Pocophone F1 spotted on GeekBench running Android 9 Pie
You can't have missed the Pocophone F1 (or just Poco F1 in India) - the super affordable phone with flagship-grade hardware from Xiaomi that got us pretty impressed.
Predictably, Xiaomi isn't just content with putting it out there and raking in cash, it's also hard at work on supporting the F1 from a software standpoint and an Android 9 Pie update is in the pipelines. A Pocophone F1 has shown up on GeekBench running Google's latest OS version.
Pocophone F1 on GeekBench running Android 9 Pie
Now, both the single-core and multi-core test results are lower than what our review unit scored with Oreo on board - some 17% lower.
GeekBench 4.1 (multi-core)
Higher is better
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Xiaomi Pocophone F1
9003 -
Xiaomi Pocophone F1 (Android 9)
7523
GeekBench 4.1 (single-core)
Higher is better
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Xiaomi Pocophone F1
2438 -
Xiaomi Pocophone F1 (Android 9)
2036
That's leading us to believe that it's not strictly a final build ready for prime time. In any case, however, the Pie update for the Pocophone F1 isn't that far in the future.
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- Dank710
- kmH
Even the best TV is trash. Watching TV doesn't do squat for our intellect. We should be watching less.
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- 2Au
haha, that's right. why use a smartphone in watching Netflix if you have a smartTV and you want to spend on higher price phones to get HD quality on Netlfix. Just get a SmartTV and quit whinning
- Cornfeld
- muC
AOSP 9.0 by phhuson runs already pretty good but I reverted back to MIUI9 due to a lack of notch support and camera issues. For example Arnova's Google Camera doesn't work and poco MIUI camera hasn't been ported for now, so atm we get a trimmed-down ...
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