3 Month Poco F3 Review (Long Term Daily) By Ricks Tech

G'day, this is my review of the Poco f3. Now this particular model I purchased on launch, and then I unlocked the bootloader and put Xiaomi EU ROM on there and, if you're not sure what the EU ROM is. Basically it's a Chinese developer ROM that gets modified to work on pretty much all models of Xiaomi phones and Poco phones, and that usually entails a bunch of features you wouldn't normally get so, for example, on mine, I flick up. I have full screen navigation, which I don't believe, there's a feature that's available on the Poco f3 yet, but I haven't really dulled too far into that. As I said, I've owned this since launch and I found the phone to be pretty darn good and pretty darn comparable with other flagships like the s20 fan edition. As I just mentioned, you've got 120 hertz or 120 hertz, refresh rate of the screen, so silky smooth whenever you're navigating no issues at all there I do find there is a weird little green tint that I get when I'm using it at nighttime, it's extremely hard to spot during the day, but at nighttime you can kind of see the imperfections of it kind of reminds me of just staring up into space.

You just get these weird green dots in the kind of streaky lines. It's hard to explain. I probably won't be able to capture any of that on footage. But if you do a bit of googling you'll probably come across it, but I don't really see it being that much of an issue find the back of it. Typically, it lives perfectly fine in its plastic case that comes from the factory does have a neat little type c cover here.

So that is handy, but if you do use it naked you're going to get a lot of fingerprints on this back, it's very smeary very easy to get fun prints, smears, you're, going to be wiping it every minute that any every minute of the day, every time you pull it out of your pocket, I find that the audio quality of it very loud yeah, brilliant, pretty much walk around the house playing YouTube playing it music, podcasts, and it plays perfectly fine on the stereo speakers, one speaker at the bottom, one speaker at the top. I do find that during phone calls, though the speakers at the top being the two dots here, I find that I've usually got it tilted up towards my head to my ear, and that makes it a little louder for me to hear um what else about it the haptic engine on if it is. I try to sprinkle to some fancy, 3d or three axis touch or haptic engine. Furthermore, I find that I mostly disable it personally. Furthermore, I can live without it.

It doesn't feel amazing to touch it. Just the vibrating motor is no good at all. I reckon cameras on it. The camera quality is pretty darn, brilliant, 48 megapixels, pretty much comparable with many other Xiaomi phones and especially other Chinese phones. It doesn't, I wouldn't say it's on the same level as a pixel phone, but if you're someone that just takes the odd photo and don't think too much about it, you're probably going to be perfectly happy with that performance wise.

It's running a snapdragon 870, which this was the main reason why I went to this phone from the previous phone, which is the Poco x3, which I believe has the snapdragon 765 g. I wanted a bit more gaming performance, so on here I'm able to emulate game cube games perfectly fine. I use a game SER attachment which clips on the side and plugs into the type c port to essentially make it a controller, and I find from there that I've been able to play Tony Hawk underground one and two a few Zelda games, uh nip speed underground. It plays it perfectly acceptable, and you basically stock android games. It plays them just fine as well.

Regarding battery life, it's got a 4520 William hour battery in here, so it is a little of a chunky phone, but if you're used to modern phones, that's expected and that battery life typically gets me anywhere between probably a day to a day and three quarters depending on what I'm doing, if I'm playing games, I know it's going to drain it flat out, if all I'm doing is just basically just jumping on social media for five minutes at a time. It's going to last me a couple of days, just fine the charging element of it's pretty darn good as well. I find that if I stick it on charge on my quick charger, usually it's fully charged within anywhere from about half an hour to an hour depending on the battery life, but if I plug it in and leave it, it draws that battery that power straight into that battery. In a way it's ready to go from there. So, with a slight little modification of changing the ROM, that's on here, it's been a perfectly good phone, been extremely happy with it for the price that I've paid of it, which I'm pretty sure at the time, was around about 450 Australian dollars.

This is the six gig 128 gig model storage. Wise, has been perfectly fine as well, especially with those ROMs as most stuff that I do is usually streaming based YouTube or Spotify and yeah 450, which I believe now it's crept up a bit higher than that. I believe it was just a launch special which they usually run, but if you get it for around that price, it's pretty good value. If you're in a western country potentially look for the snapdragon s20 uh fan edition 5g model, don't get the 4g model as that's using the Enos chip, where the 5g versions using the snapdragon so usually get better performance and battery life, if basically they're side by side, I'd probably steal more steer towards the Samsung over the polo, purely because of brand recognition and potential updates down the line, but both overall those two phones have an perfect quality to them, so definitely worth basically worthwhile getting whatever one you can access at the cheaper price, as I find that, if you're currently paying retail price for the fan edition, you're, probably spending anywhere from probably 700 to 900 Australian dollars compared to the polo, which is nearly half price. So at that half price, it's virtually a no-brainer to go towards one of these anyway I'll catch.

You guys later bye.

Source : Ricks Tech