Poco seems to be working on expanding its portfolio with the launch of smartwatches, earbuds, and tablets. Every smartphone brand such as Apple, Samsung, Realme, Xiaomi, etc offers its own watches, buds, tablets, laptops, and other products. Now Xioami’s sub-brand Poco is also joining the party.
Poco Products
In an interview with Android Authority, a Poco executive exposes that the company has plans to expand its ecosystem in 2022. This will not only help the company to offer a more seamless experience while also building brand loyalty.
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Poco Global head Kevin Qiu said, “We always think smartphone plus IoT is a key strategy for us.”
Poco’s head of product marketing, says that while “nothing is actually off-limits,” it’s starting small at first. He continues:
“Coming out with ecosystem products, I think we still need to stay close to our brand philosophy and product philosophy. So we need to somehow play it more on the safer end, to begin with (sic).”
“On the tablet side, yeah tablets have been huge in the industry in the last year and a half because of the pandemic. But it’s because it’s been huge and kinda crowded, (that) it’s even harder for us to enter from that perspective.”
Poco Software
Even after being separated from Xiaomi, Poco uses Xiaomi’s MIUI as the Android-based custom skin for its smartphones. However, the thing seems to be changed in the future, Poco is looking to differentiate itself from Xiaomi and Redmi in terms of software.
As for the difficulty of software updates, Qiu had the following to say:
“As of right now we’re actually still discussing and talking to the MIUI team about being a part of that plan. As of right now, I can’t confirm anything about three plus four [three years of OS updates and 4 years of security patches – ed], we’re still staying with two plus three right now for all of our devices.”
Poco Snapdragon 888 phones
At the end, when Poco was asked, why Poco chose to stick to Snapdragon 870 and has not released any device with the latest Snapdragon 888 chip:
“After internal testing with a lot of our R&D and product managers, we found out that (the Snapdragon) 865 from last year was an amazing chipset. In terms of performance, stability, and cooling in general. And 870 was able to keep all of those great attributes and become even better. When some of the first flagship Android devices pushed out 888, the major concern was overheating and power consumption.”
