Poco M3 Pro 5G | Unboxing, Tour & M3 Comparison By Tech Spurt

So, if you're a fan of the channel, god bless you crazy more, for you may recall that I recently reviewed the Uber cheap Poco m3 cost you well under 200 quid, unfortunately held back by slightly ropey performance, well bollocks for that anyway, because it's already obsolete because along strolls, the Poco m3 pro 5g an upgraded version of the standard Poco m3 now with beefier performance, courtesy of a MediaTek dimension, 700 chipsets. Yes, that is fully five genocide, and it's landing right here in blight on July, the 8th now the base model of the Poco m3 pro 5g sports, 4 gigs of ram and 64 gigs of storage, and that will cost you 179 quid here in the UK. But if you're superfast, you can snaffle it for the early bird price of a hundred and thirty-nine quid and when I say superfast, I ain't kidding. You'll have to be quicker than Usain Bolt with a firecracker lodged a biz ass, because that early bird offer ends at midnight July, the 9th otherwise for just 20 quid more, you can get six gigs of ram and double the storage. That's 199 pounds normally otherwise, 159 quid with the early bird price, so enough of the cavity yak, I'm going to whip the Poco m3 pro five one out of the box. Take you on a full on tour of the hardware and the software and compare it directly with the original Poco m3 to see what the difference is and from all the latest and greatest tech.

Please do poke subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers. Please, please really hope they sent me the yellow one. No, they haven't. They sent me the black one ours anyway, also bundled in the box. You get one adapter you go on.

Handily labeled, USB cable you've got a chocolate little sheet of stickers slap them on your kids, slap them on your cat. Let the world know what a Poco fan you are, and oh, yes, fellow Spartans, you do indeed get a rubber johnny condom case, bundled in there to keep your pocket m3 pro nice and safe, and that's your lock, nice and easy. So now, let's check out the Poco m3 pro now the Poco m3 pro much like the Poco m3 is constructed from plastic. Around back, although it's gone for a very different style of design, while the original Poco m3 had this sort of hardened leather style, textured finish, you've got a perfectly glossy smooth finish here on the Poco m3 pro it's kind of like a frosted mirror style finish. I don't actually quite like.

It looks very neat very smart, although, unsurprisingly, it's proven a little of a fingerprint grease, magnet all already, despite uh the quite dark finish on this power black model, you can grab the pocket m3 pro in three different colors. This is the power black. You can also grab it in cool, blue or Poco yellow and hopefully that's at least as yellow as the box. Once again, of course, you have that highly unsubtle bit of Poco Brandon around back. So certainly nobody is going to be asking you what kind of phone you're rocking and the round front on the pocket.

M3 pro you've got gorilla glass, 3, protecting that display as well just like on the original and as an added bonus. You also get a pre-installed screen protector here on the Poco m3 pro as well, so pretty safe. Now, if you just poke open the old sim tray and see what we're working with here and what we have here is ps42 sim cards at the same time, and also you can slip in a micro SD memory card, although you'll have to do that in the second sim slot, there's not a dedicated slot for that, unlike the original Poco m3, all right so fully set up the Poco m3 pro 5g and on here is a bit of android 11 action with, of course, mini 12 slathered. On top how we know and love it, I'm not going to spend long banging on about me UI 12, because if you've seen any of my coverage of homophones and me phones or anything like that this year, you'll know my thoughts on this. In a nutshell, it's the most stock android version of me UI that I've had so far, so you've got an app straw by default, which is great.

You can drag down that notifications bar you've got the excellent control center, which has been completely shamelessly ripped off from iOS, and I really, really like it fast access to all of your main toggles got. The Google discover feed all of that. Good shenanigans downsides are, unfortunately, get tons of crap ware pre-installed on any kind of mini device. Lots of generic games like block puzzle, bubble, popper, dual shutter, all kinds of stuff, like that, my own personal favorite, tile fun, which is about as fun as a kick in the kidneys and then on top of that you've got your tick rocks your Facebook, your linked ins. All of that shenanigans, which thankfully, can be uninstalled, which is the uh, the one save and grace so yes, LinkedIn very much off you and I do enjoy the little celebrations every time you uninstall something like Facebook little way off.

It goes and, of course, with me, UI devices you're not guaranteed the same sort of level of support for updates and security updates, in particular that you will get from other manufacturers like OnePlus and Nokia. But that said, I know quite a lot of people. Who've got, you know, still got a Redmi smartphone, for instance, from about three four years ago, still running absolutely fine? Now one feature which you get here on the Poco m3 pro 5g, which you didn't get on the standard, Poco m3, is a good bit of NFC support. There should be somewhere hidden amongst uh this sea of icons there. It is right at the very bottom, a bit of NFC, so that's good news and then, if we dive on into the settings and go to about phone you'll, see you've got a choice of either 64 or 128 gigs of storage with the Poco m3 pro it's UFS, 2.2 storage, I've got the 128 gig model and so far no real surprises whatsoever seems to be running reasonably smoothly and everything. Now the Poco m3 pro 5g sports, a 6.5 inch IPS display pretty box standard for a sub 200 pound budget smartphone. It's a tiny bit smaller than the standard pocket m3s display, but we're talking fractions here, and it's essentially the same output.

You've got a full HD plus resolution. So you get reasonably fine detail. Despite the size of this thing. Colors aren't exactly super poppy in your face: oh my god, when you're watching a bit of anime, animation or whatever, but they're, absolutely fine, they don't look muted or saturated viewing. Angles are fine as well top brightness levels, not amazing, though, so you might struggle to see.

What's going on a very bright sunshiny day and while the original Poco m3 sported a rather quaint old-fashioned notch up top you've got your more standard. Sphincter cut out right here on the pocket, m3 pro centrally positioned, which is now all the rage of course, and also if we dive right into the display settings on the Poco m3 pro you'll notice. Another upgrade here compared with the original Poco m3, and that is the fact. You've now got a 90 hertz refresh rate option, and this is apparently dynamic refresh as well, so it can't actually scale itself down to 60 or even 30 hertz, when you're doing something that doesn't require that fast refresh rate just to help preserve the battery life, and here you've got the usual uh standard display settings as well. You can boost those colors with the saturated mode which, to be honest, doesn't really make a huge amount of difference anyway, and you can also play around with the color temperature and one feature here on the Poco m3 pro that I'm super keen to test out is the upgraded auto.

Brightness may not sound particularly exciting, but that's just the auto brightness on the original Poco m3 was about as reliable as a cotton candy helmet. The main problem with the original pocket m3 was that the screen was always still too dark at nighttime. I always had to manually boost up the brightness, but apparently you've now got dual light: sensors here on the Poco m3 pro one at the front and one around the back, and apparently this will help to keep that screen at just the perfect level of brightness at all times, as I say, I'll, be testing that out for my review is for your audio, well uh. The speaker system is, of course, just a mono speaker and down here below you, don't get a stereo speaker output, but let's bump up the volume, see if it's any good on the latest and greatest tech. Please subscribe and take that notifications bell.

Okay, so not super loud on that top volume, but loud enough to be heard over. You know a reasonable amount of background glamour and the clarity is pretty strong, at least on that top volume. So that's to be commended. You do actually have a headphone jack up top as well. Thank Christ here on the Poco m3 pro for high-res audio certification as well.

So you get your high clarity tracks on the go, but the most important area where the Poco m3 pro drops its trousers and waves. It's really at the standard. Poco m3 is the performance because you've got the much beefier MediaTek 700 chipsets, packed in this thing, compared with the snapdragon 662 banged in the original Poco m3. I've already noticed just from playing with the Poco m3 pro for over an hour or two. Now that the performance is much smoother.

As you can see, the geek bench score is much better as well. Occasionally the Knapp can take a little while to load up here on the Poco m3 pro, but it definitely seems that overall, they seem to have sorted. One of the major bug bears I had with the original Poco m3 is that oh there we go eventually get a bit of Netflix on the go uh but yeah. It seems to be a lot smoother just in general, navigating the UI stuff, like that. Let's try uh testing out a bit of Call of Duty action as well um.

So no, let's not play block puzzle or bubble shooter. Let's play a bit of Call of Duty and actually sure, when you're playing a game like Call of Duty pub g, whatever your game of choice may be just going to swipe in from this diagonal corner, we'll get there in the end, and this opens up the game turbo menu and as you can see there, you can bring up other apps in the foreground. Uh just in a little window, you can do some chatting. You can record your gaming session for posterity's sake. You can clear up all the resources or free up some memory if things are starting to chug, despite the fact that the dimensionally 700 is fairly capable.

As far as budget-friendly chipsets are concerned, it looks like Call of Duty. Mobile right now does max out at medium graphics, quality and high frame rates. Let's give it a go, so you played a couple of quick matches on Call of Duty mobile. I wasn't particularly good as usual, but the phone was absolutely flawless. I didn't notice any judders or any little performance issues played absolutely fine on that frame rate screen seemed nice and responsive, so definitely no problems.

There. A sound came through nice and clear through that mono speaker just had to make sure I didn't accidentally muffle it, but, of course, I'll be doing lots more gaming testing on the Poco m3 pro 5g, ahead of my in-depth review to see, if you know, starts to overheat under stress or anything like that, I'd be very surprised if it did, though, because the dimensionally chipsets tend to be pretty energy efficient, and you've got that built-in 5g support, as well as a bit of extra future proofing that you didn't get with the standard Poco m3 and that 5g support is shared amongst both of the sim slots as well. So if you do have two sims in there you're switching between them for data, both of them will be able to access 5g networks. However, one area where the original Poco m3 does actually have an advantage over the pocket. M3 pro 5g is the battery, because that thing had a 6, 000, William capacity cell crammed inside it's a mere 5 000 William battery here and the Poco m3 pro should still prove absolutely fine for a day and a half or so of use between charges, though even with quite a bit of screen on time.

I've been pounding the crap out of this thing for the last sort of hour and a half two hours, uh lots of media streaming a bit of gaming and stuff as well, and it hasn't dropped too much at all. So yeah, it shouldn't be a problem and when it is time to recharge the Poco m3 pro, it's basic 18 watt fast charge, not particularly quick, but pretty much. What you'd expect at this sort of price point and, of course, no wireless charging support or any of that shenanigans. Let's finish up with the squint at the polo, m3 pro's, camera tech, and it's a triple lens. That's set up here on the ass end of this smartphone.

It seems to be exactly the same hardware as the standard Poco m3, so we've got here is a 48 megapixel primary shooter, which does actually shoot 12 megapixel images by default, using pixel binning. Let's get the HDR support on the go, will take a little longer to shoot and process a HDR photo, but it'll be worth the wait when you've got a high dynamic range, big bit of strong contrast in your scene. Anyone who's used a Xiaomi or a polo, smartphone and recent times will know exactly what you're getting here. You've got your pro mode with full manual controls you can play around with likes the shutter speed, ISO level, white balance, and if you want to you, can get that full 48 megapixel action on the go too, the other two lenses slapped on the back end of the pocket, m3 pro or a 2 megapixel depth sensor for your portrait. Shots just add a nice both style effect in the background, and you can tweak that to make it a bit more severe or lessen it.

And the final lens in this trio is a hip hazard, a 2, megapixel macro lens, how we love it or thus probably going to give me nightmares tonight and yeah. You can get up close and personal with your subject using this, but it shoots.2 megapixel resolution photos they're going to be grainy and crap. So frankly, you might as well just use the standard lens and then crop in and then, if you tap on more you've got access to a small variety of bonus modes as well, including dedicated night modes, which can take lots of different shots at different aperture settings and then meld them all together got a dedicated, 48, megapixel mode there as well. If you want and then, if we swap to video, I'm not sure what the maximum resolution is. Let's check it out, so it looks like 1080p at 30 frames per second, unfortunately, no four key option here on the poor m3 pro.

I will, of course, be uh fully tested the camera tech for my in-depth review and then, if we swap around to the front, it is a basic, eight megapixel shooter again just like the bog-standard, Poco m3. So I'm not expecting great results out of that, certainly in lower uh more ambient light, it really fell on its ass, but you know that one right there definitely a keeper so that right there in a nutshell, is the Poco m3 pro, as I say, going on sale here in blight from July. The 8th, if you want those early bird prices, 40 quid offs, are definitely worth it. Then you're going to have to jump in there fairly fast because they end July, the 9th at midnight and fingers crossed this pro model will solve most of the issues with the original Poco m3, the judder performance and the bulked screen brightness, just to name two. Of course the camera still looks pretty basic uh.

Unfortunately, so if you are gonna, be prioritizing your photos and your videos and all that I'd, maybe look to get something a little different anyway. Full review inbound, as it says. Please do let me know what you think down in the comments below if there's any particularly burning questions or anything, I can hopefully answer for you in my review. Let me know, and in the meantime please do blog subscribe during that notifications. Bell right have yourselves a fantastic rest of the week and that's it cheers, love you.

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