POCO X3 Pro Unboxing! By Tim Schofield

Hey, everyone Tim Schofield here it's time to take a look at one of the latest phones from polo, the x3 pro and, as you come to expect from polo, they have priced this phone very competitively at 199 euros for early bird pricing and that comes out to be around 235 to 40 us dollars. If you don't get in on that early bird pricing, it goes up another 50 euros so still very competitively priced even after that original pricing. Now, when it comes to the x3 pro, you get a snapdragon 860 processors from Qualcomm, and I had never really heard of that processor. But I looked at Qualcomm's website, and it is essentially just a redone 855 plus, which is a flagship processor from 2019. And realistically that's not necessarily a bad thing. These flagship processors are holding up throughout multiple years and allow for modern day specs, including a 120 hertz display a lot more as well and again.

You have to keep in mind the price point of this phone anyways. Let's go ahead and unbox the Poco x3 pro take a quick look. What we get inside and, of course, some hands-on with the device let's get started here is the new x3 pro from Poco opening the box welcome to the Poco family, setting that to the side, let's continue through there's the phone underneath but looks like we have our sim ejection tool along with a lot of extras, looks like we get some Poco stickers, always nice when a company includes something like that along with our booklets and what seems to be a case for our phone again nice when a company includes extras here is just a clear case. I will throw this on the phone later in the video underneath that is our x3 pro here's, some specs on the front of it, I'm going to set the phone to the side for now. Let's continue on through included in the box, is the 33 watt charging brick and our USB type, a to USB type c cable, with a bit of an orange accent to the cable on to what you came to see the Poco x3 pro taking the stickers off there we go here is the back of the device a bit of an accent here, a bit of a difference, pretty interesting back camera too.

We'll take a look at that in just a second. Now I'm going to power the device up, I'm noticing there's a bit of an indent to that power button for a fingerprint scanner. But let's take a close look at the hardware down at the bottom. Take a look. A headphone jack is actually included USB type c slot for charging microphone.

One of these speakers moving along the right side, there's a close look at that power button which couples as a fingerprint scanner and our two volume rockers right above that moving along towards the top, looks like we have a microphone and looks to be an IR blaster. I had to take a closer look, but right there, nice to see polo, including that you don't see it too often, and then just make note of a bit of a camera bump along the left side is where the sim slot is now looking at. The back here is that quad camera setup you have a 48 megapixel main wide angle, lens and 8 megapixels, ultra-wide angle, lens 2, megapixel, macro lens and 2 megapixel depth, sensing lens. Finally, a quick look down the middle strip, which appears to have texture. It is completely smooth, but you'll, see underneath that a bit of texture there but nice how the color sort of shifts, depending on how the light hits it anyways I'm going to run through the setup process of the x3 pro talk about anything noteworthy you'll, see it has the UI 12, which is their skin on top of android 11.

So, let's add our fingerprint just going to set our thumb down on the side, I'm actually a big fan of the power button having an embedded fingerprint scanner just makes it really quick and easy to unlock and turn the display on at the same time looks like we are now added. It says: to move it to get the edges a little of a vibration feedback every time it scans and there we go added successfully and a close look at the front with that 6.67 inch lcd on the x3 pro a dot display with that front camera there worth noting. If you look closely, there is a pre-installed screen protector nice of Poco to include that this is also a 120 hertz display and just taking a look at some animations, it seems like it's disabled out of the box. Let's actually jump into our settings. App scroll down, go to display, and you'll see right there refresh rate, I would definitely recommend bumping it up to 120 hertz and taking full advantage of the display being much smoother just overall.

You can just tell right away that it is much smoother yes, keep in mind. It will drain your battery life a little more on 120, hertz and speaking of batteries. This has a 5160 William hour battery, which is fairly large and considering the size of that battery. This phone is fairly light. If we jump back into those display settings, you can change between light dark mode, different brightness levels, color scheme, so you can have it a little more saturated standard or auto to adjust based on the current lighting, you can make it a little warmer cooler just uh to your liking, I'm actually going to saturate the colors a little.

That's just kind of how I prefer it now, let's test out that side, fingerprint scanner, so I didn't actually press the button, I'm just setting my thumb down, and you'll notice. It unlocks it right away now one little trick that I'd recommend, if you want to check your lock screen, is to just use the tip of your thumb, and it will go into that lock screen, whereas if you go ahead and use your full thumb and press the button at the same time, it'll unlock it almost instantly. This fingerprint scanner is really quick. Now, let's hop into that camera app, maybe take a quick picture. Shutter speed seems fairly quick overall within the camera app.

We have a few options on the left here: AI HDR. There is a pro mode, so you can customize shutter speed, ISO, all that good stuff, a portrait mode and if we go into more you'll, see all the different camera options, including a 48 megapixel capture, night mode, long exposure. Now, if we jump back down into video and go into video settings, you'll see you can shoot all the way up to 4k 30 frames per second or 1080 60 frames per second. Now, if we are in a photo, when we press this button, we have our option to go into that ultra-wide angle lens. So you'll see includes a lot more into the shot, or we can zoom in 2x right here, which is digital zoom for ram and storage.

You have a six 128 gigabytes or eight 256 gigabyte option with the x3 pro and again the snapdragon 860 processors. So it does have 4g so no 5g capabilities on this and since it does have the mi UI skin, there's a lot of additional settings on top of android. So if you scroll through go to additional settings, you can go to button shortcuts, quick ball one-handed mode, there's a lot more, that they add into the operating system that android doesn't have natively and, as promised, here's a quick look at the included case. It is clear, so you still can see uh the design on the back of the phone down at the bottom. Interestingly enough, it does have a bit of a flap for the USB-C slot and then along the right side.

There's an opening where that power button is, but the volume rockers are covered. So it will uh, doesn't interrupt your fingerprint scan whatsoever and just completely covered on the left side. There's a look at the back with the camera cut out, but overall, that is everything I wanted to talk about for now, nice to see higher refresh rates catching on 120 hertz on a phone just looks better overall uh drop a comment. Let me know you think about the x3 pro from Poco a lot more videos to come, make sure you click that subscribe button and as always, thanks for watching.

Source : Tim Schofield