Elsewhere, the macro camera is functional but its 2MP resolution won’t let you do much with the images. The quality is link decent enough though the telltale signs of oversharpening persist. You’ll find a volume rocker and power button on the right side of the phone. The former has a slightly spongy feel to it that doesn’t instill confidence. The power button, on the other hand, doubles up as a fingerprint scanner. It’s perfectly responsive in day-to-day use, and it makes for a much better solution than a less reliable in-display fingerprint reader.
In a sea of similar devices, the X3 Pro is laser-focused on performance and there is a noticeable skew in the spec sheet towards that end. The Snapdragon 860 chipset powering the phone gives it a considerable leg-up over other phones in the segment. So if you have no problem with its decent camera setup, you can go with this mobile in 2022 because it comes under a 20k budget with flagship killer performances.
- This new update also includes bug fixes and new features.
- You will enjoy almost all the features of Android 10/11 on your rooted device when you install this custom ROM.
- In Geekbench 5’s single-core and multi-core tests, the X3 Pro managed 752 and 1,892 points respectively.
- Once you put it in the included protective case, however, this is almost no longer noticeable.
- First it fall on street, then driven with my bike over the phone.
For my review, I chose the higher refresh rate of course. Then there are a few other options you can tweak within the display settings which is very common for MIUI. Most people have talked about how good Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 860 is on Poco X3 Pro, but that’s not all. The POCO X3 Pro’s biggest achievement is its low price tag. Coming in at €199 in Europe (as an early-bird price), it packs some impressive specifications for the price. You’re effectively getting a two-year-old flagship (with the benefit of software support from POCO and Qualcomm) along with some other beefy specifications as well.
- Xiaomi equips the Poco X3 Pro with Android 11 and its in-house user interface MIUI 12.
- My love of computers goes back to my early teenage years.
- As you’d expect for the price, there’s no wireless charging support.
- While there has been no official pricing for the US for both these phones, they are still expected to come in at affordable prices going by the Europe launch prices.
- Unlike other mid-range phones, where you must choose between a high frame rate or high-quality graphics, the Poco X3 Pro lets you crank out both.
- It delivers good performance, has a really sleek and premium design and is equipped with a large and powerful battery enough to grant you a full day of use.
There’s a good amount of control over noise, though the strong digital noise reduction is visible upon close inspection. The over-sharpening noticed in daylight shots is even more evident here. Despite the moniker, the camera setup on the POCO X3 Pro is a noticeable downgrade over the POCO X3. Both the primary and ultra-wide sensors have been bumped down to 48MP and 8MP respectively, from the 64MP and 13MP sensors on the regular X3. While there might be some cost savings on Xiaomi’s end by switching to the much more common 48MP shooter, it doesn’t make a huge difference in the end results.
