The ultrawide can take some usable shots, but images lack sharpness, and there’s a color temperature disparity. For what it’s worth, there is a dedicated night mode for the ultrawide (which most Poco and Redmi phones don’t have) that does deliver a slightly better image. The macro sensor is borderline unusable, and you’ll have to take a ton of photos to get a single serviceable shot from it. While I’m not sure how much the flagship-level ISP of the Snapdragon 860 is responsible for this, the images from the 48MP camera are pretty good in daylight scenarios. There’s some really good dynamic range on display and details are plenty. It even did a respectable job with edge detection while taking portraits.

• Selfies taken in the day as well as at night are good, but not great.
• If the response time is slow, the pixels retain their previous state for a longer time causing trailing in fast-moving visuals.
• If you are limited by budget, the Poco X3 Pro should be excellent for you, but I would advise you to go for the Poco F3 just for the screen and extra performance.

For the retail price of $229 for the base version, there isn’t a better device available in terms of sheer hardware performance that can compete with the X3 Pro. There is zero absolutely no slowdown in playing games including the high refresh rate ones, watching videos, or doing any other daily task with this phone. The last few Xiaomi devices that came to me for review all have a high refresh rate AMOLED display.

Of course, both sensors can be made with videos in a maximum resolution of FullHD 1080p at 30 frames per second. Something to highlight about both devices, and that affects performance, is the type of ROM memory they have.

Contrast levels are boosted to unnatural levels, and there is very significant sharpening and skin stock firmware ROM retouching. Elsewhere, the macro camera is functional but its 2MP resolution won’t let you do much with the images.

• The phone has a Snapdragon 765G chipset, 90Hz AMOLED, better cameras, 30W fast charging, 5G connectivity, and cleaner software.
• Now, POCO has launched two new models for the global markets, POCO X3 pro and POCO F3.
• I definitely recommend to someone who does care too much about the software but instead hardware.
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