The $200 Flagship Smartphone Alternative

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They tell me Lou, they say show me the budget phones. Show me the phones that are affordable that deliver on the value for money proposition

And supposedly this is that next one from one of the companies that sort of started that conversation

around flagship specifications for a lot less money. that of course is poco i remember the original poco phone it sort of flipped the smartphone world

a little bit now since that device we haven't exactly seen that flagship spec that top tier

snapdragon chip inside of a phone that's a lot less money but they're still aiming at that value

for money and this is that next big play and i'm i'm hearing the noise i'm hearing the chatter about

this particular device on twitter and elsewhere so here we are it is the poco x3 nfc and it looks

like mine is gonna be in cobalt blue pop off the lid right here and we've got another little box

that's because they they give us a case somehow when you spend less money or you approach the the

the budget-minded smartphones you get more in the box you see how that goes we have a sim card tool

right here we have a case also included in the package there's a little bit of paperwork the case

This is your first indication of the design of the smartphone. And you can see a large circular cutout for the camera unit

This is a basic case just to get you up and running, but you gotta appreciate seeing it inside the box

Is this a poster? Look at all this, these are stickers. I didn't expect to see that

So the brand, the Poco brand is kind of picking up some steam here

Maybe you wanna slap those on the bumper and you show your support

Is that a temporary tattoo? I believe this is a first. I have unboxed many smartphones here on the channel

This might be the first temporary tattoo. Am I going to put it on

Am I gonna slap it on? It's quite possible. It's the classic, it's the heart

with the arrow going through it. So as you can see, yeah

This is that cobalt blue that I mentioned from the exterior of the box

And that's what it looks like. Ah, so the cutout is not fully circular. That's kind of interesting

There's a circular indication there with the design, but then the camera unit itself is kind of an unusual shape

Little plastic peel for you. That is some seriously cobalt blue. And I actually missed the specifications

which were actually planted on the front. Real quick, before I pull the plastic off, it's the Snapdragon 732G up to 2.3 GHz

So we are in a 700 series of Snapdragon chips. 120 hertz displayed

A lot of people can be excited about this at this price point. Target price somewhere around 250 USD You of course can do the conversion for your local region 240 hertz touch sampling rate which of course that important for that kind of that really fast feedback

64 megapixel AI quad camera built in, 20 megapixel in-display front camera for the selfies

And this is very exciting to people. I love seeing the fast charging and the big batteries showing up at the lower price points

So we have 5160 milliamp hour battery and a 33 watt fast charge

Now I will do the plastic peel. Very nice. One more sticker to go

Okay, good. So it's a flashy back on this thing. You have the Poco logo kind of, I mean, fairly substantial on the back

I don't know if that's to your taste or not. But if you want to rep the brand, you're going to see it right there

You have these little lines kind of moving on a diagonal down the center and then just cobalt blue sort of reflecting everywhere else

It's got a shimmer to it. It kind of changes colors a little bit depending on the reflection of the light

Look at the variety of camera units including the 64 megapixel main camera up here in this section

The whole thing has a really premium feel to it. It has some weight to it

fingerprint scanner over here on the thumb portion where your finger lines up i don't mind this i'm

used to this uh it's capacitive so it's fast you have the volume rocker up above that over here is

your sim card tray then on the bottom of the device you'll find your usbc connector for that 33 watt

fast charge the speaker unit as well as a 3.5 mil headphone jack which many people still use and love

also inside the package. Of course, we had to have that fast charger

as mentioned, 33 watts. USB type C to A cable to connect to that charger

We're gonna pull the screen protector off. This could be, this is a crazy move. Very nice

All right, so here we have the fingerprint setup for security. You just line up your thumb, as mentioned

Now, one of the benefits of having it on a power switch, you touch there all the time anyways

it's kind of second nature to have your thumb in that location and so it's kind of a two for one

you're gonna go hit the button and your thumb is already there done

it's pretty quick what's interesting with these things is once it's semi-booted then it's really

quick but if you go just on it it's like a little hair of a second slower but this is acceptable

I don't know where I stand on this, to be honest, I can adapt to the various locations

of fingerprint scanners, whether it's the back, the side, or the end display

There's an advantage with the end display if you're one of these people that likes to unlock on the tabletop but I find you know it that those tend to be just a touch slower in most cases so it a bit of a trade as you can see it a fairly snappy experience but i do want to check to see what

the display is set to out of the box and i was right it is snappy because it's already at that

120 hertz which is kind of surprising right out the box and a lot of other devices you need to

select for it or it would be some sort of adaptive setting maybe this is adaptive it says some apps

will increase refresh rate automatically to improve picture quality and if you do set it backwards to

60 hertz you will receive better battery life but do you really need to worry about battery life when

you have 5000 plus milliamp hours i don't know i like having the option but anyway it's 120 hertz

straight out the box. There are some modifications you can make. This is the automatic mode based on the ambient lighting conditions

There's also a saturated setting and a standard setting. That goes a little bit more yellow

But if you don't want it, look at this. You have tons of opportunity going there and change the white point

change the white balance. I was happy with auto, so I'll stick to that for now

I think the reason that people are excited about this device is the combination of specifications

and the whole package, the way it's put together for the price

You have this aggressive screen-to-body ratio. You have a hole-punch cutout, which is essentially in line

with those much more expensive devices from companies like Samsung. You have the 120Hz display

I don't need to explain this to you at this point. We've talked about it so much. It gives you an advantage

in the kind of snappy feel of the device, the responsiveness of the device

If you do jump into certain games, you can actually experience up to 120 FPS as long as the game supports the unlocked frame rate

This is going to give you an idea. Well, in this case, in this frame, you barely see the hole punch because there's a TV back there

Let me... Barely takes up any space. Obviously, this is a popular choice right now for your front-facing camera and where to place it

Really? No, this is an Apple product only for Apple employees. So you know, it's high level

So yeah, we're getting a lot of low end and probably the majority of the audio out of the bottom section

But we are getting some more from the earpiece location. Makes dialogue a little bit easier to hear

It's not the best sounding smartphone speaker. It's definitely not blowing me away, but it gets the job done

Alright, let's load up the camera real quick. We're going to go with the trusty plant as per usual

And I will load up on the One X to start. And bam, we've of course also got an ultra wide in here, 0.6, gotta have it

And the third setting is the 2x as far as optical is concerned. Kablamo

Now if I click on the AI button let see if it does any better now that it knows it a plant It did boost up the green How about if we toggle automatic HDR Now what you gonna do All right so we just browse through

some of those images real quick. The AI mode gave me a little more green in the plant

There's lots of detail. You have plenty of pixels. This is, of course, a fairly limited environment

but to just give you an idea of your available focal ranges, that's the standard focal range

That's your 2x close and there's your ultra wide fitting plenty more into the frame

So you have the camera versatility built in if I flip it around to the front facing camera supposedly

There's a lot of resolution on the selfie 3 2 1 And then let's see if AI can what AI likes to do to me

Maybe it's probably gonna be fairly It's fairly similar wow, it's a lot of detail

We talked about the beard hair many times on the show. It's become a meme

And the beard hairs, they change colors like the leaves are about to change

Because fall is coming. It's my favorite season. I put the hoodie on. It's Pumpkin Spice Town right now out there

Nonetheless, it's lots of resolution. If you like selfies, my goodness. Look at you now

Alright, so we have to do the quick charge test as we've done many times on the channel

I want to see the animation. It always gets me going every time. And now we have it, like I said, on more affordable devices

So it's very exciting in a world of sub $300 smartphones getting some of the faster chargers out there

To be honest, this 133 watt, we plug it in. What are they going to give us

Woo! Turbocharge, baby! You just watch it flow. If that doesn't get you going, I don't know what does

And so you're going to have that support in this device. And to be fair, it's filling up a very large battery

Once again, to remind you, over 5,000 mAh. So, do we have a new Budget King

Look, it's got all the pieces. It feels very premium in the hand

It's got everything you're looking for. No, it does not have an 800 series Snapdragon

All right, that chip has sailed. And besides, this one is priced more aggressively than would ever be possible with that other chip in it

Will this be good enough for most people? I think, yeah, probably. Now you're getting all this tasty stuff like the 120 hertz

like the really aggressive screen to body ratio, like the quick charge

and of course the big battery. And you're getting it at a price that I think is going to be healthy for a lot of people

So there you have it. It's the newest Poco device. This is the X3 NFC

Don't forget the NFC. And who knows? I might just have to slap this on right now

It's quite possible