POCO F3 Review FULL Review. BEST VALUE Flagship Of 2021! By TechTablets

Better late than never as they say, and I do apologize for being a few days late with this one. This is the Poco f3, my video on it. So you're, probably well aware of the value offering that this value flagship has, and it certainly is that, because the early bird model is going to be selling for 299 euros only and considering the spec on offer. That is so good, and it's going to be really the phone I believe to beat now for 2021. So we have a snapdragon 870, which is basically an overclocked 865 with the 5d support. It's still there UFS 3.1 storage. Now my model has 256 gigabytes.

The base model has a hundred and twenty-eight in the six to eight gigabytes of ram with this two, so it's a very, very fast phone and then the screen is important. We need a good screen and a fast phone, and it's got it: 120 hertz, it's an AMOLED panel, really nice 6.67, inches and all up in a decent, very good package here. Dual sim support, certainly no micro, SD or 3.5 millimeter, and we have a 48 megapixel main camera. With this an 8 megapixel ultra-wide and a 5 megapixel macro the camera, that's in the cutout of the AMOLED screen. This one is 20 megapixels, and what do we get in the box? So we have a CPU clear case.

Our charger is 33 watts maximum. Now this will fully charge the Poco f3. It's 4520 William hour battery in just under one hour, our USB cable, and they did include a type c to 3.5 millimeter adapter. That is perfect, and I have some stickers, Poco stickers, warranty card and a user guide there's also a sim tray tool. Build quality of this phone is very good for the price tag, so it has that introductory early bird price of only 299 euros, which is phenomenal value, and you're getting a nice build to this, so the weight of it is 197 grams.

According to my scales, it's about eight millimeters thick. If you include this camera, which sticks out a little as you can see, that brings it up to about 11 millimeters. Now, there's a little confusion with the frame on this one, inner frame is alloy. You can see when you take out the sim tray at the bottom. You look in.

Furthermore, you can see that there's an inner alloy, and then it has a plastic around the outside. So it's a plastic frame. That's why I'm calling it a plastic frame, but this is gorilla glass, 5 on the back gorilla glass on the front of our 6.67-inch screen and right up here we do have a 20 megapixel camera we've seen this in a lot of their phones, now: f, 2.5, aperture, 1080p, video maximum. With this up to 60 frames per second and the bezels around the outside they're, not too bad. The chin isn't too bad, although that wallpaper is hiding it a little.

So it's a little there, but overall good in hand feels great now the side fingerprint reader very easy access to this when just holding it. I can simply tap that, and you see look at how quick that is. That is perfect, so the snapdragon 870 is helping here. It's basically an overclocked snapdragon 865 with the Arduino graphics, it's the 650, sorry f650, yes, and that's really, really quick there. So this button on the side, the volume up and down that is made out of plastic, sorry, metal there, okay and this frame around the outside.

I wanted to say that is plastic. This little that goes around the outside. Before we have the gorilla glass 5. So down there. Yes, we have that loudspeaker and then the microphone and our type c port.

So no video out of this one, a lot of people do ask me so no Xiaomi phones at the time of this video support, USB 3.1 with video out, sadly, the sim tray. This takes two NATO sims, as you can see, so one on either side and no micro, SD card support, no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack at the top. Here it is an IR transmitter, our microphone and then the secondary loudspeaker I'll, give you a sample of them later on in this video. Looking now at our screen, so this one is 6.67 inches. It is an AMOLED screen with 120 hertz, and it has a touch rate of 360 hertz, so very responsive to touch now, because it is an AMOLED, it's got uniform colors.

It doesn't have any funny dimmer pixels around the edges. Furthermore, it doesn't have any other problems around the cutout, and you will probably see right there that there is no dimmer pixels and if I go over to the white image right here, even though it's stating green colors that yes, there is a ring around this with the front-facing camera that I don't particularly like it to be standing out like this. However, there's no dimmer pixels around it, so maximum brightness they claim, is 1300 nets. Now, with my measurements, I'm getting around close to 900 nets, very similar to the k40 pro. After all, it's got the same screen and well it's basically the same phone.

Isn't if it's a great touch response? How does it feel in direct sunlight? So very good? Most of the time, however, I shot a lot of 4k video, and what I did notice happen is that the screen got very, very dim because it started to get very hot shooting 4k video taking photos with the screen at maximum brightness. It eventually was getting dimmer and dimmer and dimmer because it was well a kind of display throttling was taking place there. So that's one thing I wanted to point out with this. The other thing with the display is that it does not have DC dimming, so you may see this flicker that's running up and down. That's some pulse width, modulation, flicker! It's called now, if you're watching this on your phone with a cracked screen at just 360p.

You probably won't see this, and I can't see it here because it's only on camera, but people sensitive to this AMOLED they do this at lower. Brightnesses will definitely notice now to make it even more obvious what I'll do is lower the brightness down. You can see it's shimmering away now, so some people see that and not just on camera. So if DC dimming was there, which I hope they can add, that won't be happening, so we do have dark mode. We've got our color schemes scaling.

The refresh rate can be changed, of course, to 60 hertz and all those typical settings, which is great I'll, show you the color scheme there so auto mode, I'm keeping it on this. For the purposes of this review, I personally prefer original color, and that sets the white balance to me, which is more correct on to the ROM performance now. So this one is very, very good 120 hertz for mostly everything. Okay, so I have noticed that YouTube comments and some things like YouTube will be running just in 60. , so everything you do is very, very quick thanks to, of course, the snapdragon 870.

This is a proper flagship chip, even though really it's the last gen one that they've just overclocked a bit. It is excellent, and you'll see later on with some of the performance metrics that I'll be giving you in this video. So no problems with notifications showing up with this one. I've had a few funny little problems with the k40 pro. That review is coming up of that one uh, which I have floating around here.

In the background, you can see it's basically the same exact phone just with a snapdragon triple eight, and it is a little quicker but saying that I've noticed that it's really exactly the same in the UI, for everything that both of these phones identical speed with everything I'm doing, even though it's snapdragon 8. It's at that point now that everything's running so fast and smooth. You can't see that difference. Unless you look at benchmarks, even gaming, I can barely notice the difference with this. It's just so, quick everything that I'm doing so.

There aren't really anything things to point out that, of course, it does have play store on there. It's got everything, and I'll get on to a few other bits and pieces. Why, like the bloatware and all sorts that we normally get with these? Sadly, so I am on the latest firmware. Of course this is out of the box update that just came through and the bloatware. So there is quite a few.

These apps that you will get depending on your region, so it's configured and customized to your region so to put on apps that are more specific to where you're living- and this is the free available space that I have so. I've got the eight gigabyte model with 220, sorry, 256, gigabytes of storage and I get 231 gigabytes free on first boot. So these are all the bloatware apps, and I've mentioned this in the review. I did of the Poco x3 and the x3 and FC and the x3 pro that we have about 22 bloatware applications that I counted, and that is a whopping 2.1 gigabytes, but you simply go into settings. You go into apps uninstall and just remove all that it takes like two minutes.

So it's not a massive thing. Still, I would love to see them cut down on this bloatware and also cut down on this. The application system, apps that will come up with adverts in them. Remember this is the out-of-the-box experience, I believe, there's a way to disable it, but I'm just showing you how it is out of the box. So, very quick when you look at an tutu now, my an tutu is the version nine now that I'm using the latest one, and I'm getting this error, also the same error with the k40 pro that I cannot validate the score, verify it online, but it's really quick.

Okay up towards seven hundred thousand now the new scoring this one gets about eight hundred thousand so yeah. It is in synthetic benchmarks, a lot quicker, the snapdragon triple eight, the internal storage UFS 3.1. So if you've got 128 gigabyte versions, it will not be quite as fast the rights, but your reads will be. The reads may even be faster than this. So very, very good speeds superfast, especially for the price point: wow, perfect, okay, GPS, it works well, it sees a lot of satellites, and you get an accuracy of three meters, so I did check and see if we do have level five carrier frequencies showing up in there and we do so.

That means it is dual frequency, GPS, 2, dual carrier frequency, which is great camera, 2 API support level 3. I expected this because also the k40 pro has the same thing just like a wide vine level, one cert so Netflix Amazon, prime Disney, plus all of that in HD and full HD. Now the wireless speeds Wi-Fi six networks that I have here very, very good, not quite as fast as the snapdragon triple eight, that is in the k40 pro that gets over a thousand megabits per second, but still I achieved 919 throughput on my Wi-Fi six routers, that's impressive, very, very good speeds. Now I have 5g as well.5G is working great good signal strength onto the battery life now, so I actually got an impressive result here for a 120 hertz display calibrated to 200 nits of brightness, PC mac reported almost 14 hours. This is more than the k40 pro which I'm currently working on the review of that one right now.

So this translates these 14 hours into around about seven hours of normal kind of use, seven, maybe eight hours if you use a low brightness that is so good battery life for 120 hertz. Now the charge time has mentioned it's just a fraction under an hour, so it is about 58 59 minutes to fully charge this phone, which is also quite quick for a 4520 William hour battery. So now I'm going to check out the audio performance on this. I have had enough time to test it out, of course, and I've already placed a couple of calls on this too, and the call quality is fine again, it's just like the k40 and the k40 pro. So what about the 3.5 millimeter headphone support? Well, you can use the type c adapter, which is what I've done, and it sounds good. It's very clean nice output from that and not a problem.

There Xiaomi have been so good with their audio quality for me for many years now, in fact better than some of those big names out there. So what I will do is just play a track here, and I'll. Let this go and give you a sample of the speakers at 100 volume which are loud, and they have a hint of bass and overall they're, very good great for gaming over to our gaming performance. Now so this phone, as expected with the chipset with the fast storage with the fast ram, runs all those games out there really well, so PUBG will run at 60 frames per second I've gone with the highest frame rate possible that I can play with, which I think most players will do that. Now you can go for instead of just the HD setting, you can go for the one above that download the texture pack, but it limits us to only 30 frames per second, then, which is kind of silly.

So the game was great. I managed to get three kills and there was no point me playing this a lot because I know the performance was just a constant 60 frames per second, the whole time. They're. Looking at our game turbo, you can see the fps counter now, a demanding game like gen shin impact running at medium settings at 60 frames per second, is what I had said. It is very smooth now, once you end up battling, say a few monsters, and you cast a few spells.

You get an occasional lag, but most of the time it was a steady, constant, 60 frames per second again now. What I will do is game continually now for one hour, gens hen impact at these medium settings at 60 frames per second, and I will see just how hot the snapdragon 870 and this phone is going to get okay. So it's been an hour now, and I'm seeing about 49 almost degrees on the rear, and it could actually be a little warmer just going to move that around okay. So it seems on the back about 49. There is the hottest point where the chipset is, so I'll flip it over we'll have a look at the screen.

Now the screen feels a little warmer. When I was gaming, the frame is quite warm too, so that is getting up to. You can see 47, maybe about 48 49. What about on these edges here near the frame that is 48, so 49 50 degrees? Almost so you could say 50 degrees. Now, after one hour of heavy gaming with a game like gen shin impact here, so yes, it gets warm and if you have a case on it, and you're in a hot climate, my ambient temperatures are about 24 degrees, then expect a few degrees more, of course, moving over to our cameras now.

So this one has a 20 megapixel front-facing camera that can shoot 1080p only for video. It does have electronic image stabilization and a very good audio nitrate of 320 kilo bits per second, and this audio is a big improvement of the typical 96 that we get on the lower end phones from polo. They will use the 96, and it sounds a little scratchy. So these mics are very good. Now the electronic image stabilization I do like- and you can see as I extend my arm out, you can fit well a reasonable amount in the shot, but the crop is quite close here now rolling shutter.

If I move around, you, maybe see a little of that, but overall it is good quality for 1080p. You may see some occasional little fluctuations with the exposure which I'm going to test right now, so when it's in this, and you're moving around with your hair, you may see it flash a little, and this is something that well even iPhones. Do that? Let's have a look at the rear cameras now, video with the main camera, so 48 megapixels can shoot 4k, 30, maximum 320, kilo bit per second audio nitrate, good audio quality, good microphones and the electronic image stabilization. That is also quite good now. What I have noticed, if I am to criticize some things about the video here, is that when I pan around in situations like now with the sunset, you do get some panning Jada come through, but it's not as bad as what I've seen on the k40 pro.

That seems to have an issue with that, at least with my unit, but this one's a lot better. Now. What I would do is just a light. Jog ahead demonstrate that electronic image stabilization. I do apologize for any wind noise coming through on these mics.

It is extremely windy here and has been for the last few days. This is our ultra-wide footage. So with this one we just have 1080p 30. That's all that the sensor and the lens will allow us to do that. Xiaomi will permit us, so we can't swap over to the main sensor once you start recording.

So you need to make up your mind there with that. This quality is all right. It does have image stabilization, which of course, is electronic only, and I'll just jog ahead to demonstrate how smooth that is- and I do find the quality of this ultrawide, not as good as the main camera. Of course, there is some panning butter that I'm noticing, when I pan around a bit with the video 4k video three frames per second low light and yeah, not looking too good a lot of grain, you can notice some jarring coming through, as I walk with the electronic image stabilization. So the low light performance is not the strength of the Poco f3, I feel, and if you were gonna, be shooting vlogs in low light.

This is what it looks like uh, grainy and yeah, not too good. Now, there's not a lot of light around, as I step into a little light here, things start to look a little better as expected. It's really struggling that sensor with these conditions and the electronic image stabilization, all right, so all up hands down. This is the new leader for the gaming budget, flagship killer, beast whatever you want to call it with all those clickbait YouTube titles that I'm probably going to be using one of them anyway. But it's true to don't take my word for it that this phone, yes has just so much going for it for the pricing, the power that's on offer, the spec it is on offer is just well, it hasn't been seen.

Well, it has been seen hasn't it, the Poco f1, the first model that came out, so they're back to really their roots, which is good to see so all around it's. A very good phone middle phones have a couple of weak areas, don't they so with this one we have, as I pointed out and there's a lot of bloatware. We get. Some adds in the ROM and not everything's, running at the 120 hertz. That's me being very, very picky.

It has an excellent screen in this. It doesn't have, sadly, the DC dimming, the mi 11, the top ROG flagship. Does. So if you need that you'll have to get one of those more expensive phones, of course, but it just can't be beat for the price. What is on offer here now? My recommendation for gamers is to go for this phone.

If you can now, if you're someone that wants much better camera, better video performance, and then I would definitely say on a budget that is go for the Redmi Note 10 pro, that has an excellent main camera. It has the same screen as this, and it still sells for a very good price, but you do get the improved. Video quality get improved, especially the low light performance is a lot better. I find because of the 9 and 1 pixel binning the much larger sensor, 108 megapixels. This camera is good for the daytime stills.

The video quality is it's all right and there is some panning starter and Jetta coming through good to see the 320 kilo bits audio nitrate, the electronic image stabilization with the front facing camera. You really get down to nitpicking kind of things when you find problems with this phone at its price point like. Why is there no video out that would have been great to have, but that probably would have added to the price? Why no 4k video with the front facing camera? Why no 4k 60? That's not! There! We've got 1080p 60 and the quality of that. It's reasonably good, not bad there. So all up it comes recommended from me.

Don't just take my word for it check out all the other reviews on the internet, and I'm sure everyone will be praising this for good reason. Of course, the price, the performance all that's on offer all that I've covered in this video. So if you're interested in a very similar phone that I'm currently still working on and reviewing, that is the Redmi k40 pro. Is it better well I'll answer that question? It's got a faster chipset, snapdragon 8, but I'll answer all that in the review of that one, of course. So thank you so much for watching this video.

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