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I heard this phone has the all-new Snapdragon 732G, a big battery, and a good camera. What’s best is that it has a 120Hz screen refresh rate, which is the icing on the cake. Do you want to know what phone this is?
Find out more about this post. You know, guys, Poco tried to stage a comeback in the past few months with the Poco F2 Pro. It’s a nice phone. Really! It’s nice, but many were disappointed with the design of the Poco. Poco is known for its realistic design and actual original design, and this time around, the Poco F2 Pro plus the Poco X2 are just knockoffs of the Redmi K30 Pro and the Redmi K30i, respectively. Still, it’s at the back, designed by Poco, but at the Redmi part, it was designed by Redmi: I wonder who’s who? Who designed whom?
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But all I know is that Xiaomi designed it. Nevertheless, the Poco X3 has its own design. It has a pretty weird camera design. It looks like the die-cut CD from the 90s, when everybody said, “Wow! That’s a special kind of CD.”
CDs used to be around, but this one has a cut above and a cut below, making it look a little bit different, unique, and rare. And yeah, the Poco X3 was a bit different, probably inspired by that die-cut CD, and I heard the designer probably would be some old guy:)
So We Have Our Poco X3 Right Here, And We’re Going To Unbox It Right Now
Now, since we’re done with the unboxing, let’s take a deeper dive into the specs of this phone. Poco is boasting that it has the all-new Snapdragon 732G processor inside this phone, and it’s roughly 15% faster than that of the Snapdragon 720G, which is present in the Redmi Note 9 series: 9S and the 9pro, and of course, in the 9pro max in India.
I have tested this phone as my daily driver for roughly almost a week now, and I can say the response is fast: using this phone is excellent, and I’ve been trying to multitask on this phone. Guess what? It just performed without a hitch.
Now, What Are Some Of The Basic Indicators
I can tell you that this phone is faster than the Snapdragon 720G. Poco tested that the AnTuTu score is roughly 300,000 points, but, well, based on my testing, it’s still almost the same as that of the Snapdragon 730G. Nonetheless, I can feel that the animation running inside the MIUI 12 for Poco, inside the Poco X3, is a lot smoother, a lot more buttery smooth, and the transition is a lot faster compared to the ones I used inside the Note 9S and the Note 9 Pro.
It is more evident that I will say, “I’ll pick this one over the one from the Note 9S.” Since we are already talking about the benchmark, why not try to look at another benchmark on this phone? The ANTUTU benchmark gave it 182,000 points, and the accuracy is almost still the same as that of the Snapdragon 865 series and the Snapdragon 7 series, which is 22,000 points. I heard that the AI has stepped up, but on the score, it’s roughly still the same.
Now, checking the score on Geekbench, it has 560 single-core points and 1757 multi-core points, slightly better than the 9S and the 9pro.
Okay, everybody wants to know how big the battery inside this phone is. It has a 5160mAh battery, which can support up to 33W of fast charging, and I’ve tried charging it using the supplied cable and the supplied charger: it has hit up to 33W based on my wattmeter, which is true enough based on what they have advertised. Now, probably the next thing you ask me is, how long did this battery last? I can tell you that it lasted 17 hours and 25 minutes for almost a whole day based on the PCMark test.
Talking About Battery Life
I’ve set it to 50% manual brightness without auto-brightness, of course, and run the test for the whole night and the whole day. And the result is pretty good: 17 and a half hours! It is something worth considering, and of course, battery life.
After playing with this phone for roughly a couple of days, I can say that I have yet to hit the charging dock for two days—imagine! After texting a little bit of social media, then a little bit of browsing, watching YouTube, and playing little games, at the end of the day, I still have roughly 40% of the battery left inside the tank, which is impressive.
After draining the battery down to 13% after a couple of days of usage, I can say the charging is not slow; it’s fast. Charging from 13% to 100% using the default cable and charger took roughly 59 minutes.
Imagine! What’s the use of the power bank these days if this phone can charge from 13 to 100% in under an hour? Just imagine that! Of course, I don’t recommend draining the battery to 0% before charging. The best practice is to charge it when it reaches 20%. That’s my best advice for keeping your battery in tip-top shape.
The Poco X3 has a 6.67-inch IPS LCD FHD+ with a 240Hz touch sampling rate. Of course, the 120Hz screen refresh rate should not be ignored. It also has scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass 5 and aluminum frames. I’ve been trying to use the phone in direct sunlight, and I can see that it’s still very, very legible.
When the screen is at max brightness, I can still read everything on my phone—slightly darker. Of course, changing to AMOLED would be a more significant factor. I heard that this phone has an IP53 splash resistance rating. Right now, let’s go ahead and splash some water onto this phone. Okay.
Talking About Camera Quality
The Poco X3 has a quad-camera setup: the 64MP Sony IMX682 primary sensor, a 13MP ultra-wide sensor, a 2MP macro lens, and a 2MP depth sensor, coupled with a 20MP front camera. Let’s try to take some pictures outdoors.
Talking About Gaming Aspects
This phone has a 120Hz screen refresh rate, and what better way to test it than to use it for gaming?
I’m trying some games on the Poco X3. I can tell you that the screen is very responsive. Having a 120Hz refresh rate does have its perks. Looking at these two balls, you can see that on a 60Hz refresh rate, it lags, but on the 120Hz, it is very, very smooth: the transitions and movements are smooth.
Another very evident one I can show you is comparing the Redmi Note 9S and the Poco X3. With a 60Hz refresh rate on the Redmi Note 9S and a 120Hz screen refresh rate on the Poco X3, swiping left and right is evident. See this one. This is the 9S. You can see that it is a bit sluggish. And you can see this one on the Poco X3; it’s so smooth, so buttery soft.
I can say you can tell the exception once you take this phone. Playing games like PUBG, Mobile Legends, NBA 2k20, Call Of Duty, and Hungry Shark, I can say that all of these games I did enjoy. In addition to having a good screen refresh rate on the Poco X3, after playing certain games for roughly an hour and a half using the Poco X3, I heard that this phone has the new liquid cooling technology 1.0+. The copper heatsink inside really dissipated it a bit better, probably than the Redmi Note 9s and the Redmi Note 9pro; I can say it’s not warm compared to the other phones.
Talking About Video Aspects And Sound Quality
Now, when watching videos on a phone like YouTube and Netflix, I can tell you that this phone’s dual stereo speakers are loud. The sound is blowing my mind away!
Conclusion:
We’re done reviewing the Poco X3, and I’m excited about this phone. It is something! Poco has been trying to make a comeback, and I can see that this one is probably a big comeback inside the X3. The value is good, and the specifications are excellent. The only downside I can see is that it’s a bit thick, but other than that, everything is on the upside.
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