Xiaomi Poco F4 GT — Review & Full Phone Specifications
gaming phones have yet to achieve mainstream success but manufacturers are still at it and the latest such device we’ve encountered is the Poco F4 GT if you’re a hardcore mobile gamer or just looking for a Poco phone with some nice specs the F4 GT might pique your interest. The Poco F4 GT offers features that you’d typically find in a dedicated gaming phone it’s actually the same device as their redmi k50 gaming in china it’s been repackaged though to seek a broader audience
the phone’s design doesn’t scream gamer but there are some edgy and stylistic touches its glass back has some neat angular accents all around and even the camera bump brings this hourglass shape there’s even some text around it freezing speediest maybe a mistranslation the frame is made from aluminum and the phone feels quite sturdy but unlike last year’s f3 GT there’s no ip rated protection as a gaming phone it’s not as in-depth of a package as some competitors
you don’t get a fancy cooling fan or accessories or extensive gaming related options there are leds at least around the camera bump which will light up for certain things like notifications and the charging cable has a right angle to it so you can charge the phone while gaming and the cable will stay tucked out of the way but the main gaming centric feature you’ll get on the Poco F4 GT are retractable hardware triggers they’re on the frame near the corners each one pops out with the flick of a switch they’re clicky and satisfying and offer a nice advantage for certain genres like racing games or shooters
the display of the Poco F4 GT is a 6.67 inch oled with a 1080p resolution gorilla glass vixx’s protection and a smooth 120hz refresh rate there’s support for high frame rate gaming here at up to 120 fps and thanks to a 480 hertz touch sampling rate the panel is quite responsive to your touch the refresh rate is able to dial down to idling on the home screen or with certain apps but it can go down further than that the display is quite nice it’s sharp and contrasty with support for 10 bit color and hdr 10 plus colors can be nicely accurate if you tweak them in settings and max brightness is quite respectable too we measured 470 nits with a manual slider and that boost is 760 nits in auto mode when in bright sun
Specifications of the Poco F4 GT
one interesting feature of the Poco F4 GT is that there are four speakers rather than two for your typical stereo setup they’re grouped together in pairs each pair consisting of a woofer and a tweeter the placement is nice to help avoid accidentally covering them while gaming they’re not the loudest speakers around but earned a score of good on our loudness charts the sound quality though is excellent with good bass and crisp treble you can’t have a gaming phone without a high-powered chipset
the Poco F4 GT brings the best the top tier snapdragon numbers and handles heavy android games without a sweat as i mentioned before there’s no fancy cooling fan here but there is an extensive passive cooling system which involves two vapor chambers but even so we did experience some thermal throttling in our testing which was in line with your typical flagship phone powering the phone is a 4700 mAh battery which is split into two cells for faster charging the overall performance is mediocre though with the GT scoring an endurance rating of just it may not last the longest but it’s among the fastest to top up thanks to a bundled 120 watt hyper charger
we normally test how much a device can charge in half an hour but the Poco F4 GT was able to charge from zero to completely full in just around 20 minutes for storage you get 128 or 256 gigs on board and that’s not expandable and the interface of the phone is a pretty standard one it’s miui 13 based on android 12. it’s nearly the same as what you’d find on any recent Xiaomi or pogo phone there’s a side mounted fingerprint reader for your biometrics and is fast and reliable the Poco F4 GT doesn’t bring any extra gaming related features beyond the game turbo launcher which is already found across Xiaomi devices
it offers some options but nothing too in depth there is an associated overlay which you can bring up in game and it will give you options like do it on disturb and screen recording what’s unique here is that you get mapping for the shoulder buttons so they can replace on-screen controls you also get extra functionality on the home screen based on the triggers you can use them as shortcuts to various functions.
Camera Features of Poco F4 GT
finally we reach the cameras which are nothing extraordinary there’s a 64 megapixel main cam an 8 megapixel ultra wide and a 2 megapixel macro cam during the day the F4 GT’s main camera captures respectable photos detail is nicely crisp and noise is low sharpening and dynamic range are about middle of the road portraits have competent subject separation with decent results even with complex scenes the ultrawide’s photos are acceptable in quality there’s enough detail and dynamic ranges so so macro cam are nothing special there’s not a lot of detail at this resolution at least the colors are lively in low light conditions
the Poco F4 GT will automatically apply night mode processing to photos from the main cam these shots are well exposed with wide dynamic range and well saturated colors the detail is pretty good and noise is low there’s also a dedicated night mode that you can toggle this produces slightly different results with heavier sharpening applied and boosted shadows the ultra wide doesn’t get the auto night mode and his nighttime photos are very dark hardly even usable you can turn on the dedicated night mode and it will dramatically improve exposure so at least you can see what’s in the scene
the 20 megapixel front facing cam are solid there’s wide dynamic range and colors look good the detail level is all right but not what you’d expect at this resolution the Poco F4 GT can record video in up to camera 4k video quality is great with low noise and plenty of detail the colors are quite vivid which might not be to everyone’s taste the ultrawide serves up an entirely different color palette with an overall colder look the detail level is very good for an ultra wide at 1080p and noise is minimal electronic stabilization is always on and besides the occasional focus hunting on the main cam the footage is overall quite smooth
so that’s the Poco F4 GT it’s a gaming phone that’s not as hardcore as say your rog phone or red magic but it still brings a great amoled display those nice quad speakers and the shoulder triggers the battery life isn’t the best but the charging speed sort of makes up for it gaming enthusiasts might be disappointed in the lack of a cooling fan or other accessories and you don’t have the same level of control over the performance like you’d have on other gaming phones but even so the Poco F4 GT brings some pretty nice specs for the price and is worth checking out.
Originally published at https://www.technews20-21.in on May 2, 2022.
