Poco F7 Pro review after 3 days of use

 

It's time to retire my Poco x3 pro. It's battery is dead again and I am tired of getting replacement battery. And honestly, the amount I spent on replacing the battery is almost the cost of the phone itself.

Packaging and Design

I do love the design of the packaging. Very simple, but elegant. In the box, it comes with the phone, a 90W charging brick and a USB type C cable. Oh, and also a SIM card ejection pin.

I think the phone design is a huge jump from the x3 pro. The rim is metal and the back feels like a combination of glossy glass an matte. When I picked it up, I can feel it's quality and it feels more premium than the x3 pro. 

The SIM tray is at the bottom along side the charging port and speaker. The camera bump is kinda meh... but ok, I can get pass it. 

Transferring Data and Fingerprint Unlock

Setting up and transferring data from another phone is easy. However do not that those Apps that you sideloaded will highly not be transferred over. For one, my Notes didn't get transferred over.

I love it that the F7 uses in-display fingerprint sensors and it's fast as hell! And even when I just contact the sensor with my thumb slightly titled. 

Display

I find the screen being bright and sharp. It's very comfortable to use in indoors situation. I do see great improvements over the x3 pro. Not that the x3 pro is bad but the F7 pro brightness and sharpness is definitely more. 

While using outdoors, especially under sunlight, it's still visible with a 70ish% brightness. But of course I didn't test it under the strongest sunlight. 

HyperOS and Ads

Having tried both MIUI and HyperOS, I actually find HyperOS faster and not that "heavy" so booting up is faster. However, it's still as "heavy" in the sense it took up 10.13GB and another 23.80GB of system files.

The only problem I have with HyperOS is that it locks the phone and no longer allow custom roms or reverting to stock OS. 

Ads are still here and there but honestly not overwhelming. Some Ads, I can just "skip" it by exiting the App because it comes at the end of the process. Also, yes there are preinstalled Apps that you have to manually remove.

They\re mainly some casual games and shopping Apps like Lazada. 

Camera

Wide (main): 50MP OmniVision OVX8000 (likely same as OV50E, 1/1.55", 1.0µm - 2.0µm), f/1.6, 24mm, multi-directional PDAF; 8K@24fps, 4K@60fps

Ultrawide: 8MP OmniVision OV08D (1/4.0", 1.12µm), f/2.2, 15mm, fixed focus; FullHD@60fps

Front camera: 20MP OmniVision OV20B (1/4.0", 0.7µm-1.4µm), f/2.2, 21mm, fixed focus; FullHD@60fps

Honestly, I don't know what these statistic means. But I can share what I feel. I don't think I really like the camera at least in darker situation. I feel the blur around the main subject feels a little unnatural.

Photos taken with 0.6x, 1x and 2x in a semi dark room.

The selfie camera is much sharper than I expected. Especially when compared to the x3 pro. But it's nothing impressive too.

In situation whereby it's bright and lights are ample, photos turns out quite well. 

This is 2.4x zoom

Gaming

I only play games that aren't very demanding, I mainly play Kairosoft games and NDS and PSP games on emulation. 

I have no problem at all playing for more than a few hours consecutively. The phone does gets warm to touch but it didn't lag much. 

The thing I notice that has improve from the x3 pro is that Kairosoft games, which usually drains battery and heats phone up pretty fast, didn't get the F7 pro too hot. Battery drop is also not that drastic.

Of ocurse, I must be fair that F7 pro have much more ram (12GB) that the x3 pro (6GB) that I own. 

I actually also took a short 2 minute screen recording while play games on emulation and I don't feel any lag at all. No crazy temperature too, just warm to touch.

Battery

The F7 pro comes with massive 6000mAh (typ) battery which promises 15 hours of Continuous use. I honestly am quite confident that it will live up to it's promise if you're not gaming/video surfing heavily.

I have the phone charged to 100% and used it for light gaming for at least 2 hours and some light video surfing and still have 70% after 5 hours. I used it sparingly and then left it idle till next day noon and it still have 30%.

I am glad emulation doesn't drain battery as much as the x3 pro. But to be fair, the x3 pro is much older and the battery is an OEM. I will definitely come back here to update how the battery is after using for longer time.

Overall, I am happy with my F7 pro. It's definitely an upgrade from my x3 pro in many ways. The screen is brighter and sharper, it runs game with less heat and lags.

Pros		Cons
+ Fast charging		- HyperOS not allowing custom roms
+ Great for emulation and games that I play		- camera design kinda ugly
+ 6000mAh battery		- Ads (unless toggle off)
+ Hi res certified stereo speakers		- Unwanted apps preinstalled
+ Cheap (relatively)    + in display fingerprint that is responsive
+ feels premium + bright and sharp display

Is FastGig a good gig platform?

 

I have actually gotten to know about the gig work platform, Fastgig in Feb 2025. That was during Chinese New Year whereby jobs are more and have higher hourly rate.

The interface is simple and pretty straightforward. 

And the functions are ... very simple too. Filtering by time slots, date or companies.

The variety of jobs on Fastgig isn't as much as JOD (Jobs On Demand) but it's decent. Like there are some retail,, promoter, F&B and packer jobs. Occasionally, you get flyers and admin jobs.

The app promises to PAY weekly and on Friday the following week. Which means even if you work on Monday on the first week of Feb, you'll only get paid on the Friday of the 2nd week of Feb.

My experience with them is they do pay and quite timely. However, I think they still need LOTS of improvements!

1) Their GPS is NOT accurate

How does this affect your job? You may ask. It's simple, you have to be at the exact or close enough to the workplace in order to sign in to work! I have encountered an unfortunate event whereby I wasn't allowed to login despite being at the work location. I contacted CS and they didn't respond!

Lucky for me, the employer is very nice and reported the problem to Fastgig for me. 

Not surprising, they contacted me halfway into my shift and then asked me if I was there. I just sent them a screenshot of the problem and a photo of the shop. 

I think Fastgig shouldn't bet on employers being nice or what if the employer decide to be dishonest about the hours worked?

2) Shifts are hard to get

I have tried booking shifts more than 1 week before when there are still ample openings. But I was put on pending for the longest time and then finally on "Reserved" which means that I am on standby for a gig that is fully allocated. 

What the hell, I applied for it when there are ample openings and still didn't get it! Finally, I guess one of the giggers cancelled their shift and they suddenly notified me at 1-ish am that there is an opening. But 5-10 minutes later informed me again that the job was taken.

Who the hell expect someone to be checking their app or email at 1am?

3) Very last Minute allocation

I have applied for a job and it starts at 5pm. I only got the notification that I was selected at around 3pm! I don't know what to say, why is it so hard to select someone for the job?

4) Short Shifts

Well this may not be a bad thing for some people who prefers some shifts but for some, it's just not worth the travel. I have seen them posting gigs with low hourly pay (like $9-11) that are only 2-4 hours. 

It will be OK if you live nearby but some of these gigs are in those industrial areas which make it quite inconvenient and not worthy it. 

5) Sudden change of shift timing

There is this one job with good length and pay. It's an 8 hour shift with 1 paid break, however, after getting selected, it was changed to a 12.5 hour shift but still with 1 break only!

Have to cancel the shift because I couldn't make, I have an appointment before the shift starts. 

Overall, I am ok with Fastgig but it has become extremely hard to get a shift now and that they're not the best when it comes to providing help whenever there are problems. But they do pay on time for the 2 jobs I did with them.

Would I recommend them to a friend who wanted to join? Probably not because they seems to have some "regulars" that they prefer to engaged instead of some newcomers.