Pocophone F1 and ZFMPM1 both are totally different beasts.

If you run loads of apps, multitask and game occasionally then defiantly the Pocophone is a no brainer. The M1 is a Mid-ranger with a SD636 and simply pales in direct comparison to the SD845 especially if you plan to run 3D intensive apps or games.

This post has been edited by Sigint: Sep 4 2018, 01:38 AM

Glass based protector like those from tempered glass will not lose sensitivity unless you use those very poorly made glass screen protector that are above 0.3 or 0.4mm thick. The tempered glass protector should feel exactly like you would from the phone actual glass with 99% or above of light penetration with literally no distortion of color coming from the original display. This is one of the pros of using glass based screen protector instead of those traditional plastic film type ones.

My opinion. That 6GB on a Snapdragon 636 is pretty much utterly pointless not to mention more RAM equities to more power drain. Even if you run graphically intensive games that 6GB will be totally bottlenecked by the mediocre chipset. I would rather op for 4GB or even the 3GB RAM version instead.

One thing I dislike about phones from Huawei/Honor is that they all use the Kirin chipset these day, so if you are expecting better and quicker optimization and support from most app developers including custom ROMs then Sanpdragon chipsets are still the way to go. Not to mention Honor have mostly poor after support for their device based on my last experience using a Honor phone.

If you are streaming or playing videos for hours a day this would be the perfect phone for anyone due to it's large screen and huge 5000mAh battery. The Max Pro M1 could easily still have juice left even after heavy 1080p video streaming or playback throughout the day without charging.

From the overall design and feature wise, my vote goes to the ASUS ROG phone.

Most definitely the Honor Play have a better built quality compared to Pocophone F1 because Xiaomi had to cut back somewhere on development and production cost especially for the chipset and flash storage you're getting, neither of which comes cheap. As demonstrated by many reviewers and users the plastic back on the Pocophone have barely any plastic at all because it's so damn thin, the back case is even much prone to damage than the frontal screen and it's the weakest link of the entire phone.

This post has been edited by Sigint: Oct 23 2018, 02:51 PM

The Pocophone F1 UI is actually one of the lightest of all Xiaomi phone and can be considered near stock Android. In fact it even run on it's own launcher, called the "Pocophone F1 launcher" which actually feels snappier and faster than the common MIUI Launcher on other Xiaomi devices.

However if you want a phone to last all day for things like browsing, WiFi and GPS, I think you will be hard pressed to find something on the market right now in-terms of price, feature and battery life as good as the Max Pro M1.

This post has been edited by Sigint: Oct 25 2018, 02:42 PM

White/silver or similar colors are generally not very popular compared to say black or grey retail wise so it's not surprising if the manufacturer or distributor/retailer stop producing or taking additional units. Probably reserving their inventory for the ZFMPM2 instead.

Not so much of a factor these days as more and more manufacturers are tailoring their UI closer and closer to stock Android. Heck, with some minor tweaks I much prefer OnePlus's HydrogenOS and Xiaomi's MIUI with the POCO Launcher over stock anyday due to it's fluid performance and amazing features like various shortcut gestures. The only real issue is that most Southeast Asian's region Samsung models come with the Exynos SoC instead of Snapdragon SoC, which is a real bummer especially if you are into custom ROMs and emulations.

This post has been edited by Sigint: Jan 24 2019, 04:18 PM