Last week, Xiaomi’s sub-brand POCO unveiled its initially cameraphone in the Indian market — POCO F1, which is touted to be the cheapest Snapdragon 845-powered phone. Presently, the company, what is called Pocophone globally, has launched the Pocophone F1 in Indonesia and Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong, only the 6GB RAM and 128 internal memory version have been unveiled, for a value of HK$2,799, which roughly converts to $357. It’ll be in the world for get in Hong Kong in 30th August through Xiaomi’s Offline Stores and Xiaomi Online Store.
On the most hand, in Indonesia, the manufacturer 6GB RAM + 64GB storage model is valued at Rp 4,499,000 (approximately $307) whereas the 6GB RAM and 128GB memory model costs Rp 4,999,000 (approximately $342). The company has Furthermore launched the Armored Edition which packs 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, for Rp 5,199,000, roughly $355. It’ll be out there for get through Lazada and Mi Store.
The Pocophone F1 flaunts a 6.18-inch Full HD+ IPS LCD panel with 2246 x 1080 pixels panel resolution and 18.7:9 aspect ratio. The panel offers up to 500-nits brightness and a high contrast ratio of 1500:1. On top, the display is protected from scratches by a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass.
The cameraphone is powered by Qualcomm‘s flagship Sd 845 processor and ships with LiquidCool tech. The company says that it determined to place a copper heat sink over the chipset which helps in dissipating the heat generated by it, allowing the phone to transfer heat at a faster rate of 300 percent. At the launch occasion in New Delhi, India, the manufacturer has said that the telephone recorded an incredibile AnTuTu benchmarking score of 291,302.
Approaching to the camera department, the smartphone arrives with a 12-megapixel Sony IMX363 camera sensor with a massive pixel dimensions of 1.4micron coupled with a 5-megapixel secondary digital camera on the back show. It is equipped with features like Dual Pixel Autofocus, real-time AI photography and dual-LED flash. On the front side, there’s a 20-megapixel selfie sensor powered with AI for capturing enhanced selfie pictures.
It runs on a changed MIUI, based on MIUI 9.6 with the fresh POCO Launcher on top. It is made up of a large amount of customizations this sort of as an app drawer that easily categories programs for easier access and it moreover carries support for icon packs. The customized MIUI that is based on Android 8.1 Oreo has been optimized to launch popular apps quickly, simply run apps in the foreground and offer fluid gesture-based navigation.
There’s an IR camera that allows Face Unlock feature. The Pocophone F1 is powered by a 4,000mAh battery that moreover carries support for Fast Charge 3.0 quick charging tech. According to the manufacturer, it offers 8 hours of gaming, about 6 hrs of Full-HD video playback, nearly 31 hrs of speak period and standby time of 15 days.
Even though Indonesia and Hong Kong gets only the 6GB RAM variant, the Poco F1 moreover has an 8GB RAM and 256GB storage model in India. The Armored Edition of Poco F1 in India also carries 8GB RAM.