Poco F5 plays up powerful specs, but software distinctly lacks refinement
Hindustan TimesThis is a slightly unfamiliar proposition, within the wider context of the mid-range Android smartphone space. And perhaps they have, with the Poco F5 that becomes the first phone in India with Qualcomm’s latest generation Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 processor. To put the performance aspect in a nutshell, the Poco F5 is miles ahead of all phones Samsung may offer you around the ₹30,000 price point. If you can spend a little more on the Vivo V27 phones, the low light performance is significantly better – there is a genuinely smart layer of image processing that’s assisting the cameras there. But then, to be an alternate flagship or even the leader in a price band around the ₹30,000 price point, the Poco F5 surprisingly still clings to the sort of annoyances you’d associate with more affordable Android phones – lots of preloaded apps you wouldn’t likely want and an interface that still tries to do too much.