Pocophone F1 - The new flagship killer?

Have dual sim in my op3 and if you travel especially to the US it's fantastic have data sim in one and text and calls through my Irish one.
When at home use my main eir one and have a payg from 3 in the other mainly for backup or to use the 3 plus app

The Soup Thief wrote: »

Certainly not a negative. If you don't wanna use it, don't use it.

My phone arrived!
w00t!
Just getting my head round it - MIUI is a bit odd. Love the speed. Nice display. Solid build. Don't really like the fact that I got an international charger and an adaptor, but that's fairly peripheral. Will report back later...

Was that taken with the Poco...?

MOH wrote: »

Was that taken with the Poco...?

No, with my crappy Moto g5

7s52ot9fg4eqvr wrote: »

My experience of eGlobal. I ordered phone on 22 August and still waiting. No updates on delivery. I have been told today delivery will be updated in 48 to 72 hours. I'll keep you posted.

Guessing you know the tracking information all comes from a link in the shipping email - they don't send out further emails.

For info, what model did you order?

7s52ot9fg4eqvr wrote: »

Yes, I ordered the xiaomi max3. After a week or so, I queried what was happening, and was told it was not in stock, but on the way. Surely I should have been told this when ordering? You can't beat Amazon, no messing.

Bummer :-(
Hope it turns up soon

7s52ot9fg4eqvr wrote: »

Thanks.

You could cancel and go with Tradingshenzhen, they're the only ones who didnt mess me around when I was trying to get it right after launch (Mi Max 3 6GB/128GB), literally all the other vendors including the semi-official Mi Global Store on Alliexpress were just lying trying to get your money then stringing you along for weeks ignoring your messages. TS were honest about when they'd get stock and would reply within minutes, you can chat to them on Whatsapp. Phone shipped exactly when they said it would and it was unlocked with the .EU rom installed when it arrived instead of that horrible fake Global ROM.

A few points on the Pocophone F1
It is a beast - really, really quick. UI is very responsive. Had a quick game of PUBG earlier on and was stunned - I scarcely recognised it after playing it only on my g5
Miui will take a lot of getting used to. Everything feels in the wrong place, though I'm already liking the swipe input paradigm and particularly the recent app switcher
Camera is fast - need to give it a good workout tomorrow
I like the screen. Notch is odd, but it is turnoffandonnable.
Hardware feels nice.
I need a screen protector.

I'll add more

Standard Toaster wrote: »

^^Nice. Will you let us know if you experience any multitouch or LED bleeding issues.

Does it run very hot playing pubg? (I'm wondering if the liquid cooling is effective or a gimmick)

I'm waiting on the MI 8 to get stocked but with one eye on the Poco

No light bleed
I demonstrated 10 point multitouch, then ran out of fingers
Haven't had much time tonight for PUBG, but it didn't warm up while running antutu
I've to wait till the weekend to unlock the bootloader - seems a trivial process though

corks finest wrote: »

Nice handle,soup thief obviously from the best comedy series ever Seinfeld?

Sorry, never really watched Seinfeld. I just can't really be trusted near the kids' soup.

Mister Gooey wrote:

It was The Soup Nazi in Seinfeld. A fantastic episode.

No soup for you !!!!

Busy day today looking after the kids so I didn't get to meddle with my new phone as much as I'd have liked!
Took a few photos at the playground - camera is super quick. I've only seen the pics on the phone screen, so I can't judge too fairly, but I'm just looking back over a few snaps in good light (albeit on a dull day) - I'm used to crappy phone cameras, to my eye these are outstanding! Really sharp, lovely bright colours. I thought the lack of OIS was going to be an issue, and I guess I wasn't moving about much, but they are fab. When you turn on the AI & things like depth effects you get some really subtle bokeh and other tweaks - not as heavy handed as I'd anticipated. A couple indoors this morning were good, but not as striking. A few I took last night in very dim light were ok, but I can't imagine any phone could have performed well under those circumstances. Default camera set up puts a crappy Pocophone watermark on pics - easy to get rid of in settings.

There are loads of camera options to explore, but I've held off taking too many since it turns out I'll lose them all in a couple of days. I looked into unlocking the bootloader / rooting etc. Straightforward enough but you have to wait 72 hours from first registering, meaning I'll be wiping everything on Sunday morning.

Slight nuisance, for the current version of miui, the fancy schmancy ir face scanning (and another feature that escapes me right now) only work if you set the region to India! Do that and face scanning works beautifully, but you have to deal with getting served Indian versions of websites, which is weird.
Anyway, there's an imminent update that should fix it, but it concerns me a bit that this clearly suggests it's dependent on the Pocophone version of miui, so I will likely lose face unlock if I install lineage or an aosp ROM.

Swipe gestures are mostly nice, though when something activates cos you reached the side of the screen, well, that's a pain (used to happen with PIE & edge detection stuff on AOKP and Paranoid Android).

Battery life is good. Will let you know if anything odd occurs.