POCO Splits With Xiaomi and Becomes an Independent Brand

When Poco has started as a Xiaomi sub-brand in 2018 with its first smartphone, the Poco F1, no one has expected that the brand would become as popular as it is today, and that too with only one smartphone, the Poco F1! Well, the Poco brand is indeed very popular and there’s been a lot of speculation about any other device after the F1, and no mention of “Poco” from anyone in Xiaomi. Well, all that speculation ends today, as Xiaomi India Head, Manu Kumar Jain, announced on Twitter that Poco will now be independent smartphone brand.

Well, this update arrives after there’s been speculation for over a year now about the Poco brand being killed. As of now, the Poco India Twitter account has a black profile picture and the same pitch-black header photo. However, it would be a hidden easter egg. But if you adjust the brightness and contrast of the image, there’s text mentioning “Hello World!”. So, we expecting to see a new picture and other developments around the brand soon.

But Poco is now an independent brand, it will be exciting to see how Poco operates as a sub-brand. While there have been a lot of rumors around the next Poco smartphone, the Poco F2, or the Poco X2. But the fact is that whenever the next Poco smartphone arrives, will have a lot of hype as people have been waiting for the next Poco smartphone since what seems like forever.

Recently, we came across a trademark application for the Pocophone F2 that again sparked the interest of fans. While Pocophone global head Alvin Tse teased about more to come from the brand’s pipeline in 2020 possibly a successor to the F1. Now that the brand is interdependent, the mythical POCO F2 should finally make its long-awaited debut.
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