Poco F1 review

The box content includes a Handset, Adapter, USB Cable, Warranty Card, User Guide, SIM Tool, and Back Case. We have a base variant of Poco F1 which comes with a polycarbonate back. The side is also made up of plastic. It comes with a 6.18-inch Full HD+ notch display, with 18:7:9 aspect ratio which is protected by gorilla glass 3, front facing camera, led flash, IR Face unlock sensor,  earpiece which acts as stereo speaker below the display on the chin there is a Notification LED. There are also on Screen buttons.

On the right side, there is volume keys and the power button. The left side It has a hybrid SIM tray that allows for dual SIM cards or a single SIM and microSD card.  USB Type C port and speaker grill on bottom On top the a is a 3.5mm headphone jack. On the Rear, there is Dual Rear Camera Setup Dual LED Flash, fingerprint scanner and Poco logo below. The build Quality of the phone is decent not that Great the plastic body looks Cheap. The TPU Case provided in the box is useless which does not even fit properly.

Poco F1 has a 6.18-inch (2246 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 18.7:9 Notch display which is protected by Gorilla Glass. You can also Hide the Notch, The Notch is bigger every time you get notifications you have to swipe down to check notifications, Also No battery percentage in Status Bar. The display produces good colors and Viewing angles. In bright Sunlight, auto brightness Sensor works fine this Display Quality is decent not the best when compared to other flagship devices. We didn’t notice any Screen bleeding issue with our unit.

POCO F1 is powered by a Snapdragon 845 processor with  6/8GB of  LPDDR4X RAM and 64GB/256GB UFS2.1  internal storage. It has support for Hybrid SIM Slot. Poco F1 comes with  Liquid cooling. The performance of Poco F1 is fast and smooth we played PUBG for more than 1 hour at high setting we notice some heating issue but when switched to normal settings there was no heating issue. In normal use like using social media Apps and listening to music there is no heating issue or lag.

Poco F1 comes with a  12MP rear camera with dual LED Flash, f/1.9 aperture, 1.4μm pixel size, Sony IMX363 sensor, Dual Pixel autofocus, a secondary 5MP camera with Samsung sensor and 20MP front-facing camera with ƒ/2.0 aperture. Rear Camera can record videos up to 4K there is also support for AI Mode. There is also Support for Slow motion. Camera performance in daylight is Good, the Low light camera is decent not that great front camera produces good selfies both daylight and Low light.

Poco F1 runs on Android 8.1 Oreo with MIUI 9.6 based on Poco launcher which will be getting Android 9.0 Pie Update by end of 2018. It comes with IR face unlock which works under low light also. Fingerprint Scanner is also fast and responsive. Poco launcher brings App drawer, App suggestions display most of the used apps, groups apps automatically, group icon by color u can find apps by choosing the color. Communication, entertainment, shopping, tools, news, finance, games MIUI features Like Dual Apps, Second Space, App lock also present.

Preinstalled Apps include Microsoft  Apps, Xiaomi Security, Cleaner, UC Browser, Community, Mi Store, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and PhonePe you can uninstall most of the Apps. We haven’t noticed any Ads in Settings or other Apps in Poco smartphone.