The 20-megapixel front camera doesn’t deliver the most natural-looking skin tones, and the default smoothening is too aggressive for my taste. Selfies taken in the day as well as at night are good, but not great.
The main differentiator between POCO and Redmi is that the former doesn’t include as many ads in the interface. MIUI for POCO is identical to MIUI, but you don’t get incessant notifications or ads from the first-party apps. To its credit, Xiaomi is fixing the number of ads on the Redmi Note 10 series, and that is only set to get better with the upcoming MIUI 12.5 update. There is no other phone in this segment that comes close to the performance of the POCO X3 Pro. The marquee feature on the POCO X3 Pro is the Snapdragon 860 chipset. We categorized every aspect of the phone and gave a star rating based on general price/ performance of the phone.
- The black color box cover gives way to a yellow box with a yellow Poco insert which is classic Poco branding.
- In addition, with this application, you will have a chance to experience the hidden features of MIUI while learning the news about your device.
- The stock firmware is built keeping your device in mind and hence is customized and optimized according to each device’s unique specs sheet.
- I bought it 2 months ago and am very happy with it and very satisfied with the device.
Then Open the Device Manager and Locate the ADB Drivers to Install it. Finally, you can follow the How to install the ADB Driver page to install the drivers correctly. Poco USB Driver allows you to connect your Poco Smartphone and Tablets to the Windows Computer and transfer data between the computer and the Poco device. Apart from this, it also allows you to sync data between the device and the Computer, back up your existing data on the Computer or restore the data on the Poco device.
- CrDroid stylishly offers a pixel-like experience and supports Google Gcam Camera app.
- In addition, it helps you to flash or install fastboot firmware on the Xiaomi devices running stock firmware on Qualcomm Chipset.
- Xiaomi dominates this segment, and there are plenty of alternatives to the POCO X3 Pro.
- The ‘floating windows’ feature, for example, lets you drag notifications down to open apps in their own mini-tab on-screen.
The battery optimization capability of this ROM was quite impressive when we tried it. There are a variety of beautiful themes to choose from; you can tweak the notification panel, it supports animations, and more. Previously called CyanogenMod ROM and later renamed LineageOS, this is arguably the most popular custom ROM and comes with various features. LineageOS is still regarded as one of the best ROMs because it promises more stability and security. The official Pie update of this ROM has been rolled out for many devices.