Poco has officially launched the Poco F9 Ultra and F9 Pro, two performance-focused phones that deliver “all-round upgrades in display, imaging, and battery life.”

Notably, the Xiaomi sub-brand doesn’t actually name-drop ‘performance’ in that list of F9 Series improvements, no doubt because the F9 Ultra, specifically, arrives with the same Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset as its predecessor, the Poco F8 Ultra.

Poco flagships have historically launched with the latest Snapdragon chipsets, so this year’s F Series marks something of a strategy shift for the Chinese company — and Poco hasn’t been shy about disclosing the reasons for this change.

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