Personally, I think you’ll be really happy with the shots offered up by the X3 Pro. There is a fair amount of added digital sharpening that can be spotted when cropping in though. Colors can be exaggerated a little but overall the quality is slap bang in the middle of the road for a budget setup such as this. Things are interesting with the Poco X3 Pro performance levels, and it’s more or less all good news. The weird thing here is that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 is effectively just a rebranded Snapdragon 855+. In performance terms, it’s not quite at the same level as last year’s high-end flagships, but it’s still very capable. The design and software might not be for everyone, but if they appeal to you, you are looking at the perfect phone you can buy right now.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that the Poco X3 Pro doesn’t offer a good experience. It comes with a 6.67-inch LCD Full HD+ display with a 120Hz refresh rate and a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 860Adreno 640 GPU. The phone comes with Poco’s Liquidcool Plus technology, which utilises copper heat pipe and graphite sheets for heat dissipation. As per download the stock firmware promotional material, this ensures sustained peak performance. However, I noticed a considerable frame rate drop after 20 minutes of continuous gaming. Upon investigating it with the ‘CPU Throttling Test’ app, it turns out not all phones with ‘liquid-cooling’ are made equal. As per the tests, the X3 Pro’s CPU performance frequently dips below 60 percent after 15 minutes and drops to as low as 55 percent in a 30-minute test.
- If the settings were maxed out, you might observe the highest rate of battery consumption with some games.
- This included several hours of 4G data usage playing and testing Call of Duty Mobile and general texting, instant messaging, and even some photo taking.
- So if ur looking for a device which provides performance just go for it.
- I haven’t tried the camera very extensively, so I guess I won’t try to look like a fool by lecturing about whether it’s good or bad.
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We’ve seeing MIUI a lot lately on many Xiaomi phones and the experience on it was also just the same. However, being a MIUI user for over 5 years, I can say that OS is improving a lot. It looks similar to its predecessor POCO X3 NFC, however, the phone has got its unique design elements. The stripe pattern on the back combined with a glossy finish on the sides gave this phone a distinctive look. In addition to that, the camera bump that holds the quad-camera setup looks striking and compliments the design.
- We have been putting the phone through the wringer and will try and answer all related questions in our Poco X3 Pro review, just to help you decide if it’s worthy of being your next phone.
- That said, paired with decent earphones, the Poco X3 Pro’s audio output is quite good.
- Things can sometimes look deeper gray rather than black.
- By default every app is set to ‘Battery Saver’ – so you’re likely going to need to manually move your key apps to ‘No Restrictions’ to ensure they continue to function better than not.
I think most users will be happy with the camera output from this smartphone. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to the two 2MP cameras. The macro camera lacks autofocus and I found the Ultrawide camera to give good results of close-ups compared to the actual macro camera. The main camera on the Poco X3 Pro is 48MP and uses the Sony IMX 582 Quad-Bayer 1/2″ sensor with 0.8µm pixels, 25mm f/1.8 lens. It has PDAF which means in daylight it is easy to focus on subjects/objects.