a split second longer than just like a really quick touch, it will unlock the device and yeah. It is superfast and uh apart from that. Lastly, what I should probably mention is the price of this device, which this comes at 350 dollars and honestly for the price that this comes at uh. It is an outstanding device uh, the previous one, that I did a review on was the Xiaomi 11, which comes a little cheaper, but it is also a little worse than this.

So, honestly, if I would have to pick between those two, if you're wondering between yourself, because they do look really similar the difference, this one is a little. Chunkier uh, it's thicker, the Xiaomi mi 11 is just ridiculously thin. It's it's almost feeling like an empty inside a toy um, but if I would have to pick between those two, I think I'll go with this one uh because of the display it both have AMOLED display and all that stuff, but this one has 120 hertz and a better processor and the snapdragon 870, while the other ones came with 780. I believe if you went for the 5g model, obviously because comparing the 5g and price-wise, I believe they would be the same price. So honestly, if I had to pick, I would go for this one to me.

Uh the 120 hertz over the 90 is a way better deal, but at the end of the day, it's completely up to you. I do recommend going for this. One though, and that being said, this would conclude my overview of this device, and it is an amazing device, as I would say most of the Xiaomi devices um, to strike a perfect bargain for the price that they cost, what they offer, and this one is no exception. So yeah. That being said, if you found this very helpful, don't forget to like to subscribe, and thanks for watching you.

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