Poco M3 Review: Pushing the boundaries of budget smartphone.
Poco has been producing value for money smartphones
for quite some time now.
And with Poco M3, they’re really trying
to push the boundaries of what’s possible
for a budget smartphone.
Starting with the display, it has a full HD+
display and I’m able to read the display
under bright sunlight as well so the display
gets bright enough.
The viewing angles are decent, they’re not
bad but they’re not great either.
And it has Widevine L1 support so It does
play 1080p content so multimedia experience
is going to be good.
So overall a decent display for the price.
Moving to design,
It’s got an absolutely striking design and
I’m struggling to think of a phone that’s
well designed in this price range which is
a testament to how great the design is.
COMFORT wise
It’s not too heavy even though it has 6000Mah
battery inside.
And the Textured back is really nice to look
at and also is functional in such a way that
it gives you a better grip while holding the
phone.
Build quality is also solid, so overall great
design and it definitely doesn’t look like
a ₹12,000 smartphone.
Next When it comes to Performance, it is fairly
quick and I personally haven’t had any
during my usage and Memory Management is also
quite good thanks to 6GB of RAM so very impressed
by the performance.
Moving to the software side of things, it’s
running Android 10 with MIUI 12 on top of
it and
Overall experience has been really clean and
refreshing, thankfully there are no Ads, I
personally enjoyed it quite a lot.
Fingerprint ?
Moving to security, the side mounted fingerprint
scanner is not super quick but that doesn’t
mean that it’s slow either, it’s quick
enough.
Animation makes it slower.
With Face unlock ?? Similar to fingerprint
scanner, it’s not super quick, neither is
it slow, it’s quick enough.
Again Animation is the issue here.
During really dark conditions, Brightness
needs to be maxed out for faster unlock
So for these reasons, I suggest you use the
Fingerprint scanner instead, it’s far more
secure and intuitive as well.
Now when it comes to Camera, the Selfie camera
like most Xiaomi phones it has a warmer colour
temperature and the background is completely
overexposed in all the pictures.
The rear camera also is a similar scenario,
it’s dynamic range could be better.
So for the price the camera is decent.
But if you’re willing to download the Gcam
mod, I’m confident and positive that it’ll
blow your mind.
?
I made a dedicated video comparing Gcam to
the stock camera, so make sure to watch it
once you finish watching this of course ?
Next moving to battery life,
?
I think the number of times I charged the
phone during my testing is a good indicator
?? so I’ve tested the phone for two
weeks and during this time I’ve only charged
it about 5 times, so it’s lasting close
to 1 and half day on intense usage, so battery
life is pretty good on the Poco M3.

But Charging times ⚡️is an issue as
It takes Close to 3 hours to charge from 19-
100%, so it’s better to charge it while
you sleep.
Next when it comes to Gaming,
You shouldn’t be expecting much in the first
place, you can play on medium settings comfortably
but once you switch to high, it starts to
lag.
Again I made a dedicated video on Gaming,
link will be in the description.
Next I quickly want to talk about the speakers,
so Since It has stereo speakers, they’re
are really loud while maintaining the quality,
I’m kind of scared to turn the volume up
because it gets really loud ?. So speakers
is another impressive aspect of Poco M3.
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And Finally let’s talk pricing,
For the price of ₹12,000
You get a phone with
Incredibile design.
With great set of stereo speakers ? that
complements your multimedia experience,
Compared to the competition, apart from Redmi
9 Power, which is a similar phone from the
the same Xiaomi of course, there isn’t any
other phone that provides this level of value
& especially for the price of ₹12,000 it’s
a pretty good deal but Xiaomi has also launched
Redmi Note 10 which is the only phone I can
think of which seems to be better in most
instances on paper atleast, so will have to
wait and see how well the Redmi Note 10 performs.
Now as I mentioned earlier I’ve made the
Gaming review and also Camera review in comparison
with Gcam, Click on the playlist and I’ll
see you in that video.
