Xiaomi spinoff marque Poco has collaborated pinch Bose for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a statement for its flagship F9 Pro and Ultra phones. The F9 phones double down connected amped up audio, pinch a light-up subwoofer built into the Ultra, on pinch highly agleam displays, tremendous batteries, and what should beryllium Poco’s champion cameras yet.
The F9 Ultra sees the return of the Bose-branded 2.1 sound strategy introduced connected last year’s F8 Ultra. Poco has only somewhat tweaked the hardware, upgrading each of the 2 main speakers while utilizing the aforesaid subwoofer arsenic before, but has changed the building of the subwoofer equine to see a mini LED ringing astir it. It’s only white, pinch nary prime of color, but tin beryllium utilized for telephone and notification lights arsenic good arsenic rhythmic lighting during gaming aliases music, dissimilar the extremely constricted HiLight feature successful the caller Pixel 11 phones.
The subwoofer ray is subtle unless you drawback it astatine the correct angle.
This must beryllium the loudest telephone I’ve ever tested, but value is besides genuinely beautiful awesome considering the size of the speaker involved. This won’t lucifer the value of a bully Bluetooth speaker, but it’s bully capable that I’d happily trust connected this for playing euphony successful a edifice room, and it’s a definite upgrade for audio while gaming aliases watching TV. There are a mates of audio profiles designed by Bose, positive a afloat customizable EQ. New to the F9 Ultra is support for Bose’s crippled audio engine, which tin do things for illustration accentuate the sound of force footsteps successful an FPS.
The 6.9-inch OLED show is the different cardinal trading constituent here, and it besides has a gaming element. For starters, it’s highly bright, pinch what Poco says is simply a highest brightness of 10,000 nits. But the 185Hz refresh complaint is besides impressive, moreover if Poco says you’ll only deed that apical velocity during compatible games, of which there’ll beryllium much than 20 astatine launch, including Clash of Clans and GTA: Liberty City Stories.
Beyond that, the F9 Ultra has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, up to 16GB RAM and 1TB storage, and a capacious 8,050mAh silicon-carbon artillery pinch 100W charging. The cameras sound coagulated too: a 200-megapixel main camera, 50-megapixel 5x periscope, and 50-megapixel ultrawide. Poco tends to prioritize capacity complete photography, but it still has Xiaomi’s fantabulous image processing moving the show, truthful I’d expect bully results from this.
Both phones person 185Hz OLED displays pinch highest brightness of 10,000 nits.
The 2 speaker systems are different — the Pro (left) lacks a subwoofer.
The Ultra’s camera strategy uses Poco’s first 200-megapixel sensor.
The Pro uses the aforesaid main camera, but simpler telephoto and ultrawides.
The Ultra is joined by the F9 Pro, a akin telephone that’s conscionable a small stripped back. The Bose stereo speakers deficiency some the subwoofer and the notification LED, the 6.59-inch show is simply a small smaller but conscionable arsenic agleam and fast, the 6,330mAh artillery is smaller, and the telephoto and ultrawide cameras are worse. Interestingly, it’s powered by the 8 Elite Gen 5 V Series, a binned type of the spot pinch very somewhat reduced performance.
The F9 Ultra starts from a flagship-level €1,099.90 (about $1,275), though is launching astatine a overmuch little early vertebrate value of €829.90 ($960). As for the Pro, it’s €899.90 ($1,040), pinch a €739.90 ($860) first offer. Both phones will get 4 years of OS updates and six years of information support.
Photography by Dominic Preston / The Verge
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