Poco F6 Pro review

Design, build quality, handling

The Poco F6 Pro doesn't come with an entirely new design. It is, in fact, a re-branded Xiaomi Redmi K70, so we've seen the look before. Let's start from the back since it is the most exciting part of the design, like every modern slab phone.

The back side is equal-depth, quad-curved and offers a silky, velvety textured touch. The material of the back is some sort of glass, though Poco doesn't say exactly what kind. We particularly like the pattern on the back. Poco is trying to imitate some sort of marble look with streaks and has done a rather great job of it. You can have the Poco X6 Pro in either black or white color with streaking to match. The glass back is fairly smudge-resistant, which is great.

The extra-wide rectangular camera island has a certain charm of its own, even if it is not the most original design out there.

The middle frame of the phone is made of aluminum and is color-matched with the backside. It has a matte finish that looks and feels very elegant. The nicely rounded corners make for a snug in-hand feel.

The F6 Pro has a pretty standard set of controls. The volume rocker and power button sit on the right-hand side and are both well-positioned height-wise, nice, and "clicky," with good tactile feedback. In case you were wondering, you don't get a notification LED or a 3.5mm audio jack. What you do, however get is an IR blaster.

Poco F6 Pro

The front of the Poco F6 Pro is pretty unassuming. There is nothing particularly interesting to note here. The large 6.67-inch flat AMOLED display is only interrupted by a pretty small selfie camera punch hole. The display bezels are perfectly reasonable as well and definitely not too large. All of the sensors are hidden away and not visible from the front side.

There is an under-display fingerprint reader on board. It is both accurate and very snappy. We have no complaints about it. Poco warns that using any form of extra display protection, be it a glass or plastic screen protector, could diminish the reader's performance.

The Poco F6 Pro feels perfectly well crafted. As we mentioned, its back is glass with undisclosed toughness, while its middle frame is aluminum. There is practically no flex in the body, nor is there any hollowness. The front of the phone is covered with Gorilla Glass 5 - a bit of an odd choice given that the regular Poco F6 has Gorilla Glass Victus.

One unfortunate reality with the Poco F6 Pro is the lack of proper ingress protection. You only get basic IP54 with it. That's even more odd considering that the vanilla Poco F6 gets IP64.