Poco F7 Ultra Review

6.67-inch OLED pinch QHD resolution

The Poco F7 Ultra's show is akin successful astir ways to nan 1 connected nan F6 Pro - it could very good beryllium nan nonstop aforesaid sheet pinch insignificant tweaks present aliases there. That intends a 6.67-inch sheet pinch 1,440x3,200px solution for a pixel density of 526ppi. It's an OLED portion pinch a 120Hz maximum refresh rate, up to 3,840Hz PWM dimming, 12-bit colour extent (68B colors), and Dolby Vision support - not bad, Poco, not bad.

The phone's property materials committedness up to 1,800nits of brightness successful precocious brightness mode and up to 3,200nits of momentary section peaks. Under our modular trial conditions, we sewage 1,506nits - plentifulness agleam and an betterment complete nan F6 Pro (yes, that's nan 1 evident tweak compared to nan aged model).

With nan adaptive brightness turned off, we were looking astatine 792nits erstwhile maxing retired nan slider pinch nan Sunlight mode enabled (594nits pinch it disabled). Excellent numbers crossed nan board.

Refresh rate

The mounting for refresh complaint successful nan paper is emblematic Xiaomi - there's a 'Default' (full auto) mode and 2 Custom modes (120Hz and 60Hz ceilings). Since it's not an LTPO panel, there's not a full batch of adaptiveness to nan behaviour either measurement - successful Default and Custom 120Hz modes you tin count connected it to move down to 60Hz erstwhile idling to sphere battery, but that's astir it. We ne'er saw a 90Hz mode successful action and we didn't get thing beneath 60Hz.

There's a mini but perchance important quality betwixt nan car and 120Hz modes successful that nan 120Hz mode allows you to group per-app refresh complaint values. You can, hence, effort to unit immoderate apps and games to usage precocious refresh rates aliases alternatively limit others astatine 60Hz to prevention power. When it comes to games, we had a comparatively hiccup-free tally pinch our accustomed action of titles - nan telephone maintained a 120Hz refresh complaint and nan in-house gaming inferior reported fps numbers good supra nan 60fps mark.

Streaming and HDR

The F7 Ultra supports each awesome HDR standards, including HDR10+ and, much importantly, Dolby Vision. YouTube served our Poco HDR content, arsenic did Netflix, which reported HDR10 and Dolby Vision compliance. The Widevine L1 certification ensures high-res video playback of DRM-protected content.

Xiaomis thin to beryllium beautiful coagulated astatine implementing nan Android Ultra HDR modular for photos. The Poco F7 Ultra besides plays nicely pinch compliant metadata-enhanced images successful Google Photos, Chrome, and nan in-house gallery, delivering nan characteristic section item boost that nan OLED tech brings.

Poco says nan F7 Ultra has a VisionBoost D7 Chipset - a dedicated portion of hardware that's meant to amended visuals successful gaming and video playback. It mostly useful nether nan hood (in nan consciousness that it's not abundantly clear what and erstwhile it does), though there's a toggle successful nan show settings for nan video enhancement functionality, called Dual-core visuals.

Poco F7 Ultra artillery life

The Poco F7 Ultra uses a 5,300mAh artillery - you tin position that arsenic an upgrade complete nan F6 Pro's 5,000mAh capacity if that's really you position nan lineup's progression. 5,300mAh isn't a lot these days - it's much than a fewer imaginable competitors but others battalion 6,000mAh cells - truthful let's telephone it mean successful position of capacity.

The Poco does a reasonably businesslike occupation of converting this artillery capacity into existent use. The web browsing and video playback times are solid, nan sound telephone consequence is very good, and it's only successful gaming that's a spot down nan curve.

Our caller Active Use Score is an estimate of really agelong nan artillery will past if you usage nan instrumentality pinch a operation of each 4 trial activities. You tin set nan calculation based connected your usage shape utilizing nan sliders below. You tin publication astir our existent artillery life testing process here. For a broad database of each tested devices truthful far, head this way.

Charging speed

The Poco F7 Ultra is specced to support 120W charging utilizing Xiaomi's proprietary adapters. Our portion arrived pinch 1 wrong nan box, but you should cognize not to expect to spot 1 successful your package if you're shopping successful nan EU.

Using that 120W adapter, we clocked a afloat complaint from level astatine 30 minutes, pinch nan artillery parameter showing 60% astatine nan 15-minute mark. It's ever truthful somewhat slower than nan F6 Pro's result, but still a coagulated showing. We had a 90W Xiaomi adapter to effort connected nan F7 Ultra arsenic well, and that was only marginally slower successful our testing truthful you'd beryllium good getting that adapter excessively if it's cheaper aliases easier to find.

Without going into very extended testing, we besides tried our luck pinch a third-party 100W Power Delivery adapter (PPS support up to 80W - 16V/5A). That took 57 minutes to get nan telephone to 100% (59% astatine nan half-hour cheque point). Do cognize that your mileage will alteration depending connected nan nonstop PPS profiles your charger supports.

The Poco F7 Uklra besides supports wireless charging - only nan 2nd telephone from nan marque to person that aft nan F5 Pro from 2023. And it's not conscionable immoderate wireless charging, either - it could spell arsenic precocious arsenic 50W (with proprietary peripherals, of course). There's nary mention of Qi 2 support successful nan property materials truthful don't expect magnetic attachment aliases alignment.

The accustomed Hyper OS provisions for extending nan lifespan of nan artillery are disposable successful settings. You tin limit nan accelerated charging, you tin alteration Smart charging (the telephone charges up to 80% and past waits for nan last top-off conscionable earlier you typically usage it, based connected your usage patterns), aliases you tin conscionable group a difficult headdress connected things astatine 80% successful each situations by enabling nan Battery protection toggle.

Speaker test

The F7 Ultra has a stereo speaker setup of nan accustomed benignant - 1 bottom-firing portion and an earpiece that's besides a speaker. Somewhat extracurricular nan Xiaomi norm is nan strict transmission separation - each speaker only plays its ain track, without an attenuated type of nan other track. We don't needfully find 1 attack amended than nan different - it's conscionable an observation.

Bottom speaker • Top speaker/Earpiece

In our testing, nan F7 Ultra earned a 'Very Good' standing for loudness - fundamentally connected nan aforesaid level arsenic nan competition. It's not nan bassiest of nan bunch, but it's sewage decent lows still, positive immoderate of nan slightest in-your-face mids - we'd telephone it very nicely balanced, if that hadn't almost wholly been stripped of meaning.

Use nan Playback controls to perceive to nan telephone sample recordings (best usage headphones). We measurement nan mean loudness of nan speakers successful LUFS. A little absolute worth intends a louder sound. A look astatine nan wave consequence floor plan will show you really acold disconnected nan perfect "0db" level statement is nan reproduction of nan bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You tin adhd much phones to comparison really they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable pinch our older loudspeaker test. Learn much astir really we trial here.