The 2018 POCO F1, the company’s only launch during that year, was the smartphone we all recommend without fear. A Xiaomi spinoff, this brand has launched a missile at the waterline of high-end mobile phones: It had almost everything to compete with them, but it did so at a very low price. This launch was a complete success..

The idea had a clear appeal: one cell phone a year, and one idea: tearing down the big ones at the price/performance ratio. This philosophy was lost and in 2022 we found a POCO with a catalog that reminds us of the evolution of Xiaomi. increasingly confused and with less attractive price/performance ratios each time.

Wait, what is the BIT to recommend that I can’t remember anymore?

The birth of POCO was promising, but things have changed. From the beginning of 2021, POCO started stepping into the accelerator with the launch of new mobile phones, and this has had a direct result in the way one thinks about this brand: recommending cell phones was no longer easy so forcefully.

Many of you will remember the success of the POCO F1 and the no less spectacular success of the POCO X3 NFC; we recommended with closed eyes: There was no need to look further in the 200 Euro range.

We don’t forget the successful POCO F3 either. Then if we want to move in a price range below 400 euros, The spiritual successor to F1: one of the best processors on the market, when not AMOLED at 120 Hz mainstream, and LPDDR5 and UFS 3.1 memories in a cheap mobile phone. It was so good that F4, released today, was born as a vitaminized clone of F3.

Since that time things got complicated and to this F family were added mobile phones of the M family and the aforementioned X family. Distinguishing one from the other presented a similar challenge to the one Xiaomi posed when it started producing more and more models. each one.

In fact, Xiaomi seemed to hit the mark when it created the Redmi brands for entry-level phones and POCO for those models that stand out especially for their price/performance ratio, but In the end it’s all mixed up and today mobile phones from all these brands coexist and compete before it’s easy to understand what to expect from each.

As my colleague Ricardo Aguilar said a year ago, this new broadcast rhythm is suspected side effects:

A few months after launching POCO X3 NFC, Xiaomi has released a vitaminized version, POCO X3 Pro. It’s a kind of launch, in my opinion, classic Xiaomi moves. they do not benefit the user who chose the brand a few months ago, because they soon see how their model has been replaced by a much better one. The POCO X3 Pro is a POCO X3 NFC with a much better processor, more up-to-date and high-end memory: all for the same price as its little sibling.

The story is effectively the same this year. In these almost seven months of 2022 we have already seen that this catalog is already quite large and we already have seven models with POCO F4 and POCO X4 GT offered today (POCO C40, POCO F4 GT, POCO X4 Pro 5G, POCO M4 Pro, POCO M4 Pro 5G and the two mentioned) have their differences of course, but this is make selection difficult again.

It is true that the series is not as complex and numerous as Xiaomi’s, but we are halfway through the year and without a doubt more variants will appear in the coming months. With so many models and so many versions, what is the POCO mobile we can recommend? Previously, the answer was simple. Not so much now.

POCO series at a glance

Every user is a world but if you have to great summary Each of the terminals POCO is launching this 2022 could be a possible one:

• SMALL C40: economic input range.
• SMALL F4 GT: most powerful and multiplayer oriented.
• POCO X4 PRO 5G: Mid-range with 108 MP sensor.
• LITTLE M4 PRO: A good bet for enjoying multimedia contents.
• POCO M4 PRO 5G: Mid-range with 5G connectivity and exceptional autonomy.
• SMALL F4: A (very) ambitious middle class with OIS.
• POCO X4 GT: big promise in performance and efficiency.