Introduction
Poco’s F-series gadgets have, for the previous few years, been its entrants into the ‘flagship killer’ realm, and lately the household has been break up into two – a extra inexpensive vanilla model and a Professional mannequin that’s the actual ‘flagship killer’ with a higher-end chipset.
That is nonetheless true this 12 months, however there’s an fascinating twist, which we have observed ever for the reason that Poco F5 and Poco F5 Professional have been introduced: you’re far more within the vanilla F5 than the F5 Professional, and we assume that is down to every system’s worth proposition. The F5 Professional’s is not unhealthy, do not get us unsuitable, however in comparison with previous F-series Pocos, it is not nice both.
However, the Poco F5, on paper, appears to tick lots of containers for lots of people, so we had been wanting to see the way it behaves in day-to-day life over an prolonged time period throughout which we have used it as our one and solely smartphone. Therefore, this long-term evaluate was born.
It is also necessary to notice proper off the bat that the Poco F5 is an identical to the Redmi Word 12 Turbo, and is offered below that identify in some markets. We gave up making an attempt to grasp Xiaomi’s naming and distribution shenanigans a very long time in the past, however we really feel like that is necessary data it is advisable to know going into this evaluate. For the needs of simplicity, we’ll confer with the telephone as Poco F5 since that is the shorter identify, however know that all the pieces we are saying about it applies to its twin as effectively.
With that out of the way in which, let’s additionally be aware that the F5 stands out as being the primary telephone powered by the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 SoC, one which, on paper, ought to ship many of the efficiency of an 8-series Snapdragon, with out the massive worth markup these entail today. Better of all worlds, then? We’ll see. It has been some time since what’s technically a mid-ranger acquired us this excited, delivering in concept such a effectively put collectively package deal for such a low worth – the latest Redmi Word non-Turbos have not, regardless that their predecessors just a few years in the past did.
So let’s soar proper into it and see how the Poco F5 / Redmi Word 12 Turbo fares in our intensive subjective testing. Be part of us over the following few pages and we’ll let you understand how pleased we have been with it.
