Early report of the Poco F2? Shurely shome mishtaike?

[thesoupthief]

Hiya, I just came across this story on GizChina
It purports to be a report of GeekBench data from a Pocophone F2, but with the specs being identical to those of the F1 (same SoC, same storage) isn't it more likely that this is an F1 where someone has modified the Build.prop?

 

[pingufanpoy]

Not even 1 year rip

 

[Langpang]

Might be the armoured edition of 6/64 gb ....!

 

[Shinichi Kudo]

I will be very pissed if Xiaomi makes my F1 obsolete in just a few months. ?

 

[thesoupthief]

Might be the armoured edition of 6/64 gb ....!

I wondered that too, but among the specs the phone reports is the model name "Poco F2" - presumably the Armoured edition wouldn't carry a different name?
I reckon it's a hoax, though time will tell

 

[thesoupthief]

I've read a couple of reports claiming that the F2 will indeed have the same SoC and memory options but will have improvements in screen and camera. Might be a tough sell, given that it would be up against the upcoming Lenovo budget flagship, with an SD 855, oled screen and in-display fingerprint sensor.
Further, the Lenovo won't be shackled with Miui

 

[abhinav quietly brilliant]

I will be very pissed if Xiaomi makes my F1 obsolete in just a few months. ?

One plus does it every 6 months

 

[ultramag69]

The screen is fine, camera good and does a decent job. It's the SoC and RAM that sold me this phone.
Just giving a better screen and camera will drop this phones worth to less than $200US phone for me.
I want the latest, not the outdated, let's not adopt Apples model...
If I can get it for a song even better, there is no brand loyalty anymore due to the OEM's not having any loyalty either.

 

[Shinichi Kudo]

One plus does it every 6 months

And that is why I didn't got for the OnePlus but the armored edition on Poco.

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I've read a couple of reports claiming that the F2 will indeed have the same SoC and memory options but will have improvements in screen and camera. Might be a tough sell, given that it would be up against the upcoming Lenovo budget flagship, with an SD 855, oled screen and in-display fingerprint sensor.
Further, the Lenovo won't be shackled with Miui

But trust me, ZUI is way worse than MiUI... except for the advertisements part...MiUI is a lot feature rich than ZUI and has lesser bugs... saying on the basis of my experience with my Z2 Plus.
People on the Amazon page are literally commenting to change rom immediately upon delivery!!! Say how bad is that? At least we can bear with MiUI and there are a lot of stuff we like, e.g. the theme engine, for which I have like MiUI ever since it's onset at the time for the first budget android device, my Galaxy Apollo.
You can like MiUI, but you won't at all like ZUI.

 

[w1040]

It pissed me off why would someone talk about poco f2 when poco f1 is barely 5 months old. Just stfu and enjoy the poco f1 at the moment.

 

[pingufanpoy]

before any of you guys think of jumping ship to lenovo because waaaoooooww 12 gb of raaaaammzzzz

1. They ignore customer complaints
2. Buggy software, you thought his was bad, well oh boy its like poco x10 google play music crashes every 5 minutes, on their DOLBY ATMOS phones.
3. Their flagships only get 1 bug filled major update
4. Be prepared for a nonexistant volte update and nerfed/disabled quickcharging.
5. crashes and be prepared for 0 support / 0 fixes / all troubleshooting by customers

they cut alot of their r/d department and software department, because of their phone sales took a 70% dive last year
just advice STAY THE F AWAY from LENOVO fellow indian readers and others alike.

at least xiaomi responds to customers, you would be lucky to have even 1 partially working custom rom because they close source everything, never use dual pixel cameras, have no ois.

 

[thesoupthief]

It pissed me off why would someone talk about poco f2 when poco f1 is barely 5 months old. Just stfu and enjoy the poco f1 at the moment.

That's a slightly odd response to a sketchy sounding news report, but, hey-ho. Remember that the likes of OnePlus release two flagships each year.

@pingufanpoy - yeah, Lenovo are pretty terrible wrt updates. I had a Moto g5, from Lenovo; fairly nice hardware but rotten update schedule. The Lenovo P2 was very well received - great hardware at a good price point - though again poor aftersales support.
Having said all that, the reported new Lenovo hardware sounds very attractive; notably its sd855 will be 5G capable, if that's of interest. Sounds like competition is heating up in this segment which can only be good news

 

[Al3xxxinho]

I used to have a ZUK phone and the updates were non existent. I woldn't buy a Lenovo again.

 

[SpawnX1200]

About to buy the Xiaomi Pocophone F1, but I've got wind that there might be the Pocophone F2 that's not very far down the line now. So does it have any real grounds or should I just forget it and go for the Pocophone or is there any better alternative?!

 

[AntwnhsAnt]

About to buy the Xiaomi Pocophone F1, but I've got wind that there might be the Pocophone F2 that's not very far down the line now. So does it have any real grounds or should I just forget it and go for the Pocophone or is there any better alternative?!

At the moment, for this price range I can guarantee that you won't find any good alternatives. Honestly it's the best value for money phone. If you're in a hurry for a new device then sure you can purchase it, but if you can wait for a couple of months I'm pretty sure they will announce the next version with a snapdragon 855 most likely.

 

[n3w0rk]

About to buy the Xiaomi Pocophone F1, but I've got wind that there might be the Pocophone F2 that's not very far down the line now. So does it have any real grounds or should I just forget it and go for the Pocophone or is there any better alternative?!

I doubt that Poco F2 would come any time soon. Head of POCOPHONEGLOBAL Alvin Ts is pretty active on twitter, and he convinced me not to wait any longer for the F2.

https://twitter.com/pranavirat18/status/1115888157109698563
https://twitter.com/SonamKu97124992/status/1114409152573366278
https://twitter.com/atytse/status/1111525905535516673
https://twitter.com/atytse/status/1110848389363744768
https://twitter.com/atytse/status/1110634279388827648

 

[SpawnX1200]

I doubt that Poco F2 would come any time soon. Head of POCOPHONEGLOBAL Alvin Ts is pretty active on twitter, and he convinced me not to wait any longer for the F2.

https://twitter.com/pranavirat18/status/1115888157109698563
https://twitter.com/SonamKu97124992/status/1114409152573366278
https://twitter.com/atytse/status/1111525905535516673
https://twitter.com/atytse/status/1110848389363744768
https://twitter.com/atytse/status/1110634279388827648

Thanks bruh I guess I'm ordering mine on amazon tonight

 

[CosmicDan]

I doubt that Poco F2 would come any time soon. Head of POCOPHONEGLOBAL Alvin Ts is pretty active on twitter, and he convinced me not to wait any longer for the F2.

Well of course they want you to buy the current phone, they always will. That's smart business. No smart company will ever recommend you to wait for the next model [emoji6]

 

[mecoromeo]

I'm guessing, but most likely they want to work everything out before shipping out the Poco F2. Remember that despite the great idea behind the phone, initially there were issues, like the LCD bleeding issues, and some people having ghost touch issues.

I've never had those issues, but I'm sure that some people are hesitant to get the Poco F2. So I'm pretty sure they want to work out all the kinks and make sure it's priced nearly the same as the F1.

Also they most likely are waiting for the SD855 to be cheaper (I guess) so that they can keep the costs down. Im guessing the F2 will be released before the end of the year.

 

[Gurkirat_Singh]

Reading this after a year of F1 and be like

BRUH <meme>