It’s just one week until Black Friday proper, but the deals are already flying in. The latest discount is for U.K. bargain hunters who can now pick up Xiaomi’s Pocophone F1 for a reduced price. Fresh off its official launch in the U.K. (which didn’t exactly go fully to plan), Xiaomi has knocked 50 pounds […]
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UK residents can now buy Xiaomi’s Pocophone F1 through Amazon UK
The Pocophone F1 is now available through Amazon U.K. U.K. residents can pick up the Pocophone F1 with either 64GB or 128GB of storage. The version with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage is not available. As fantastic of a value that Xiaomi’s Pocophone F1 is, its availability continues to limit its viability as […]
Read MoreXiaomi Poco F1 review: Mucho phone for un poco price
Article Contents In the smartphone world, Xiaomi is the epitome of value for money. Now ranked fourth worldwide, it sells nearly one of every ten smartphones. But when companies start operating at such a large scale, the start-up mentality takes a backseat to more important considerations, and innovation can be stifled. Oppo circumvented it with […]
Read MoreThe joys, disappointments, and sorrows of using MIUI on the Poco F1 (updated)
Article Contents We don’t often discuss Xiaomi’s software layer here on Android Police, but it isn’t for lack of desire to. Most of our team lives in the US where Xiaomi doesn’t officially operate and, even if we were to import units there, they wouldn’t be compatible with most carriers’ LTE bands. I’m based in […]
Read MoreThe joys, disappointments, and sorrows of using MIUI on the Poco F1
Article Contents We don’t often discuss Xiaomi’s software layer here on Android Police, but it isn’t for lack of desire to. Most of our team lives in the US where Xiaomi doesn’t officially operate and, even if we were to import units there, they wouldn’t be compatible with most carriers’ LTE bands. I’m based in […]
Read MoreXiaomi hijacks OnePlus 6T launch with calculator giveaway: guess why
Xiaomi reportedly gave out calculators to people at the OnePlus 6T launch in India yesterday. This allowed those at the event to work out how much cheaper the Pocophone F1 is. As usual with this type of campaign, it ignored a lot of important details. Xiaomi reportedly got up to a bit of mischief at […]
Read MoreYes, the Pocophone F1 will get updated to Android Q as well
A Pocophone official has confirmed that the Pocophone F1 will be updated to Android Q. The official’s tweet suggests the phone might get updates beyond Android Q as well. The Pocophone F1 team has been hard at work fixing bugs and adding requested features. The Pocophone F1 might be the best value for money smartphone […]
Read MoreXiaomi’s most exciting phone of 2018, the Pocophone F1, is up for pre-order in the US
B&H B&H has made the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 available for pre-order in the U.S. The low-cost, high-power smartphone went on sale in other territories in September. It starts at $369.99, but you’ll miss out on LTE frequency bands on the U.S. model. The Xiaomi Pocophone F1 arrived earlier in September and it was a pleasant surprise. […]
Read MorePoco Launcher out of beta, try it out on your non-Pocophone now
The launcher included with the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 is now available as a stable release. You can download the Poco Launcher from the Google Play Store and use it on any compatible Android device. The Poco Launcher is unexpectedly popular, with 500,000 installs even before it went stable. The Xiaomi Pocophone F1 surprised us all […]
Read MorePoco Launcher for Pocophone F1 finally gets stable release
Xiaomi’s Pocophone F1 has become a popular point of comparison in the Android flagship space, but no less popular is the Poco Launcher, with nearly half a million installs via the early access program on the Play Store, plus an extra third of a million via APK Mirror. Well, it looks like the Poco Launcher […]
Read MoreNokia 7.1 vs the competition
[embedded content] HMD Global’s Nokia 7.1 has just arrived to tempt us with another compelling affordable smartphone option. It’s been a pretty great year for more affordable markets, so the Nokia 7.1 has some real competition. Does it stand out? Performance and camera optics are the name of the game here, so let’s stack this […]
Read MorePocophone F1 international giveaway!
Welcome to the Sunday giveaway, the place where we giveaway a new Android phone each and every Sunday. A big congratulations to the winner of last week’s Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus giveaway: Eliyahu W. from the U.S.A.! This week we are giving away a brand new Pocophone F1, courtesy of the AA Deals Store! The Adobe Creative Cloud is the gold standard […]
Read MorePocophone F1 vs OnePlus 6: Can Pocophone steal the crown?
[embedded content] We’ve done plenty of versus features in the past, but this one feels like a real grudge match: The Pocophone F1 vs. the OnePlus 6. This is such an epic showdown because in many ways Pocophone is positioned to steal a crown that’s belonged to OnePlus for a long time. OnePlus has always […]
Read MorePocophone F1 vs Honor Play: Inbetweeners
It’s a mid-range face-off: the Honor Play vs Pocophone F1! Both devices’ specs belie their relatively low prices, and both are awesome for gaming. Which is better? Let’s find out. The combatants The Pocophone F1 is one of the most disruptive phones in a long time. It doesn’t have any crazy new game-changing features, but […]
Read MoreNew MIUI 10 beta for Pocophone F1 fixes annoying “OK Google” flaw
A new Pocophone F1 MIUI 10 beta release just hit the Xiaomi MIUI forums. The release fixes two major errors: “OK Google” not working, as well as audio distortion via headphones while playing PUBG Mobile. The Pocophone F1 MIUI 10 build is based on Android 8.1 Oreo. Xiaomi’s Android skin known as MIUI isn’t the […]
Read MoreThis week in Android: The good, the bad, and the beauty of OnePlus
This was a big week in mobile, especially on the other side of the aisle. Apple had its annual smartphone launch event which revealed three new phones and a new watch. It must be nice to have a new watch coming out. Anyway… OnePlus brought us some tears of joy and frustration this week as […]
Read MorePocophone F1 durability test reveals lots of plastic but solid construction
When you buy a phone, you don’t want it to fall apart even if it’s a “budget” device. The Pocophone F1 costs a mere $300-ish and comes with top-of-the-line internals. Did Xiaomi cut some corners in the build to keep the price low? As usual, YouTube channel JerryRigEverything has sacrificed a phone to find out. Despite […]
Read MorePocophone F1 may be cheap, but it still aces JerryRigEverything’s durability tests
[embedded content] Popular phone durability testers JerryRigEverything have put the Pocophone F1 through the ringer. Despite the phone’s budget price tag it fares incredibly well, especially in the crucial bend test. Host Zack Nelson says the Pocophone F1 might be “one of the most structurally sound phones Xiaomi has ever made.” The professional phone breakers over […]
Read MoreOfficial: Pocophone F1 supports Quick Charge 4.0 and is splash resistant
The Poco India Twitter account has confirmed the Pocophone F1 is splash resistant and supports Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0. The timing of the announcements is a bit strange given Xiaomi revealed the phone three weeks ago. Poco Global’s head of product has also confirmed that Face Unlock will be rolled out in all regions in […]
Read MoreYou can buy the Pocophone F1 in the US, but you probably shouldn’t
Xiaomi is a huge smartphone maker in many parts of the world, but not in the US. When the company announced its Pocophone sub-brand, there was some hope it could come to American shores. That doesn’t appear to be the case, at least not officially. You can already purchase the Pocophone F1 from several US eBay […]
Read MorePocophone brings us the post-OnePlus era: Speed, value, and not much more
Pocophone feels like it’s the OnePlus 2.0. TwoPlus. NextPlus. OnePlusOne — whatever. Xiaomi’s new subsidiary is its attempt to upend the current established order of smartphones by copycatting OnePlus’s original approach. Until now, just about all phones with the latest flagship Snapdragon processor onboard have been high-end, beefy models trying to compete at the top […]
Read More[Update: Mate 20 Lite and Pocophone F1, too] ARCore adds support for Galaxy Note9 and Tab S4, Xperia XZ2 line, and Nokia 6.1 Plus
ARCore’s list of supported devices was just updated earlier this month, but with the introductions of so many new Android devices, a second revision for the month of August was required. Samsung’s latest and greatest, the Galaxy Note9 and Galaxy Tab S4, are present, as are all three members of the Xperia XZ2 line and […]
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