The $200 Poco X3 By Dave2D

Okay, so this is the newest homophone, the Poco x3, and it is a roughly 200 phones that hits really hard it's just packed with so much good stuff on it. I think this is probably going to be the best 200 phones this year like I. I really think that this is gonna, be the one now the original homophone, the f1. This was a phone that just made waves right. It was meant to be disruptive. It was meant to draw a lot of attention to the brand, but ever since the f1, I haven't reviewed other homophones because I mean Xiaomi's just been using other phones like Redmi phones and rebranding them as Poco phones, and none of them really struck me as being something special.

This one's different, this one is a new phone. It's not like a rebranding from something else, so I like that and let's just get right into it, so the build quality. This is a metal framed phone. It's aluminum, I don't know for sure I mean they claim its aluminum. It feels like metal, but it does have that reflective chrome finish that we do see in plastic framed phones, but I do think it is metal and then the back is not glass.

Furthermore, it's a plastic back very similar to other homophones. Furthermore, it's got some glass like reflectivity to it, but it is plastic, and it'll have the durable properties of plastic, and I like that, they went with it right if you're going to have a 200 phone that has like a 120 hertz screen and all the features that this one do you kind of have to go with some material decisions like that. So if we go around the device, we have a sim tray, it's got a gasket for some water resistance, and you can go with a double sim or a single sim with the micro SD. We have an IR blaster up top, and we also have a notification light that is visible through the grille of the earpiece. It's this little white light that just shines through, and I like it.

It's so simple: it's not intrusive, like they don't have a special aperture for anything. Furthermore, it just shines right through the grill and I feel, like more phones, should implement or could implement something like this without too much of trouble. But it's nice that it's there. We also have very tactile buttons. They click like quite audibly, and the tactility is good, but they have this.

They feel cheaper, it's hard to describe like when I click them. It feels like there's plastic components in there when there usually aren't and then the fingerprint sensor. So this is a reasonably fast sensor, it's in a great spot and the kind of divot that's in the area to place your finger is really ergonomic and there's also this sharp edge on the side of the power button. It's actually quite similar to the sharp edge on the before 7. And the bottom.

We have your headphone jack awesome and an USB port. This is actually a slower port, it's usb2, so you can't do superfast data transfers through it. Now the front has really nice sounding stereo speakers and, like I mean good stereo, like even sound good volume. I like them now the display is a 120 hertz LCD panel, and it's a pretty good image. There are some things that I think people should be aware of if they're interested in this phone, though so, even though it's 200 bucks, I got to mention this stuff number one.

The backlighting has some inconsistencies around that punch hole its most noticeable when you have like a bright image, and you're viewing it on an angle like you can see here, there's just some inconsistencies around that punch hole. It's not super obvious, but if you look for it, you'll notice it. But the weird thing is: if you look straight on it's almost imperceptible: it's actually invisible to me. If I look straight on, but the moment you tilt it, you'll see it and the same thing goes with the bottom edge. There's just you can see that the back lighting isn't perfectly done there.

It's again most noticeable on an angle, but straight on it's not really noticeable. Now, for me, I don't care about these imperfections at all. I feel like this barely affects the image quality of the screen, but I thought I should put it out there for people that are more picky about stuff, like that. There is another issue that I think is like a bigger issue, and it's not pertaining to the screen itself, but it manifests itself on the display. So this is a 120 hertz display, but you'll notice, oftentimes with the animations and stuff there's a bit of a stutter, and I think it's related to the frame rate down clocking that xiaomi's putting on this phone so with this device, because it's got a 120hz capable screen if you left it at 120hz or 120 frames per second all the time it would chew through battery life quickly right, but I think in an attempt to preserve the battery life or extend it as long as possible.

They are down clocking, it really quickly and quite aggressively. So if I'm in the UI, and I'm swiping around it'll be displaying it at 120 frames per second very smooth, very fluid. But if I let go of that like the touchscreen, I don't touch it. The frame rate will drop to single digit fps, and now, if I touch the screen again, it takes a split second for it to bring that speed back up. It takes a while for it to ramp up to a fluid a visually fluid frame rate and because of that delay, the eye picks up a stutter, and I don't know how I feel about this because partially it's a good thing right, because now your battery life is preserved, really well, and we'll get into battery life in a second.

But because of that stutter. It's noticeable, and I don't know if they can fix this without affecting the battery life too much. So this phone has an amazing battery life right now, 5160 William hours, it's a big battery, but it's not just the size of the battery. It's what they're doing in software, how they're down clocking the screen and how they're just stretching the battery life through software, and it's a bit of a trade-off right. You have to do these weird things in software and make your screen not super smooth to be able to stretch out that battery life like this is a phone that gets a comfortable two days of real use.

Like actual use two days, it's crazy, eight and a half nine hours of screen on time. It's so good, but I think right the moment you start tweaking the software, so it looks smoother and feels smoother you're going to eat into that battery time, so it'd be cool if they could have like a software option for users, but I think most people would go for battery life now. It also charges up very quickly. Furthermore, it's got a 33 watt charger in the box juices it up in like 68 minutes, it's a really fast charge. The thing is on a phone like this that doesn't have any software to kind of adjust the charging speed, you're gonna, it's gonna invariably affect the durability or longevity of this device right.

When you have batteries that get warm from really fast charging all the time, it doesn't bode well for, like lifespan of the phone personally, if I owned this- and this was my regular phone, I would just use like a 15 watt charger, because it does get quite hot on the charge, but you do have access to superfast charging if you want it. So this runs a snapdragon, 732 g, and it's also running UFS, 2.1 storage. So not superfast hardware in there it's reasonably fast, but it's noticeably not flagship like when I looked at the OnePlus word. That's got a 765g in it, even though I know that's not a flagship chip. It feels flagship like this.

Does not this feels noticeably mid-range. It's not like a slow performer, I'm not going to say it's like unusable, slow or anything like that, but it is slow at times not just in games when I'm looking at frame rates, but even in the UI, when I'm swiping around I'm just doing things stuff takes a little of time to load, but it feels fast enough, and I feel like for 200 bucks. I'd be very happy with this kind of performance gaming performance is hit or miss. It obviously depends on the titles you're playing any kind of heavy 3d title isn't ideal on this device, so the camera system, the aesthetics of the camera system first, is a little different like I don't love the look of it. It's got this weird shape to the lens cluster, and it's also quite protuberant sticks out like two millimeters or so.

The image quality of these photos is what you would expect on a mid-range phone right. Clean, easy shots are fine, the ultrawide shots could be sharper, but the moment you throw low light into the mix it doesn't do great. I think the one thing I would say is nice on this phone. Is the image stabilization in video, so it's pretty decent, but when you take low light videos, the image quality starts to fall apart quickly, so this is all with the stock camera app. If you put g cam on this thing, I took a few photos.

It's a little buggy right now. I feel like an updated version of chem would run nicely on it, but the low light images are just so much better with Guam, okay UI. So this is running mini 12, and it's been a couple of years since I've actually spent a lot of time on mini and it is so much cleaner now than it used to be. There are still a couple of things. I don't love like number one, there are ads like there's straight up advertisements in the middle of your UI, sometimes, and it's just it really shouldn't be there.

I understand why they do it like Samsung's, even doing this stuff now, but I hate that number two. Furthermore, I don't like how there's removable software, and it's like Xiaomi stuff that you know they want to put it in there, and it seems like they collect data when you're using them. So I would just prefer to uninstall those apps, but I can't because they're baked right into the ROM, but those are the only real gripes I have with mini it's a way cleaner and better operating system now than it was two years ago. But the real thing here is the price point.200 bucks is a really hard price for competitors to be it's such an attractive phone because it's got so much stuff at that price point like superfast screen, 120 hertz, 50, 160, William hour battery. It's a big battery that lasts long.

They got a lot going on for this phone okay. What do you think good for the price? Let me know: okay, hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs, if you loved it I'll see you guys next time.

Source : Dave2D