Pocophone POCO F2 Pro by Xiaomi - Long-Term Review By Tech Travel Geeks

Hi there this is ukase for the tech travel geeks, and this is the long term review of the Xiaomi Poco f2 pro. We recently released an in-depth camera review for this device, so make sure to check it as well for more detail and some sample footage today, we'll discuss all the features of this phone so stay around and make sure to subscribe to the tech travel geeks for more videos like this. The build quality is great, with both the front and back covered with gorilla glass, 5, 4 protection and an aluminum frame for stability. The back is slightly curved with matte finish, making it feel quite premium. It looks good in the hand, but it's quite a bit slippery, so I've personally been using a flip case, as I usually do. One of my favorite design features is the red power button, which stands out quite nicely and is very recognizable.

I also like the design of the circular camera unit, which comes with some great detailing and an embossed circle surrounding it. The one thing I miss here is waterproofing. The phone is fine with some splashes of water and is protected from dust, but I wouldn't recommend putting it underwater. I personally consider it quite an important feature, so it's too bad that it's not available here. The other thing to note is that the phone is quite chunky and heavy at 218 grams and quite big thanks to the massive screen which we'll discuss just now, the screen of the Poco f2 pro is perfect.

It's a super AMOLED 6.67-inch diagonal screen with a 1080x240 full HD plus resolution and a by 9 aspect ratios. It's quite bright, and I've not had any issues with viewing it in brighter environments. But then again I live in Scotland, so I'm not too demanding the color. Reproduction is good, and you can even configure the color gamma to your liking in software plenty of choice there the screen also supports HDR plus. Unfortunately, there are no high refresh screen options, so it's stuck at 60 hertz, rather than 90 or 120 in some more expensive competitors.

One of the key features of the screen, though, is that it doesn't have any notches or cutouts, and the bezels are tiny. That's thanks to the pop-up camera which hides when it's not needed, and only pops up when you have to use the front-facing camera that makes the viewing experience much more enjoyable, so I've been thoroughly enjoying lots of YouTube and some Netflix on it and before anyone asks the popup mechanism retracts automatically when it's falling, and it's quite robust, so we're not expecting any issues with it. Similarly, to its predecessor, the Poco f1, the Poco f2 pro also sports a high-end spec sheet. It's powered by a Qualcomm snapdragon 865 outscore chipset, which at the time of release, was the highest end. Processor you can get.

It also uses a highly performant arena 650 graphics card. I've spent quite a lot of time playing different games on it, trying to make it sweat, but I've struggled to do so. That's probably thanks to the phone's liquid cool technology, which ensures that the chipset isn't throttled at any point. So it's running at full speed for longer. I tried popular shooting games like Call of Duty, mobile and Fortnite, and both worked great.

I tested some of the most demanding 3d games, and they all worked great as well. Furthermore, I even tried to play some high-end emulators like PlayStation, 2 and game cube, and again it was just pure joy. Furthermore, I managed to get almost consistent, 60 frames per second and quick load times on PS2's god of war compared to just 30 frames per second on my one and a half year, older, Huawei P30 Pro. So, if you're into gaming, getting a snapdragon 865 devices is a great option playing some games on a screen with no bezels and with a good game controller is definitely great fun, no matter if you like to play online casually or enjoy high-end gaming to round off the specifications. Our model came with 6 gigabytes of memory and 128 gigabytes of storage, but there's also an 8 gigabyte ram and 256 gigabyte storage model as well.

Unfortunately, there's no memory card support so be mindful of that. If you want to store a lot of large games and videos on your device, you can check your phone's configuration using the beautifully presented and useful about phone screen, which nicely brings me to the software experience. Poco f2 pro runs Xiaomi's mini software. It was recently updated to the latest mini 12. , make sure you check our setup video.

The software is now more refined, especially when it comes to animations. My favorite feature is super wallpapers which currently include earth and Mars. If you always enable on display, you can see the globe which will then zoom in and show the animated wallpaper when you swipe left or right, the animations will move accordingly. Luckily they don't move all the time, so it doesn't cause any dizziness. This is different to live wallpapers which are actually live animations and are constantly moving.

To be honest, it's not really something for me, but I guess some people might like it. Overall I've been enjoying the software experience on the Poco f2 pro it is smooth and dynamic, and the Poco launcher is great. For me, I enabled the split notification bar with the control center, reminiscent of the user interface of a certain fruity company. After I got the update, and I've been quite happy with it, but it definitely required some getting used to. I really liked how customizable everything is, for example, in the app drawer, I'm used to having the letters on the side to quickly jump to the app I'm looking for, but it was not there to start with.

However, it turns out that it's easy to enable and works even better than I expected, as it temporarily highlights all the apps starting with the letter. The addition of search bar, frequently used apps and app categories to decide, makes finding apps a breeze. You can even reorder those categories or disable some of them. That's really great. When it comes to downsides, as mentioned in the setup video, there are quite a lot of pre-installed applications and games.

Luckily, it's possible to uninstall most of the apps and games from here. So it's not a big problem. There's also some advertising within software, including promoted apps in some folders. Luckily, you don't have to use those folders and can create your own ones. So that's not an issue either.

You can also disable most of the ads. The one I removed was the security app after installing apps from the Google Play Store, there's a security check for the app and an ad pops up, but it's possible to remove it easily, so it hasn't been a problem for me. As I was writing this section. I got a software update of the July 2020 security update and some fixes, including screen responsiveness when unlocking. I hope this helps with the fingerprint scanner which brings me to the next point: security when it comes to security.

There are plenty of options. My usual favorite is the fingerprint scanner which I've been using the most. Unfortunately, the under screen reader on the Poco f2 pro is not the best. I've used it's a bit slower than I'm used to, and I've had times when my fingerprint wouldn't get recognized even after a few attempts. However, the animation is great, and the haptic feedback is good.

So it's just that. It's not always recognizing my fingerprint fast enough. The other option, other than patterns and passcodes, is face unlock, which uses the pop-up selfie camera of the Poco f2 pro it's actually fast and handy, but it requires an extra swipe to unlock, and it takes a moment to happen. But it's definitely a nice party trick and the LED lights by the selfie camera are just mesmerizing, which brings us to my favorite section cameras. The Poco f2 pro has quite the robust quad camera setup, consisting of a 64, megapixel, f, 1.9, main sensor, 13 megapixels, ultra-wide lens 5, megapixel, telemark lens and the 2 megapixel depth sensor for portrait shots and overall it does a good job to deliver nice photos, but not in all situations. The main list delivered some really nice pictures and my favorite ones were the portrait photos.

The wide-angle lens was excellent, both for nature and architecture. Unfortunately, the 2x button in the camera app doesn't use a telephoto lens since there isn't one but digitally zooms into the main photo lens. I'd prefer a zoom lens, rather than the included macro lens, which produced nice photos, but I use it very rarely. Overall, most photos came out great, but some of them were over saturated or missed focus, so we need to be careful. The night mode was also good in most cases, but due to both not having the largest aperture and not the most refined processing, don't expect them to be the best in class.

I'm very happy about the video quality, including image stabilization with both the main lens and the wide angle lens. Thanks to the snapdragon 865 chipsets, you also get 4k 60 frames per second recording lots of slow motion modes as well as 8k, but it's a bit of a gimmick. For now the pop-up selfie camera is quite good for both photo and video. No complaints from me here. The battery life on the Poco f2 pro has been fantastic.

The device is powered by a huge 4700 William hour battery, and it easily lasts the full day of heavy usage. I've had more than 7 hours of on-screen time and that's really impressive. The phone comes with a 30 watt, fast charger, which should charge your phone in just an hour in my testing. It wasn't as fast, unfortunately, but I got from 5 to 25 in 13 minutes and to fall in 1 hour, 45 minutes, which is still good for such a big battery. Unfortunately, there's no wireless charging, which is quite unfortunate, but was needed to keep the price lower.

As far as connectivity is concerned, the phone actually supports 5g, which is the first for me recently. The three network enabled the tower here in Edinburgh. Also, thanks to our chief mobile opinion, is Mateo who requested it for our phone tests. Thanks for that on our walk, we got amazing download speeds of more than 600 megabits per second, which is almost twice the fastest broadband I was able to get. This is just crazy.

One thing to note the connection was appearing as either LTE or 4g, plus rather than 5g, while Matteo's OnePlus word was showing up as 5g, but the speeds were very similar either way more than half a gigabit per second is crazy fast. So I'm looking forward to seeing it available in more places than just near that one tower in Edinburgh other than that you get all the latest connectivity options like Bluetooth 5.1, so you can connect all of your favorite devices as well as Wi-Fi 6 and NFC for payments, which are all great to see. It also supports dual sim. If that's something you need, the other thing worth mentioning is audio quality. Unfortunately, the phone only comes with a single down facing speaker, which is of decent quality, but the stereo set would be much appreciated on the positive side, the phone sports, a 3.5, millimeter carriage port or headphone jack, so I'm able to rock the Sony xm4 headphones, both wirelessly or with a wire. This should help when we're back traveling.

In case I run out of headphone battery. Overall I've really been enjoying using Poco f2 pro so far, it's a great device with excellent performance and smooth software experience and the price much lower than most flagship devices. I got my 6 gigabyte version from bang good for 380 pounds shipped from Spain, but the price is actually going further down and can be found unlocked for around 350 pounds, which is amazing. Granted the camera setup could be better if there was a proper telephoto lens. The waterproofing and wireless charging are missing and some might want faster screen refresh rates, but I found those missing features reasonable and have been really happy with my purchase.

I'll definitely continue using this phone if only to play some games with the highest performance available. Thanks for watching this detailed tech travel, geeks review of the Xiaomi Poco f2 pro. If you enjoyed this video, make sure you leave us a like and a comment and subscribe to our channel for more videos. Like this see you in our next video.

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