The Poco F5 was a hit last year, so the new F6 has big shoes to fill. It was so popular, in fact, that it even overshadowed its sibling, the Poco F5 Pro, so the new F6 Pro also has a lot to prove. The phones are available in some regions starting today, and the F6 will be available in India on the 29th. Are you interested in buying an F6 and which one?
Little F6
Let’s start with the vanilla model. The Poco F6 brings a flagship-grade chipset, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, which replaces the 7+ Gen 2 of the F5. With a more powerful GPU on board, the company also thought to increase the screen resolution to 1,220 x 2,712 px (from FHD +). The phone also uses faster storage, so we expect this to be a solid performance upgrade.
Little F6
The F6 also has a dust and water resistance rating of IP64, which isn’t great, but it has been omitted from the F5 range entirely. The screen is protected by Gorilla Glass Victus (from GG5). Charging for the 5,000mAh battery was boosted to 90W, not that 67W was slow.
Poco F6 Pro
Moving on to the Poco F6 Pro, which still has a resolution advantage of QHD+ and it has the better chipset. Now, it’s last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, but it should still be faster than the new 8s Gen 3 in the vanilla model. Poco has also upgraded the main camera, but maybe not in the way you might have wanted – the 50MP main camera has a bigger sensor, but there’s still no telephoto lens, and the ultra-wide only has an 8MP sensor.
Poco F6 Pro
The charger is more of a side grade – the battery capacity is 5000 mAh, and it supports super fast 120 W charging (10% in 19 minutes), but it has lost the 30 W wireless charging and some capacity compared to the F5 Pro (5,160 mAh). However, the IP64 and GG Victus are nice upgrades over the F5 Pro.
Poco F6 Pro
Before we head to the polls, we have to mention the prices of the two phones – we have global and European prices for the Poco F6 and F6 Pro as well as prices for F6’s upcoming launch in India.
| Little F6 | Poco F6 Pro | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8GB/256GB | $380 ($340) | €450 (€390) | ₹30,000 (₹26,000) | $500 ($450) | €580 (€500) |
| 12GB/256GB | – | – | ₹32,000 (₹28,000) | – | – |
| 12GB/512GB | $430 ($380) | €500 (€420) | ₹34,000 (₹30,000) | $550 ($500) | €630 (€550) |
| 16GB/1TB | – | – | – | $630 ($580) | €700 (€600) |
| Note: the prices in brackets are early offers | |||||
Time to vote, starting with the Poco F6:
And now the Poco F6 Pro: