That doesn’t mean that it’s not worth picking up, but the devices are so similar that holding them side by side, it would be hard to tell them apart. It’s fast, it’s smooth, and the Snapdragon 860 can keep up with pretty much everything that you throw at it in a day-to-day sense. It’s not the best chipset on the market and nor is it close to it, but it’s an interesting chip from Qualcomm that helps to fill the gap between mid-range and flagship. The POCO X3 Pro packs a headphone jack – a commonality between mid-range devices. It works, you can plug wired earphones in, and it’s likely one of the more powerful devices released in the last year to actually feature one.
Both phones support HDR10, which is a high dynamic range (HDR) format that offers better contrast and color accuracy than standard SDR displays. The Poco X3 Pro, by and large, has not received a large number of updates compared to the Poco X3 NFC safe for more productive hardware. The cameras are more or less the same, and you have to directly compare them to see the difference. But the positioning of the device is obvious – this is a smartphone for those who prefer performance to cameras. So if you need a powerful and relatively inexpensive smartphone for gaming, this is your choice. The use of an IPS panel in the Poco X3 Pro did not allow the manufacturer to integrate a Stock Firmware fingerprint scanner into the screen, and therefore we have here a standard capacitive one.
The Redmi Note 10 Pro Max follows a slightly more conventional design trend but Redmi has managed to make the Note 10 Pro Max look stylish and classy. It is more like a classy person who sits in the corner of a coffee shop by the window and makes you curious and intrigued when you pass by.
- Poco X3 Pro offers a 120Hz IPS LCD with HDR10, protected by Gorilla Glass 6.
- Of the rest, they have slight differences in terms of dimensions, with the Poco X3 Pro being larger, but where they differ the most is in the weights.
- Color reproduction is on the saturated side, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
- I feel Poco cane easily fix all the current optimization issues and they will be resolved before first sale but there are current things which make MIUI the most hated UI.
There is a big difference when switching over to 120Hz, but there is noticeable ghosting at times. Xiaomi offers plenty of customizability for the panel, and you can change the color balance, schedule dark mode, and use the text-focused reading mode. The POCO X3 stood out last year because it introduced an original design and wasn’t a rebranded Redmi phone. Xiaomi is reusing the design here, and the POCO X3 Pro doesn’t differ from the standard version on the design front.
