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Hot take: Poco F2 Pro

When the Pocophone F1 (or simply Poco F1 in India) was launched in mid-2018 it quickly earned tons of fans delivering the then-flagship Snapdragon 845 chipset at an unbelievably low price.

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In fact of the subsequent was so loyal that folks kept asking a few Poco F2 long after it became evident that Xiaomi has abandoned the lineup in favor of the Redmi K-line. Well, the corporate finally changed its mind and gave people what they wanted - a Poco F2 Pro. Here are some early thoughts on what's certainly a phone with big shoes to fill.

Actual flagship killer

Plenty of manufacturers launched diluted versions of their latest flagships - OnePlus 8, Galaxy S20, Huawei P40, Xiaomi Mi 10, and Honor 30. However, they typically fall in one among two groups - either the non-Pro/Plus version cuts tons of features or the worth isn't drastically different from the flagship proper.

Worried about cannibalizing the sales of the particular flagships those are largely prevented from fulfilling their potential. The Poco F2 Pro seems much more willing to tread on the toes of the Xiaomi Mi 10 duo.

The starting price of a Poco F2 Pro is $500/€500 for a phone with 6 GB RAM and 128 gigs of storage, the 8/256 GB is €600 - way less than the opposite non-Pro/Plus phones.

The new Poco is a different, but it probably doesn't matter

The fans of the primary Poco phone were more dedicated than those of almost the other phone out there. Even after quite a year had passed since the first came to be and there have been no signs of a successor they might flood social networks, forums and our comments section asking a few successor.

Despite never saying anything official about it Xiaomi had basically scrapped of the entire Poco sub-brand and decided to specialise in the Redmi K line as its budget offer with flagship chipset. the entire "Poco is back" teaser campaign confirmed this suspicion but it never become clear what caused the strategy shift.

At the top the corporate decided to offer people what they need and decided to plug the K30 Pro outside of China because the Poco F2 Pro. However, since the particular K phone isn't available outside China it makes virtually no difference to most of the people that the new Poco is simply a rebranded Redmi phone, rather than a singular design.

Xiaomi Poco X Æ A-12

What's with the naming Poco? First, we had the Poco F1. Then, 18 months later, we got Poco X2 which is really the Redmi K30. So if the Redmi K30 Pro was arriving under the Poco brand, shouldn’t it's called Poco X2 Pro? No - it's Poco F2 Pro.

So does that mean a vanilla Poco F2 is on the way? it'd rather be , but currently the lineup is F1, X2, F2 Pro, which is illogical and confusing. And if we were to urge a non-Pro wouldn't it's logical for that to either arrive before the professional or alongside it?

The no bangs and whistles flagship experience

The Redmi K30 Pro is clearly getting to tick all the boxes for tons of individuals - Snapdragon 865, huge OLED with an elevating selfie camera (so no cutouts), fast charging, big battery, 64MP main camera alongside telephoto and ultriwide modules and 5G connectivity.

Storage and memory are fast, Bluetooth is that the latest 5.1 version, and therefore the design looks neat. it'll be globally available with a reasonable price. Yes, it's missing a microSD slot, but the 3.5 mm audio jack remains here. If Xiaomi can make enough units we expect this to become a correct best-seller.

Surely you will find more capable cameras out there with the ultrawide and telephoto cameras especially bringing unimpressive specs. However for €500 that's quite a solid setup.

The 60Hz display may additionally make a couple of people look elsewhere, but as high refresh rate phones are getting more mainstream it's becoming evident that the feature makes less of a difference to most of the people than makers expected.

So the F2 Pro finds itself during a position very almost like the F1 - it's unable to compete with flagships across the board, but it works even as well for power users while costing a fraction of the worth . And within the areas where it falls short it still beats phones in its bracket . That's not a nasty place to be by any means.