The Poco X3 pro comes with the Poco launcher which it claims is ad-free. At one time, the Redmi Note’s UI was laden with ads but recent times have seen their number come down, so as to be hardly noticeable. The overall interface experience on the two devices is largely the same for most users. Thanks to a more powerful processor, the Poco X3 Pro feels snappier, prompt, almost as if the phone is always on its feet to get your daily chores underway. Do not get us wrong, the Redmi Note is very quick but the difference in speed comes forth when it is compared with the Poco X3 Pro. That said, the Note 10 Pro Max’s display wins it some brownie points as it would make for a better binge-watching partner as compared to the Poco X3 Pro.

The Poco X3 dials down refresh rate and conserves battery in situations like when you wouldn’t need those extra frames – like when watching movies. The Redmi Note 10 Pro Max and Realme 8 Pro have a slimmer design and AMOLED displays, and slightly better camera performance. The Standard mode targets sRGB and the Saturated mode targets DCI-P3. The native Auto profile adjusts colors based on ambient lighting. It felt a tad too warm but we could easily fix it by choosing a cooler white point using the color temperature wheel. In true Poco fashion, the Poco X3 Pro is the most powerful smartphone in the segment by a mile, without any major corners being cut.

It’s a mid-range chipset with power similar to the Snapdragon 855 Plus, used in phones like the Asus ROG Phone 2 and OnePlus 7T. The main camera performance is the sort of thing we used to see quite commonly in phones with Samsung sensors, a few years earlier. It does not have perfect contrast, but we didn’t actually find raised blacks too noticeable even in a very dark room, at least with mixed content. You’d want an OLED if you spent a lot more, and its fast-responding pixels would make better use of the 120Hz refresh rate. Poco phones seem to be popular among people who like to get a lot of tech for their cash. As we’ll get into more deeper in our Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro review, its 120Hz screen is great, battery life is excellent and, as you’d hope, there are no basic performance problems in Android. Over on the front-facing camera, the 20MP sensor is capable enough, but the processing is a major letdown.

• Plus, in case your battery does run low, topping up to full takes just 42 minutes thanks to the 67W fast charging capability.
• When you are a Root apps user or Developer, you can use custom ROMs.
• The camera triggers HDR only when it detected Sun in the image frame.
• I have played many heavy games on it, really this battery capacity works well.
• Interestingly, the POCO X4 Pro covers the screen with Corning Gorilla Glass 5while the protection is Corning Gorilla Glass 6 in the POCO X3 Pro.

The Poco X3 Pro has an ensemble of four lenses stock firmware file and an LED flash on its back panel. Its core is a 48 MP camera that shoots 12 MP photos using 4-in-1 pixel-binning, but it optionally also uses the full 48 MP resolution.

The Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro has a fingerprint scanner on its side, rather than an in-screen one, but it’s great. It hasn’t, to the best of our recollections, failed recognition once during testing. Xiaomi used rear glass in 2020’s Poco X2, but this phone and the Poco X3 NFC are largely plastic. There’s no glass bar the screen cover and top-most protective camera layer.