POCO X3 Review - Buy the POCO X2 Instead? By C4ETech

With so many devices being released, the past few months have passed us by in a blur and in the flurry of smartphones, some have fallen through the cracks and not got the attention that they deserve the Poco x3 being one of them. So let's correct that in today's video and give it the full fat review treatment, see for FedEx time, hey guys overture here from c4e tech, and if you do enjoy my review, then please consider subscribing to the channel and hitting that bell icon so that you get to be a part of a notification squad. Now we can't really review the Poco x3 without comparing it to its predecessor, the Poco x2. Now I use the term predecessor very lightly here, since the x2 does come before the x3, but in most aspects the x3 is more of a side grade than an upgrade. In fact, that is why we find the x2 being sold here in India at the same time as x3. So this review is more of a comparison, a compare review or a revision.

No, that sounds like revision. That's a different word anyway, check that, let's start by talking about the most important changes here. The first is the design, the one on the Poco x3, that's entirely polo. If it wasn't evident enough, here's the giant branding on the back by the way guys the camera bump, the entire rectangular thing within a circle, not a fan, but that's just personal opinion. Now.

One of the other big changes here is the downgrade of materials. We went from glass back on the x2 to a plastic shell on the x3. Now it is good quality plastic, quite sturdy, but then plastic just doesn't feel that premium now, there's a reason for doing this. The Poco x3 as it is, weighs 225 grams. Now that might not sound all that much, especially when you take into account the six thousand William hour battery, but guys Samsung managed to put in a seven thousand William one inside the m51 and that still weighs 12 grams lesser.

So the plastic build was polo's way of getting two birds with one stone, lower the costs and lower the weight. Now, if it is an apparent already, I'm not a big fan of how the Poco x3 peels in hand it's heavy and quite tall, which means two handed usage, is a must for this device. But on the flip side of things, we do get a large 6.67 inch IPS panel now on paper. This seems to be identical to the one on the x2 same size, full HD, plus 120, hertz, and all that. But then the punch hole well.

The x3 lost the depth sensor up front shrunk down the hole and moved it dead, center again, personal opinion, but I'm a big fan of symmetry, and this looks much better as far as quality of the panel itself. There's not much here both are protected by zoning's gorilla, glass 5. We have support for white vine l1 as well as HDR playback from YouTube. The x2 has a higher peak brightness, but the x3 can get bright enough that outdoor visibility isn't really an issue while using the x3, though it felt a bit more responsive than the x2. That, though, could very well be because of the slight increase in horsepower.

We have the snapdragon 732g here, and I know what you guys are thinking. It's just two more than the 730g. How good could that be well benchmark? Numbers aside, the Pogo x3 feels smoother. Now, one of our main issues with the Pogo x2 had been the frequent frame drops and jitters, especially at 120hz. It not only made the experience feel subpar, but it took the enjoyment out of the high refresh rate manner.

Thankfully, the Poco x3 does better in that regard. Now I'm not going to say it doesn't lag at all. That would be lying, but it was way less frequent, and I had to really push the hardware to get it to start up for a bit and push it. I did. I played Call of Duty for a while, with the graphic settings set to high and the fps set to max, and the arena 618 GPU inside was easily able to push 60 fps, so amazingly, smooth gameplay.

We also get liquid cooling on both the x3 and that helps to keep the temperatures down now. I haven't really tested it out per se, but going just by feel the x3 doesn't heat up quite as much as the x2. Also, this isn't in any way related to the performance, but the dual speakers on the x3 are really immersive. I really enjoyed gaming on this device, so on the performance front, the x3 does come out ahead of the x2 by the way guys I kind of skipped over the memory section before, but the Poco x3 it comes with 6 or 8 gigs of ram and 64 or 128 gigs of UFS 2.1 storage. Now to be fair, the Poco x2 does have an advantage here, since we do get a 256 gig variant of it, but once we take memory expansion into consideration, there really doesn't seem like a big deal by the way guys we get a hybrid sim slot here, not a dedicated one kind of bummer, since the x3 is over 10 millimeters thick, as we alluded to before the thickness comes mainly from the 6000mah battery.

In here now, battery life has been one of the weak spots for the Poco x2, so a 33 percent increase in battery does come in really handy now, during my time with the device, I wasn't able to kill it in one day. In fact, most of the days I went to sleep with about 30 battery life left in the tank now I know it might seem a little less when compared to the likes of the m31s, but guys I had the Poco x3 running the entire time of my review at 120 hertz so expect slightly better battery life. If you're, okay bumping down the refresh rate, the increase in battery life is the component. We have faster charger, 3g watts instead of the 27 on the x2. Speaking of fast, we have a side mounted fingerprint scanner.

Here, most of the time the phone was unlocked and ready to go. By the time I had it out of the pocket, even the face and lock felt snappy, which is exactly how it described the mini 12 on the Poco x3 now Poco has kept their promise means we aren't bombarded with ads and trust me that makes such a big difference as usual. Mini 12 is chock-full of features, and now we can even choose between a traditional notification sheet and a more iOS like control center. And yes, this is the remote app. We have an IR blaster on here, which means we can control everything from ACS to DV's.

It's really handy, and I'm glad that Poco hasn't removed it. We also get the headphone jack here, along with FM radio and the x3 even comes with an ip53 rating. Basically, a water repellent p2i, NATO coating that offers a bit of protection against accidental splashes, so don't take the x3 to the pool, but a call in the rain wouldn't be the end of the world by the way. Since we are talking about odd bits and bobs, let me put in a word about connectivity. The cellular connectivity was fine.

I had no problems making and receiving calls over voice over Wi-Fi, as well as voice over LTE worked nicely speaking of Wi-Fi. We do have support for the 5 gigahertz band and the Bluetooth version here is 5.0, leaving us with the last main factor optics now when the Poco x2 had been launched, it got a lot of press for having the Sony mix 686 sensors, but the Poco x3, on the other hand, uses the mix 682 sensors. Now both are 64 megapixel sensors from Sony. The only difference is that the 686 can capture 4k 60, while the 682 can't to be fair, 4k60 isn't available on either phones, so on paper, both phones should perform the same and well to no one's surprise. They do here's a look at them side by side, even by itself.

The snaps from the x3 has to be one of the best in the under 20k price segment. Even if you add to pixel peep, we can spot a good amount of detail heck. Even the night mode is pretty impressive. Of course, we do have a thriving camp community for Poco phones and with that the Pogo can take even better snaps moving down the line. We have a 13 megapixel ultra-wide snapper.

The thing that impressed me here is that Poco manages to capture a very wide field of view without compromising too much in terms of details. This is one of the better ultra white snappers in this price reach, and we saw it in our your phone versus iPhone video. How good the pictures from the x3 can turn off. Of course, this is a quad camera module, which means yep. You guessed it two megapixel snappers for depth and macrophotography turn it around.

Though we got one of the best 20 megapixel snappers under 20 000 rupees natural skin tones no over sharpening, and we, yet we can see the details in our subject's face here. The Pogo x3 takes some good-looking selfies and, as you guys can see, removing the 2 megapixel dub snapper didn't really make much of a difference for the selfie portraits like photos. The Pogo x3 excelled at capturing 1080p, footage, nice and colorful with excellent dynamic range, and yes, we even have as in here. For that added stability. It can go up to 4k, but we do lose out on as at the highest resolution.

There's a block mode in here, and that seems like fun as well. Basically, the Poco x3 is a very well-rounded device. It beats out the x2 by a small margin when it comes to performance, but then loses out since it has a slightly dimmer display, has equally good cameras as the x2 and pulls over a big victory in battery life and charging speeds. But as a fault of that loose is out in the build section, it's almost like the x2 and x2 are meant to coexist together, be like the yin and yang to each other, except that the Poco x2 starts at 15 000 rupees, while the x3 starts at 16k. Now, in my mind, I'd hardly pay the extra 1000 rupees for the better battery life, as well as the smoother UI scrolling.

But time now, for you guy's answer I want to know. Would you pick the Poco x3 over the x2? We have already kind of established that the x2 to x3 is not that big of an upgrade. So if both the phones were an option which one would you choose, let me know in the comments down below, as always as share subscribe, no turn on notifications by hitting that bell icon. If you haven't yet thanks a lot for watching till the end, guys have a good one cheers.

Source : C4ETech