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Poco’s latest mid-range smartphones pack a display you’d expect on a flagship
The Poco X6 Pro even runs Android 14-based HyperOS
Xiaomi's sub-brand Poco has made a name for itself with its flagship killers and budget phones packing powerful hardware. While not perfect, the company's Poco F5 Pro from 2023 was an impressive mid-ranger and a great alternative to the Pixel 7a if you wanted a phone with more horsepower. Kickstarting 2024, Poco has announced its mid-rangers for this year — the Poco X6 and X6 Pro. They feature Qualcomm and MediaTek's latest premium chips, upgraded cameras, and bezel-less 120Hz AMOLED displays that you'd typically find in flagship phones.
The Poco F5 Pro wants to give the Pixel 7a a run for its money
There’s also the Poco F5 if you are on a tight budget
As Xiaomi focuses more on its high-end and premium offerings, its sub-brand Poco has stepped up to fill the gap left behind. Last year the Poco F4 and X4 GT impressed us with their sleek design and powerful gaming hardware despite being cheaper than the competition. For 2023, Poco is back with the F5 Pro and F5, featuring premium design, more powerful internals, and packing many firsts for the brand.
Poco’s latest phones are running 2021's Android 12 in 2023
The Poco X5 and X5 Pro pack impressive specs though
Poco first entered the smartphone market in 2018 with the Poco F1 and its incredible price-to-performance ratio. Since then, the Xiaomi sub-brand has expanded its product lineup to include more phones at varying price points. With its Poco X series, the company caters to power users, offering phones that pack mid-range hardware at an excellent price. For this year, Poco is announcing two new phones: the Poco X5 Pro and X5. The former builds on the Poco X4 Pro from 2022 and is the company's slimmest X-series phone yet.
New Poco M5 and M5s are budget gaming phones with huge batteries
Both phones feature a massive 5,000mAh battery for all-day gaming
Xiaomi's sub-brand Poco is primarily known for launching gaming and performance-oriented phones. While the brand initially only released phones meant for the mid-to-upper segment of the market, it has also expanded to budget devices in recent years. Following the launch of the Poco M4 late last year, the company is now debuting the Poco M5 and Poco M5s. Its latest budget offerings pack a decent amount of horsepower despite their inexpensive price tag.
The Poco F4 and X4 GT pair powerful gaming hardware with sleek designs
Both phones run on Android 12-based MIUI 13
Xiaomi's sub-brand Poco made a name for itself with the Poco F1, which delivered an insane price-to-performance ratio. Since then, the company has expanded its lineup to include more budget and mid-range offerings. Its flagship phones are primarily aimed at gamers and power users due to their flashy or bulky designs. The company is looking to change that with the latest additions to its product portfolio: the Poco F4 and X4 GT. Both are premium devices featuring a sleek design and powerful hardware paired with an attractive price tag.
Poco’s new gaming phone sounds like it could also be handy for everyday use
The F4 GT is launching alongside Poco’s first smartwatch and earbuds
Poco's long-awaited April event has finally commenced, and the Xiaomi brand had quite some interesting products to introduce. It has returned to the gaming phone market with the latest GT-branded handset, the Poco F4 GT, but the company has also expanded its ecosystem with its first accessories: a smartwatch and some Genshin Impact-branded earbuds.
Poco X4 Pro and M4 Pro bring some familiar-looking hardware to MWC 2022
High-refresh-rate AMOLED goodness for the masses
It's been a rough couple of years for the big smartphone trade shows, but MWC 2022 is here to try and prove that there are still launches worth getting excited about. As things get started this year, Poco is sharing word about two new phones: the Poco X4 Pro and M4 Pro. The former is the successor to the Poco X3 Pro with its unmatchable price-to-performance ratio, and the sequel looks packed to the gills with high-end specs. The Poco M4 Pro, meanwhile, is a budget-oriented option with an AMOLED display, triple-camera setup, and all-day battery life.
The mobile landscape went under a pandemic-accelerated overhaul in the past couple of years. Huawei is no longer the foreign juggernaut it used to be, Honor is with new ownership, Oppo and OnePlus are in slow-motion homogenization, and LG is a complete non-factor in 2022. You'd think these developments would suck all the air out of Mobile World Congress, which is being held on-time this year as opposed to in last year's sweaty Iberian summer. Well, prepare for your breath to be taken away.
Poco’s latest budget smartphone packs 5G and a 50MP camera
A whole lot of phone for very little money
Poco markets itself as a brand that's independent of Xiaomi. However, the company mostly tends to release rebranded and slightly redesigned Xiaomi phones. Following the same strategy, the business has announced the Poco M4 Pro 5G for the global markets, which is a rehashed version of the Redmi Note 11 recently introduced in China.
Poco M4 Pro 5G images suggest it will be a rebranded Redmi Note 11 5G
The device will make its global debut on November 9
We already knew the Poco M4 Pro 5G would be launched next week, as the former Xiaomi sub-brand has scheduled a launch event for November 9 and posted some cryptic messages on Twitter that reveal some features of the upcoming device. A new leak from Vietnamese site ThePixel (via GSMArena) has given us our first proper look at the Poco M4 Pro 5G.
LineageOS comes to the Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note10 families
Other newbies include the Razer Phone 2, FairPhone 2, and various flavors of Xiaomi and Poco
LineageOS is the custom ROM version of Android for when you throw your phone's original software away and say "screw it, I'm gonna load my OWN Android, with blackjack and hookers." We keep an eye on Lineage to let you know when it's come to new devices, but these are frequent enough (and sometimes inconsequential enough) that ain't nobody got time to do them one by one anymore. Here's a bunch of new devices that have received their first builds over the last six weeks.
Poco X3 Pro review, three months later: All the power you need (some MIUI quirks you don't)
It doesn't get more powerful than this in this price segment
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The Poco F1 was one of Xiaomi's most popular phones, and it continued to sell well long after its announcement, and people have been begging for a true successor — that's how hard it was to beat the value it offered. But that was a 2018 phone, and the increasing cost of components, rising costs associated with supply chain bottlenecks, and the forcing of 5G modems in high-end chips had made it difficult for Poco to do an encore... until now.
Watch out Realme, the Poco M3 Pro 5G goes on sale in India next week
Dimensity 700 SoC, a 90Hz display, and a 5,000mAh battery
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The entry-level Poco M3 was the first phone to be released with Poco as an independent subbrand, but let's not be kidding. The company still works closely with Xiaomi, sharing both hardware and software design. That's also the case for the latest Poco phone the company has just launched today, the Poco M3 Pro 5G. It's made up of the same internal hardware as the Redmi Note 10 5G, the phone Xiaomi launched in Europe earlier this year. On the outside, a few things have changed, though, with Poco taking a lot of inspiration from the Samsung Galaxy S21.
Out with the old, in with the new: LineageOS cut support for Android 9 Pie earlier this year, and to make up for the loss, the open-source project has just released version 18.1 based on Android 11. It comes with official support for about 60 phones and tablets.
The long wait for a true Poco F1 successor is finally over
We're not just getting a Poco F3, but a Poco X3 Pro as well
Poco's latest phones are hotly anticipated, especially with rumors abound that we could be looking at a proper successor to the sub-brand's first phone, the Poco F1 with its incredible price-to-performance ratio. And today is finally the day Xiaomi is making good on that promise, though the latest entry to the line isn't the F2 — we're skipping straight ahead to the F3 and its slightly weaker sister model, the X3 Pro.
Poco X3 Pro specs leaked in store listing with unknown Snapdragon SoC
It looks like a slightly refreshed version of the 855+
Earlier this week renders of a new Poco X3 Pro were spotted from familiar leakers. It seems like a release for this boosted version of the Poco X3 NFC, which has been out for about half a year, is immanent: now it's showing up in retailer listings, complete with a set of specs. It's mostly similar to the already-released device, but the text teases more RAM and storage, and a Snapdragon SoC we haven't heard of before.
Leaked Poco X3 Pro renders show off a familiar look
Little more than a tweaked Poco X3 NFC, or so it seems
Rumors of a follow-up of the 2018 surprise budget hit Pocophone F1 have been circulating for a while and it was even teased multiple times. After Poco recently posted a teaser on Twitter with some hidden hints inside, renders of the upcoming Poco X3 Pro have now been leaked.
The original Xiaomi-developed Pocophone was a surprise hit when it launched in 2018, offering almost everything you would expect from a flagship phone at a ~$300 price point (though it didn't really work in the United States). More phones have been released under the Poco brand since then, but there hasn't been a direct sequel to the original F1. Rumors about a possible Poco F2 have been circulating for a while, and now Xiaomi has confirmed it's on the way.
The Poco M3 is official with a humongous battery and 48MP camera for next to nothing
Xiaomi is also setting Poco Global free as an independent brand
The Poco M3 was unveiled at a livestreamed event today, and at the same time, Poco Global is breaking out as its own brand independent of Xiaomi. This comes after 6 million Poco phones have been sold in more than 35 global markets, making it a very successful sub-brand. Its latest budget handset boasts an enormous 6,000 mAh battery, a large 6.53-inch display, and a triple camera system headed up by a 48MP main sensor.
Xiaomi’s been busy this year. In addition to launching a plethora of Xiaomi and Redmi-branded phones, the company’s turned Poco into its own sub-brand, starting with the Poco X2 in February, followed by the Poco F2 Pro in May, Poco M2 Pro in July, plus the Poco X3 NFC and Poco M2 in September. What started off as a single, $300 handset with flagship specs in 2018 — the Poco F1 (or Pocophone F1) — is now an entire product line.