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. You’ll be able to play pretty much everything on offer stock firmware on the Google Play Store, along with the ability to emulate a lot of past consoles and handhelds as well. It does have a 120Hz maximum refresh rate and 240Hz maximum touch sampling rate, as well as HDR10 support. There’s a fairly generous 5,160mAh battery and 33W fast charging, with a matching charger included in the box.

It has a primary 48MP camera and an 8MP basic ultra-wide. There are also two horrible 2MP macro depth and macro cameras. It’s not difficult to fill in cams on affordable phones. It is a 6.67 inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1080×2400 and a refresh rate of 120Hz. The first, second, and third impressions of this screen are excellent.

• This means in no way lags would dominate the high-end gaming experience on the Note 10 Pro Max but the phone will feel as if it can be pushed too far.
• With the way that POCO has priced the POCO X3 Pro, matching it on point with the POCO X3 NFC’s pricing, it becomes impossible not to recommend the Pro device over its non-Pro sibling.
• I don’t like how everything is rounded and cartoony in the UI.
• Indoors I rarely had to bump the volume level past 50% while playing games or watching videos despite the slightly lower bass.

In this way, not only MIUI or Android version, but also your applications will always be up to date. Open the app, choose your device, choose the stable ROM, and then choose the region you want to download. All Xiaomi phones come with MIUI’s built-in updater app and with this app we can either wait for the updates to arrive to our phone or we can manually apply updates. Xiaomi continues to release updates for their devices but sometimes these updates may take longer to arrive than normal. With this guide we are going to teach you how to install MIUI updates manually. We offer a unique solution to the “stay up-to-date” problem we mentioned at the beginning of topic. If you are wondering if your device will get MIUI 13 or Android 12 or 13, you can check it from our app.

The Snapdragon 860 chipset powering the phone gives it a considerable leg-up over other phones in the segment. So if you have no problem with its decent camera setup, you can go with this mobile in 2022 because it comes under a 20k budget with flagship killer performances. In India, the Poco X3 comes with an extra-large 6000mAh battery. We could easily manage 1.5 days of usage while keeping the screen refresh rate at 120fps. Xiaomi bundles a 33W charger in the box that can top-up the battery to around 68% in one hour. On the downside, you’d be missing AMOLED contrasts while watching multimedia content.

After the last update (MIUI 13), slot number 1 for the SIM card does not work. Only one thing I would like is horizontal mode in Poco launcher… If you are using this phone or have experience with this phone, select this option. Not everyone will like how large and heavy the Poco X3 Pro is. It weighs 213g and is 9.4mm thick, which are both above average for this segment. The body is rated IP53 and Poco refers to this as “splash-proof”, and it’s always welcome. MIUI is aggressive about closing apps, and even with 8GB of RAM, apps don’t sit in the background for very long.