With its glass front and back and metal frame, and a truckload of design elements that vary from the weird to the wonderful, the Poco F3 GT is perhaps the most premium-looking phone the segment has seen for a while.
The mid-segment of the Indian smartphone market – that belt that roughly lies between Rs 10,000 – 30,000, with different tiers of its own – is best known for its price to spec ratio battles. You do get some remarkably powerful devices here (the Poco X3 Pro, the Mi 11X, the OnePlus Nord 2), but it is safe to say that in most cases, design tends to take a bit of a back seat. You will have some very smart-looking phones out there, and there will even be the odd flash of innovation, but by and large, the stress is more on the spec readout than the design feel. So you will often end up with plastic backs and frames (not that we mind either, as long as they last), and even when you do get glass on front and back, the effect is more towards being smart rather than spectacular. The Poco F3 GT changes that. Thoroughly. Yes, we know the talk has been about its amazing price (starts at Rs 26,999) and its very good spec sheet spearheaded by a MediaTek Dimensity 1200 chip and a 6.67-inch 10-bit Turbo AMOLED full HD+ display with a 120 Hz refresh rate. There is lots of RAM to spare, a triple camera arrangement on the back with a 64-megapixel main sensor, and a large 5065 mAh battery with a very fast 67 W charger (in the box). And yes, it has triggers on the side that pop up when you hit a slider for a better gaming experience. All that is very impressive. And innovative. And in some cases, first of kind and whatnot. I say: forget that all. Just LOOK at the Poco F3 GT. In simple terms, I do not think the mid-segment has ever seen a device with this premium a design for quite a while. Yes, Gorilla Glass on the back and front and ye, a metal frame. But that is not really what makes the Poco F3 GT’s design different. No, this is a phone that will literally turn heads because there is nothing quite like it. The only trace of design normalcy about the phone is in that tall bezel-less front, which has that AMOLED display and punch hole notch in the center.
