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You could not have heard of Poco, however in case you are into Android phones you could wish to take note of the 2 units simply introduced by the company. The Poco F7 Pro and Poco F7 Ultra price from £499 and £649 respectively whereas comfortably beating what Samsung can offer on paper on the subject of specs and what’s stuffed inside.

Poco is a sub-brand of Chinese behemoth Xiaomi. Poco has for a few years focused on being a gaming-focused telephone model, however with the F7 Pro and F7 Ultra it’s leaning into digicam prowess too.

The Poco F7 Ultra prices £649 however packs in the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset you’ll additionally discover in the £799 Samsung Galaxy S25, £899 OnePlus 13 and £1,099 Honor Magic 7 Pro. If you wish to get your palms on probably the most highly effective Qualcomm processor, the F7 Ultra appears like the most affordable manner to take action but.

The telephone packs in a 6.67-inch 2K decision clean 120Hz AMOLED screen, triple cameras fronted by a 50MP predominant lens with optical image stabilisation and a 50MP 2.5x telephoto digicam, a massive 5,300mAh battery with 120W wired and 50W wired charging speeds, IP68 mud and water resistance and 12GB RAM and 256GB storage.

Compare that to the Samsung Galaxy S25, which prices £150 more, and also you get a decrease decision 1080p screen, triple cameras however solely a 10MP 3x telephoto, paltry 25W wired charging speeds and solely 128GB storage.

Poco says the cameras are versatile enough to permit 4 totally different focal lengths to seize portrait photographs in addition to the telephoto lens dealing with macro photographs in addition to zoom. You additionally get a 32MP ultra-wide digicam with 120 degree subject of view. Poco can also be counting on its own AI-powered software program to course of the pictures. If it’s wherever pretty much as good as dad or mum company Xiaomi’s 14 Ultra from final yr, I’ll be impressed.

The cheaper £499 Poco F7 Pro is no slouch both, operating the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the earlier technology of high-end chip yow will discover in the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. For these costs, Poco is making itself critically aggressive.

This telephone additionally has a 50MP predominant digicam utilizing the identical Light Fusion 800 sensor because the F7 Ultra, although the supporting 8MP ultra-wide lens is unlikely to be superb, and there’s no zoom lens. You additionally get a comparable 6.67-inch OLED and there’s a bigger 6,000mAh battery that helps 90W wired charging, together with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage. These are glorious specs for the price, far outstripping what’s on offer on Samsung’s £499 Galaxy A56.

Despite the focus on cameras, Poco nonetheless presents these great specs with cellular avid gamers in thoughts. Both phones have LiquidCool Technology 4.0, a cooling system that retains the chipsets on the proper temperatures even when pushing that newest spherical of Call of Duty Mobile arduous.

Poco could not have made a lot of a title for itself in the UK however these two newest phones present intriguing competitors for the likes of Samsung and Oppo in the mid-range Android market. You will wrestle to search out higher worth for the asking costs, particularly given the £649 Ultra presents the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip on the least expensive price we’ve seen.