As one commenter in final week’s ballot says, the purpose of the Poco F-series is to ship flagship efficiency at mid-range costs. Each the F5 fashions try this and whereas it’s not fairly a 2023-level flagship efficiency, it comes actually shut.
Of the pair, the vanilla Poco F5 is the breakout star – over half of the voters confirmed curiosity, it’s uncommon to see such a optimistic response. It beat its Professional sibling by a big margin, which is sort of evident within the Professional’s personal ballot.
The criticism of the F5 – it applies to the F5 Professional too – was predictable. Some aren’t proud of Poco/Xiaomi software program and the related replace schedule (however others prefer it simply fantastic) and there was a heated debate over whether or not microSD playing cards are nonetheless helpful. Both manner, neither F5 mannequin has a reminiscence card slot. No less than the vanilla F5 has a 3.5mm headphone jack.
As for the Poco F5 Professional, round a 3rd of voters confirmed curiosity, whereas others had been ready on good evaluations – our detailed overview was posted a few days after the ballot went dwell, did it change your thoughts?
Except for the aforementioned criticism, the Professional could have additionally overshot the pricing – it’s near 12 months outdated flagships and regardless that it gives a superb QHD+ show, 4K/60 and 8K video recording, plus speedy wi-fi charging (all issues that the vanilla mannequin lacks, by the best way), it’s not a real flagship.
The Poco F5 Professional will probably be a well-liked mannequin for Xiaomi, simply not as widespread because the Poco F5. We noticed a number of commenters who mentioned they already purchased an F5 or an F5 Professional and are proud of their alternative.
