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Honestly for someone who buys a poco x4 phone I think they know what they're doing. Poco is not a huge brand like Samsung and even if it is a sub brand of the massive Xiaomi, non tech savvy people will not know they're the same. I think this phone is more geared to those who want value on a budget and when you're on that budget, the problems of bloatware, software and mediocre camera just don't matter. I would say it's a perfect budget phone. Edit: people have been complaining about their POCO phones malfunctioning, I have had a POCO X3 (non pro) for over a year now and there has not been a single problem, software or hardware but if it is as inconsistent as people are saying, buy at your own risk. I know 3 other people with POCO phones but none of them are faulty so I'm not sure what the replies are trying to say.
exactly id rather pay less for a minor inconvenience of uninstalling bloatware and things like that rather than paying extra for a clean home screen right off the bat
the devs for past phones who are going to upgrade to poco x4 will find ways to remove the bloatware and probably provide a good custom rom support. sounds like an amazing phone for me for the price. camera isnt an issue for me.
I agree with this. When someone ask me if Xiaomi is a good phone. I confident to say it's yes most of the time if you don't mind with ads and bloatware.
I'm using Poco F3 for a year now and I never regretted buying it. The specs and experience I have for 350€ is absolutely worth taking 5mins to disable the adds and remove preinstalled apps
You can use 2 fingers shrink the screen and muti select all the app and uninstall them in 1 min lol But I will keep them and open those app before uninstall them, because xiaomi worth the ads'money for they really make everyone be able to have a solid phone with affordable price. comments from japan
It's really amazing how good Xiaomi has become in mid-range phones. I don't mind bloatwares, most of them can be uninstalled easily and the ads of MIUI apps can also be stopped. Even some Google apps that are system apps can be removed using "Universal Android Debloater".
This is the best phone review I have ever ever seen, like you just explained everything that a normal person needs to know without being mislead and neither disappointed! Great work dude!!
@Parth Shah yep that's true but he complained too much because the OS ads can be turned off with one button in settings and the camera is good but he was a bit too harsh. I didn't quite understand what the problem was with the 5g either, it works fine. But other than that I'd agree
@@vijayapai9238 He did say the camera was decent enough for this price and exactly what you'd expect. The point of the video is that the outer design and the way they market it makes us think they're of flagship quality which they arent and the "108MP" is just for show. But yeah i didnt get the 5g thing either. He didnt even clarify the point, just said it may not "properly work" with 5g. What does that even mean?
eh, the chip is nowhere close to snapdragon 860 in terms of performance, and it releases in 2018? the other parts of the phones are good though, they obviously sacrifice the chip to lower the cost
its Snapdragon 695G and no where near par in performance with mid range phone 750G. They also aren't going to be price at 250$.. Your best choice is get Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro 5G at 250-300$, in Term of Price/Performance it completely destroy this Poco X4 Pro.
@@altrealm2123 however the main camera is just as capable if not more than 2019 flagship cameras,just give it ois and better lenses and there you go,oh and gcam is a free upgrade it makes the phone alot better in processing,however the other cameras need work like telephoto is still not seen anywhere in this range,and ultrawide is just there for marketing
I have the M3 as my work phone. Its battery is still the best I have ever came across. And it does its job just fine, no fancy extras. This is imo what a budget phone should be like. This X4 looks like a good bang for the buck as well. Getting nearly 70% of flagship experience with 25% of the price is just worth every penny.
Your comment says what was needed to be said. I also have an M3 and firmly believe that this newer and clearer Poco UI is better than the Redmi counterpart. The last update to 12.5.1 enhanced edition was neat. Made the phone faster, smoother and optimised properly.
This phone is pretty good. the problem is that flagships like samsung and iphone have set standards to justify the exorbitant prices of their products, so people tend to think that flagships have something special and that the product has to be expensive for it to be normal. i used iphone 13 ,samsung s21 ultra but i felt ripped off because the price of the phone was way too high compared to the things it offers. Those midranged phones offers more than thode 1200 USD flagships
but sumsung has series that are close to price to these budget phones and are just way better,like the galaxy s50 and 70 series,so why buy these bloated phones when u can get a quality one for similar price
Just flash pixel experience or whatever other rom you want... Gets rid of the bloatware instantly. At that point you pretty much have a pixel in performance and software experience and the only thing you're missing is a quality camera, which is something you have to decide if it's worth it to you. Again, the poco camera is not bad, but it can leave you missing the pixel camera if you've used one before
@@hssnnkim but why, for what,like i said the A50 series for example,better camera better build,water resistant dust resistant,4 years of support,security updates,8 gigs of ram,a cpu that can do just fine about everything,better screen even in some cases,and same price about,sometimes these chinese phones have overkill cpu but this poco doesnt even have that,so not sure what the apeal is
Using POCO X3 right now with a custom ROM. Stock Android 12 experience actually makes it pretty fun to use. I'd say POCO phones bring you the best value you can get for its price, and if you are willing to spend a little bit of time on it for setting it up, then you really do get a great experience for its price....
Do bank/UPI apps work after rooting the phone and/or on a custom ROM? That's my biggest worry on flashing custom roms these days. I NEED to be able to reliably make paytm or GooglePay transactions
@@vpsjdon they do, you just need to hide magisk. I use Google Pay on a regular basis. If you need any help you can always search for it on UA-cam, it's all out there
i still really like my Poco x3 pro that i picked up for like 250. for the price and what you got really does make it seem worth the value compared to a $1000+ phone out there. I mostly just bought it for some mobile gaming so the Snap 860 handles that perfectly and the 5k mah battery offers hours worth of playtime too. That and it's more friendly towards repair since the back comes off instead of the front screen panel access. (something the X4 still does which is nice)
I love how every time you handle the devices with care. Man, you really don't take things for granted, like other reviewers. You have my utmost respect.
I had poco x3 and it's really good. good processor, enough to play games, and it had passive cooling system. it had microsd slot, and the fastcharging. and it cost really affordable. I'm happy to see this phone had an newer version
@@ayylmao8837 wait didn't they say that it was good because of the performance?? like there aren't much phones with that budget that has this level of performance
Mrwhosetheboss, your posts are incredibly easy and more efficient to understand. Unfortunately for an South African like me who lives in a rural community, is kinda impossible to be a technology tester. But your videos make it possible to at least have knowledge of such technologies. However it would great to have one of your tested phones Mr Inglesh🙏
Nicely done. Having good reviewers like yourself easily found on the internet really helps to find the qualities I want in the various phones and the lacking camera is an instant deal breaker. Thank you
As someone who doesn't play games on their phone and uses a dedicated camera for photos this sounds perfect, I hate that most phones are making me pay for expensive features I won't use.
I got the Realme GT Neo 2 for $350 (on sale). Really impressed with the 1200 nit, amoled, 120hz display, the snaodragon 870 chipset, the 65 watt fast charging (0-100 in 35 minutes) and the 5000 mah battery. The software is also nice, better than Miui
@@frankreynolds9930 Better than the Oneplus Nord (original) though. I didnt expect much but was surprised. Yes the quality isn't that high, but its perfectly normal for that price. The rest of the phone is flagship grade if you ask me
I remember feeling the same about my F3 Haptics. They get you off-guard, how good they are. Lets just hope POCO doesn't 'settle' like the other guys :\
What I love about Arun is that his videos always have little Easter eggs in the editing, like at 6:38 where he changed 61 to 69 for a split second. It makes the videos just the a teeny bit more fun to watch.
Guess I'm finding it hard to see how changing the number of phones from 61 to 69 for a quick second is fun or exciting, but maybe my boring life is a bitr more exciting than some other people's boring lives.
I bought the Poco F3 as a throwaway phone as my S20+ just died out of nowhere and before I could recontract. Well, turns out it's much better than I imagined. It has a Snapdragon 870 chipset, UFS 3.1 and it somehow felt snappier than my S20+ which was more than 4x its price. I continued using it till now just because of how happy I was with its performance even though I can recontract right now with a new flagship phone.
What I like about Poco is that they allow you to unlock the bootloader from there you can install a custom ROM it makes the phone so much better, but some might say why buy a phone to change the software? because you can get much better performance by installing stock Android over MIUI! While having a pretty decent phone for the price.
now you mention costom rom im interested already tried Miui on My Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 and ot works flawlessly,though the vendor version of Miui seems bloated so i might search clean muiu rom if i want to buy that phone
I don't know how well the performance is. But I live some of the extra feature of MIUI which makes stock Android look bare bones. Although you also lose some features when using MIUI like screen pinning
Right, the only reason I was gonna buy these mi phones, they offer good hardware for the price but the software is absolutely horrendous, bloatware and ads, not to mention the whole copied Os from iOS. It's a bit weird tbh. I'd Rather have them put a stock version of Android in there than a whole bunch of bloatware.
Thank you arun. I would have never knew the sneakiness the companies are playing for the cheap phones and using some heavy tech terms until you told it. Informative and eye opening video
The problem with that assessment is that Android flagships from 2 years ago are priced close to budget phones, are more complete builds with flagship perks, and are better purchases than these budget phones. If these major Android companies advertise their older flagships they would rinse the budget market, and even Apple are going for it with the recent SE line up.
I am not watching so much tech videos but dude, no wonder why you have so many views. The editing, the "magic" tricks and the icons with a timers are such an improvement. I really love it!
5:50 Good point. 5G performance on my poco F3 isn’t amazing. Often it says I have signal but in reality I don’t. I’ve disabled 5G completely, the 4G works perfectly well.
I'm using the OG Poco F1 for apx. 3 years now and very satisfied with the experience tbh. I think for a budget phone Poco has done a tremendous job. I look forward to it's future very much
I love hearing your reviews about mid-range and low-cost phones!😃 It's something else when I'm a bit bored of hearing about flagships. Hope you'll make more videos about low-cost, mid-range smartphones like this.🙏🙏😍😇
For that price no one should be expecting perfect pictures, changing the camera app and using RAW can help to get decent images. If the calls works good, the sound is clear, internet and gaming works good, the phone will be good enough for most that are clear of what to expect. The bands are very important, and most people are not checking that. In a cheap phone a lot of bands are skipped. Is good to know all the frequencies or bands of the carrier, you can easily find which phone supports then using GSMArena phone finder.
SOME OF THESE FONES DONT HAVE MENU OPTION TO MAKE AOD PERMENTANT, SO THERE IS NO WAY TO SEE IF A MESSAGE HAS COME IN AS YOU WALK PAST A LOCKED FONE. THE VERY CHEAPEST FONES BEFOREHAD A FLASHING LED ALERTLIGHT
@@adrianssolutionsgwm what is this for bro, sounds like u had nothing better to do and u start complaining about shit like this, when mid range and budget phones from a couple of years ago were trash
I love the Poco line, has great specs and features at a low price the big problem is always the cameras, having said that I can't think of any "budget" phone with actually good cameras, I mean in general they're good enough but nothing comparable to the flagship phone ones. Would be interesting to see how one of the sub brands or "independent" brands from Xiaomi would manage a budget phone but with flagship quality cameras as its main feature, they would have to cut corners in all the other specs of course but maybe it would be worthy for the TikTok generation and some wannabe influencers... maybe even for me, just an enthusiast that would like better pics in low light.
There's Infinix and Tecno I think. They have a couple mid rangers(price range) with OIS and Zoom cams. Problem is they don't have licensing for dimensity and snapdragon processors.
@@takischief3215 f3 all the way except for price the x3 pro is a very valid phone but the f3 got the better specs amoled display faster charging but doesnt have heaphone jack? dont quote on that, depends on what you want both phones are very valid
@@v3yron038 people have had bad experience with amoled and oled. It's super fragile you need to take a lot of good care with it and lifespan is garbage compared to ips lcd. Which now is moving forward, becoming as better looking as AMOLED and OLED.
@@takischief3215 depends if you care about headphone jack or micro sd card, otherwise f3 is the obvious winner, I got the f3 7 months ago and its honestly great.
One thing about this phone that's not obvious is that it has a pretty dramatic hardware downgrade from the X3 Pro. The X4 Pro's CPU and GPU are both a couple generations lower than the X3's, so basically they swapped speed and power for display.
They really degraded X3 Pro had 860 along with 120 hz 5000mah battery and 33 watt charging, although it's wasn't optimised that well , hope so the X4 Pro is optimised better, i expected a 870 in X4 pro
@Koos Grebe Thank you so much for the detailed overview! I have only been using NES emulator to relive the 8 bit gaming days. Was thinking of trying out some others as I never had other game systems.
@Koos Grebe I'll figure it out. Getting roms should not be too difficult. But understanding about the emulators that work properly was the challenge. Thanks for the details. You're awesome 👍🏽
I rarely ever comment but I have to say that you always manage to add a little something different to your videos to keep them interesting. That little timer on the left side of the video is a great touch. Awesome video. Super informative.
Xiaomi take my moneyyyyyy. Already love the Poco X3 NFC. Battery life on Xiaomi phones and charging bricks still included. Xiaomi keeps delivering. ✨️💯
😂 X2? I am using x3 pro and facing occasional lag. Just use a custom ROM bro. It's meme ui🤣 after a year with recent update its performance gradually decline.
None of the draw backs of a budget phone mentioned are deal breakers especially when you know what you are paying for. The real issue I have with budget phones is their performance 8 months+ after. You are more likely to observe battery degradation, overheating, connectivity issues and a more sluggish/unresponsive phone than any of these issues in this video....and that's why overall they are not worth it for me.
I've been using a mid range Samsung phone for over a year now and the only slight issue I have with it is that the battery has gotten a little weaker than when I bought it new. Not really a big deal, since I can still go almost a whole day of normal use without charging it. Every other issue you mentioned I have not experienced. It still runs smoothly, no over heating, no connectivity issues.
I've watched the Launch of the phone and they advertised that supposedly the memory only slows by 5% in 3 Years compared to "other android phones 50%" While that's only the storage, i like where this is going.
I dont understand why these stupid youtubers whom we believe in doesnt show the fact about poco. Please goto twitter and search for Poco X2 touch or camera issue.. there are many buyers who got their camera and touch dead because of the update. Dont buy poco phones.
@@trank3166 All Poco X series phones suffer from software issues. And their support is meh. Sanusng offers the the best mid-range phones currently (with Google aps).
To be fair I'm still positively impressed with this phone based on this review given the price point. There are budget phones out there not much cheaper than this that still have a 720p display. I keep waiting for the extinction of 720p screens on smartphones and it seems like enough people don't care enough to not make this business strategy viable, but putting a 720 screen on a smartphone in 2022 honestly feels like a cardinal sin of phone design and with the Poco the screen seems to be the best thing about the phone, which is really nice, because that's the part of the phone you're going to be interacting with the most.
Budget phones that cost 180$ or more with a 720p screen usually have 5g. 5g is not worth it in most budget phones since it consistently downgrades the other specs. For instance if this poco x4 didn't have 5g it would have come with a much more powerful mid range chipset (in the seven hundreds) and maybe even a better camera.
720p is nice even with mid rage phone because for me battery life matters more than this useless pixels. 90% will not notice difference between 720p and 1080p
@@iraklimgeladze5223 Even my 60 yr old aunt notices the difference between her 720p and my 1080p phone INSTANTLY. I get your point but that is not something thats like not noticeable but more like a known compromise.
@@AdityaGupta-om8ez Yeah the difference is noticeable for everyone, especially when you lay on your bed and you browse on your phone with the screen near your eyes. With a 720p phone you'll be able to see the pixels, but not with a 1080p+ phones.
Great video Arun. IMO I think this might be top 3 best budget phone of the year if not the best. People who use POCO are mostly well informed technologically, they know what they are getting into especially when on a budget. Spending some time Uninstalling bloatwares won't be an issue. Terrible stock camera? Slap a GCam on it and you're good. The major issue here is the software, it gets bad over time but you can flash a custom rom and that's it. Then life is finally good.
My Poco M3 still going strong I turned off all ads and everything works well the IR blaster is God sent. I got the 128 model in 2-3 years ago the only problem is no android updates.
It's interesting you make reviews like this because I could have been very tempted to buy this as an upgrade to my OnePlus Nord (1st generation). Look at the specs and it's a big upgrade. In reality I have none of those OS issues, the camera is probably as good or better especially with Gcam. The better CPU, display, battery would be an upgrade but overall it's more of a sidestep I think. I probably won't be buying it as an upgrade.
dude dont do it. Even the nord (almost 2 years now) had a better cpu+gpu (765G with Adreno 620 is still way better than the SD695 with adreno 619). This POCO is actually worse than the X3 Pro
@@94Coelho Blimey. That explains how they've done it. That 765 Snapdragon is still quite a decent chip. The replacement Nord 2 is twice as fast with dimensity but owner reviews slate the battery life and overheating. So it shows you've got to be careful! For 250 that's still a good phone. But it's still not an upgrade for me which was more like a 400 phone to be fair on Poco.
@@roahnosh blimey. I didn't realise it was the pro version he reviewed. Yep. That's a massive downgrade on the 860. It's pretty obvious how they are making it so cheap using that CPU/GPU combo
I'd honestly get last year's or 2 years ago flagships from Xiaomi. This one is around 250 euroes. Xiaomi mi 10T pro for example. Which offers insane camera system, better battery and insane well optimized chipset for around 120-150 euroes more. And can be updated to MIUI 13,etc. Or Poco F3. Really good phone. Flagship cpu. Better camera. Awesome battery life. For 50 euroes more. Even the X3 pro which sells for 200 euroes these days. Can offer you better or same results. Buying new phones these days. Ain't too worth it.
Depends what you're upgrading from. I'm definitely considering this as an upgrade from the Mi 9T, considering that Xiaomi isn't gonna be releasing any notchless phones anytime soon
Whats the point of paying more than $400 for a smartphone these days. The most high end from previous years are great for todays technology. Even 5g chipset.
but new phones have good camera system so i can take a picture of myself with a mask on my face with a good quality even tho ig will compress it and frick quality but i need to pay 700$ more for a phone with good camera and not a dslr camera
things compared to Poco x3 it didn't upgrade was the CPU, it has to snap 695 but x3 has 860, the X4 has more than doubled charging(67w instead of 33w), AMOLED screen instead of LCD and better SFX but i do agree with the shape of the phone, at least it's safe to say that the Poco phones can match if not beat iPhones in some areas.
If the only cut corners here are the camera and non-true 5G, but not the power or screen, then this phone looks like a mighty nice deal I want to keep an eye on!
Exactly! I never expect great camera experience from budget phones and I don't use 5g so it's a win win knowing the money wasted to improve those features was used to make the display awesome which is something everyone loves
I disagree, have an X3 Pro as well and for me the X3 line has always been about performance and this cpu just doesnt do it for me, if i were to buy a Poco phone right now it would be the X3 GT which has 5G, Wifi 6 and a killer chipset.
Currently using the Poco X3 pro and I have tried running graphic-intensive games and enjoyed the usage. Also the major drawbacks back when I was researching the phone were the camera and the screen, and I sincerely have not noticed much of these drawbacks, occasionally a itch here or there, generally you would enjoy this so, the Poco X4 has me excited.
guy the x3 is much more powerful than the x4. This is definitely a downgrade. This one vex me cuz I don dey wait for this phone to drop. Be like say i go buy the X3 then smhhh
I bought the Pocophone F1, first generation of this device few years ago. And still giving me a flawless performance with the top end snapdragon 845 of that time. I just gave the phone custom ROM and now I'm running android 12 on my Poco F1.
Indeed. I still have a Pocophone F1 for 4 years now and it's a 5 year phone. It's still pretty good and battery holds up. Only issue is that my screen got wrecked so many times (due to my lack of attention and stupidity) that it's a miracle still works lol it fell during bath and in the toilet multiple times, and the only issue was the audio getting weird, but all I had to do was let my phone on a glass of rice with the website "fix my speaker" turned up and then boom, no more audio issue What people don't seem to get it when doubting a Xiaomi phone is that they can cut its price this much because of ads, which you can EASILY DEACTIVATE. Their cheap phones have OKish camera, but there's no mid phone which can compete with a Xiaomi at the rest. Great brand.
This phone is the craziest deal I've ever got on a phone $250 for this? I don't think I'll ever need to buy a phone for $500-$1000 again if Poco keeps releasing stuff like this around $300.
I've own this phone ever since it came out. I'm super impressed me and my wife got this poco phones and we are both impressed. Thanks Xiaomi for making this budget phones cause I've been caught on the apple ecosystem and it's been hard to rip off.
Hello, I do not know if you still have the phone or if you will even reply. I'm just wondering how the phone is doing? Has the performance gotten much worse? is it laggy?
Great review, thanks. The problem I have with ALL the budget phones are not their performances, but the lack of OIS on the camera. The camera is a vital part I use daily and needs to be great. Unfortunately the lack of OIS limits the camera.
@@aaronstone6183 OIS matters when the phone has an optical zoom like 2x, 2.5x, 3x or 5x. You would like to keep it steady. Night shots will also benefit from ois.
Been using poco x3 pro for 6 months and its pretty good except some glitches like when I close the game and try to terminate it from recent tab, it doesn't respond to my touches at all. It does read the taps but not swipes unless I turn the screen off and on again. Sometimes it shows black screen but no apps when I swipe upto menu but it registers input properly but apps won't return until restarted. Didn't have ghost touch issue but these two issues the first one being common. Overall its a great phone. Ps: get Gcam for it, it makes camera experience whole lot better imo
I love that the Camera is the compromise. I almost never take pictures. The most common exception is when i turn a document photo into a pdf file. Don't use 4G much either, prefer WIFI to keep my data plan cheap. and Battery life is very important to me. This is good enough while giving me everything else i really want. 😁
@@brozack4940 At that point it might be cheaper to get a high end camera. Sure they are not as portable but if you need quality then you are always hindered by the compromises a smartphone has to make.
@@ulfark7934i know what u mean, many ppl have recommended the same thing to me but i prefer portability and high end camera seems too "professional" for me. Im looking for something that i can bring everyday, capture anything in seconds and i believe flagship smartphone is what im looking for
Yes. Now It is just like Redmi Note series. For the comparison take Redmi Note 10 it was Magnificent budget with a Really Good Display and Cameras But it lacked the Powerful Chip, while on the other hand Poco X 3 pro was the one providing all the good features with Snapdragon 860 but 48 MP camera and an IPS LCD.
The main problem of budget phones especially redmi and poco is their software. It usually consist of lot of bugs and the companies very rarely give software updates and the updates won't fix the bugs😂. As you have mentioned they also contain a hell lot of bloatwares.
1: you can delete all the bloat and Ios has bloat too 2: bugs are almost non existent. You are only gonna encounter them if you have miui 8 or under. 3: they give at least 4-6 years of miui and more than 3 android updates.
@@unknown185 they do still have bugs. Look at the dead camera issue. And there is no way that they give "4 to 6" years of MiUI updates. More like 2 to 4.
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Currently I am using Poco X3 with a custom rom. Poco has always been an enthusiast brand for people who do stuff with their phones. The only hectic things are the software which is just a flash away into a pure A12 experience and the camera. Tbh I like my Sony imx 682 sensor and the 13mp UW but the other two are just trash.
I was impressed by my first android which was a redmi note 10 pro (same company that made poco.) and with some tweaking here and there, I can confidently say that this thing rocks.
I bought two of this phone together and i made an interesting observation. I like comparing the sound of my phones. I compared both of them to the X3 Pro(btw still better than this replacements) i got and it sounded like the sounds had more color but it was weaker. Then i updated one of the two with all the updates and compared again and now the updated phone had every bit as strong sound as the X3 Pro without losing the color. Just to be sure i compared it with the same 10 Pro without the updates and indeed the non updated one sounded weaker. So interesting to see that updates actually improved the performance of the speakers in this model.
Been using my Poco X3 Pro since October last year. Bloatware? Easy to remove with ADB. Not a picture person, don't care about the camera. I mostly usedit to play PUBG Mobile... That's just all I bought it for. When I'm playing and screenrecording I gotta have a fan blowing cause it can get quite hot and cause the game to lag. Awesome phone.
Agreed on the adb thing -- that helped me get rid of all the useless bloat on my poco m3 pro 5G I've been using since september, it's been very solid so far - battery lasts me more than a full day, decent performance and fantastic value for money
I think you've hit something that a lot of these 'look at this new phone!!!!" channels miss. The camera. Most of us I think..... well we really don't CARE all that much. For most of us, it's got a camera. It's there. It takes pictures. We neither know nor care how to adjust color settings or whatever photo and film geeks get all gooey over. I mean I suppose it's not TOTALLY unimportant, but.... it's nowhere near as important to us as reviewers seem to think it is. (I suspect because most of them are frustrated photographers/film makers that actually do care a lot more than the rest of us do if a camera doesn't support a color spectrum most of us have never heard of.)
@@corwinweber693 exactly. But for girls often it's about the camera a lot. So if you watch tech vidz could help your sister or some other girlfriend close to you choose a phone.
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Loving your reviews and early Congrats on Hitting 10 million subscribers 🎉🎉. The Poco X4 seems like a really good phone, especially for it's price; Xiaomi doesn't disappoint when it comes to their Poco Phones
The X3 Pro has the SD 860, and was very attractive, but the SD 695 of this one lacks in power compared to that. Edit: ok I just discovered that a non 5g version of the X4 pro exist, it comes with the Helio G96. I think that in theory at least it's more powerful than the SD 695 (feel free to correct me)
@@barneyDcaller yeah sadly that's true, they needed a chipset that allows 5G so they can put 5G on the box, but in the budget, so they sacrificed the performance for that.
@@barneyDcaller 5G right now is only marketing trash and dosent work correctly, also a lot of countries dosent have 5G or the real 5G, maybe in 5 years but right now is marketing trash al hell.
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Honestly for someone who buys a poco x4 phone I think they know what they're doing. Poco is not a huge brand like Samsung and even if it is a sub brand of the massive Xiaomi, non tech savvy people will not know they're the same. I think this phone is more geared to those who want value on a budget and when you're on that budget, the problems of bloatware, software and mediocre camera just don't matter. I would say it's a perfect budget phone.
Edit: people have been complaining about their POCO phones malfunctioning, I have had a POCO X3 (non pro) for over a year now and there has not been a single problem, software or hardware but if it is as inconsistent as people are saying, buy at your own risk. I know 3 other people with POCO phones but none of them are faulty so I'm not sure what the replies are trying to say.
exactly id rather pay less for a minor inconvenience of uninstalling bloatware and things like that rather than paying extra for a clean home screen right off the bat
the devs for past phones who are going to upgrade to poco x4 will find ways to remove the bloatware and probably provide a good custom rom support. sounds like an amazing phone for me for the price. camera isnt an issue for me.
I agree with this. When someone ask me if Xiaomi is a good phone. I confident to say it's yes most of the time if you don't mind with ads and bloatware.
Well put
true. imo for those a bit tech savvy, theres probably ways to get rid of bloatware.
I have the predecessor of this phone, and it's a good solid smartphone. This upgrade is worth it if you're looking for a good budget phone.
Same
Same
Ayo same here dude 😁
What a legendary phone it was
I m still using poco f1
4:24 that throw was so satisfying😂
4:23 damn that was smooth!
Amazing work, looks like a great phone in that price span !
hi arun
Tim Cook will buy this for the charger... and will resell to iphone users
also rickroll shirt
I didn't even notice it
I've used the poco x3 for a decent amount of time, since launch and i love it
How is your poco X3 doing right now?
@Don't read profile photo don't spam and gtfo
I've been using my poco x3 pro for almost a year and there is no issue regarding to the performance
Cause it’s a brand new phone. Budget android phones get laggy after a year or two
Nice! Any complaints?
I'm using Poco F3 for a year now and I never regretted buying it. The specs and experience I have for 350€ is absolutely worth taking 5mins to disable the adds and remove preinstalled apps
I'm using it too, the only annoying thing is call proximity sensor, drives me crazy..
its like 100€ cheaper here
You can use 2 fingers shrink the screen and muti select all the app and uninstall them in 1 min lol
But I will keep them and open those app before uninstall them, because xiaomi worth the ads'money for they really make everyone be able to have a solid phone with affordable price.
comments from japan
I have Poco X3 Pro, its absolutely excellent, cost me £220 new from Xiaomi with 256gb model
@@1988oleshka Yeah true. Otherwise it's a great phone in this price.
It's really amazing how good Xiaomi has become in mid-range phones. I don't mind bloatwares, most of them can be uninstalled easily and the ads of MIUI apps can also be stopped. Even some Google apps that are system apps can be removed using "Universal Android Debloater".
I hope to get this audience engagement some day, you truly are the boss Arun
yes
Then you better sell the best truffles of all the planet. That's how you can get it
@Don't read profile photo ok i wouldn't
This is the best phone review I have ever ever seen, like you just explained everything that a normal person needs to know without being mislead and neither disappointed! Great work dude!!
Yea this dude is way better than maques brownlee . He doesn’t know shit and says a lot without really saying much and his videos a too long and boring
@@gianni_4 yeah, but Maques use a product weeks before is released.
@@johnsmith-cw3wo don’t matter he says a lot without really saying much
@Parth Shah yep that's true but he complained too much because the OS ads can be turned off with one button in settings and the camera is good but he was a bit too harsh. I didn't quite understand what the problem was with the 5g either, it works fine. But other than that I'd agree
@@vijayapai9238 He did say the camera was decent enough for this price and exactly what you'd expect. The point of the video is that the outer design and the way they market it makes us think they're of flagship quality which they arent and the "108MP" is just for show. But yeah i didnt get the 5g thing either. He didnt even clarify the point, just said it may not "properly work" with 5g. What does that even mean?
the charger plug catch at 4:22 is crazy. the amount of tries it must have took
I was looking for this comment!!
That was so smoothh
**queue Spiderman theme**
the throw was pretty sick
4:36 as a nokia user, i took that personally 😂 great video!
It's amazing how newer midrange phones specs are almost on par with flagships 2+ years ago. I'm excited for newer release this year and in the future.
eh, the chip is nowhere close to snapdragon 860 in terms of performance, and it releases in 2018? the other parts of the phones are good though, they obviously sacrifice the chip to lower the cost
what
its Snapdragon 695G and no where near par in performance with mid range phone 750G. They also aren't going to be price at 250$.. Your best choice is get Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro 5G at 250-300$, in Term of Price/Performance it completely destroy this Poco X4 Pro.
@@altrealm2123 however the main camera is just as capable if not more than 2019 flagship cameras,just give it ois and better lenses and there you go,oh and gcam is a free upgrade it makes the phone alot better in processing,however the other cameras need work like telephoto is still not seen anywhere in this range,and ultrawide is just there for marketing
@@toytulog576 695 is slightly better than 765G,750G and way better than 720g on Note9Pro
4:28 Can we appreciate how smooth the charger catch was 👏👏👏👏
Ikr
I don't.
I think it was done in reverse mode .. he threw the charger then reversed it to make it look smooth as though he caught it
4:24 *
Just noticed
I have the M3 as my work phone. Its battery is still the best I have ever came across. And it does its job just fine, no fancy extras. This is imo what a budget phone should be like. This X4 looks like a good bang for the buck as well. Getting nearly 70% of flagship experience with 25% of the price is just worth every penny.
Your comment says what was needed to be said. I also have an M3 and firmly believe that this newer and clearer Poco UI is better than the Redmi counterpart. The last update to 12.5.1 enhanced edition was neat. Made the phone faster, smoother and optimised properly.
60% more like.
Do you have any issues with it? im thinking to get one, but i saw a lot of comment saying the phone have many issues after using it a few months
@@Guess_the_movie1 almost a year with no issues
@@AnupamBanerjeeab00 currently using M2 and i gotta agree the latest UI is just so fucking polished
This phone is pretty good. the problem is that flagships like samsung and iphone have set standards to justify the exorbitant prices of their products, so people tend to think that flagships have something special and that the product has to be expensive for it to be normal. i used iphone 13 ,samsung s21 ultra but i felt ripped off because the price of the phone was way too high compared to the things it offers. Those midranged phones offers more than thode 1200 USD flagships
but sumsung has series that are close to price to these budget phones and are just way better,like the galaxy s50 and 70 series,so why buy these bloated phones when u can get a quality one for similar price
@@Popostarr because they suck. i cant stand IPS displays.
@@nikoheino3927 what do u mean ? They have led and higher refresh rate since 2 years ago,
Just flash pixel experience or whatever other rom you want... Gets rid of the bloatware instantly. At that point you pretty much have a pixel in performance and software experience and the only thing you're missing is a quality camera, which is something you have to decide if it's worth it to you. Again, the poco camera is not bad, but it can leave you missing the pixel camera if you've used one before
@@hssnnkim but why, for what,like i said the A50 series for example,better camera better build,water resistant dust resistant,4 years of support,security updates,8 gigs of ram,a cpu that can do just fine about everything,better screen even in some cases,and same price about,sometimes these chinese phones have overkill cpu but this poco doesnt even have that,so not sure what the apeal is
Using POCO X3 right now with a custom ROM. Stock Android 12 experience actually makes it pretty fun to use. I'd say POCO phones bring you the best value you can get for its price, and if you are willing to spend a little bit of time on it for setting it up, then you really do get a great experience for its price....
Which ROM are you using? I'm on AOSP 12 now.
@@averagewojak2623 I'm using Pixel Experience
Do bank/UPI apps work after rooting the phone and/or on a custom ROM? That's my biggest worry on flashing custom roms these days. I NEED to be able to reliably make paytm or GooglePay transactions
That's not even close to stock android buddy...
@@vpsjdon they do, you just need to hide magisk. I use Google Pay on a regular basis. If you need any help you can always search for it on UA-cam, it's all out there
I still got my Poco f1 from 2018. Running strong. Unbelievable phone.
6:38, That 61 to 69 transition was smooth.
Why 69?🤣
I noticed that too
i still really like my Poco x3 pro that i picked up for like 250.
for the price and what you got really does make it seem worth the value compared to a $1000+ phone out there.
I mostly just bought it for some mobile gaming so the Snap 860 handles that perfectly and the 5k mah battery offers hours worth of playtime too.
That and it's more friendly towards repair since the back comes off instead of the front screen panel access. (something the X4 still does which is nice)
I'm using my poco X3 pro right now 🫶☺️ this phone is a beast 🔥
i have the poco x3 nfc- not the pro and it;s dead after 2 years
Going on my third year with mine, with minor screen issues due to falling. But overall I would recommend Poco @@nikmor5773
I love how every time you handle the devices with care. Man, you really don't take things for granted, like other reviewers. You have my utmost respect.
Oh sweet summer child, you have no idea
You clearly haven't seen the video where he's using an iphone as a cutting board then...
I had poco x3 and it's really good. good processor, enough to play games, and it had passive cooling system.
it had microsd slot, and the fastcharging. and it cost really affordable.
I'm happy to see this phone had an newer version
I also have it, but I don't like its performance
@@sudiptasaikia2250 yup, literally sold my X3 recently because of the really bad performance
yeah but a downgrade version
You can disable the ads in the settings
@@ayylmao8837 wait didn't they say that it was good because of the performance?? like there aren't much phones with that budget that has this level of performance
Poco Really Killing it, if they keep up with this Pace, Iphone would be getting a run for their money
poco was never meant to be an iphone competitor
Nah bro x3 pro have sd860 and x4 pro only come with sd695. Its backward pace tbh
@@edwinduro9751 lets call it a balanced type 🤣
Giving amoled instead of ips
Also glass back
nah, they target seperate end users.
@@edwinduro9751 still sp 695 is a good processeur with a much better screen
Mrwhosetheboss, your posts are incredibly easy and more efficient to understand.
Unfortunately for an South African like me who lives in a rural community, is kinda impossible to be a technology tester. But your videos make it possible to at least have knowledge of such technologies.
However it would great to have one of your tested phones Mr Inglesh🙏
Amazing video and waiting for 10 million special video
Congrats on 10 million 🥳🥳
I watched you role over to 10 million on a subscriber tracker 😅
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Nicely done.
Having good reviewers like yourself easily found on the internet really helps to find the qualities I want in the various phones and the lacking camera is an instant deal breaker.
Thank you
Fucking paid video and most of the dumb viewers don't even realise it 😆😆😆😆
As someone who doesn't play games on their phone and uses a dedicated camera for photos this sounds perfect, I hate that most phones are making me pay for expensive features I won't use.
Or make us pay for features that they don't have.
I got the Realme GT Neo 2 for $350 (on sale). Really impressed with the 1200 nit, amoled, 120hz display, the snaodragon 870 chipset, the 65 watt fast charging (0-100 in 35 minutes) and the 5000 mah battery. The software is also nice, better than Miui
Flipkart? 😂
Too bad, shit camera.
@@frankreynolds9930 Better than the Oneplus Nord (original) though. I didnt expect much but was surprised. Yes the quality isn't that high, but its perfectly normal for that price. The rest of the phone is flagship grade if you ask me
@@sem-de-vries8968 basically, there is no perfect phone
I remember feeling the same about my F3 Haptics. They get you off-guard, how good they are. Lets just hope POCO doesn't 'settle' like the other guys :\
What I love about Arun is that his videos always have little Easter eggs in the editing, like at 6:38 where he changed 61 to 69 for a split second. It makes the videos just the a teeny bit more fun to watch.
I noticed that too haha
Guess I'm finding it hard to see how changing the number of phones from 61 to 69 for a quick second is fun or exciting, but maybe my boring life is a bitr more exciting than some other people's boring lives.
@@sandragray4598 just some fun easter eggs hidden in the videos
His shirt is a literal rick roll too!
2:39 That selfie tho 👏 😍
The fact that Arun give so much knowledgeable content and make it fun is genuinely *Amazing*
yes
Knowledgeable and paid content 😆😆😆😆
I bought the Poco F3 as a throwaway phone as my S20+ just died out of nowhere and before I could recontract. Well, turns out it's much better than I imagined. It has a Snapdragon 870 chipset, UFS 3.1 and it somehow felt snappier than my S20+ which was more than 4x its price. I continued using it till now just because of how happy I was with its performance even though I can recontract right now with a new flagship phone.
Poco F3 here as well it is amazing! :)
The Poco F series are always great value and more midrange . I have had every one since F1, and love them all
Thanks for the info. How are the cameras on the F3 doing?
F3 is an absolute rocker for that price!!
@@DutchmanAmsterdam it's fine, but you don't buy a Poco phone if you want to do photography lol
What I like about Poco is that they allow you to unlock the bootloader from there you can install a custom ROM it makes the phone so much better, but some might say why buy a phone to change the software? because you can get much better performance by installing stock Android over MIUI! While having a pretty decent phone for the price.
How is this done exactly?
@@Stoffendous don't do it if you don't have knowledge you will brick your device. There are several tutorials on youtube to how to do it.
now you mention costom rom im interested
already tried Miui on My Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 and ot works flawlessly,though the vendor version of Miui seems bloated so i might search clean muiu rom if i want to buy that phone
I don't know how well the performance is. But I live some of the extra feature of MIUI which makes stock Android look bare bones. Although you also lose some features when using MIUI like screen pinning
Right, the only reason I was gonna buy these mi phones, they offer good hardware for the price but the software is absolutely horrendous, bloatware and ads, not to mention the whole copied Os from iOS. It's a bit weird tbh. I'd Rather have them put a stock version of Android in there than a whole bunch of bloatware.
Thank you arun. I would have never knew the sneakiness the companies are playing for the cheap phones and using some heavy tech terms until you told it. Informative and eye opening video
The only problem with poco devices is that the software becomes progressively worse over time
You have the option to use a custom OS
@@InconsisTenZ custom roms are so much better
@@InconsisTenZ Yeah but you have to wait a week until you can unlock the bootloader without being able to use the device.
@@InconsisTenZI agree with you Like he said it doesn't matter "if you know what you are doing".
Yeah thats the problem
Amazing video as usual, but there's no way a flagship will compete with a good entry level on the price/performance aspect.
And I'm not an Apple fan.
If you are saying that comparision is price/performance then it would be fine but on sheer performance, that's unfair.
lol all you do is commenting in videos and get known
5th reply and 7th like
Yeah, the kidney expert talking like an tech expert. OOF stop spamming.
The problem with that assessment is that Android flagships from 2 years ago are priced close to budget phones, are more complete builds with flagship perks, and are better purchases than these budget phones. If these major Android companies advertise their older flagships they would rinse the budget market, and even Apple are going for it with the recent SE line up.
I am not watching so much tech videos but dude, no wonder why you have so many views. The editing, the "magic" tricks and the icons with a timers are such an improvement. I really love it!
I keep losing phones too often, a bad habit I am not proud of. Your reviews are very helpful. Thanks.
Been using the X3 since launch and i have no complaints!
The camera on mine looks better than that on the X4 pro to be fairly honest.
I have redmi note 10 pro, I wonder if ur camera better than mine?
@@islamhamdi7080 I mean, u can just watch videos
@@islamhamdi7080 Redmi Note 10 Pro is still a beast better than its successor and even th Poco F3.
Shutup
Poco x3 + Gcam
5:50 Good point. 5G performance on my poco F3 isn’t amazing. Often it says I have signal but in reality I don’t. I’ve disabled 5G completely, the 4G works perfectly well.
I like the way you make your videos🔥🔥🔥
So close to 10M!!! You deserve it🔥
Really nice vid but the catch he made 4:19 was insane
I'm using the OG Poco F1 for apx. 3 years now and very satisfied with the experience tbh. I think for a budget phone Poco has done a tremendous job. I look forward to it's future very much
7years for my f1 poco.. the only problem i had is a broken screen every year
@@alimstudy 7years are u crazy? it just released in 2018 August 27
@@Linas_ then im just bad in math
@@alimstudy 🥺
@@alimstudy same problem for me too. 😁
Great quality material, man. I am a first timer here, and I am seriously impressed. Subscribed.
I love hearing your reviews about mid-range and low-cost phones!😃 It's something else when I'm a bit bored of hearing about flagships. Hope you'll make more videos about low-cost, mid-range smartphones like this.🙏🙏😍😇
For that price no one should be expecting perfect pictures, changing the camera app and using RAW can help to get decent images. If the calls works good, the sound is clear, internet and gaming works good, the phone will be good enough for most that are clear of what to expect. The bands are very important, and most people are not checking that. In a cheap phone a lot of bands are skipped. Is good to know all the frequencies or bands of the carrier, you can easily find which phone supports then using GSMArena phone finder.
Top 1 reason why Apple is s scammer:
Excuse me, but can you please tell me what bands are? Thanks
SOME OF THESE FONES DONT HAVE MENU OPTION TO MAKE AOD PERMENTANT, SO THERE IS NO WAY TO SEE IF A MESSAGE HAS COME IN AS YOU WALK PAST A LOCKED FONE. THE VERY CHEAPEST FONES BEFOREHAD A FLASHING LED ALERTLIGHT
@@adrianssolutionsgwm what is this for bro, sounds like u had nothing better to do and u start complaining about shit like this, when mid range and budget phones from a couple of years ago were trash
@@adrianssolutionsgwm dude, your phone doesn't even have a capslock
Still rocking my poco m2 pro. Still runs CoD on highest settings without lag. My only problem is the 64 gb storage, wish I'd bought the 128gb variant
Yea it feels necessary to buy an SD card
128gb is the new 64gb nowadays. Many apps are getting bigger in every updates
Same
same.. Its been a year and running fine. Only the storage part sucks. Wish i had bought 128 gb variant
Been on a Poco f3 very descent even for gaming. And the 5g sensor has been consistent.
Very even review. Good job.
I use a poco m4 pro, has good battery life and decent for gaming
I love the Poco line, has great specs and features at a low price the big problem is always the cameras, having said that I can't think of any "budget" phone with actually good cameras, I mean in general they're good enough but nothing comparable to the flagship phone ones.
Would be interesting to see how one of the sub brands or "independent" brands from Xiaomi would manage a budget phone but with flagship quality cameras as its main feature, they would have to cut corners in all the other specs of course but maybe it would be worthy for the TikTok generation and some wannabe influencers... maybe even for me, just an enthusiast that would like better pics in low light.
You can use gcam to massively improve photo quality. Seriously, it's actual software magic, and the night mode is on par with pixels
For a poor ass mobile gamers, poco is a godsend
The Redmi line up of Xiaomi has better cameras in budget phones. Redmi Note 10 Pro Max is the best in that category.
I would probably upgrade to an enthusiast camera phone over my iPhone.
There's Infinix and Tecno I think. They have a couple mid rangers(price range) with OIS and Zoom cams. Problem is they don't have licensing for dimensity and snapdragon processors.
Congrats on 10 million Arun! After lots of hard work, you did it! You completely deserve it! To tens of millions more subscribers!
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OPPO Fan here, I can't wait to see how POCO F4 will be! The X3 was great, this one is even better. The F3 even more.
Which one do you believe is better? X3 or F3?
@@takischief3215 f3 all the way except for price the x3 pro is a very valid phone but the f3 got the better specs amoled display faster charging but doesnt have heaphone jack? dont quote on that, depends on what you want both phones are very valid
@@v3yron038 people have had bad experience with amoled and oled. It's super fragile you need to take a lot of good care with it and lifespan is garbage compared to ips lcd. Which now is moving forward, becoming as better looking as AMOLED and OLED.
@@takischief3215 depends if you care about headphone jack or micro sd card, otherwise f3 is the obvious winner, I got the f3 7 months ago and its honestly great.
@@hosseinkavand6876 i don t really care bout headphone jack so i think i m going for that gem!!
The videos are so awesome. Make my day with the potential in the video 👍
Finally 10 million family🔥🔥🔥.
Congratulations bro...
One thing about this phone that's not obvious is that it has a pretty dramatic hardware downgrade from the X3 Pro. The X4 Pro's CPU and GPU are both a couple generations lower than the X3's, so basically they swapped speed and power for display.
They really degraded X3 Pro had 860 along with 120 hz 5000mah battery and 33 watt charging, although it's wasn't optimised that well , hope so the X4 Pro is optimised better, i expected a 870 in X4 pro
@Koos Grebe Which emulators do you use? It's there any for running switch games on Android?
@Koos Grebe Thank you so much for the detailed overview! I have only been using NES emulator to relive the 8 bit gaming days. Was thinking of trying out some others as I never had other game systems.
@Koos Grebe I'll figure it out. Getting roms should not be too difficult. But understanding about the emulators that work properly was the challenge. Thanks for the details. You're awesome 👍🏽
@@slayerx2767 870 is too much. They should choose 855+ at least because it is 5G ready and very close to 860.
I rarely ever comment but I have to say that you always manage to add a little something different to your videos to keep them interesting. That little timer on the left side of the video is a great touch. Awesome video. Super informative.
Xiaomi take my moneyyyyyy.
Already love the Poco X3 NFC.
Battery life on Xiaomi phones and charging bricks still included. Xiaomi keeps delivering. ✨️💯
6:14 as a POCO X2 USER I can assure you that LAGGY ANIMATIONS 👎 & BUGS 🤦 are the major problems in POCO'S SOFTWARE.
NICE VIDEO 👏
😂 X2? I am using x3 pro and facing occasional lag. Just use a custom ROM bro. It's meme ui🤣 after a year with recent update its performance gradually decline.
@@basantatamang2249 🤣
I am still using my original Pocophone F1 6 GB/128Gb version, even used Gcam Mod for better camera....3 years on still rocking....
None of the draw backs of a budget phone mentioned are deal breakers especially when you know what you are paying for. The real issue I have with budget phones is their performance 8 months+ after. You are more likely to observe battery degradation, overheating, connectivity issues and a more sluggish/unresponsive phone than any of these issues in this video....and that's why overall they are not worth it for me.
I've been using a mid range Samsung phone for over a year now and the only slight issue I have with it is that the battery has gotten a little weaker than when I bought it new. Not really a big deal, since I can still go almost a whole day of normal use without charging it. Every other issue you mentioned I have not experienced. It still runs smoothly, no over heating, no connectivity issues.
I've watched the Launch of the phone and they advertised that supposedly the memory only slows by 5% in 3 Years compared to "other android phones 50%" While that's only the storage, i like where this is going.
I dont understand why these stupid youtubers whom we believe in doesnt show the fact about poco. Please goto twitter and search for Poco X2 touch or camera issue.. there are many buyers who got their camera and touch dead because of the update. Dont buy poco phones.
@@shivanandayalpi5617 yea but that was the X2, this video is talking about the X4
@@trank3166
All Poco X series phones suffer from software issues.
And their support is meh.
Sanusng offers the the best mid-range phones currently (with Google aps).
First time on your channel, don´t know how I ended up here, but this review of a phone has to be the best I have seen.
4:00 Did anyone notice the last game ?
xD
WTF XD
Joke
To be fair I'm still positively impressed with this phone based on this review given the price point. There are budget phones out there not much cheaper than this that still have a 720p display. I keep waiting for the extinction of 720p screens on smartphones and it seems like enough people don't care enough to not make this business strategy viable, but putting a 720 screen on a smartphone in 2022 honestly feels like a cardinal sin of phone design and with the Poco the screen seems to be the best thing about the phone, which is really nice, because that's the part of the phone you're going to be interacting with the most.
First world problem there are a lot fo people cant change phones immediately.
Budget phones that cost 180$ or more with a 720p screen usually have 5g. 5g is not worth it in most budget phones since it consistently downgrades the other specs.
For instance if this poco x4 didn't have 5g it would have come with a much more powerful mid range chipset (in the seven hundreds) and maybe even a better camera.
720p is nice even with mid rage phone because for me battery life matters more than this useless pixels.
90% will not notice difference between 720p and 1080p
@@iraklimgeladze5223 Even my 60 yr old aunt notices the difference between her 720p and my 1080p phone INSTANTLY.
I get your point but that is not something thats like not noticeable but more like a known compromise.
@@AdityaGupta-om8ez Yeah the difference is noticeable for everyone, especially when you lay on your bed and you browse on your phone with the screen near your eyes. With a 720p phone you'll be able to see the pixels, but not with a 1080p+ phones.
Great video Arun. IMO I think this might be top 3 best budget phone of the year if not the best. People who use POCO are mostly well informed technologically, they know what they are getting into especially when on a budget. Spending some time Uninstalling bloatwares won't be an issue. Terrible stock camera? Slap a GCam on it and you're good. The major issue here is the software, it gets bad over time but you can flash a custom rom and that's it. Then life is finally good.
What's gcam?
Am i the only one who gets worse pics using Gcam ? I am using poco f3
@@algeriapower7242 try another gcam
@@ah6382 google camera mod apk
Software is good
My Poco M3 still going strong I turned off all ads and everything works well the IR blaster is God sent. I got the 128 model in 2-3 years ago the only problem is no android updates.
It's interesting you make reviews like this because I could have been very tempted to buy this as an upgrade to my OnePlus Nord (1st generation). Look at the specs and it's a big upgrade. In reality I have none of those OS issues, the camera is probably as good or better especially with Gcam. The better CPU, display, battery would be an upgrade but overall it's more of a sidestep I think. I probably won't be buying it as an upgrade.
Dw there's even more stuff coming :)
Coming from Poco X3 Pro's 860 (855+ overclocked) vs Poco X4 Pro's 695 5G it's a huge downgrade. IDK about Oneplus Nord but maybe get an F3 instead imo
dude dont do it. Even the nord (almost 2 years now) had a better cpu+gpu (765G with Adreno 620 is still way better than the SD695 with adreno 619). This POCO is actually worse than the X3 Pro
@@94Coelho Blimey. That explains how they've done it. That 765 Snapdragon is still quite a decent chip. The replacement Nord 2 is twice as fast with dimensity but owner reviews slate the battery life and overheating. So it shows you've got to be careful! For 250 that's still a good phone. But it's still not an upgrade for me which was more like a 400 phone to be fair on Poco.
@@roahnosh blimey. I didn't realise it was the pro version he reviewed. Yep. That's a massive downgrade on the 860. It's pretty obvious how they are making it so cheap using that CPU/GPU combo
I'd honestly get last year's or 2 years ago flagships from Xiaomi. This one is around 250 euroes. Xiaomi mi 10T pro for example. Which offers insane camera system, better battery and insane well optimized chipset for around 120-150 euroes more. And can be updated to MIUI 13,etc.
Or Poco F3. Really good phone. Flagship cpu. Better camera. Awesome battery life. For 50 euroes more.
Even the X3 pro which sells for 200 euroes these days. Can offer you better or same results.
Buying new phones these days. Ain't too worth it.
Depends what you're upgrading from. I'm definitely considering this as an upgrade from the Mi 9T, considering that Xiaomi isn't gonna be releasing any notchless phones anytime soon
Whats the point of paying more than $400 for a smartphone these days. The most high end from previous years are great for todays technology. Even 5g chipset.
@@fynkozari9271 true
but new phones have good camera system so i can take a picture of myself with a mask on my face with a good quality even tho ig will compress it and frick quality but i need to pay 700$ more for a phone with good camera and not a dslr camera
Then there is the issue about software update
things compared to Poco x3 it didn't upgrade was the CPU, it has to snap 695 but x3 has 860, the X4 has more than doubled charging(67w instead of 33w), AMOLED screen instead of LCD and better SFX but i do agree with the shape of the phone, at least it's safe to say that the Poco phones can match if not beat iPhones in some areas.
Snap 695 '5g' so its kinda better
@@bhaktiistatus108 not really 860 dominates 695 and raw performance wise it can't even come near it.
@@karthikn6419 Nope
@@yogeshsaini499 I don't think so
@@yogeshsaini499 sorry I disagree broh
man, this video is so well done!!! Congratz
Don't. Read. What's. On. The. Shirt!
2:04
You always find a sneaky way to Rick roll XD
Honestly one of the rarest youtuber that takes the tech presentation to the next level keep up the good work man !
8:55
Strange, but your voice sounds absurdly deep with the phone's mic
Since I'm a huge POCO fan I would love to buy it soon 😀
Been watching him since when he had a couple million subs, great to see he's about to hit 10mil. Congrats Arun!
If the only cut corners here are the camera and non-true 5G, but not the power or screen, then this phone looks like a mighty nice deal I want to keep an eye on!
Exactly! I never expect great camera experience from budget phones and I don't use 5g so it's a win win knowing the money wasted to improve those features was used to make the display awesome which is something everyone loves
As a proud Poco X3 Pro user, I'd say the X4 is a fair successor. However, it could have used a better cpu.
Agreed
I disagree, have an X3 Pro as well and for me the X3 line has always been about performance and this cpu just doesnt do it for me, if i were to buy a Poco phone right now it would be the X3 GT which has 5G, Wifi 6 and a killer chipset.
True I love my X3 Pro
Currently using the Poco X3 pro and I have tried running graphic-intensive games and enjoyed the usage. Also the major drawbacks back when I was researching the phone were the camera and the screen, and I sincerely have not noticed much of these drawbacks, occasionally a itch here or there, generally you would enjoy this so, the Poco X4 has me excited.
guy the x3 is much more powerful than the x4. This is definitely a downgrade. This one vex me cuz I don dey wait for this phone to drop. Be like say i go buy the X3 then smhhh
I bought the Pocophone F1, first generation of this device few years ago. And still giving me a flawless performance with the top end snapdragon 845 of that time. I just gave the phone custom ROM and now I'm running android 12 on my Poco F1.
ME TOO , IT WORKS LIKE THE FIRST DAY , THE KING OF SMARTPHONES
Me to poco F1 very good.
your sincerity is what keeps me here... nice video
Sometimes i just wish chargers had an "overnight" feature, where the charging speed was dropped to 5w
Samsung has this feature where you can turn off fast charging.
@@mandy7995 oh, ok, i'll try it out
Just buy a 5 watt adapter
@@sayantanmukhopadhyay2992 3rd party chargers are harmful for batteries. You'll only damage it's health
@@mandy7995 i think Xiaomi also has it, not sure
Their offering from last year still holds up. I got the Note 10 pro and it's perfect. It's good for the 3-5 years before I upgrade again. 🙂
It certainly is, cracking phone that still holds it's value.
Indeed. I still have a Pocophone F1 for 4 years now and it's a 5 year phone. It's still pretty good and battery holds up. Only issue is that my screen got wrecked so many times (due to my lack of attention and stupidity) that it's a miracle still works lol it fell during bath and in the toilet multiple times, and the only issue was the audio getting weird, but all I had to do was let my phone on a glass of rice with the website "fix my speaker" turned up and then boom, no more audio issue
What people don't seem to get it when doubting a Xiaomi phone is that they can cut its price this much because of ads, which you can EASILY DEACTIVATE. Their cheap phones have OKish camera, but there's no mid phone which can compete with a Xiaomi at the rest.
Great brand.
This phone is the craziest deal I've ever got on a phone
$250 for this? I don't think I'll ever need to buy a phone for $500-$1000 again if Poco keeps releasing stuff like this around $300.
Facts. I have poco x3 pro that's 300 dollars and always wonder why I see mfs with $800 iphone 13s and shit lol
The phone is shady af. Rather just buy an iPhone so people know what it is and so I have a good phone with no bs.
@@user-dj7kc2li4c would rather not spend the price of a PC and just remove the bloatware and excess software
@@SoccYT
-What phone do you have?
“Oh I have a Poco”
-A what?
“A poco”
-What the fk is that?
@@user-dj7kc2li4c And your point is?
I've own this phone ever since it came out. I'm super impressed me and my wife got this poco phones and we are both impressed. Thanks Xiaomi for making this budget phones cause I've been caught on the apple ecosystem and it's been hard to rip off.
Hello, I do not know if you still have the phone or if you will even reply. I'm just wondering how the phone is doing? Has the performance gotten much worse? is it laggy?
Great review, thanks. The problem I have with ALL the budget phones are not their performances, but the lack of OIS on the camera. The camera is a vital part I use daily and needs to be great. Unfortunately the lack of OIS limits the camera.
I have oneplus 9 a flagship device and still no OIS
OIS doesn't matter that much, most people just click pictures, not record 4k videos from their phones, not that often.
@@aaronstone6183 OIS matters when the phone has an optical zoom like 2x, 2.5x, 3x or 5x. You would like to keep it steady. Night shots will also benefit from ois.
Capping
just get a camera man wth-
Been using poco x3 pro for 6 months and its pretty good except some glitches like when I close the game and try to terminate it from recent tab, it doesn't respond to my touches at all. It does read the taps but not swipes unless I turn the screen off and on again. Sometimes it shows black screen but no apps when I swipe upto menu but it registers input properly but apps won't return until restarted. Didn't have ghost touch issue but these two issues the first one being common. Overall its a great phone.
Ps: get Gcam for it, it makes camera experience whole lot better imo
I have been using poco X3 pro for over a year now... I have never experienced any of these problems... maybe you need to get it checked
I love that the Camera is the compromise. I almost never take pictures. The most common exception is when i turn a document photo into a pdf file. Don't use 4G much either, prefer WIFI to keep my data plan cheap. and Battery life is very important to me. This is good enough while giving me everything else i really want. 😁
Good for you since the phone targets customer exactly like you..for me the camera is my top priority so i need to get a flagship every 2 to 3 years
same
@@brozack4940 At that point it might be cheaper to get a high end camera. Sure they are not as portable but if you need quality then you are always hindered by the compromises a smartphone has to make.
@@ulfark7934i know what u mean, many ppl have recommended the same thing to me but i prefer portability and high end camera seems too "professional" for me. Im looking for something that i can bring everyday, capture anything in seconds and i believe flagship smartphone is what im looking for
This man has me sold. I've been wondering what it was that I was missing in my life, I now know that it was this phone.
Feels like a downgrade from the Snapdragon 860 that was on Poco X3 Pro.
Yes. Now It is just like Redmi Note series. For the comparison take Redmi Note 10 it was Magnificent budget with a Really Good Display and Cameras But it lacked the Powerful Chip, while on the other hand Poco X 3 pro was the one providing all the good features with Snapdragon 860 but 48 MP camera and an IPS LCD.
@@6TNain The camera on the X3 is better
it is a downgrade unfortunately...
just so they can slap the 5G on the name and on the phone.
Because of 5g and amoled display
The main problem of budget phones especially redmi and poco is their software. It usually consist of lot of bugs and the companies very rarely give software updates and the updates won't fix the bugs😂. As you have mentioned they also contain a hell lot of bloatwares.
1: you can delete all the bloat and Ios has bloat too
2: bugs are almost non existent. You are only gonna encounter them if you have miui 8 or under.
3: they give at least 4-6 years of miui and more than 3 android updates.
@@unknown185 they do still have bugs. Look at the dead camera issue. And there is no way that they give "4 to 6" years of MiUI updates. More like 2 to 4.
@ALEXISFROSSARD GAMING shut up. If you have good content then people will subscribe. If you have to advertise your channel then maybe that tells you something of the quality of what you're making.
@@craigpodsprojames2500 there is no xiaomi device that didn't get at least 4.
@@craigpodsprojames2500 exept the REALLY cheap ones.
Currently I am using Poco X3 with a custom rom.
Poco has always been an enthusiast brand for people who do stuff with their phones.
The only hectic things are the software which is just a flash away into a pure A12 experience and the camera. Tbh I like my Sony imx 682 sensor and the 13mp UW but the other two are just trash.
Budget phones these days rock! My OnePlus Nord20 5G no complaints for $280.
I was impressed by my first android which was a redmi note 10 pro (same company that made poco.) and with some tweaking here and there, I can confidently say that this thing rocks.
I bought two of this phone together and i made an interesting observation. I like comparing the sound of my phones. I compared both of them to the X3 Pro(btw still better than this replacements) i got and it sounded like the sounds had more color but it was weaker.
Then i updated one of the two with all the updates and compared again and now the updated phone had every bit as strong sound as the X3 Pro without losing the color. Just to be sure i compared it with the same 10 Pro without the updates and indeed the non updated one sounded weaker.
So interesting to see that updates actually improved the performance of the speakers in this model.
Redmi isn't Poco, Redmi and Poco are 2 diff sub-brands of Xiaomi
Does it work well in America?
@@kiro306 i dont think u would get carrier support there
Been using my Poco X3 Pro since October last year. Bloatware? Easy to remove with ADB. Not a picture person, don't care about the camera. I mostly usedit to play PUBG Mobile... That's just all I bought it for. When I'm playing and screenrecording I gotta have a fan blowing cause it can get quite hot and cause the game to lag. Awesome phone.
Agreed on the adb thing -- that helped me get rid of all the useless bloat on my poco m3 pro 5G I've been using since september, it's been very solid so far - battery lasts me more than a full day, decent performance and fantastic value for money
I think you've hit something that a lot of these 'look at this new phone!!!!" channels miss. The camera. Most of us I think..... well we really don't CARE all that much. For most of us, it's got a camera. It's there. It takes pictures. We neither know nor care how to adjust color settings or whatever photo and film geeks get all gooey over. I mean I suppose it's not TOTALLY unimportant, but.... it's nowhere near as important to us as reviewers seem to think it is. (I suspect because most of them are frustrated photographers/film makers that actually do care a lot more than the rest of us do if a camera doesn't support a color spectrum most of us have never heard of.)
@Communist Antarctica Yes
@@corwinweber693 exactly. But for girls often it's about the camera a lot. So if you watch tech vidz could help your sister or some other girlfriend close to you choose a phone.
9:25 you should’ve said a Chevrolet LS v8 because most “super cars” in Europe and America use those engines and they clown on the corvette, the car with the engine from factory.
And no I’m not talking about Ferrari and lamborghini, I’m talking about kit car “super cars”
I really enjoyed watching this video. Fun and eye opening! Thanks!
Loving your reviews and early Congrats on Hitting 10 million subscribers 🎉🎉. The Poco X4 seems like a really good phone, especially for it's price; Xiaomi doesn't disappoint when it comes to their Poco Phones
are you pooja hegde's brother?
@@madhavkrishna6356 I am
The X3 Pro has the SD 860, and was very attractive, but the SD 695 of this one lacks in power compared to that.
Edit: ok I just discovered that a non 5g version of the X4 pro exist, it comes with the Helio G96. I think that in theory at least it's more powerful than the SD 695 (feel free to correct me)
Its all about the 5G
@@barneyDcaller does 5g defeat 8th gen of Snapdragons?
Answer is no
@@barneyDcaller yeah sadly that's true, they needed a chipset that allows 5G so they can put 5G on the box, but in the budget, so they sacrificed the performance for that.
@@barneyDcaller 5G right now is only marketing trash and dosent work correctly, also a lot of countries dosent have 5G or the real 5G, maybe in 5 years but right now is marketing trash al hell.
@@extreme123dz some countries doesn't even have 4g