Flashback: Poco F1, the birth of a value-for-money legend
- The Flip
- IbE
- 12 Dec 2021
Hemedans, 12 Dec 2021le eco had to price their phones cheaper untill they bankru... moreLeEco was awful. They went bankrupt like MoviePass a few years ago. Owned the LeEco Le S3 with Snapdragon 652. Absolutely beautiful phone. Looked like something HTC would make. Even the packaging was classy. But man, that Chinese software on it was downright horrendous.
Returned it 2 days later. Had the person who was handling the refund say how beautiful the phone looked. I told her the software is so buggy. She said, "Oh really? Yeah, that's what you get from Chinese. Stick to Samsung." I listened to her advice 4 years later.
Never again to Chinese brands. I'll stick to only flip phones coming from Samsung and Motorola.
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- ajit
- Hks
- 12 Dec 2021
I am using this phone from more than two n half yrs. the phone is working as good as new. only time i faced problem is when i upgraded the software after i bought the phone. it cause very irritating failure to the phone. the vibrator stopped. camera, network issues i faced atleast 15 problems in this phone. but i downgraded the software from service centre. from then its working absolute brilliant.
- The Flip
- IbE
- 12 Dec 2021
Anonymous, 12 Dec 2021They forgot the original Motorola Moto G (2013) the true va... more2012: Nexus 4
2013: Nexus 5
2014: OnePlus One
All for $299. Got my Xiaomi Mi 3 for only $249. A great deal is the Realme GT 5G for only $429.
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- Anonymous
- t5{
- 12 Dec 2021
They forgot the original Motorola Moto G (2013) the true value for money smartphone and the first
- GAMIRSFM
- Ly9
- 12 Dec 2021
I rememeber people comparing this phone to the Galaxy Note9.
"$1000 phone vs $300 phone!!!1111" when people only cared about the chipset but not everything else.
It even ran games worse than the Note9 because of the lower spec RAM and storage. 🤷♂️
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- Sile
- ajZ
- 12 Dec 2021
Writing this comment from my poco f1. A solid 3 year have passed, and is still going strong. I tried to change it, but all the new phones are just too big.
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- Kichukic
- DkZ
- 12 Dec 2021
Currently going through this post on poco F1 Android 12 stable as rock
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- WK
- bJb
- 12 Dec 2021
Having POCO F1 for more than three years. Still running strong but going to replace it with Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE soon. Easily the best value and no hiccup throughout these years.
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- Anonymous
- 7kk
- 12 Dec 2021
Hemedans, 12 Dec 2021le eco had to price their phones cheaper untill they bankru... moreThey went bankrupt cause ceo gambling addiction
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- Anonymous
- XZs
- 12 Dec 2021
this phone is a legend. its no way perfect but with the price its every issue is negligible, plus the custom rom support is huge.
fun fact. POCO india raised the price for the original battery for the Poco F1, its around ₹6000 (80usd) now. The phones still keeping up with latest models nobody is bothering to update. 😂
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- Jo Biden
- LrZ
- 12 Dec 2021
Bodygard, 12 Dec 2021The Poco F3 is a proper heir to this legacy. This November ... moreEven though the F3 is the literal successor, I still think the X3 pro is closer to the F1 with their similarities (plastic body, LCD screen, headphone jack, SD slot etc)
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- Anonymous
- TL%
- 12 Dec 2021
Anonymous, 12 Dec 2021ahh, remember when every android phone had an unnecessarily... moreIt also had FaceID just like an iPhone.
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- cyber
- S2D
- 12 Dec 2021
this phone has too many flaws,so it aint worth to be called legend at all,the quality of xiaomi phones over the years aint moved a bit but the price is,trash makers like them deserve same fate like huawei
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- Hemedans
- CMN
- 12 Dec 2021
Anonymous, 12 Dec 2021Don’t forget there was Le eco or one plus long time before ... morele eco had to price their phones cheaper untill they bankrupt, $200 for flagship sd 820 device.
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- Anonymous
- 7kk
- 12 Dec 2021
Anonymous, 12 Dec 2021Don’t forget there was Le eco or one plus long time before ... moreYeah, and one phone which flew under the radar and is also highly under-rated imo was the Lenovo Z2 Plus, which I had bought and I absolutely loved that compact chamfered-flat-edged (lol b4 iphone 12 as if they had invented it) phone!!
Only problem was the terrible low-light shots on Auto (par for the course at that time), and some heating courtesy of SD! Other than that it was just perfect & I even loved the neat fps gesture integrations (it had swipe to switch apps b4 Android brought pill-based gesture navigation)
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- Anonymous
- 3SI
- 12 Dec 2021
ahh, remember when every android phone had an unnecessarily big notch just to look like an iPhone X?
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- happy holidays
- txp
- 12 Dec 2021
im so proud having that old phone. Mine has blue color.
Poco F1 was so fast and stable at playing Pubgm, better than my friends phone.
I still confused how a phone with high chipset (at that time) has such a low price,
And it also dont have any Ads inside every System Apps.
Maybe i saw some Ads in the Mi remote, but it is so rare to pop up.
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- Mredul
- XVA
- 12 Dec 2021
Still using this phone.
poco should give android 11 update as it was the device which create the poco brand.
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- Anonymous
- TL%
- 12 Dec 2021
This phone is one of the rare Android phones with Infrared 3D face unlock. Absolutely amazing value for money.
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- An0n
- tA$
- 12 Dec 2021
Oh man, I am *still* using this phone. The best flagship killer all the times ever. Period. Community is still very active till today, maybe it will stop producing custom roms around android 17, lol.