iPhone SE vs Poco F2 Pro: Sorry Apple.. By Pocketnow

It's no secret that the iPhone SE has brought the mid-range and more affordable, smartphone segment to more people's attention, but in plenty of markets outside the US. There are contenders that are attempting their own takes on this low compromise package and, depending on where you are, the returning Poco brand, might be the smartphone that is best equipped to challenge the iPhone SE. This is Pocket and I'm Joshua Verger. What's going on everybody, this is the iPhone SE up against the Poco f2 pro one of the fun parallels about these phones is that they are both drawing on particular parts of smartphone history. The iPhone SES inspirations are pretty obvious. It's got all the old-school tropes a tactile home button touch ID that it provides huge vessels as a result, and perhaps most importantly, a smaller size.

Now don't get me wrong. A smaller phone is always a refreshing prospect, because high-end smartphones, these days, are all about the latest and greatest and let's face it the biggest screen specs, but I will admit some out. There probably won't appreciate how the viewing experience is shrinking down. Accordingly. Now, thanks to the Bionic 813 processor, this phone can still handle any game or any media that you throw at it, but the handling might feel a little cramped.

The screen is still high-quality, at least in terms of what Apple has been putting out for years. The 4.7 inch retina IPS display is ultimately still great, with colors detail and contrast, but the very things that the iPhone might lack or addressed in one way or another in this Poco f2 pro. Let's start off with the design Poco in with the glass on glass design that most flagships do utilize by default. So it's not like there's a radically different look or feel. In fact, this phone will look virtually identical to the Redmi k, 30 pro, which kind of makes sense, because both brands are under the Xiaomi umbrella, in any case, Poco sports, some other significant extras like a headphone jack and IR blaster and most notably, a pop-up camera.

This is exactly where locos blast from the past design derives from this right. Here is 20 19 s, unique trend of hiding the front-facing camera so that the dream of an all screen front can be realized, and I have to say it's been great to see it back. Think for a second, how 20/20 has been all about the punch hole and then, in the context of this comparison, Apple has never even gotten close to this kind of screen experience. So it's really dope that the Poco f2 pro is all display all the time. A six point: six seven inch AMOLED display.

That includes even more features that Apple has an attempted yet, for example, an in display fingerprint reader and then, as you can see here and always on display. So yes, the phone might be a little unwieldy for some, but compared to plenty of other behemoth, phones that we've used this year. Poco put this f2 pro in a pretty good middle ground. All games and media still look great on here, with nothing notching or hole punching into the content and, honestly, the pop-up camera is a design flourish. That I always appreciate, especially in this case, because it makes face-on luck a little more fun with extra bits of customization, oh and by the way, face unlock yet another feature missing from this iPhone SE: okay, it might sound like I'm harping on what the iPhone SE lacks compared to this Android competitor, but it's not to say that the general experience is bad most of what makes an iPhone and iPhone is still here.

It's just that most of the features that this Android competitor might have happened to be things that Apple had yet to attempt at all in any of their phones, but where it truly counts. On the iPhone. Se is in the internals. The Bionic 8, 13 and 3 gigabytes of RAM are perfectly suited for everything you might install in iOS and everything that you might get from the App Store for a typical work-life balance. I keep using the quality of life phrasing, because Apple didn't skimp on certain features from the flagship lineup.

You have water and dust resistance. You have fast charging and wireless charging, and they all elicit the same general response. Furthermore, you know back in 2016, I probably would have killed to have those features on the iPhone, 6 or 7 at the time now. Granted. That's also because the iPhone SC's battery life is a little too much like it was back.

Then users will probably end up searching for a cord or a charging that well before bedtime. So there's no doubting that Apple have done right by prioritizing the right stuff right now. The difference here, however, is that Android OMS, like Xiaomi, and thus this sub brand Poco have been doing this. For years. We love the iPhone SE for bringing a somewhat fresh and affordable version of iOS, but in plenty of markets around the world, Android has been easily accessible in so many, affordable ways.

So, yes, the Poco f2 pro might be more expensive in most markets, and it's certainly more expensive than the original f1, but it still achieves the same everyday flagship experience for a price that undercuts many other top-of-the-line offerings and in that way, Apple and Poco seem to have very similar missions. It's great that Poco got the snapdragon 865 and at least 6 gigabytes of ram in here with a 4,700 mm, our battery that can last a day and a half until needing a charge via 30 watt fast charging. The pop-up camera does mean that the Poco f/2 Pro loses IP certifications, but I would have to admit that the thing that stings me a bit more is the loss of convenient wireless charging. Now, on the software side, the discussion of Android versus iOS is always a bit weird and futile if you're, considering the iPhone SE know that iOS is pretty much exactly how you would expect it me UI does add in a dedicated theme engine as well as a game turbo mode that stops notifications from interrupting your enhanced Snapdragon game player. Can Android operating systems get a little too far into the weeds with their feature? Sets? Absolutely that's one of the reasons why I OS is the champion of use it because it's simple, and it works, but that just points to another truth about Android versus iOS, if you're already into it, you'll, probably stick with it either way and in either case.

These two phones happen to be good representations of their respective daily software experiences camera discussions that include the iPhone as he is always interesting, because the iPhone SE just has one camera on the front and one on the back. Without many extra bells or whistles granted, the Bionic 813 provides some software backup for things like portrait mode and better HDR, the iPhone, as he sticks with a single 12, megapixel rear shooter and a 7 megapixel front-facing camera with a little of creativity, features like 4k, 60, video, recording and Apple's portrait mode will give you some room for fun, but putting this camera up against the Poco f2 Pro shows the obvious holes in both camps, see the locos pixel bidding 64 megapixel main sensor brings in some good-looking results that sometimes make it a toss-up between both phones. The other sensors include a depth sensor for portraits a 13 megapixel ultra-wide and a 5 megapixel macro. You see, I meant it when I said you can get fancy, or you can get kind of weird. Ultimately, the 5 megapixel macro lens is a bit of a surprise, though, because it gets some great shots and at 5 megapixels it's already over twice the quality of the common 2 megapixel offerings.

Now the front-facing cameras are a bit more of a disparity as the Poco f2 Pro hides a 20 megapixel shooter with more beauty mode options. Both selfish shooters can only go up to 1080p video, though speaking. The video Poco takes pages out of Xiaomi's book by including little additions like a movie frame mode and a vlog mode. That guides you through filming and creates a stylish highlight. This is all on top of the phone's own 4k, 16 and actually 8k video recording, I, don't think I would really call 8k a true win and the Poco column, though just from a practicality standpoint and speaking of practicality, the one thing missing from the iPhone SE camera is a night mode.

This is still a little of a head-scratcher, but in comparing this phones, low-light shooting to the locos night mode, I found some interesting results. It seems that the Poco is able to make something useful compared to the iPhone in the darkest of situations, but if there is even just a little of light, the iPhone is still able to eke out something visible. I attribute this to two things: the iPhone has a sensor capable enough of flooding in enough light, while the Poco just doesn't have a good enough night mode compared to other high performers, we've seen in other phones, Apple's quality in photo, and especially video is still hard to match, but it's unfortunately limited because of the iPhone essays, singular approach. Meanwhile, the Poco f2 pro has a good enough quality across the board, but it provides you with some more choices to get fancy or weird, while you're snapping away the philosophy behind the iPhone. Se is kind of simple find the aspects that can be dialed back without sacrificing, in particular the day to day experience for a lot of people.

That would be iOS. It's for that reason that the iPhone SE is so compelling because most other phones in the same price range skimp out on those key internals. Meanwhile, here comes Poco with a similarly priced phone that still has the top specs you might expect from an Android device. You see it seems to me that Poco has this whole prices right mentality. You have a price in mind, and then you try to match in as much as possible without going over.

Meanwhile, Apple honed in on minting the basics. This is a phone that just works with a little of nostalgia. Sprinkled in I know I'm supposed to have a personal pic here, but honestly it's hard, because these phones manage to hit pretty much every note that they're aiming for in 2020, it's been rare for a phone to prioritize the most basic aspect of a smartphone, the viewing experience you're looking at the screen, all the time anyway, notches and hole punches are small annoyances that are then amplified when screens like this one actually arrive. It just so happens that nearly every other essential part of this phone- well, maybe -. The camera have been met so because I do want to have a good viewing time, because it's what I do the most on the phone I would take those cameras for their good enough quality and enjoy myself on one of the few and totally in charge screens that we've gotten so far this year, and so there you have it a comparison between the polo, f2 Pro and the iPhone SE.

These are two budget devices that are trying to provide the highest and experienced as they possibly can in iPhones case. It's trying to do so by prioritizing iOS. After all, it's what you use most on the daily. The same goes for the Poco f2 Pro, though they managed to provide the right specifications for Android, while prioritizing mainly this viewing experience. That's why this pop-up camera is a thing, but I do want to know what all of you think there are certain markets where only one of these phones is available, but in the markets where both of them are there are times when the prices actually line up.

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