But when we move indoors the colors tend to look a bit flat. While gaming the handset got a bit warm but we didn’t notice any frame drops or major heating during the session. POCO X3 Pro comes with a 6.67″ FHD+ LCD HDR10 display which comes with an adaptive 120Hz refresh rate, and a 240Hz Touch sampling rate. The 20 MP selfie camera captures bright images with accurate colours.
So if you want to start a YouTUbe Channel to share your gameplay, then you can go with this mobile. It uses the stereo loudspeaker for calls since it doesn’t have a dedicated speaker for calls. The camera triggers HDR only when it detected Sun in the image frame. The software on the phone is Android 11-based MIUI 12 which is quite feature-rich and very familiar.
You can play for a while and not worry about it ruining your chances of getting to bedtime without a top-up. The Poco X3 Pro is the best budget Fortnite phone you can get, at the time of review. Aside from short drops when loading new textures, this phone sticks glue-like to the maximum 30fps. It probably deserves a crack at the 60fps mode Epic Games unlocks for some high-end phones. But the older 8-series Snapdragon chipsets are still more powerful than today’s 7-series firmware ones.
- If you do not like the firmware installed by the device manufacturer on your Android device, you are free to replace it with your own custom firmware.
- The phone is running MIUI 12 on top of Android 11 with the April 2021 security patch.
- Xiaomi hit it right out of the park in the performance and display department.
- It’s fine for casual use but if you really like your content to pop, you might be a little underwhelmed.
- With a new focus on the youth market, Poco has chosen a slightly different approach for the X3 Pro.
It feels like wasted money though, as this device could remain exceedingly competitive with two cameras (or three, if you want to keep the depth sensor). I took a few pictures on this phone from both of the primary sensors to get a taste of what the POCO X3 Pro’s camera is like, and you can check out the album below.
- Realme 5 Pro performance has gone down after it received some software updates.
- When it comes time to charge the phone, the X3 Pro falters a bit.
- In terms of battery life, both phones can easily last a full day with moderate usage.
- In the mobile phone camera test , the X3 surprised with extremely good photos in daylight.
- If performance or gaming is your number one priority then go for it.
- This phone is really a Flagship killer device in this range, because of its feature and budget.
The Poco X3 Pro is available in two configurations – the review model is the base version with 6GB RAM/128GB of storage. There is another version with 8GB RAM /256GB storage for a bit more. In either version RAM is LPDDR4x and the storage is the UFS 3.1 type. For the retail price of $229 for the base version, there isn’t a better device available in terms of sheer hardware performance that can compete with the X3 Pro. There is zero absolutely no slowdown in playing games including the high refresh rate ones, watching videos, or doing any other daily task with this phone. The last few Xiaomi devices that came to me for review all have a high refresh rate AMOLED display.