With Poco F6, Poco pulls yet another ‘first’ out of its hat

Poco F6, Poco’s latest—but not greatest—F-series phone, is India’s first smartphone to come rocking Qualcomm’s freshly minted Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor. For Poco, it is business as usual now. The Xiaomi spin-off almost always manages to sneak a “first” out of its hat, especially with these things.

The Poco F5 was India’s first phone with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2. That, too, was a near-flagship chip of its time. With the Poco F6, you might have expected the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 (the processor seen inside the Realme GT 6T), but Poco went ahead and put something even more powerful. The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3,