POCO F2 Pro, Bargain Flagship Killer
May 13, 2020
Xiaomi’s flagship killer, the Pocophone, is now its own brand. Named POCO, the newly minted sub-brand of the Chinese smartphone maker, has just released its new budget king, the F2 Pro. Sporting an all-screen display and a tastefully designed rear panel, the phone boasts flagship specifications.
At its heart, sits Qualcomm’s most powerful chip yet, the Snapdragon 865 5G coupled with a Kryo 585 CPU and Adreno 650 GPU. The combination is said to offer 25% better performance than the previous generation. And is paired with either 6GB or 8GB RAM.
The company says that it has fitted the phone with the most advanced cooling system available on mobile platforms. And its vapor chamber consists of stacks of Graphene and Graphite. This solution will help keep the hardware cool under sustained loads, at least that’s what POCO claims.
The screen is a 6.67-inch AMOLED panel coated in Gorilla Glass 5 and supports an in-screen fingerprint scanner. The absence of a hole punch camera on the display can only mean one thing, the F2 Pro has a top mounted 20MP pop-camera. on the back panel, its quad camera setup is arranged in a butterfly-like configuration.
The main unit, is a 64MP Sony IMX686 sensor , then there’s the 13MP 123-degree ultra wide-angle lens, 5MP macro and 2MP depth sensor. Xiaomi says that the setup is capable of shooting 8K video at 24fps and 4K video at 60fps.
POCO’s F2 Pro also gets a 4,700mAh battery, which should offer decent screen-on time. The phone supports 30W fast-charging, allowing it charge to 64% in 30 minutes and to 100% in 63 minutes. A 33W charger is supplied with the F2 Pro.
Available to purchase today, the POCO F2 Pro, is priced at EURO 499 for 6GB+128GB variant. The 8GB+256GB variant starts at EURO 599.
