Poco F8 Ultra Reddit Verdict: Worth the Hype?

Am I going mad? Since when is £750/$1000 considered affordable?

When many 'flagships' are £1500/$2000, they are speaking relatively. No, it does not change it for most people.

I disagree with the display — this display is the best for me since I love Accurate Colours. This device has the best accurate colors on the planet that I've ever used. Having saturated colors and advanced color tuning is good and it should be added on the settings, since display colors are subjective and personal preference.

There's no catch. Xiaomi phones are cheaper because they contain ads, but it doesn't matter because you can disable them all easily. People nitpicking about the resolution are convincing themselves they can see pixels, which is just ridiculous on a 400+ PPI display. You can't even get close enough to the screen to see any pixels without your eyes losing focus.

Impressive phone for a flagship killer! *Look at the price* 900€?? Wow ok, erg, I would prefer a last year flagship.

Three weeks of daily use and I am very happy with this phone. Battery life is the biggest surprise — with moderate use I am consistently getting up to 3 days on a single charge. The speakers deserve special mention; the Bose subwoofer setup is honestly unique. I do not think there is another phone on the market that sounds like this.

Pros: fast SoC, good camera setup, IP68-certified, excellent 2.1 audio system tuned by Bose, large battery with fast charging. Cons: no 6 GHz Wi-Fi, significant heat development under sustained load, no LTPO panel.

IP68 with not entirely gimmicky subwoofer and 600 eur release price? Really cool.

If you search reddit a bit, you can find the hidden sRGB mode that they apparently 'forgot' to put in the options. It gives the phone a more vibrant appearance and we are all waiting for them to put the option in an update.

Get Poco F8 Ultra blindly. They are best value for money right now if you get EU version.

Almost no one buys Chinese phone on MSRP. They give it some ridiculous amount so when the sale comes, you go 'Wow, that's awesome savings.' It was £499 on sale.

Just wanting to point out the spec of the display is the same with the flagship Xiaomi 17 series that uses a new sub pixel arrangement so in theory it is similar sharpness with a 2K display but saves more battery.

I did not even notice muted colors until somebody mentioned and now I can say colors are not muted, just natural like on my wife's iPhone. I think we have just the opposite action to selling this phone — this is the smearing because this Poco model can seriously hit the popularity of such 'beasts' like OnePlus 15 giving that Poco F8U has better camera, same chipset, better speaker, still very big battery for much less money.

I've had the Poco F8 Ultra for a week now, and I haven't received any ads for anything. The camera works perfectly; I don't know what the Samsung Galaxy S25's camera is like, but I'm coming from a ROG Phone 9 Pro, and the Poco F8 Ultra's camera blows it out of the water. The battery lasts me more than a day without needing to recharge.

I own it, and IMO, the only real catch is that the screen lacks advanced color settings that can be used to tune the display to one's liking. If you are not a fan of natural colors and greatly prefer vibrant colored screens like Samsung screens, then you will not like the 'washed' out look of the F8 Ultra that you will basically have no way of changing.

0 screen customisation options, It's dull and not as vibrant as my S23 Ultra and it's not as sharp neither hence the FHD+ screen. It's annoying because everything else is great imo and I know some say the camera isn't flagship level and here I have to disagree, I am very fussy with my mobile phones and in my experience so far the camera is really good.

I have the F8 Ultra and the screen looks great, colours don't appear washed out, they do seem accurate. Do you have one and find it different?

I barely manage a full day with moderate use. I guess it's a new phone, and a lot of background processes might be running.

Software is the only thing that holds me from buying a poco phone.

If you use your phone for music or just like good sound in general, there's really no comparison. I have probably 15 'flagship' phones and if I had to keep only one, it would be the one for that reason — and it has no real shortcomings minus some people not loving HyperOS and not as good software support as the big dawgs.

Maybe there is something wrong with my eyes but the screen looks beautiful. I come from an iphone 14 pro max and the poco f8 ultra screen looks better.

I've had it for a week now coming from a samsung s25 edge, and its very very good. the speakers are my highlight. battery life is much better than the samsung but maybe not as great as you could think. Third party launchers are restricted so one functionality i used to love (circle to search) only works on the default Poco Launcher. Performance is great obviously, I got 3.79million on antutu.

My friend got a s25 ultra, i switched from s22 ultra to poco f8 ultra and this is by way the best phone ive ever seen. Its so ultra fast, 6500mah battery, 100w charges, extremely fast for applications and many other things.

Real-world battery life is outstanding — about 14-16 hours of SOT. I saw about 7-8hs of SOT for about half the battery.

It's about 10-12h of SOT in two days. I use it for Reddit, YT, audiobooks, navigation, Spotify, no gaming. Normally I recharge it everyday 30-80%.

The battery is a 6500mAh and not a 6000mAh... a personal consideration after almost two months of use I am a little disappointed by the battery even though I did debloat... I fear that the Bose speaker consumes a lot of battery.

The OS is it. I really like the device itself.

Photos and videos are actually very good for the price. In good lighting, photos are sharp with natural colors and solid dynamic range. Video quality is stable and detailed. Night shots are surprisingly usable with good exposure and controlled noise. It's not iPhone or Galaxy S25 Ultra level, but for the price point the camera setup is more than good and definitely not a weak spot.

I disagree with the battery. It heats up when using camera and watching YouTube videos and the phone dies in less than 10 hours and I don't even play games.

Phones been solid so far, few random bugs but rare honestly. Debloated and have it customised in a way I like and no ads. Battery is strong, I don't game but I use Reddit/WhatsApp heavily and I can get to the next day around mid day at 20%. I've also had days where I've had to hotspot for hours and the battery holds up well. Came from a Pixel, and it took me about a week to get used to HyperOS.

AccuBattery tells me I'm getting 15h 38m of SOT.

I've had my Poco F2 Pro for 5.5 years because I never felt there was a phone that was as good in terms of value to me but once I saw the F8 ultra, I knew this is the correct successor. One of the features that really caught my attention is the speaker on the back, it really makes a difference and I was tired of how crappy phone speakers are, especially when it comes to bass, this phone is uncontested when it comes to that.

You can go, it's an excellent smartphone. The sound is amazing for a speaker, the battery you can make 48h easy and 15h of screen on. The only flaw is that the screen is bland, you can add a module for saturation.

I hate the fact that it's only 512GB of storage when the F6 Pro was a TB of storage. Poco seems to give with one hand and take away with the other. Faster chipset equals less storage yay!

The heat is minimal, honestly, compared to my previous F6P; you don't even notice it while gaming. I didn't really notice the color difference; often, bright colors like red bother me. It was a slight drop in quality but it was expected for the price.

I have it for almost 3 months and the biggest problems are that it gets back scratches even with a case on and its OS is pretty bad, that's all. I compared its camera with iPhone 16 pro and poco wins, also poco has the best chipset.

Apart from the wide angle lens being not that wide, everything is good so far. No problems and way better battery life.

Issues I found: Can't use gesture navigation with 3rd party launchers. Device assistant functionality (Google Assistant/Perplexity Assistant) is broken because assistant can't use mic input 99% of the time even when permissions are fine. Clunky OS coming from One UI and bloatware. Size — the phone is ginormous and one-handed use is possible only for larger hands. Minor niggles overall though.

I just bought the poco f8 ultra (512gb with 16gb ram) with a 90w charger including from the uk mii store for £447, so at that price it's an absolute no brainer.

I just received it today and I'm very impressed — coming from a Z Fold6. This poco f8 ultra is next level, really liking it and missed a bigger phablet screen to type on. The battery literally lasts me all day and the 100w charging is crazy. The Bose speaker is outstanding.

Most important issue: the battery. On idle it's fine and overnight on airplane mode loses just 1 to 2%. But once you start using the phone battery drops rather quickly. And god forbid if you put a game on you see the percentage drop noticeably fast.

My phone jumped to 40% more battery with custom rom and 10-15% more from stock HyperOS to Debloated HyperOS. Also your phone is brand new, so it makes sense to last a lot now. Check back in 6 months of usage. It's gonna go down.