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Hello Folks,
I was a proud owner of a mate 7 (my first huawei) then I jumpe to a S6 Edge Plus, I missed the great battery and the better software (IMO, I hate touchwiz) but the phone was sluggish after a while,really sluggish to the extent that opening the dialer took a few seconds, I Had to reset it every now and then, but the S6 Edge Plus was much better in every department except the battery, I am getting bored of it after 1 year and thinking of going back to Huawei with the P9 Plus,I know the Mate 9 is here and the P10 is soon to come, but these will be totally out of my budget, I can simply trade my S6 Edge Plus for a P9 Plus now with a small exchange.
I've seen the reviews, I know how the P9 Plus stands against my S6 Edge Plus, but I am afraid of the sluggishness that plagued my mate 7, Also according to GSMARENA the Exynos is a much better battery saver all around, the P9 Plus battery is suffering bad in their test (69h compared to 83h).
I really like the design of the black P9 Plus and would like to have stereo speakers along with the dual lens and 3D Touch features, but I am afraid I might be sidegrading not upgrading, What do you think?
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Hello Folks,
I was a proud owner of a mate 7 (my first huawei) then I jumpe to a S6 Edge Plus, I missed the great battery and the better software (IMO, I hate touchwiz) but the phone was sluggish after a while,really sluggish to the extent that opening the dialer took a few seconds, I Had to reset it every now and then, but the S6 Edge Plus was much better in every department except the battery, I am getting bored of it after 1 year and thinking of going back to Huawei with the P9 Plus,I know the Mate 9 is here and the P10 is soon to come, but these will be totally out of my budget, I can simply trade my S6 Edge Plus for a P9 Plus now with a small exchange.
I've seen the reviews, I know how the P9 Plus stands against my S6 Edge Plus, but I am afraid of the sluggishness that plagued my mate 7, Also according to GSMARENA the Exynos is a much better battery saver all around, the P9 Plus battery is suffering bad in their test (69h compared to 83h).
I really like the design of the black P9 Plus and would like to have stereo speakers along with the dual lens and 3D Touch features, but I am afraid I might be sidegrading not upgrading, What do you think?
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I have been using the p9 plus for 5 months now and never did I I encounter any sluggishness so far. I know the mate 7 might have that problem as I have own it previously too but that was probably due to the lower performance of the gpu so whenever u run something that is gpu related or run it in the background, it may affect the performance . But so far I can only say huawei is doing a very good job on improving everything on their flagship. I run all the apps without ever kill them in the multitasking windows, which I found them to be maximum 20 nos. in total and everything still run smooth and fast without any sluggishness. I never use Samsung previously but I did bought a galaxy s3 mini for my brother and after some while it became super lagging and even hang still. I tot that might be due to lower performance as well (since it is few years back product) but from what I heard from my friends even other series with higher performance such as s4, note 5 have that problem too. I also know that a lot of galaxy users complaint abt it's lagging and hang problem so I will nv consider Samsung. But for huawei, especially the p series and mate series, I never heard anybody complaint abt this problem so it is always my first and only choice. As for battery life, it's really hard to say, some say it is Mich better that Samsung, or even iPhone 6 plus, since I never use them before ,I can only say the p9 plus battery seems very good to me. I have been running 11 background apps all the while (which means the setting "keep running after screen off") of which most of them are power intensive apps, keep opening apps without killing it in the multi task windows, and it gives me a 4 plus hours sot moderate usage and it is just enough for me to last one whole day from 8am to 10 pm. And now I installed an app call "night mod" and I reduce the screen brightness by 40% and I got the sot of 8 plus hours heavy usage. So it's really quite enough for me. As for sluggishness, no, I don't think u will face it on p9 plus
By the way, I really think u should consider p10 plus since it is just out and seems like a lot of it have been improved especially with the new summilux leica lens camera.
because i couldn't find any threads about how the phone functions after a year.
im coming from a samsung galaxy s8 witch broke after a year, and i am hesitating between the huawei p20 pro and the xiaomi mi 8 128gb.
how is the camera(selfie in particiular) on both phones? and is the fixed focus of the p20pro really a problem?
how is the battery doing under heavy usage? are they both considered 'fast phones' after a year?
really hate my galaxy s8 and want to buy another phone in a week.
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because i couldn't find any threads about how the phone functions after a year.
im coming from a samsung galaxy s8 witch broke after a year, and i am hesitating between the huawei p20 pro and the xiaomi mi 8 128gb.
how is the camera(selfie in particiular) on both phones? and is the fixed focus of the p20pro really a problem?
how is the battery doing under heavy usage? are they both considered 'fast phones' after a year?
really hate my galaxy s8 and want to buy another phone in a week.
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I wouldn't say the P20 Pro is considered a particularly fast phone going by current CPU standards. Set up right though it can still fly and it has the hardware to make itl a true powerhouse still. I think Mi8 will still be quicker if set up right.
I never use selfie camera really but I still don't think it's the best, can't compare with Mi8..
I love the P20 Pro really for the..
-Minimal notch, blacked out of course, implemented in the right way.
-Front fingerprint sensor and general awesome navigation hub it is (when onscreen buttons disabled) - maximising screen real estate
-Battery life
-EMUI! Yes, I like it and the ultimate control it gives you over apps (apart from a few system apps of course)
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because i couldn't find any threads about how the phone functions after a year.
im coming from a samsung galaxy s8 witch broke after a year, and i am hesitating between the huawei p20 pro and the xiaomi mi 8 128gb.
how is the camera(selfie in particiular) on both phones? and is the fixed focus of the p20pro really a problem?
how is the battery doing under heavy usage? are they both considered 'fast phones' after a year?
really hate my galaxy s8 and want to buy another phone in a week.
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phone still perform swiftly after years and around 7 firmware updates (on PIE now) - never wiped data even once since bought
dont expect it to match SD845 though, it wont,
rear camera is splendid, especially when you know how to use it better along the time you use it (early user might confused, disappointed and else, but most of seasoned photographer turned out like it)
selfie wont compete at all with your S8. S8 has autofocus on front cam. And that alone will give you much better selfie, anytime, anyday.
Selfie from this phone is not bad by any mean, it just you need to get a grasp on the optimum distance of its fixed focus lens, and turn down the exposure (this feature only avail after PIE), else it will try to lighten your face a lot (i guess this style is favourable in asia and probably india).
Battery will beat your S8 day and night, even after year usage i never had issue with battery life.
Mi8 rear cam is good, but once you know how to use P20 cam, it wont match the P20 one,
best bet on Mi8 is by using Gcam pixel 3 port. It boost the results a lot, but still with lack flexibility of manual set up (if this was not you thing, going Mi 8 route is fine i guess) - coz, Mi 8 has better development scheme ongoing. You can use custom PIE ROM and any other mod in easier manner.
if you decide to get P20 pro, better stay on stock EMUI (it has less quirk compared to stock MIUI to be honest - am using Redmi Note 5 Ai as 2ndary phone FYI). Just root, debloat a bit and tweak some stuff (adblock, LKT, disable swap, etc) its good enough for 8/9 out of 10 daily conditions you would expect as smartphone users.
thing you probably will miss from S8 (i used S8 for few months as well) would be : edge shotcut, front cam auto focus, build-in clipboard feature (well at least those are for me)
Hey guys!
I hope I'm in the right place to post/ask this. But I honestly don't know any better place to go to.
At the moment I am to decide between the Mi 8 (6/64GB) for 170 € and the Mi 9 Lite (6/128 GB) for 200 €.
I already ordered, received and set up the Mi8 and the good price for the Mi 9 Lite just appeared recently.
The Mi 8 definitely has a better performance due to the SD845 (vs SD710) and has WiFi MiMO, an OIS, as well as apt-X and costs 30 € less (at least for me). Likely due to its release date there also are way more ROMs and Mods available for the Mi8 already.
Mi 9 Lite on the other hand supports LTE Band28 (which will become more and more important in Germany), has better camera sensors, a bigger battery, an infrared blaster, SD card support, a drop notch, an audio jack and, well, in-screen fingerprint (which I guess is nice but not that important) and it was released about 1 year later which could lead to longer software support.
So there's very much points arguing for the Mi 9 Lite. But:
Does the premium SoC of the Mi 8 guarantee more updates over time then the Mi 9 lite?
Is the camera of the Mi 9 Lite really better than on the Mi 8 as OIS is missing?
Is the in-screen fingerprint more imprecise than fingerprint on the back?
Could apt-X also be applied to the Mi 9 Lite? (one day I read about it being implemented in LOS by default)
Thanks in advance for your help and opinions on this question.
Kind Regards,
Seyron
Not sure about Mi 8 but Mi 9 Lite has stunning display, it's the biggest selling point IMO. (Samsung's AMOLED)
And yes maybe Mi 8 has faster chip but SD710 is WAY more power efficient, with bigger battery it will make tremendous difference. And it's not that slow either.. (about 220k in Antutu)
Cant really speak for camera because i dont use it that much but the resulsts i have been getting are more than satisfactory (even at low lighting with night mode)
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Not sure about Mi 8 but Mi 9 Lite has stunning display, it's the biggest selling point IMO. (Samsung's AMOLED)
And yes maybe Mi 8 has faster chip but SD710 is WAY more power efficient, with bigger battery it will make tremendous difference. And it's not that slow either.. (about 220k in Antutu)
Cant really speak for camera because i dont use it that much but the resulsts i have been getting are more than satisfactory (even at low lighting with night mode)
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Thank you very much for your fast answer!
Referring to this post the Mi8 also comes with an Samsung AMOLED, though I can't find much other reliable information elsewhere that would support this statement. Phonearena seems to be the only specs listing website that states it, too, as being produced by Samsung. However it's my first AMOLED device and I therefore can't compare to others. I've declared to myself that my next phone definitely would be one for under 200 € and would have to come with an AMOLED screen, which now, thanks to the special offer for the Mi 9 Lite, is met by both devices.
Yeah the battery point is a powerful one. I get 1.5 days of battery lifetime at most with low usage while I got almost 3 days out of my Redmi Note 4 when I didn't use it much.
Also B-S-G - afaik the most popular developer for GCam ports - is developing the GCam specifically for the Mi8 (among other devices) which almost guarantees a most recent and working GCam version for it. But I only can tell that the image quality is way better than it was on my Redmi Note 4, which on the other side just would be very devastating if it wasn't.
It'd also be worth mentioning that due to the different vendors I'd have 2 years warranty for the Mi 8 (Amazon) but none to a maximum of one year for the Mi 9 Lite (Banggood).
https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9065&idPhone2=9862
mi 9 lite:
Under screen Fingerprint sensor is neither fast, neither accurate and not convenient IMO;
I get aprox. 2 days battery life under light usage;
Camera is better than Samsung A50/A70 series, but I don think it is perfect;
It seems it is not primary phone, which gets best support (still android 9 vs mi 8 got android 10 officially);
Display is not perfect, but much better than Mi A3
Ambient light sensor (mounted under screen) does not for as good as on samsung phones;
In 1 month I got 3 random phone crashes /reboot.
I would probably go with mi 8.
what I can tell you about Mi 9 lite is : the screen is top , fingerprint on screen ( no need to turn your phone when on desk ) battery is xxl , microSD port , Irda port ( tv remote ) I use Nova rather than miui launcher and this phone is nearly perfect for what I do.
hey. i've had both. i don't know about the band 28 situation so i can't comment on that.
Let me start by saying that I think CC9/Mi9 lite is a missed opportunity for xiaomi. It was positioned a bit awkwardly for marketing. It's evidently not sold very well and if xda is any indication, community support is also fairly low.
Yet to me it is the most "all-rounded" phone from xiaomi in 2019 (nope, not 9t/9tPro, which are very popular), checking off all the marks for me: samsung oled, great cameras front (better than mi9) and back, beautiful build and design of the Mi9, SD card, headphone jack, big battery, good battery life, midrange prices, etc. To me it was nearly perfect (except perhaps a year old SoC instead of SD730), or as perfect as I expected from Xiaomi anyway.
Except the fact it doesn't have strong community support. I've got it about 3 weeks after its China release. I am still waiting for official pixel experience or any AOSP rom to have stable releases. I am stuck with MIUI variant roms which are stable but I personally crave pure android. That and the fact there isn't a really reliable working GCam support, nor do I know of one in development (please correct me if I'm wrong).
This makes a huge difference because I shoot a lot with the phone cameras. Right now with GCam, I get more technically impressive photos from a lower priced Redmi Note 7 than the oversaturated painting I get from Miui's own cameras, and that's from a technically inferior Samsung GM1 sensor.
As it stands now, it depends on your usage and preferences. I personally wouldn't mind the Mi8 myself, especially if it's cheaper, except they are no longer available in these parts of asia (sold out). I think Mi8's faults are that the 845 isn't as efficient, and the battery is smaller, resulting in less run time. Yet it IS a flagship, which means potentially better build, better parts (it has a LRA vibration motor vs cc9's cheaper rotary motor), world bands gsm (where cc9 has a more regional bands selection), and more community support. The camera is an IMX363, same as on pixel 3 and 3a, so it's no slouch: while it has lower resolution on paper, it really just skipped the need of marketing driven pixel binning by having larger pixels to begin with. (Personally I think the apparent race toward higher megapixels as a strategy for xiaomi is completely misguided if not deliberately misleading). Post processing would be what makes or breaks the results, and with mi8 you can get full GCam support. In fact with pixel experience rom and gcam, you'd probably get nearly identical pixel 3 experience for a bargain. While 4000mah battery would be nice, pixel3/3a does just fine with similarly small sized batteries and oled. So it may just come down to better optimization.
oh, the underscreen fingerprint sensor is just crappy and unreliable. There's a reason why it's not as widely adopted. It's not a miss if you have the capacitive ones instead.
I personally would love a well supported phone, so my pick today might become mi8. As much as I love the cc9/mi9lite, it coming onto the stage too late in the cycle after all bases are covered makes it a bit of an orphan when it comes to development. I don't personally use the headphone jack but I would miss the SD card slot. Screens are similar, brilliant Samsung OLED. In fact I think Mi8 was touted as one of the best displays from Xiaomi in terms of color accuracy. If you don't care as much about community support/aosp roms, and is content with MIUI and its camera app, then CC9 is really as good as they come this year. From the way the new xiaomi phone looks (redmi k30, cc9 pro, rumor of mi10), such thoughtful and balanced design is probably going to be a rarity in the up coming models.
Hope this helps
I agree with the reply above. Had I known that the CC9 has no Camera2 API Level 3 (only "full", which doesn't support all features making GCam development very limited), I'd probably have gone for the Mi 8. They were both at the same price when i bought the CC9, and though I enjoy having a bigger display and battery, most of the time I wonder if I'd be better off with smaller ones but Level 3 API (full support for GCam, which is important to me since I've come from a RN7 that took better pictures than the CC9), a way stronger processor and better build quality. The points that made me choose the CC9 instead were simply the teardrop notch as opposed to the huge forehead on the Mi8 and the bigger battery, as I use the phone to work on the street. Also it's a newer phone. But every now and then I question myself if I made the right decision. You'll have to weigh these points and see what is most important to you and your way of using the phone. But either one you take, you'll be making a tradeoff. Think it through patiently so you don't regret it later.
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https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9065&idPhone2=9862
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As I pointed out I already compared both phones myself using gsmarena and just summarized the main differences upon which I wasn't able to make a decision.
kesc said:
mi 9 lite:
Under screen Fingerprint sensor is neither fast, neither accurate and not convenient IMO;
I get aprox. 2 days battery life under light usage;
Camera is better than Samsung A50/A70 series, but I don think it is perfect;
It seems it is not primary phone, which gets best support (still android 9 vs mi 8 got android 10 officially);
Display is not perfect, but much better than Mi A3
Ambient light sensor (mounted under screen) does not for as good as on samsung phones;
In 1 month I got 3 random phone crashes /reboot.
I would probably go with mi 8.
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Thanks for your input! I have to say that just recently a colleague ordered and received his Mi 9 Lite and the In-Screen-Fingerprint seems to be quite fast and accurate at first glance.
Camera on the Mi 8 using GCam is amazing. Especially when compared to my old Redmi Note 4.
And as this is my first Amoled it also looks amazing, but I have no comparison.
I also face sudden SystemUI reboots on HavocOS on my Mi8 about once every two to three days.
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hey. i've had both. i don't know about the band 28 situation so i can't comment on that.
Let me start by saying that I think CC9/Mi9 lite is a missed opportunity for xiaomi. It was positioned a bit awkwardly for marketing. It's evidently not sold very well and if xda is any indication, community support is also fairly low.
Yet to me it is the most "all-rounded" phone from xiaomi in 2019 (nope, not 9t/9tPro, which are very popular), checking off all the marks for me: samsung oled, great cameras front (better than mi9) and back, beautiful build and design of the Mi9, SD card, headphone jack, big battery, good battery life, midrange prices, etc. To me it was nearly perfect (except perhaps a year old SoC instead of SD730), or as perfect as I expected from Xiaomi anyway.
Except the fact it doesn't have strong community support. I've got it about 3 weeks after its China release. I am still waiting for official pixel experience or any AOSP rom to have stable releases. I am stuck with MIUI variant roms which are stable but I personally crave pure android. That and the fact there isn't a really reliable working GCam support, nor do I know of one in development (please correct me if I'm wrong).
This makes a huge difference because I shoot a lot with the phone cameras. Right now with GCam, I get more technically impressive photos from a lower priced Redmi Note 7 than the oversaturated painting I get from Miui's own cameras, and that's from a technically inferior Samsung GM1 sensor.
As it stands now, it depends on your usage and preferences. I personally wouldn't mind the Mi8 myself, especially if it's cheaper, except they are no longer available in these parts of asia (sold out). I think Mi8's faults are that the 845 isn't as efficient, and the battery is smaller, resulting in less run time. Yet it IS a flagship, which means potentially better build, better parts (it has a LRA vibration motor vs cc9's cheaper rotary motor), world bands gsm (where cc9 has a more regional bands selection), and more community support. The camera is an IMX363, same as on pixel 3 and 3a, so it's no slouch: while it has lower resolution on paper, it really just skipped the need of marketing driven pixel binning by having larger pixels to begin with. (Personally I think the apparent race toward higher megapixels as a strategy for xiaomi is completely misguided if not deliberately misleading). Post processing would be what makes or breaks the results, and with mi8 you can get full GCam support. In fact with pixel experience rom and gcam, you'd probably get nearly identical pixel 3 experience for a bargain. While 4000mah battery would be nice, pixel3/3a does just fine with similarly small sized batteries and oled. So it may just come down to better optimization.
oh, the underscreen fingerprint sensor is just crappy and unreliable. There's a reason why it's not as widely adopted. It's not a miss if you have the capacitive ones instead.
I personally would love a well supported phone, so my pick today might become mi8. As much as I love the cc9/mi9lite, it coming onto the stage too late in the cycle after all bases are covered makes it a bit of an orphan when it comes to development. I don't personally use the headphone jack but I would miss the SD card slot. Screens are similar, brilliant Samsung OLED. In fact I think Mi8 was touted as one of the best displays from Xiaomi in terms of color accuracy. If you don't care as much about community support/aosp roms, and is content with MIUI and its camera app, then CC9 is really as good as they come this year. From the way the new xiaomi phone looks (redmi k30, cc9 pro, rumor of mi10), such thoughtful and balanced design is probably going to be a rarity in the up coming models.
Hope this helps
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Wow! Thank you so much for your efforts taking time to write such an detailed and honest opinion.
Talking about the Pixel Experience ROM I took a look into that and counting from release date of the Mi 8 it took about 6 months for a stable and official build to be released (May 2018 -> 25th Nov 2018).
Depending on the Mi 9 lite being released in Sep 2019 one could give it 2-3 months from now on compared to the time it took the Mi 8 to get some Official ROM support. As far as I can see the first unofficial custom ROMS for the Mi8 dropped in Oct 2018 which is 5 months after release whereas the first unofficial LOS build appeared just recently for the Mi 9 Lite. Therefore it only took the Mi 9 Lite 4 months to receive its first unofficial LOS build. So it looks like the support and development isn't that bad.
But yet it's still hard to tell how much (xda community) popularity the phone could get in the near future.
For me the battery life is one of the most convincing reason to buy. It was so satisfying to reach up to 3 days with my Redmi Note 4 without having to charge it once. I know this depends on usage but I always got at least 2 days if I wasn't at home gaming on the phone all the day.
Oh and yeah - you name it - the feeling of the vibration motor is so smooth and from the first moment on gives a so much more premium feeling than I experienced with the one in my Redmi Note 4. And yes the fingerprint scanner on the mi 8 is very fast and accurate.
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I agree with the reply above. Had I known that the CC9 has no Camera2 API Level 3 (only "full", which doesn't support all features making GCam development very limited), I'd probably have gone for the Mi 8. They were both at the same price when i bought the CC9, and though I enjoy having a bigger display and battery, most of the time I wonder if I'd be better off with smaller ones but Level 3 API (full support for GCam, which is important to me since I've come from a RN7 that took better pictures than the CC9), a way stronger processor and better build quality. The points that made me choose the CC9 instead were simply the teardrop notch as opposed to the huge forehead on the Mi8 and the bigger battery, as I use the phone to work on the street. Also it's a newer phone. But every now and then I question myself if I made the right decision. You'll have to weigh these points and see what is most important to you and your way of using the phone. But either one you take, you'll be making a tradeoff. Think it through patiently so you don't regret it later.
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Interesting point. But isn't this just depending on the ROM/software or is this a hardware issue?
I already somehow adapted to the forehead notch. I found it quite ugly the first to days. And it still is. The teardrop notch definitely is way more attractive. I guess it's missing the IR front camera, though (not that it would be that important/useful). And are the speaker, proximity sensor as well as light sensor positioned under the Amoled somewhere?
Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro (Redmi K30 Pro), all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro (Redmi K30 Pro) is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Rh phone is great, but MIUI sucks. Waiting a Pixel feeling ROM...
REALLY considering the upgrade from my F1 to the F2 pro now that there are custom roms available..
The price just needs to creep down a bit more..
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Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro (Redmi K30 Pro), all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro (Redmi K30 Pro) is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
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I love this phone more than my girlfriend
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Rh phone is great, but MIUI sucks. Waiting a Pixel feeling ROM...
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So many ROMs out try it buddy
I firkin love this phone.
My feelings
I have switched from oneplus 3T to poco F2 pro after I broke the screen on op. Unfortunately MIUI was an unpleasant surprise. The system had a lot of bloatware and I consider it as a trash. Fortunately after some time ROM development started. Now after a few months the phone is a bit more usable. Next thing is that the phone is very heavy and it is not comfortable to use it. And what about camera? I use gcam as on my old op3t and quality of images is much worse than on op3t (not comparing resolution but overal image quality and colours). Another thing is a huge price loss. I have bought this phone right after premiere. My friend bought this phone 1.5 months later for 3/5 of this price. I only talk about official stores in my country, not AliExpress etc. It is unbelievable for me as other phones (OnePlus/Samsung) doesn't lose their price after that small period of time. All in all I think I made a mistake by buying this phone. I feel disappointed. I won't give Xiaomi another chance.
I find this device fantastic, especially for the incredibly low price I got it.. 300€ so ~350$ or ~270£
The only thing I don't like is that it's a "Poco" and not a real Xiaomi / Redmi, I don't like the Poco launcher which prevents removing the app drawer
Otherwise everything is excellent on the device, the best battery life I have had to date, a very good quality screen with no holes, it's quite rare now !
The sound, although not stereo, is clear and powerful
The design is quite successful, with the lens a little too prominent and the notification LED which has a slightly strange location, but the whole exudes quality and gives a good impression
Finally got it so here are some first impressions
I'm not amazed by the display , considering it's quite a step up from my F1 i tought it would be stunning but for now it's not really the case.
The size is just right i think ; it is a bit more bulky in the hand but since both screen and battery are bigger it's not a huge price to pay imho.
The speed is a difficult one ; i only worked very briefly with it , both on stock miui and CRdroid , so far i have to say it feels a little bit more snappy then the F1 but there is not a big difference here.
Battery is always a point ; it does charge quickly on the QC charger ( multiport blitzwolf , recommended ! ) and the drain so far is managable.
I was hoping on a noticeable improvement in energy usage considering the bigger cell and the led display , maybe that is something to come
So far i'm not "blow away" by my upgrade from the F1 to the F2 , it is a nice phone and hopefully it will grow on me a bit more over time
Coming from Galaxy S9, I got this phone at crazy good deal for 350 euros.
Two main reasons why I got it were pop-up camera for uninterrupted display and very good battery life.
In my experience I charge every second day, could push to three days but I never let it go under 30%.
SOT is around 8-9 hours in 48hr period.
Camera is average, but big suprise is super macro camera that is very fun to take pictures with which made me start use camera more frequently than usual. Ultra-wide camera is also great. Tried using GCam and it takes more or less same pictures.
MIUI is all right, nothing special really. There were some bugs here or there but most of them were solved by manually updating Poco Launcher.
One thing that annoys me is that Android 11 brought slight standby drain which can be neutralized by signing out from Mi Account on settings and turning off Wi-Fi overnight.
Second thing that annoys me is that, at the time, gesture navigation isn't available with 3rd party launchers, so I'm stuck with Poco Launcher for the time being.
It's nice upgrade over Galaxy S9, maybe the software isn't as polished as One UI, but battery life is three times better and most specs are banging for 350 euros. I don't regret buying it.
Still on the edge about rooting it and installing custom ROM because I will lose warranty though
Hi there, Ive read a lot of comments about updates degrading camera, battery life etc..
Having this in mind, do I still buy this phone or no? My second option is OP7 Pro. But Im more leaned towards huawei since that camera system is really nice.
And I would take better camera than higher refresh rate screen so just wanted to check if there are some real problems with updates?
btw i would be getting new edition p30 pro which ships with android 10 and emui 10.1 I think
So I have the p30 pro new edition and cannot fault it, I've read reviews where the phone is still perfectly capable flagship in 2020 and the updates are fine especially if you use hisuite proxy method by Silvio0.
Still One of the best out there
Immortal0907 said:
Hi there, Ive read a lot of comments about updates degrading camera, battery life etc..
Having this in mind, do I still buy this phone or no? My second option is OP7 Pro. But Im more leaned towards huawei since that camera system is really nice.
And I would take better camera than higher refresh rate screen so just wanted to check if there are some real problems with updates?
btw i would be getting new edition p30 pro which ships with android 10 and emui 10.1 I think
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So i just upgraded from the P30 Pro to the P40 Pro and gave the old device to my Mrs, the devices is still a perfect as the first day i got it, still runs smoothly and battery still lasts 1 &1/2 to 2 days depending on what shes been doing, even at one year old it still has some heavy tech in it that other manufacturers are just starting to put in theres, in terms of the screen for mobile games such as call of duty mobile / PUBG there was no main noticeable differences to me when playing however the p40 just looks that extra bit sharper and more responsive , still a very capable device id say its still a great buy!!!