Poco X3 Pro review
- ?
- Anonymous
- PIu
- 23 Mar 2021
Kemizee, 23 Mar 2021Let's be honest, the only area this beats the Poco X3 ... moreflagship soc consume more power than midrange
...even toddler also know that..
- K
- Kemizee
- Nu6
- 23 Mar 2021
Let's be honest, the only area this beats the Poco X3 NFC is chipset. The X3 NFC is better in battery endurance, speaker, camera and what have you.
Out of curiosity, please can anyone explain to me in layman terms why flagship processors usually have mediocre battery life compared to midrangers even tho battery size is the same? I thought flagship processors are supposed to be more energy efficient or am I missing something?
- P
- Pocopho F1 user here
- fC8
- 23 Mar 2021
Anders, 22 Mar 2021If this had been Exactly the same as the X3 NFC but with th... moreYour opinion has been trashed successfully.
About this phone , it can be a good phone for people who want to experhigh performance without spending high$$$
- ?
- Anonymous
- 0BG
- 23 Mar 2021
Dark screen, abysmal speakers, nothing special about cameras. Another phone that is only good in terms of cpu/gpu benchmarks. Exception is battery life which is also good.
Everything else is mediocre.
- N
- No
- pmH
- 23 Mar 2021
No, no and no.
- E
- Essen
- K6j
- 23 Mar 2021
Finally. A successor to the F1. The F1 was a masterstroke with supply chain logistics. Somebody at Xiaomi worked out a deal to unload QC of their 845s when the 855 was just around the corner. And the reason we never got an F2 was because the nature of the 8xx changed. Of course 855 came out, and they could have gotten the 855 for cheap when the 865 was launched. But for some reason, they couldn't And after that an 8xx became all about 5G, discrete modems, entirely different construction and architecture.
It seems now that same person at Xiaomi has managed to convince QC to dust out their old dyes, and tweak the 855+ just for them so that they can redo what the F1 did. And well, they have. Perhaps in a couple of years, or three, they'd do something similar with the 888 when 5G becomes more the norm.
Sure, the X3 Pro has its flaws. They could have used a better screen, provided proper dual sim support, and horned in the 6000mah from the non-NFC X3. But overall, you can't fault the set up for the price. I'd call this the real successor the F1. Even the F3 with its higher price and without an mSD card isn't really a Poco. Perhaps the X3 Pro is the kind of devices, Xiaomi should be bringing out under the Poco brand rather than all those Ms, Cs and what not.
- ?
- Anonymous
- XND
- 23 Mar 2021
A real pocophone f1 successor
- b
- beep bop boop
- GYi
- 23 Mar 2021
give it like a month, then everyone will forget about its existence... great phone btw
but i would still pick a OP7 pro over this. better in every aspect (well almost)
- ?
- Anonymous
- tPG
- 23 Mar 2021
finally a flagship specs with big battery, card slot and 3.5 jack!
could be the best selling smartphone ever in 2021!
- A
- Android--Master
- 8vQ
- 23 Mar 2021
And some people here still wonder why People buy Android phones below 400$.
Why wouldn't they?? A sub 300$ device is getting the job done.
- r
- rRadD
- v}R
- 23 Mar 2021
This is already sold out in our country. LOL! Can't wait to try this! I still have the Poco X3 NFC and it's already a beast! What's more if you have the Pro, right?
- M
- Mikeromeoz
- 8we
- 23 Mar 2021
Anonne, 23 Mar 2021I'm curious which one will be the mid-range king of th... moreAFAIK the reasons why manufacturers would add such large sensors is to increase detail for a smaller image output, you know things like quad bayer and nonacell, and maybe help improving low-light performance. Though large pixel 12MP sensors like those of google, apple, and samsung can actually do more or less the same job. Perhaps the huge megapixel sensors are easier to manufacture, coz with all the pixel binning they don't really need much good yield? I have no idea.
That, and things like 108MP and "64MP quad camera" sounds really marketable.
- M
- Miguel Angelo
- 7X3
- 23 Mar 2021
Only problem with the new smartphones in Xiaomi is the size too big for the hands to hold nice too bad
- M
- Mikeromeoz
- 8we
- 23 Mar 2021
It's kinda hard to justify why would they downgrade the cameras tho. I don't think going down from 64+13 to 48+8 would really shave that much from the production cost. Adding a few dozens of euros for that and then some won't really reduce its value.
Though be glad that xiaomi's been giving us great options on the cheap. You want a great screen and camera? Get the redmi note 10 pro. You want a jack-of-all trades phone for a bargain price? Get the X3 nfc. You want a flagship level performance? Get this one. You want 5G? They got a whole slew of lites and redmi 5Gs that gives me headaches. You want them all? Get something like a k40 or mi 10t, or a proper flagship like mi 11, cause you can't really have your cake and eat it too.
- A
- Anonne
- thv
- 23 Mar 2021
I'm curious which one will be the mid-range king of this year, this phone or Redmi Note 10 Pro.
One thing I get is that basically, camera resolution of more than 12 MP isn't really practical and worth it. In the review 48 MP isn't worth it, it takes long time to process and the file size is too big. Looks like big resolution on smartphone cameras is just for the marketing boost and consumer appeal, at least for mid-range phones (flagships may tell different story).
- s
- sq2013
- 7Pp
- 23 Mar 2021
Strawhat, 23 Mar 2021You want a $150 phone using Snapdragon 888 dude? Lol this i... moreExactly and according to the GSMA, 5g will not become the dominant mobile technology in the USA until 2025. Most people's phones are toast by then. I don't think that I'll have this phone in 2025. I might not even be here in 2025. So Anders is dismissing a phone because it lacks a mobile data transmission technology called 5G. 5G is not currently the most dominant and available mobile data transmission technology in the world and 4G is and will be for more than another 3 years. Some people really just talk before they think.
- s
- sq2013
- 7Pp
- 23 Mar 2021
Anders, 22 Mar 2021If this had been Exactly the same as the X3 NFC but with th... moreYeah but it is a stupid attitude. You're saying 4G trash. A year ago or two years ago or even three years ago, 4g was cutting edge and people would pay over a thousand for a 4g phone. Are you saying that the iphone 11 from last year is now an outdated phone? 4G is not going to disappear. Networks will still upgrade their core LTE network. When 5G becomes more commonplace, 4G will be more important. What will happen is as more and more devices contend for 5g connectivity, networks will have bottlenecking and many people will sometimes choose the 4g connection because it will be less used. Probably less than 5% of the phones on the market are 5g so you're really limiting yourself. You do realize most people use WiFi anyway especially during a pandemic.
- S
- Strawhat
- wrX
- 23 Mar 2021
Anders, 22 Mar 2021If this had been Exactly the same as the X3 NFC but with th... moreYou want a $150 phone using Snapdragon 888 dude? Lol this is business, not a charity lol
- G
- George
- 3%%
- 23 Mar 2021
From the review : "The noise is extremely low, and we could argue the noise reduction took away some of the fine detail. This could be fixed with some processing finetuning in the next firmware update."
This will never happen!!! From my long experience with Xiaomi devices and other brands there won't be any update ever for the camera performance and the quality will always be the same. That's something many reviewers say but it's rare and it happens mostly for more expensive phones unless it's a serious bug and the camera is unusable.
But this is normal as it's another marketing trick so you have to buy their newer device next time which despite having similar specs the software this time is indeed updated and improved. And this is the only time and way for you to get the
real software updates by buying a newer device. How sad this sounds but it's true.