Xiaomi Poco Phone - Most Affordable phone with Snapdragon 845 !!

PocoPhone - Xiaomi's Sub-brand made a Revolution !!

Poco F1 - Most Affordable smartphone with Snapdragon 845 !!

When xiaomi first launched in India back in 2014, with the launch of their first smartphone Mi 3 in India, it did not grabbed much eyeballs, because xiaomi back then was not so popular among Indians and did not sold in that much numbers, but xiaomi improved with time and solved the issues with their phones and it was xiaomi back in form with the launch of their Redmi Note series phone which was a great value for money phone with best specs on the market. And it got the attention, it reserved.

So, xiaomi redmi note series had a major role play in xiaomi's success in India and with time it had captured 23% market share and grown so much in three years that no other company could and even dislodged samsung from India's no.1 brand at a time.

Now talking about the present, xiaomi being in such a good position in India. xiaomi still doesn't launch many of its product in India but mainly where xiaomi skipped was that xiaomi stopped bringing its flagship smartphone in India after Xiaomi Mi 5 since it did not performed that well in India and mainly due to strong competition from One Plus. According to reports, Xiaomi is surprisingly launching its latest flagship in India Xiaomi Mi 8 and it's surprising because Xiaomi is also launching Poco in India. I don't know what xiaomi's about to do.

But let's talk about Pocophone for now and Xiaomi launched pocophone on 22nd of Auguust,2018 in New Delhi, India and as first of all let's talk about its price and its variants.

Pricing and Variants -

6GB RAM + 64GB variant for Rs.20,999/-
6GB RAM + 128GB variant for Rs.23,999/-
8GB RAM + 128GB variant for Rs.28,999/- [ Armoured Edition ]

Xiaomi has launched special edition of its Pocophone F1 called the Armoured Edition which basically have Kevlar back and xiaomi says it has used real kevlar on its phone. So,quite frankly special edition is a good addition but does not provide the same value for money as the other two variants provide.

Specifications -

 Xiaomi Pocophone F1 comes with a 6.18 inch FullHD+ display and has an aspect ratio of 18.7:9. It also comes with android Oreo but comes with the xiaomi's fancy skin UI i.e. MIUI 9.0 which is a bit refreshed than before. Now, it is powered by the Qualcomm's flagship smartphone chip Snapdragon 845 and has various RAM options. It also has liquid cool technology which is just like samsung uses on its flagship phones.

Camera and features -

 Talking about the camera, it has a dual lens setup on the back which has a 12- megapixel primary sensor and has a secondary lens which is 5-megapixel depth sensor, along with a dual-LED flash.
On the front, it has a 20-megapixel camera with a notch on the top and a chin at the bottom.It packs in a massive 4000Mah battery which is powerful enough to handle the phone all day long.
Other features include fingerprint sensor with face unlock and Pocophone F1 uses infrared sensors for face unlock which is something similar to samsung's iris unlock but not as adavanced as iphone's 3d face recognition technology which is very sophisticated. It also comes with a heasdphone jack,dual 4G VoLte support and with all the bells and whistles of 2018.

Competiton -

Now where things get interesting is that now there will be a stiff competition between the Asus Zenfone 5z, Honor Play and Xiaomi Pocophone f1 as all these phones come with the qualcom's flagship smartphone chip and are launched in similar price ranges between Rs.20,000/- to Rs.30,000/-
But, overall currently Pocophone F1 seems to be the winner between these three as it is a wholesome package for performance,battery life and display and the most important factor that it is value for money so, it is quite a phone made for Indians and I think India was the perfect place for Xiaomi's Pocophone global launch as Pocophone F1 is worth every single penny.