POCO F7 PRO: The affordable gaming smartphone offers a revised version in 2025
If visually, the Poco F7 Pro seems identical to the F7 Ultrathe two smartphones do not entirely go to the same cards. Just announced alongside his ultra brother, the Poco F7 Pro is part of the line of the line F6 PRO one year old. Understand that the smartphone is based on the chipset Star of the previous year, from which he draws his promise of power, and plays modesty in terms of photography.
In detail, the Poco F7 Pro has a 6.67 -inch AMOLED screen displaying 3200 x 1440 pixels, with a cooling rate that can rise up to 120 Hz. It earns improved protection, since the Gorilla Glass 5 which premunrated the F6 PRO of stripes and shocks gives way to Gorilla Glass 7i, more efficient and more recent. The smartphone wants to be solid, since its 160.26 x 74.95 x 8.12 mm housing for 206 grams wins a IP68 certification signaling its resistance to immersion. We also note that the usual plastic shell of the POCO is replaced here by glass, a little more elegant.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 still topical
Under this neat hood hides the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 of Qualcomm, which made the heyday of the Xiaomi smartphones (the 14 And 14 Ultra in particular) like its competitors (the Galaxy S24 Ultra of Samsung), and which replaces the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 of the Poco F6 Pro; It brings to the new terminal its compatibility with WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. The more recent Snapdragon 8 Elite therefore remains reserved for the Ultra F7. Anyway, this chipset is accompanied by 12 GB of RAM (where ultra can count 16) and a liquidcool cooling system to avoid hot blows on the smartphone. And to ensure endurance worthy of the name at the F7 PRO, Xiaomi the 6000 mAh battery team (5000 mAh on the F6 Pro), however cutting a little on the fast load, which goes from 120 W to 90 W.
The photo, finally. Less in the spotlight than on the F7 Ultra, the photo block of the F7 Pro has two modules: the main combines a Light Fusion 800 sensor of 50 megapixels with a high-angle optics (F/1.6) and the second, limited to 8 megapixels, is flanked by an ultra-angle (F/2.2). Compared to the Ultra, he therefore loses a very defined sensor (32 MPx) associated with his ultra-angle, and does not have optical zoom; And compared to the F6 PRO, it loses a macro module (2 Mpx sensor) after all anecdotal. Its frontal module gains, on the other hand in definition, going from 16 to 20 Mpx.
Price and availability
Under Hyperos 2 with Android 15, the Poco F7 PRO offers a few AI function borrowed from Gemini. A little cheaper than ultra, but perhaps also less advantageous for those who want more versatility in terms of image capture, the smartphone is announced at € 603 in 12/256 GB and € 653 in 12/512 GB. Like the Ultra F7, it benefits from a launch offer allows you to acquire it at € 499 in 256 GB (with 50 € of bonus for the recovery of a smartphone) 512 GB (€ 70 of bonus recovery), each being accompanied by a Redmi Watch 5 Lite watch or Redmi Buds 6 offered on the brand's website. Suffice to say that they arise as an alternative to terminals such as the Samsung Galaxy A56 or at Google pixel 9athat has not yet been able to experience in the laboratory.
