POCO F has its own fanbase in India and has become sort of a cult despite the absence since 2018. The company has, however, pitched about the resurrection a few months back, and now POCO India Director Anuj Sharma says it is in progress and will cost way more when launched.
Answering a user’s query on Twitter, Anuj
said that the work regarding the POCO F-series device is in progress. Now, we
can safely say that the successor of POCO F1 will also be a proper flagship as
Anuj already confirmed that it won’t feature any midrange chipset.
The company’s global division recently
launched the POCO F3 in European markets. Of course, it succeeds the 2020’s
POCO F2 Pro globally but we don’t have any of those in India. And looking at
recent reports, the POCO F3, which is itself a Redmi K40 rebrand, could launch
in India as Mi 11X.
Hence, we request you not to fixate
yourself on a name just yet. That said, you might ask what is the POCO flagship
for India then? Well, Xiaomi is all set to launch a gaming smartphone in China,
probably this month (April 2021), and reports say that this could be arriving in
India under POCO.
The gaming smartphone is likely having the
model number M2104K10C in China and an Indian version of this has already
appeared on the IMEI database under POCO branding. And now, a vague tip given
to Abhishek Yadav says that this device will launch in India as POCO F2 for
₹ 27,000 (US$ 359).
The Redmi gaming device is said to feature
a MediaTek Dimensity 1200 chipset and have 65W charging support. But, there are
chances of this being a separate device, while the successor of POCO F1 will
continue to have a Qualcomm Snapdragon flagship chipset as well.
All these are early guesses and hence, we
request you to take them with a heap of salt. Whatever is the case, as Anuj
says, don’t expect the flagship to launch at a lower price like POCO X3 Pro or
in Twitterati terms, at a flagship killer price.
