Looks like a mix between MIUI and OxygenOS

The notch something that I'm going to get used to - although thankfully it can be turned off

I'm really considering this one since my Motorola's battery is on its last legs

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Aug 23 2018, 12:34 AM

4-Axis OIS included... Another reason to award this bugger "The All-in-One Phone Killer of 2018/2019"...forget about flagship killer... It's All-in-One now...

Source:


This post has been edited by azhar75: Aug 23 2018, 01:17 AM

Forking out more than US$500 for a flagship phone is gonna be a thing of the past real soon .

https://goo.gl/vnJXyY

GSMArena full review up. Nope, no OIS. Just EIS (and yes I trust these guys). Also apparently the frame is supposedly metal painted plastic, and headphone output isn't quite up to par... and no NFC (which nobody here probably uses anyway).

Otherwise, they liked it enough to nearly max out the stars they gave it. Hell, who wouldn't love a $300 845 phone, value proposition is just ludicrous.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 23 2018, 12:56 AM

sry to burst your bubble.

phone so expensive, but no NFC.

Like I said, normal folk never really use it anyway lol, so it probably won't matter. 845/8GB does though.

I personally need NFC though to check the balance on my Icoca/Suica cards (amongst many other things), but I'm not looking for a new phone anytime soon myself lol. Just sticking around to see the ongoing results of Xiaomi's interesting little (which is actually what Poco means in Spanish) experiment here.

That said that launcher is pretty dope though. Categorising apps by colour? That's some crazy shit right there Xiaomi and I like it.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 23 2018, 01:45 AM

Cancel buying Mi 8 buy this one instead...haha..

Even I don't even use that feature much on my Motorola... Perhaps it might be useful on Samsung Pay or one-touch pairing of accessories, but not much else for me. It's nice to have, but certainly not a mandatory feature.

Anyway, I heard that they are bringing this locally - I wonder how much would that be for the top-end 8GB/256GB model

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Aug 23 2018, 02:14 AM

The whole phone was directed towards emerging markets - NFC is not much of utility in emerging countries. Of course, the price/performance ratio is pretty much unprecedented for 2018, and the inclusion of power-user friendly features such as expandable memory, headphone jack and a large battery makes up the lack of NFC

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Aug 23 2018, 02:17 AM

I highly doubt the targeted customer will use this phone to drive high-end headphones - this is not an audiophile-centric phone

Of course, those who owns regular earphones won't need to worry about that

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Aug 23 2018, 02:20 AM

Tagged you guys in this thread instead coz it didn’t exist yet last night when I posted, haha. Yeah, this reminds me of OnePlus when they first started. Maybe that’s their strategy, start with low price then gradually increase coz it’s clear they are going after OnePlus with this range of phones. That said, they’ll kill the Zenfone 5z (and probably their own Mi 8) if the prices launched in India is indicative of what we will get here.

Or they might just kill, you know, Honor lol. Imma thinking OP has already carved enough of a niche for themselves already as a "premium sub-flagship" (yeah, lol I know), but that's prolly just me.

BUT Honor? Yeah tough luck justifying the purchase of anything remotely on the higher price range from those folks now, though looking at their seemingly humongous Ad budgets, the main brand Huawei seems pretty safe... for now.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Aug 23 2018, 07:27 AM

Yeah, the OP developer community is pretty strong so maybe Poco hopes to achieve this too by starting with low prices. I personally feel the Honor range is a little overpriced for what it offers, and the gap of the flagship Honor and Mate series tends to close pretty fast. Anyways, interesting to see how disruptive the Poco series will be to the premium segment especially after Customs just proposed a sales tax on smartphones.

How long does it normally take for Poco to reach msia, after such announcement in india, based on other models previously launched? Just roughly..

This post has been edited by n8210: Aug 23 2018, 07:54 AM

2 to 3 months I guess. Especially Mi 8 just launched here

This post has been edited by MPIK: Aug 23 2018, 08:06 AM

NFC is necessary for future of cashless e-wallet society.

kinda like Samsung Pay that works almost everywhere because normal POS can read NFC

This post has been edited by john123x: Aug 23 2018, 08:17 AM

Maybank QRPAY better, e-wallet w/out NFC

Haha, who uses Samsung Pay nowadays?
Better use Boost. Even mamak got Boost.

oh no... if no notch then i sure buy...

It's already listed in Sirim's database, so maybe a month or two

https://www.lowyat.net/2018/167802/xiaomi-p...o-malaysia-too/