POCO F5 series

[cosycatus]

You're not alone. I use normal charging most of the time, only fast charge when I'm in a hurry, which is not often.

Actually battery is spoiled by 2 things.

Heat and in either v full or v empty state.

Slow charging helps by not generating heat. But actually if u fast charge in a cool environment like air con place also ok.

Stay empty or 100 percent full too long actually physically strain the battery hence it spoils easily..aka bloated battery. Hence charging overnight and letting it stay at 100 percent always is as bad as leaving it empty.

Anyway.. change battery cheap la. Oneself change 15 bucks. Shop usually 50.
Use normally. Battery tech v good now..u toture the battery for 2 years it is still v good.

 

[carboy00]

for those who bought F5 Pro, how are the cameras?

Online reviews are pretty mixed on them.


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[chaiscool]

Actually battery is spoiled by 2 things.

Heat and in either v full or v empty state.

Slow charging helps by not generating heat. But actually if u fast charge in a cool environment like air con place also ok.

Stay empty or 100 percent full too long actually physically strain the battery hence it spoils easily..aka bloated battery. Hence charging overnight and letting it stay at 100 percent always is as bad as leaving it empty.

Anyway.. change battery cheap la. Oneself change 15 bucks. Shop usually 50.
Use normally. Battery tech v good now..u toture the battery for 2 years it is still v good.

Imo won’t dare to use oem battery for some phone models like realme neo.

The phone 200+ watt can charge full in 10 mins, later oem lower quality battery cannot take it and explode with no warranty haha.

 

[KeYoKe]

for those who bought F5 Pro, how are the cameras?

Online reviews are pretty mixed on them.


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people who bought poco, their first priority is definitely not the cameras.

so if camera is important for you, you are better off samsung or oppo

 

[cosycatus]

Imo won’t dare to use oem battery for some phone models like realme neo.

The phone 200+ watt can charge full in 10 mins, later oem lower quality battery cannot take it and explode with no warranty haha.

Exaggeration only
Chinese phone use the max charging power to lay claim to fast charging.
in reality the v high speed only for a few minutes.
if u charge a phone from 30 plus percent to 80 plus percent the time difference between a 25watt charging and a 200 watt realme whatever actually v small.

oem battery doesn't mean it sucks.
likely come from same factory that produce the original.

 

[caterham7]

for those who bought F5 Pro, how are the cameras?

Online reviews are pretty mixed on them.


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can consider pixel 6a or 7a if looking at camera quality

 

[luei74]

for those who bought F5 Pro, how are the cameras?

Online reviews are pretty mixed on them.


Read HWZ Forum Rules on realme GT2 Pro

if PQ is one of your KPIV, please stay away from POCO series

 

[yumsang]

standard Mi style, the popular color always out of stock. sell like no sell

 

[chaiscool]

Exaggeration only
Chinese phone use the max charging power to lay claim to fast charging.
in reality the v high speed only for a few minutes.
if u charge a phone from 30 plus percent to 80 plus percent the time difference between a 25watt charging and a 200 watt realme whatever actually v small.

oem battery doesn't mean it sucks.
likely come from same factory that produce the original.

But reviews all say 10 mins fully charged though.

 

[frizee]

Gotta say, the F5 is hands down a much better and value for money buy compared to Pixel 7a lol, imo it's much faster and smoother

Battery also no horse run

Heng sold away the 7a without losing much, maybe just $10 lol

Camera seems good leh, well at least for me I can take decent shots I'm contented le

 

[Martinson]

The night shots are disappointing, very dark. Hope the gcam can help

 

[jansen chan]

F5 is selling so well, now no more white and blue sets in shopee and lazada.

Blue still can find in Carohell & some online shops. White everywhere dun hv, esp the 12GB one.

Moi cancel order twice liao. Wanna look for alternative.

K60 still on Gen.1 7 series, so no point.

New Redmi Note 12 Turbo pro is almost exact clone of F5, but dunno why it's performance lose a bit. Cheaper by 30/40 bucks.

See til 7/7 sales then still no stock will get the Note 12 T.

 

[rssd21]

Blue still can find in Carohell & some online shops. White everywhere dun hv, esp the 12GB one.

Moi cancel order twice liao. Wanna look for alternative.

K60 still on Gen.1 7 series, so no point.

New Redmi Note 12 Turbo pro is almost exact clone of F5, but dunno why it's performance lose a bit. Cheaper by 30/40 bucks.

See til 7/7 sales then still no stock will get the Note 12 T.

Yeah, F5 is slightly more value for money, newer and better hardware. Wait and see next sale time.

 

[jansen chan]

The harry potter ed. looks nice. thought of getting over F5.

But dunno wanna accept the slight drop in performance, even though both are identical model.

Guess see which is available first.

 

[rssd21]

The harry potter ed. looks nice. thought of getting over F5.

But dunno wanna accept the slight drop in performance, even though both are identical model.

Guess see which is available first.

Great idea. When black is not the best set to sell, slap some popular print at the back and resell them again.

 

[jansen chan]

Great idea. When black is not the best set to sell, slap some popular print at the back and resell them again.

When you put it like that, guess I'LL go for the white....

What a mood damper.

 

[SPEED]

2 days more to exactly 2 weeks my f5 in funan service centre and still not yet fixed. No spare parts yet. Really gg max.

 

[rssd21]

When you put it like that, guess I'LL go for the white....

What a mood damper.

When you are using a non-transparent phone case, it doesn't matter what colour is the phone.

I like Harry Potter too, but not on my phone.

 

[human_shieldz]

2 days more to exactly 2 weeks my f5 in funan service centre and still not yet fixed. No spare parts yet. Really gg max.

Don't complain so much. My Galaxy S22 Ultra install June security update then went until bootloop right away until then mobo died. Brought to service center then 5hrs later fixed and lucky I got extended warranty else repair cost $760. Now every update I'll film it down then upload to youtube just in case I need evidence that their update caused it. Sibei scary if have to pay so much for something that's not my fault

But you a bit suey. Sian new phone like that. That time my ASUS NEXUS Tablet also 1 week later Black line across the screen and 2 weeks repair and worse part is that tablet is actually a rather unusable device out of the box cos ASUS decided to go cheap and use cheap storage I heard. Subsequent Android version update virtually makes it a non-usable device, takes ages just to load a video then during playback can lag never bought an Asus device for the last 11 years after

 

[amx5758]

Just received an update notification for my F5.
Downloading the update now.