Xiaomi Spin-Off Poco Returns With the 120Hz X2 For $225 (theverge.com) 24
Xiaomi spin-off brand Poco has launched its successor to last year's head-turning Poco F1. The Poco X2, as it is called, is a high-performance, low-cost phone for the extremely competitive India market. It'll be available in India on February 11th; it's unclear if the phone will be released elsewhere. The Verge has the details: The X2 has a Snapdragon 730G processor, a 6.67-inch 20:9 1080p LCD screen with a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 4,500mAh battery with 27W fast charging. The phone charges over USB-C, includes a headphone jack, and has a fingerprint sensor integrated into the power button. It's the first phone in India to feature Sony's new 64-megapixel IMX686 sensor, the successor to the 48-megapixel IMX586 that dominated the phone landscape in 2019, and that part is backed by an 8-megapixel ultrawide camera, a 2-megapixel macro module, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. There's also a 20-megapixel selfie camera with a 2-megapixel depth sensor housed in a hole-punch display cutout.
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It's one of those "feels better" but largely subconsciously. Apple has 120hz ipad pros you can try at the Apple store.
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Could be useful for Google Cardboard-style VR setups, resulting in 60Hz per eye.
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Not quite... Cardboard uses "side by side" encoding. You're thinking about "TV" 3D, which uses either checkerboard-style encoding (DLP) or alternating-frame (LCD).
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Oh right, I was indeed thinking "alternating-frame" stereoscopic view. My mistake.
Re: 120Hz screen (Score:2)
Well, 120fps is still nice for VR, because it cuts the minimum latency in half (from 16.67ms to 8.33ms), and gets you about a quarter of the way to the point where the sloshing goes away via brute-force with 1-frame pipeline latency (around 400-500fps foveal, 1000-1600fps peripheral).
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It's nice once you get used to it. Eats battery but this thing has s huge one so it's probably fine.
I expect this year 120hz screens will be the big new feature in most line ups.
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120mhz is great. I loved it back in 1996.
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120Hz screens will be nice and smooth, so if you're into mobile gaming, it will be something you want. It might make a difference if you're scrolling a lot to have ultra nice scrolling but that's debatable. But if you're just using it for phone-type tasks and internet surfing, probably not much value.
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It sounds like I might like it, but won't want to pay extra for it.
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It doesn't really do anything for you, it just looks nice.
At 6.67 inches, is it really a phone? (Score:2)
or a mini-tablet, or a phablet?
It is even bigger than most kindles...
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New for 2020! The smartphone backpack!
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The stupid aspect ratio (20:9) inflates the diagonal compared with the actual surface area.
Now can we have 2560x1440@120hz? (Score:2)
It's nice to see 120hz finally arriving for phones, but after getting spoiled by 2560x1440, I could never live with a lower-res display.
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Yes, but you won't find it on a $250 phone. Something had to be cut to make the price point, after all.
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Wow, you could never live with a lower res display? you cannot live without being spoiled?
Even though the lower res gives noticeably better battery life, and is generally quite a bit brighter also?
It must be difficult to stay alive in your universe of no compromise.
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It's not just a matter of smoothness... it also completely eliminates color fringing, and makes characters of any size sharper & easy to read. It's like the difference between a modern laser printer & a dot matrix printer. There's just no going back from it.
Xiaomi Pocophone X2 = Xiaomi Redmi K30 (Score:3)
According to several news sites about mobile phones, the Poco X2 is most likely the same phone as the Redmi K30. Under the latter name, it is available for 210£ in the UK, for instance.
Xiaomi does use different branding in different markets.
They did the same with the Redmi K20 Pro = Mi 9T Pro in other markets.
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