Poco’s F7 Ultra Is A Midrange Phone With A Flagship Chip

Poco is releasing its first telephone pinch “Ultra” branding, and connected insubstantial it lives up to nan name. The F7 Ultra runs connected nan flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, and combines it pinch a triple rear camera setup, 120W wired charging, and IP68 protection from particulate and water. Despite those specs, it’s going connected waste successful nan UK for £649 (around $835), making it 1 of nan cheapest phones to usage Qualcomm’s apical tier chip.

Xiaomi sub-brand Poco has ever prioritized inexpensive handsets, but its F-series has been wherever it gets a small person to nan flagship space. The Snapdragon spot present is paired pinch up to 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, truthful capacity should beryllium excellent. Only nan Redmagic 10 Pro offers nan 8 Elite for little correct now, but its gamer artistic is little apt to person wide appeal. Xiaomi’s package acquisition is substantially smoother too, and its committedness of 4 Android updates compares beautiful favorably to Redmagic’s committedness to… one.

The F7 Ultra’s rear camera array includes a 50 megapixel main camera astatine a accelerated aperture of f/1.6, a 50MP 2.5x telephoto camera, and a 32MP ultrawide — positive different 32MP camera for selfies. I haven’t pushed nan camera hard, but nan fewer shots I person taken aren’t bad astatine all. There’s a small sound — worse if you push past nan telephoto’s optical zoom into integer territory — but there’s detail, decent move range, and true-to-life colors.

The 6.67-inch OLED show has a 1440p solution and max refresh complaint of 120Hz, and nan sizable 5,300mAh artillery is supported by some 120W wired charging and 50W wireless charging. An IP68 standing intends it should beryllium durable too, though nan sheet is protected by Poco’s ain Shield Glass, alternatively than nan amended known Corning Gorilla Glass.

True to shape for Poco, nan handset comes successful a alternatively eye-catching yellowish finish, though location is simply a achromatic exemplary if you’d for illustration thing subtler. Both versions characteristic glossy detailing astir nan camera, which I’m unexpectedly fond of. The extremity consequence is simply a telephone that looks and feels slick for a Poco, particularly since it’s slim astatine 8.39mm, though you tin show it isn’t 1 of nan (admittedly much expensive) flagships it’s emulating.

The F7 Ultra is joined by a £499 (around $645) F7 Pro. This looks beautiful similar, but uses nan older Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. One upside is simply a bigger 6,000mAh battery, but it has slower 90W charging, and nary wireless action astatine all. It besides gets a superior camera downgrade: nan main shooter is nan same, but it’s only accompanied by an 8MP ultrawide and a 20MP selfie camera, pinch nary telephoto astatine all. Both models are disposable now successful nan UK and Europe.