It's time to retire my Poco x3 pro. It's battery is dead again and I am tired of getting replacement battery. And honestly, the amount I spent on replacing the battery is almost the cost of the phone itself.
Packaging and Design
I do love the design of the packaging. Very simple, but elegant. In the box, it comes with the phone, a 90W charging brick and a USB type C cable. Oh, and also a SIM card ejection pin.
I think the phone design is a huge jump from the x3 pro. The rim is metal and the back feels like a combination of glossy glass an matte. When I picked it up, I can feel it's quality and it feels more premium than the x3 pro.
The SIM tray is at the bottom along side the charging port and speaker. The camera bump is kinda meh... but ok, I can get pass it.
Transferring Data and Fingerprint Unlock
Setting up and transferring data from another phone is easy. However do not that those Apps that you sideloaded will highly not be transferred over. For one, my Notes didn't get transferred over.
I love it that the F7 uses in-display fingerprint sensors and it's fast as hell! And even when I just contact the sensor with my thumb slightly titled.
Display
I find the screen being bright and sharp. It's very comfortable to use in indoors situation. I do see great improvements over the x3 pro. Not that the x3 pro is bad but the F7 pro brightness and sharpness is definitely more.
While using outdoors, especially under sunlight, it's still visible with a 70ish% brightness. But of course I didn't test it under the strongest sunlight.
HyperOS and Ads
Having tried both MIUI and HyperOS, I actually find HyperOS faster and not that "heavy" so booting up is faster. However, it's still as "heavy" in the sense it took up 10.13GB and another 23.80GB of system files.
The only problem I have with HyperOS is that it locks the phone and no longer allow custom roms or reverting to stock OS.
Ads are still here and there but honestly not overwhelming. Some Ads, I can just "skip" it by exiting the App because it comes at the end of the process. Also, yes there are preinstalled Apps that you have to manually remove.
They\re mainly some casual games and shopping Apps like Lazada.
Camera
Wide (main): 50MP OmniVision OVX8000 (likely same as OV50E, 1/1.55", 1.0µm - 2.0µm), f/1.6, 24mm, multi-directional PDAF; 8K@24fps, 4K@60fps
Ultrawide: 8MP OmniVision OV08D (1/4.0", 1.12µm), f/2.2, 15mm, fixed focus; FullHD@60fps
Front camera: 20MP OmniVision OV20B (1/4.0", 0.7µm-1.4µm), f/2.2, 21mm, fixed focus; FullHD@60fps
Honestly, I don't know what these statistic means. But I can share what I feel. I don't think I really like the camera at least in darker situation. I feel the blur around the main subject feels a little unnatural.
Photos taken with 0.6x, 1x and 2x in a semi dark room.
The selfie camera is much sharper than I expected. Especially when compared to the x3 pro. But it's nothing impressive too.
In situation whereby it's bright and lights are ample, photos turns out quite well.
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Gaming
I only play games that aren't very demanding, I mainly play Kairosoft games and NDS and PSP games on emulation.
I have no problem at all playing for more than a few hours consecutively. The phone does gets warm to touch but it didn't lag much.
The thing I notice that has improve from the x3 pro is that Kairosoft games, which usually drains battery and heats phone up pretty fast, didn't get the F7 pro too hot. Battery drop is also not that drastic.
Of ocurse, I must be fair that F7 pro have much more ram (12GB) that the x3 pro (6GB) that I own.
I actually also took a short 2 minute screen recording while play games on emulation and I don't feel any lag at all. No crazy temperature too, just warm to touch.
Battery
The F7 pro comes with massive 6000mAh (typ) battery which promises 15 hours of Continuous use. I honestly am quite confident that it will live up to it's promise if you're not gaming/video surfing heavily.
I have the phone charged to 100% and used it for light gaming for at least 2 hours and some light video surfing and still have 70% after 5 hours. I used it sparingly and then left it idle till next day noon and it still have 30%.
I am glad emulation doesn't drain battery as much as the x3 pro. But to be fair, the x3 pro is much older and the battery is an OEM. I will definitely come back here to update how the battery is after using for longer time.
Overall, I am happy with my F7 pro. It's definitely an upgrade from my x3 pro in many ways. The screen is brighter and sharper, it runs game with less heat and lags.
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Cons
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| + Fast charging | | - HyperOS not allowing custom roms |
| + Great for emulation and games that I play | | - camera design kinda ugly |
| + 6000mAh battery | | - Ads (unless toggle off) |
| + Hi res certified stereo speakers | |
| - Unwanted apps preinstalled |
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+ Cheap (relatively)
+ in display fingerprint that is responsive | |
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+ feels premium
+ bright and sharp display | |
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This is 2.4x zoom
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