POCO F3 GT Unboxing And First Impressions: Features

The POCO F3 GT is here & after the POCO F1, this might be the next phone with serious performance.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

• Introduction 
• Box Contents 
• Looks and Design 
• Build Quality 
• Ports and buttons 
• Display and specifications 
• Performance 
• GAMING
• OS UI
• Camera and Sensor 
• Connectivity and Multimedia 
• Conclusion

Introduction:

• POCO F1 was a serious flagship killer & the POCO F3 GT too will be in that class hopefully. This is a gaming phone & the specs are seriously good, we’ll tell you all about it.

• Most important it’s made in India with pride.

Box Contents:- 

• It’s the yellow & black combination. You get a sim card tool, a case, a USB Type C to 3.5mm adapter, which means there’s no 3.5mm jack.

• This is the phone, there’s a 67W fast charger & a yellow L shaped USB Type C cable for gaming.

Looks and Design:-

• It looks awesome & gives you a gaming vibe when you hold it. It’s a different design, I liked it.

• There’s one thing, on the Redmi K40 Gaming ‘Fighting' text was printed on the back, while here it’s POCO.

• But, there’s ‘Freezing’ & ‘Speediest’ text printed on the camera sides.

Build - 

• Just like Redmi K40 Gaming & this looks nice too with the POCO branding in the middle.

• The scratch guard is pre-applied & overall it looks wide & might weigh around 200-205g. Let’s test! And like I guessed it is 206g in weight.

• Let's put on the case, it’s a plane TPU case & is of decent quality.

• The case quality is good & fits well.

• The phone has a metal frame & Gorilla Glass on the front & back So it’s a metal-glass sandwiched design.

Ports & Buttons -

• As we see below, there’s a speaker grille, a USB Type C port, a mic & a sim card tray. On the left, there are 2 in-dents, microphone & volume rockers.

• On top, you get a noise-cancelling mic(total 3 mics), an IR Blaster & a speaker grill(stereo speakers).

• On the right, there are physical trigger buttons that can be opened with sliders.

• The trigger buttons give tactile & satisfying feedback. You’ll enjoy playing BGMI with it.   There’s a power on/off button in the middle of both triggers which doubles up as a fingerprint sensor.

Display - 

• It is different & looks squarish like a gaming console. It’s a big 6.67” FHD+ Super AMOLED display.

• It has a 120Hz fast refresh rate with 480Hz touch sampling rate, supports HDR10+ & 10bit colours(1Billion+ colours)

• It’s a beautiful display with a good screen-to-body ratio, the bezels are thin & the chin is quite small. I love the display with a centre punch hole because of the symmetry.

• This display is super bright, you’ll be able to use it out in the sunlight without a problem. There is no in-display fingerprint sensor but a side-mounted one.

Specifications - 

• There’s MediaTek Dimensity 1200 5G SoC which is good & near-flagship for gaming. It is based on 6Nm which is power efficient. 

• There are 3 different variants, we have the 8GB+128GB variant, there’s a 6GB+ 12GB variant too. The storage type is UFS 3.1 & the RAM type is LPDDR4X.

• It has a 5065mAh large battery with 67W fast charging that charges from 0-100% in 42 minutes.

Performance -

• It feels good for regular usage with the 120Hz fast refresh rate & 480Hz touch sampling.

• You’ll enjoy it. The AnTuTu score is 5.96L which should’ve been higher around 6.5L.

• Overall, the performance is more than what it shows.

• You can play games on HDR-Ultra settings, the Ultra HD is locked yet but we played on Ultra-HDR for a long time & we didn’t see any performance drop. It gives a sustained performance.

Gaming:-

• I was impressed with the BGMI & we also got a good performance while playing a heavy Genshin Impact game.

• And it’s fun playing BGMI with the trigger buttons. You'll love the phone & you’ll get used to them. Talking about gaming vibes, you get RGB lights in the upper & lower camera casing.

• There’s a Game Mode, where you’ll see the temperature, FPS etc. Also, you can enhance the graphics. You can custom assign functions to the trigger buttons as well with the Game Mode.

• The power button works as a fingerprint sensor & assigning functions to it would’ve been great! If someone from POCO is reading, can we do it?

Multimedia - 

• The stereo speaker sound is good quality & impressive & sounds good while you’re listening to music. And with the awesome display & sound, the multimedia experience is top-notch flagship-level!

• There should’ve been a 3.5mm jack in this gaming phone, but you do get a 3.5mm adapter in the box

OS UI - 

• It comes with MIUI 12.5 & there are no problems in regular usage as we didn’t see any ads. You’ll get a good UI experience & I’ll be waiting for MIUI 13 for sure!

Connectivity - 

• With Dimensity 1200 SoC, you get 5G with 10-11 bands(no mentions by POCO).

• It has dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi Calling, WiFi 6 support with Bluetooth 5.2 & no NFC.

Camera - 

• It’s a decent triple rear camera setup(64MP+8MP+2MP) & on the front you get a 16MP selfie sensor.

• You get all the camera UI features like Macro Videos & you can shoot 4K@30FPS videos.

Features - 

• It has Camera2api & Widevine L1 support. There’s a notification light in the RGB camera back.

• There’s no FM Radio & SAR value is within limits.

• The 1 feature that should be in all AMOLED phones is DC dimming which is present & it helps during videos.

Overall Conclusion :

• The in-hand feel is a little big, but it does give the gaming vibe.

• The performance too is flagship level. And I love the display with a 120Hz refresh rate & 480Hz touch sampling rate.

• MIUI 12.5 is ok, but overall, the gaming experience & performance is impressive.

That's all for this POCO F3 unboxing and Impression. Hope you like it.

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