If you need a lot of grunt in your daily use, the POCO X3 Pro is perhaps the best option in the category. However, for a more standard workload — think music streaming, taking photographs, or texting — a more well-rounded option like the Redmi Note 10 Pro would be a better bet for most. Perhaps the most obvious alternatives come from stablemate Xiaomi. Low-light and indoor imaging are the few areas where the POCO X3 Pro cameras do pretty well. There’s a good amount of control over noise, though the strong stock ROM (firmware) digital noise reduction is visible upon close inspection. The over-sharpening noticed in daylight shots is even more evident here. Despite the moniker, the camera setup on the POCO X3 Pro is a noticeable downgrade over the POCO X3.
The display on Poco X3 Pro is not AMOLED but it’s not a normal display either. With 120hz Dynamic refresh rate support and 240hz touch sampling rate everything is buttery smooth. You can easily play most games that support a high refresh rate.
- This is a phone that will do very well for gaming and will feel snappy and responsive for the foreseeable future.
- It is not like you can’t lift a 215-gram phone, but it gets rather uncomfortable for prolonged one-handed use.
- The Xiaomi smartphone supports VoLTE and Wi-Fi calls but not eSIMs.
- Audio recording also is very good given the price and hardware on offer.
The POCO X3 Pro could find itself being a mid-range gaming smartphone on a budget, thanks to the Adreno 640 inside. You get some pretty decent sustained performance too, according to my testing using the CPU Throttling Test app. The POCO X3 Pro scores higher in the CPU Throttle Test too than devices with the Snapdragon 765G.
The bundled charger can juice up the phone from zero to around 50 percent in half an hour, which is quite good. There’s no doubt the Poco X3 Pro blows the competition out of water when it comes to sheer power. On the other hand, with so much power at its disposal, the company doesn’t seem to have spent time refining the experience. The selfie camera which is unchanged is a 20MP Samsung S5K3T2 ISOCELL Plus 1/3.4″ Tetra-pixel sensor. The Poco X3 Pro has 128GB UFS 3.1 storage on the base model versus 64GB UFS 2.1 on the X3 NFC. Thankfully Poco kept the micro SD card expansion slot still available for those needing even more storage capacity.