POCO F5 and POCO F5 Pro Review:

The initial F-series release of poker. They shocked the Poco F1 device. With one of the best Flagships in the world. Killers can be found everywhere on the planet. That was followed by what was said. Poco F2 Pro it's been three years since. We've had a pro variance seen in the F. Series and Poco have just announced one. Of the best Flagship killers of the year. The Poco F5 Pro the Poco A5 and A5 Pro. Do share similar camera setups but the. F5 Pro offers ridiculous value for money. As it features Flagship features such as. A Snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 chipsets a. Wqhd plus resolution display as well as. Wireless charging which is a game. Changer for the mid-range segment and in. Typical Poco fashion they have left. Nothing out of the box each device comes. With a jelly case a 6 amp charging cable. And a 67 watt charging brick this is. Technic and this is my full review and. Comparison of two of the best Poco. Phones to have ever been released the. Poco A5 and Poco F5 Pro. [Music]. The Poco F5 starts at 379 US Dollars and. Is essentially a rebranded redmi note 12. Turbo while the Poco F5 Pro starts at. 449 US Dollars and is pretty much a. Rebranded redmi k60 they may be. Rebranded versions of a couple redmi. Phones but those redmi devices only. Released in China whereas these two. Pocos are getting a fully fledged Global. Release the Poco F5 Series has a. Refreshed design this year and while I. Must say both look stunning The Standard. Poco F5 has got to be my favorite and. That's largely due to its fantastic. Camera module design which has all three. Sensors separated for a simplistic yet. Elegant look which sit on top of a. Plastic back plate it comes in black. Blue and the color which I have that. Being white but it's not just any white. It has a turquoise light color which. Starts at the bottom of the device and. Shoots in a pattern that Fades towards. The top of the phone not to mention the. Second color tone also wraps into the. Plastic side frame which are a lot more. Squared off than the F5 Pro the Poco F5. Pro has silver finished plastic frames. And a single tone white back which looks. Nice and clean it also comes in black. With a carbon fiber pattern on its edges. The back plates of the F5 Pro is more. Premium due to it being made of glass. And while its camera module still looks. Good I still prefer the design of the. Regular F5 the A5 Pro's camera module is. Also a tad misleading as the bottom. Sensor may appear to look like a. Periscope sensor but in actuality it's. Just a macro camera the Poco F5 is light. At 181 grams as opposed to the A5 Pro's. 204 grams and the F5 is thinner 2 at 7.9. Millimeters compared to the F5 Pros 8.59. Millimeter thickness both devices pack. In an ip53 certification for limited. Dust and water splash protection and. Both phones front panels are protected. By Gorilla Glass 5. Both of them offer. An always-on display but the standard F5. Can only show it for 10 seconds until it. Disappears and they both have. Fingerprint consensus but the F5 Pro. Benefits from an under display. Fingerprint sensor as opposed to the. F5's physical side mounted sensor the A5. One UPS the F5 Pro in terms of thinner. Bezels wrapping around its screen I mean. They are Razer thin and it hardly has a. Chin when compared to the F5 Pro but the. A5 pro has the vanilla F5 beat in terms. Of their actual displays they are both. 6.67 inch flat AMOLED . Displays they. Can both display over 68 billion colors. They both support Dolby Vision hdr10 HDR. 10 plus and wide vinyl one they both. Boast 19 20 Hertz pwm dimming and they. Both offer a fixed 120 hertz refresh. Rates but the F5 pro has twice the touch. Sampling rates at 480 Hertz houses a. Wqhd plus resolution panel that packs in. 526 pixels per inch instead of the F5s a. Full HD Plus resolution screen with 395. PPI not to mention the A5 Pro can reach. A crazy Peak brightness of a thousand. Four hundred nits as opposed to the. Standard F5s 1000 nuts in terms of. Software they're both running MIUI 14. For Poco skimmed over Android 13 MIUI. For Poco offers a similar experience to. Regular MIUI in terms of appearance and. Customization options but there is no. Option for large folders on the home. Screen which is a bit of a bummer that. Said we still have MIUI 14 software. Improvements such as less bloatware and. Full Google services out of the box when. It comes to battery capacity the F5 Pro. Once again has the upper hand here as it. Packs in a slightly larger. 5160 milliamp hour sole as opposed to. The 5 000 milliamp hour battery of the. Regular F5 and while they both offer 67. Watt wire charging the Poco F5 Pro takes. Things to another level with 30 watt. Wireless charging this is very much a. Feature you only really see within. Premium Flagship smartphones and to keep. Things cool while charging running. Demanding apps or playing games both of. Them offer liquid cool technology 2.0. Which means they both have liquid cooled. Vapor Chambers though the F5 pro has a. Slightly larger Vapor chamber cooling. System and that's no surprise since the. F5 pro has a beefier chipset it's a keep. In check that being the Snapdragon 8. Plus gen 1 the standard F5 is no slouch. Either though since it houses an even. Newer chip and the first to offer it in. The global markets that beanie. Snapdragon 7 plus gen 2. They both use. Tsmc's four nanometer process but the 8. Plus gen 1 offers a slightly higher. Clock speed and a fancier main core not. To mention it uses an adreno 730. Integrates a GPU as opposed to the. Adreno 725 within the Poco F5 so it's no. Surprise to see the F5 Pro offer. Slightly better benchmark scores but I. Mean slightly I was actually extremely. Impressed by the scores produced on the. Standard F5 thanks to that Snapdragon 7. Plus Gen 2 chip it scored just slightly. Lower most of the time and even managed. To come out on top in terms of. Multi-core performance and it's also. Worth mentioning that both devices offer. Lpddr5 RAM and ufs 3.1 storage so I. Really couldn't recommend one over the. Other in terms of performance especially. Considering both of them perform. Incredibly well when it comes to gaming. That said they both managed to reach 120. FPS in Real Racing 3 provided you clear. The battery and performance starter. Before opening the game however the Poco. F5 Pro did have a slightly more stable. Frame rate but when playing Call of Duty. Mobile they were both just as stable and. Both of them managed to reach 90 FPS. Windsetter Ultra frame rate mode and a. Stable 60fps on both of them most the. Time when playing against an impact on. Maxstart settings which is impressive to. Say the least since it's a very. Demanding game they also both managed to. Pack in Bluetooth 5.3 NFC dual SIM 5G. And Wi-Fi 6E so connectivity on both are. Identical not to mention they both have. A USB 2.0 type c port and IR Blaster and. An x-axis linear vibration motor however. Only the standard F5 has a three point. Five millimeter headphone jack and this. Time both of them offer dual stereo. Speakers as well as Dolby Atmos supports. [Applause]. [Music]. So you can't exactly go wrong with. Either device in terms of performance. Since they both perform phenomenally. Well in terms of gaming and benchmark. Scores but now it's time to shift our. Focus to cameras so let's kick start. Things with selfie camera performance. Both devices have tiny punch hole. Notches at the top Center of their. Displays though the F5 Pros punch hole. Seems to be a smidge smaller they are. Both identical 24 millimeter 16. Megapixel selfie cameras with fixed. Focus and when taking selfies I noticed. That the Poco A5 packs in more detail. While the Poco F5 Pro is more color. Accurate they are both average when it. Comes to Edge detection though the F5. Pro offers more natural depth of field. In portrait mode what's up guys this is. Technic recording a 720p 30fps bokeh. Video using the selfie cam only brand. New Poco F5 Pro unfortunately the. Vanilla F5 lacks bokeh video when using. The selfie cam good news is that both of. Them can shoot 1080p 60fps selfie video. Which is really good to see though it. Seems that there's a bit of a higher. Field of view on the Poco F5 as opposed. To the F5 Pro they both offer more than. Decent selfie video performance when set. To 30 FPS at night though the F5 Pro. Suffers slightly more from noise grain. And just as I mentioned earlier only the. F5 Pro offers Boca selfie video it does. A decent job at night too but it's still. Limited to 720p 30fps when taking. Selfies at night the standard Poco F5. Tends to take better more detailed shots. Almost every time regardless of the mode. Being used though I still prefer the. More subtle background blur of the F5. Pro in portrait mode so selfie. Performance isn't perfect on either. Device but if I had to pick one it would. Likely be the regular Poco F5 it just. Seems to pack in the better selfie. Sensor they both take decent selfies no. Doubt and I'm really happy to see that. They both offer 1080p 60fps selfie video. Recording but now it's time to put that. Aside and focus on those back cameras. The Poco A5 and F5 Pro both have. Identical camera setups on their backs. Which includes a macro and Ultra wide. And a main camera starting with their. Macro sensors they are both 2 megapixels. With the same F 2.4 apertures but these. Sensors are different as for ultrawides. They both offer a 16 millimeter 8. Megapixel F 2.2 camera with a 118 degree. Field of view but again the sensors are. Different but when it comes to the mains. They are exactly the same that being a. 25 millimeter 64 megapixel half inch. Sensor sized omnivision OV 64b40 sensor. With an aperture of f 1.79 and both of. Them pack in Phase detection autofocus. And Optical image stabilization but the. F5 Pro does offer a few more features so. Let's get into it neither macro shot is. Perfect but the F5 Pro is more color. Accurate and both Ultra wide shots come. Out decently but the F5 Pro packs in. More color and better Edge Distortion. They can can both shoot at Native 64. Megapixels when using their Mains and. While the F5 Pro is more saturated the. Regular F5 tends to control white. Balance better and when burned down to. 16 megapixels the F5 Pro seems to pop. With even more color they can also both. Shoot native 64 megapixel shot set two. Times digital Zoom but again the regular. F5 produces better color accuracy and. White balance and when bend down at two. Times Zoom the F5 Pro slightly fixes. White balance but produces an even more. Saturated shot that said it does come. Out more appealing