Pocophone F1 long-term review

11 January 2019
A little phone that isn't small. A flagship that costs a third of what you'd expect. A contradiction? No, it's the Pocophone F1. Shocking? Awe-inspiring? Yes and yes. The most intriguing handset of the year isn't the most bezel-starved, or one with sliding bits and pieces, or one with an in-display fingerprint senso

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  • 15 Jan 2019

Lyndino, 14 Jan 2019Feel premium??? A plastic bodied phone feels premium??? I c... moredo you own it? have you even seen it in close. or you are just barking around?

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    • 15 Jan 2019

    Carol, 14 Jan 2019A device does not end at "how fast opens apps" if for you i... moreA device ends at many things apart from how fast it opens apps, do you seriously think I wouldn't know that. You been using smartphones for 16 years, very good. I have also been using smartphones since the first iphone was launched. I have also made and flashed custom Roms for my phones i used to own. I have used some of the most crappiest phones too, and i don't support them just because I owned. In former years of smartphones Iphone was the best till the time of 5s, there is no denying this fact.
    And regarding Youtube videos or any other phone reviewing website even apart from Gsmarena. Most of them have favored this phone, so you just mean to say everyone else on the earth is wrong and only you are right.
    I can go on and speak up many other things to prove you wrong, however you will just go Blah, Blah, Blah. Also you have not answered even one of the points due to which the phone is good

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      • khrm
      • PDT
      • 15 Jan 2019

      The whole review is just about comparing and praising PocoF1 when compared to the flagships which are 3 times pricier. Well and good. But that's not what majority of customers who would be looking to buy Poco are interested in. Flagship buyers are mostly those who don't really care about prices and would buy the latest, greatest, from a reputed brand for a bit of show off as well.

      However majority of potential Poco customers, like me, are price sensitive customers. We only consider Poco as it has everything at a great price. But, the real competition Poco has is with Xiaomi's other cheaper alternatives, a range of great phones from Huawei/Honor, including Y9 2019, Honor 8x, Nova 3i etc, Honor play, Oppo F9 and Vivo v11 etc. All of these also do almost everything - maybe Poco is better than them slightly, but the main thing is that they are even more cheaper than Poco. So, why would someone pay as much as 50% more for just an unnoticeable increase in performance? Your review completely missed that comparison with all the cheaper but really great phones available now at outstanding price point. Those phones have more bang for the buck, as unlike in past, now these phones are really fast and remain robust for 2+ years.

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        • Adi
        • 6c0
        • 15 Jan 2019

        I wonder if the screen delay and bleeding bugs is fixed or not. I think LTS reviewed should talk about rumors and real life problems about the phone.

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          • iny
          • 14 Jan 2019

          anyone using this with globe in the philippines? does the global version work with globe's lte bands? thanks for any response.

            user, 12 Jan 2019My favorite phone, have bought this since day one and using... moreFeel premium??? A plastic bodied phone feels premium??? I can't wrap my head around this idiotic sentence.

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              • mgK
              • 14 Jan 2019

              Astro bouy, 14 Jan 2019Carol, firstly I have used many phones and currently I am n... moreA device does not end at "how fast opens apps" if for you is so, keep it your way. I use smartphones more then 16 years now, and used quite a lot of devices till this day. And i have seen great devices beeing bashed by so called reviewers and i have seen crappy devices being appload by them. And i have seen reviewers that do not know what they do and how to actually set a device and i have seen biased, payd and all kind of useless humanoids becomming over the night "experts" craving for the quick buck. I still see them, in other forms, with other names fooling other people, at the end, is just a device, once you payd for it, it feels like is your best, because hey, everybody said so. I have seen so much stupi'''y is is hard to believe the humanity actually still survives. So, reviews from wannabes i am not i.terested. this people all they want is the quick buck, if the trend would have been. Natchos, they would probably become Natchos experts. Now the trend is smartphones, so they are all "exoerts" in technology they do not understand 1 % of it.

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                • AnonD-731363
                • SH3
                • 14 Jan 2019

                Its like a best phone and a best flagship of 2018 all because its have all a flagship should have and dont have anything that is not for everybody.
                Such as face unlock, IP 68, S-Pen, NFC, Glass or Metal frame / body and many else.
                Ewverything cost a lot more money but there are just a small ammount of people which will find it usefull for all others its have everything a proper flagship should have.
                A true flagship killer of a 2018.

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                  • Carol
                  • mgK
                  • 14 Jan 2019

                  drake, 14 Jan 2019Dear poco hater.If poco was so bad phone then why it's stil... moreBecause is cheapp, and people who buy cheap are most probably people who do not have so much money, so even 300$ is a lot for them, or maybe even their sallary, of course you cannot say you spend your whole mounth sallary on a crapp, so you say: It is a great device! It might be, for you, in reallity is not, it is just a very cheep made device that has jist one thing good in it. 845., and that's about it. For the price, you can actually get wat better devices, they might not have 845 but they bit this crapp at everything else.

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                    • SH3
                    • 14 Jan 2019

                    Whackcar, 11 Jan 2019The Pocophone is undoubtedly a great budget phone. I just d... moreBut its is flagship it uses flagship CPU and GPU.
                    Anything else its just add-on which cost a lot more money but its not for everybody.

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                      • mgK
                      • 14 Jan 2019

                      Professional, 13 Jan 2019Or you never used a pocophone F1!That's for sure! The MI 8 ... moreI do not need to, i do not waste money in general.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • Kx1
                        • 14 Jan 2019

                        Pocofans hate other paying more for "perfect" phone, while pocohater triggered when others can get 80% flagship experience for 30% price

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                          • 14 Jan 2019

                          Is it possible for GSMa to do the battery endurance test on used/long term phones? If yes, then why isn't it done?

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 14 Jan 2019

                            Anonymous, 14 Jan 2019200 eur for s9! Are you kidding?Not kidding. It was a Boxing week sale just a couple weeks ago after Christmas. Very happy with it!

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                              • Astro bouy
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                              • 14 Jan 2019

                              Carol, 13 Jan 2019If you call pocoophone good, you most probably never used a... moreCarol, firstly I have used many phones and currently I am not even using the Pocofone as i had to give it to my Mom, as her phone had broke. For now I am using Galaxy s9, I have also used Mate 20 Pro, which is a great phone and its camera is the best-est of all phones that I have seen till now, the galaxy s9 camera is also very good however pocophone is not behind. It day to day operations while opening and closing app, pocofone is quite faster which is mainly due to software optimizations.
                              It mostly all YouTube videos which review phones all have said that pocophone is good, so you mean to say that all those people have not used any good phone when they review new phones every week which itself is hilarious and so your comment is not valid. In comparison with the Iphone X also the pocofone's camera and operational time is better.
                              So just because of the plastic body and some minor compromises is this phone not good..

                              The bottom line is that this phones achieves 90%-95% of what the most flagships achieve, and even those flagships are not perfect. So just appreciate the good that it does and leave it there.

                                joy, 14 Jan 2019you guys have complaints about xs max 512 GB worth $1,449.y... moreWell said,mate

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                                  • LH0
                                  • 14 Jan 2019

                                  Don't let the sd845 fool you this is a midranger phone all other components are in mid range level that's the truth

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                                    • 0BE
                                    • 14 Jan 2019

                                    f1 or mi mix 2s ?

                                      oh cmon, ,,the dynamic range is stellar"!!! really?wtf guys,if it were stellar,it would not cost 300usd.i had this phone for a couple of weeks,it is ok at photos in daylight,but i would not call the dynamic range stellar.also that earpiece was full of crackles and hisses,really low cost.i mean i get it that the whole phone costs 300usd,but if you don't put in it an adequate earpiece, cause after all it a PHONE, what else you can expect?!

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                                        • 14 Jan 2019

                                        drake, 14 Jan 2019Dear poco hater.If poco was so bad phone then why it's stil... moreI think noone is a hater of POCO F1. They must not like the brand, Xiaomi. Just in case, Samsung, the biggest Android manufacturer, make POCO F1, so POCO by Samsung with the same price, same spec...it gonna be great. I almost fall in love with POCO until I really need NFC inside. And I am still Xiaomi Redmi or Redmi by Xiaomi till now although I decide to use Galaxy A8 2018 as my daily drive now.

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