Poco X3 Pro - Unboxing & Full Review! By ProductNation

Hi guys welcome to pro nation, and this is the full review of the Poco x3 pro. So, let's begin with the unboxing and setup of the Poco x3 pro, the unboxing process is very similar with most Poco devices getting inside. You get the welcome to the Poco family card, which is a pretty cute touch for them to include on the inside. You also get the sim card ejector tool, stickers from polo, and one that says everything you need nothing you don't, which is what this device really is. Furthermore, you also get a clear case included with the cutout and there it is the phone with all the specs that you need to know on there, snapdragon 860, 120, hertz, 3.1, UFS storage and 5160 William hour battery, the back of it has a quad camera setup, but more on that later inside, you also get the fast charger, adapter included, as well as a type-c, cable, peeling up the phone reveals the design to it, and it does look very similar if not exactly the same as previous gen. With a few minor tweaks, you get the camera and the Poco logo down there with a more stroke sort of design with multiple colors.

Let's begin by setting up the phone overall, the setup process is pretty much the same as any android device. The fingerprint, however, is located on the right power button, which is the best way in my opinion. Now you get into the device itself, and we're going to tweak it up to get it best that it can. But before that, let's talk about the version we got. This is running android 11, with mini 12.1, 6 gigs of ram and 128 GB of storage. First step is gonna, be to change the control center style to new change, the refresh rate to 120 hertz, because that's what we want to see as well as making it a full screen gesture rather than the buttons because we're in 2021, and we want the best that we can get and that's pretty much.

If you've got the Poco x3 pro so now that we have the phone set up on the inside, and it's in its perfect form. Let's get into the build quality and the design on the x3 pro right off the rib. It looks very similar to the previous generation, almost the exact same externals as the previous gen, with some minor tweaks on the right side of the phone you've got the power button that doubles as the fingerprint sensor, as well as the volume rockers at the bottom. You have the type c 3.5 mm, jack and bottom facing speakers on the left side. You have got the sim card where the tray goes in at the top.

Furthermore, you have the IR blaster in the front. Furthermore, you have a punch, hole, cut out, that's right in the center of the display at the back, you have the quad camera setup, the fingerprint unlocking and the touch sensing is very quick on this. It unlocks very quickly these style of fingerprint sensors. I've seen on most Xiaomi devices. Work really, really well, and I'm very happy with this one as well.

Very quick, very intuitive works every single time. Looking at the back, you've got a 3d curved back with the protrusion for the camera module, which looks exactly the same as the previous gen and then in the front. You've got corning gorilla, glass, 6. , so better protection. Now that we've got the design out of the way.

Let's move on to the display on this, which is one of the bigger selling points the 120 hertz, the display on this is a 6.67 inch, full HD, plus LCD dot display nope. It's not an AMOLED. Like the Redmi Note, 10 Redmi Note 10 pro this one is not an AMOLED. Those were this is an lcd, that's kind of how they're saving on cost by giving you that stronger processor, but it's 120, hertz of refresh rate 240 hertz touch sampling rate, with a contrast ratio of 1500 to 1 and a brightness of 450 nits. Now this brightness is pretty good and good enough for most situations.

Even when I was outdoors in direct sunlight, I was able to see the screen quite comfortably. It wasn't the brightest display I've ever seen, but it was bright enough for me to view the display easily. I've been using this for about a week and my thoughts on the display have been they're all right. The display itself is an LCD panel. The one complaint that it did have on this is the viewing angles.

Aren't the best that I've ever seen. I do feel like every angle. You look at it from if it's from the corners and not head on you're, to get darker edges to the display, not a huge fan of that, but overall the display with the bezels to if it's pretty decent. If you're looking at a head-on, you would be happy with it. It's good enough to consume content on gaming on the refresh rate being 120 hertz is pretty cool on a Poco device, so it's very good for, like fluidity movement playing games that kind of stuff, you do feel that coupling that, with the top sampling rate of 240, hertz gaming and stuff on this, does feel very responsive and overall, very enjoyable.

Speaking of being smooth and snappy. Let's talk about the processor on the Poco x3 pro the processor on this is the snapdragon 860, as I mentioned, that isn't a very well-known processor, it's moderately new, it's kind of a rebranded version of the snapdragon 855. If I'm not mistaken, so the performance you can expect is going to be almost identical to the snapdragon 855. If not exactly the same. One thing that I found pretty interesting, uh a bit weird, actually one of the first apps that I installed was geek bench on this to test out the benchmarking numbers, because the 860 is a relatively new processor.

So I want to know where it stands, but I tried running the benchmarking tests, and it crashed every time I tried it. So that was a bit weird. Maybe it's a bug with the software, and this is a review unit, so it's a bit funky, but yeah. All that aside, the performance has been pretty good. I've been recording 4k video, taking a bunch of pictures, 48 megapixels, stills gaming multitasking watching videos, while I'm doing other stuff too.

So it's been pretty good for that. I didn't have any lag or stutter issues. Obviously, coupling that, with the fast refresh rate as well as touch sampling, all of that together feels very snappy and very, very nice, and that moves us on to the gaming side of things. This is where I really was surprised by the performance on this. The snapdragon 860 was able to handle high graphics and very high refresh rates using Call of Duty mobile.

I tried PUBG asphalt. All the games felt perfect on this. The graphics turned out really, really nice. I do wish it was an AMOLED display to get that max punchy, color stuff, but the LCD was good enough. I guess, if you look at it head on, but in terms of gaming and performance, really, really good if you're buying it for the gaming factor.

You would definitely appreciate this. One other thing about this is that the sound on this is pretty good too, so you don't need to put on headphones while you're gaming. I like that, a lot because it is a dual speaker system, so you get a bottom facing speaker as well as the earpiece grille acts as a second speaker. So while you're gaming you're not going to block the second speaker, it's all just firing straight at you. It does sound pretty good.

The mid and highs are pretty good. The bass, surprisingly, is a little punchier than I expected. The phone does not have a lot of weight to it like I mentioned, but the vibration on the inside does act to have that enhanced base experience for listening to music, watching content, even gaming on this. If you want that sound coming out straight from the phone, you wouldn't be disappointed and the sound quality overall is pretty decent. Considering the price point.

Another reason why gaming on these feels so snappy and quick is because you've got the UFS, 3.1 storage, and it offers snappier read and write speed, so you don't have to wait long to load files, games and apps overall, so everything feels very quick, even within games themselves. Now, let's take a look at the back of it. The camera module you've got a quad camera set up, like I mentioned earlier, the main camera being a 48 megapixel lens. So the camera arrangement goes something like this. You've got a 48, megapixel main sensor and 8 megapixel ultra-wide angle, camera you've got a 2, megapixel macro camera and then a 2 megapixel depth sensor.

Now, looking at the image quality, it looks pretty similar to most Poco devices. We haven't seen that much difference here. I would say that I've seen a little of improvement in the dynamic range and the overall sharpening of the image I felt like the Poco x3 NFC had a lot more sharpening on it, but this one doesn't, so I'm happy with that. The HDR colors look a lot better and the rendition is a lot nicer. So I have a couple of examples with HDR turned off and HDR turned on.

It looks more realistic than it did before, and I'm quite happy with that. Ultra-wide angle images look a lot better too. The processing is done a little better before these shadows used to be more crushed, and now they're more balanced to the rest of the image. The macro camera is a 2 megapixel. It isn't a tell macro like we saw on the Redmi devices.

It's like the old school macro lens. At this point, I feel like you shouldn't, even include that it's not a great camera. To be honest, you can't zoom in or anything on it. The image looks meh, so just yeah just get rid of the macro camera, please, the both on the front and back camera both looks pretty realistic in the portrait mode uh, the edge separation was actually surprisingly done, really well, and the HDR color tones and color reproduction overall skin tones everything looked perfect as well. I would say the ultra-wide angle, lens image looks really nice.

The main lens looks really nice as well. The 2x is where it kind of drops off, I'm not into that, but overall image quality does feel like it's improved from previous gen. The software rendition does feel a lot better, as well even taking images in the 48 megapixel mode. You get a lot more detail, especially when I show you cropping in on this image. You can see so much detail preserved with that 48 megapixel in terms of video.

It does 4k at 30 fps with the back camera. That's the max resolution you can get, and you can also get 1080p at 60fps. One thing I notice on most android devices, which I find a bit weird, is when you switch from 1080p to 4k. You see this weird change in color and hues. I didn't find that in the homophone, which was pretty nice actually, the 1080p looked very close to the 4k and also the fact that the stabilization on this works incredibly well, even the stable mode just mind-bendingly.

Well, it looks like it's on a gimbals very happy with the performance of video for both 1080p and 4k, so with all of that out of the way, what do we think about the Poco x3 pro, and should you be buying it for the price point and what you're paying for this? This gives you pretty much all the great features from other devices that are flagship level on something that doesn't cost as much as a flagship. Now granted a lot of smartphones are pretty much making it a standard to have 120 hertz, refresh rate, bigger batteries, better processors. This gives you pretty much all of that minus the AMOLED display. So honestly, if you're in the budget for a new phone- and you don't want to spend a lot of money- and you don't really care about the display, I would definitely recommend the Poco x3 pro. But if you're looking for more of the AMOLED display, and you're more into that, then I would recommend something like the Redmi Note 10 pro.

So let's pick your pick at this point. They all are very, very similar, very similar specs as well, and you wouldn't really be making a mistake with either device. This is definitely a recommended device. If you're looking for a budget or a mid-range smartphone, you won't be disappointed. Thank you guys for watching really hope you enjoyed this video if you did make sure you hit that like button and do consider subscribing for more content.

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