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Xiaomi subsidiary Poco has unveiled the Poco F2 Pro, a successor to the popular Pocophone F1 from 2018. The device with pop-up camera is available immediately for 499 to 599 euros and has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 on board.
As mentioned in rumors, the phone is largely one rebrand of the Redmi K30 Pro, from parent company Xiaomi. The Snapdragon 865 has 6GB ‘to lpddr5’ ram on board in the version of 499 euros and that is 8GB in that of 599 euros. In addition, the storage memory is 128GB and 256GB ‘to ufs 3.1’ respectively. That ‘to’ suggests that the cheaper variant has lpddr4 and ufs 3.0 on board. The presentation live stream did not mention the possibility to expand with an SD card, which was possible with predecessor Pocophone F1. The chipset also supports 5g, WiFi 6, also known as 802.11ax, and ‘super bluetooth’, that Reportedly has a range of up to four hundred meters.
The device is powered by a 4700mAh battery, 700mAh more than its predecessor. Charging is done with the included 30W charger, which according to Poco goes from zero percent to 100 percent in 63 minutes.
The display is a 6.67 “HDR10 + amoled with fHD + resolution, or 1080 by 2400 pixels. That equates to a pixel density of 394.57ppi. The refresh rate was not mentioned, so it is probably 60Hz. touch polling rate 180Hz, the contrast up to 5,000,000: 1 and the brightness up to 1200cd / m². The phone has ‘360-degree light sensors’ that should improve automatic brightness adjustment. The screen is uninterrupted by the front camera, because that is one of the pop-up types. The screen-to-body ratio is 92.7 percent.
Poco further states that the phone must remain cooler than competitors such as the OnePlus 8 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S10 thanks to an extra large vapor chamber, which can dissipate heat from the heat sources in any direction.
The fingerprint scanner is under the display, there is a 3.5mm jack connection, both the front and back are from Gorilla Glass 5, the rear camera shoots up to 8k video and the front camera has a 20-megapixel sensor. This time there is an NFC chip and the phone also has an IR blaster.
This isn’t the only Poco news since the release of the Pocophone F1. Earlier, the Poco X2 announced, but that was a Redmi K30 under a different name and exclusive to India. There will also be a midrange model called the Poco M2 Pro.
The Poco F2 Pro is directly available through Gearbest and Aliexpress, according to Poco. Poco.net, Amazon and other points of sale will also offer the device at a later date. The colors are white, gray, blue and purple.
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