Once again, the performance is comparable to Realme 7 Pro and Galaxy M31. It won’t be fair to blame Poco for the omission because this is an industry-wide change that Stock Firmware affects almost all upcoming phones. The software on the phone has a few peeve points, though. Google is now pushing OEMs to include the stock Google dialer and messaging app on its phones and the Google Dialer doesn’t have auto call recording. In fact, Poco X3 doesn’t have the option for regular call recording either but that can be added with an OTA update. Post the Android 9 Pie update, third-party apps are utterly useless in this regard. The fingerprint reader is on the side and it’s as snappy and reliable as we’d want it to be.
As for batteries, the Poco X3 Pro has a 5,160 mAh battery with 33W fast charging, while the X3 GT has a 5,000 mAh battery with 67W fast charging. Both chipsets are very good processors, but the Dimensity 1100 is the better performer, also because of its GPU, which is the Mali-G77 and outperforms the Adreno 640 in the Snapdragon 860.
The new finishes are welcome, but ultimately the design is still the biggest problem with the X3 Pro. It’s heavy, it’s thick, and thanks to the Poco logo and plastic finish it both looks and feels kind of cheap. It’s not awful, but there are similarly priced phones from Realme and Oppo – and even Xiaomi’s other phone lines – that look an awful lot slicker.
- Poco X3 Pro USB Driver allows you to connect your Poco Smartphone to the Windows Computer without installing the Poco PC Suite Application.
- And secondly, this model is already two years old, and the chip inside is almost four.
- The Poco X3 Pro has two speakers certified for Hi-Res Audio.
- The speaker is just okay, the voice is clear, but more importantly, this earpiece speaker plays along with the main speaker.
- The Poco X3 Pro might not be the best in the category and falls a tad behind Redmi Note 10 Pro and Realme 8 Pro.
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There is no other phone in this segment that comes close to the performance of the POCO X3 Pro. The marquee feature on the POCO X3 Pro is the Snapdragon 860 chipset. We categorized every aspect of the phone and gave a star rating based on general price/ performance of the phone. Both of these models are fast and certainly gives you a bang for your bucks. The bottom line is that this isn’t the best Android experience out there, but it’s ultimately a matter of taste. It is also running the latest software version and should do for another year or two. If our Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro review hasn’t convinced you that this is the phone you want, here are three more phones to consider.