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The Poco F2 Pro is the successor to the Pocophone F1 from late 2018, a popular budget phone put out by Xiaomi’s sub-brand Pocophone which, for a long time, looked like it wasn’t going to get a follow-up. Well, the newer phone is here now and it’s not got that much in common with its predecessor. One of the most interesting parts of the Poco F2 Pro is its pop-up camera – quite a few phones packed this feature in 2019, but in 2020 we’ve barely seen any. Pop-up selfie cameras can be quite a divisive feature, but we’re fans, and few can deny the resulting all-screen display (not broken up by notches, or overshadowed by large bezels) is a treat. In general the Poco F2 Pro seems to be a mid-range phone with some specs that top-end phones have, like its Snapdragon 865 processor and 64MP main camera – in this way it feels like the kind of phone OnePlus would have put out before it embraced premium-ness, and it’s likely going to compete with the rumored OnePlus Z when that launches. We...