POCO has just announced this, it is their x4 gt which i've been testing out now for a week
this model here is powered by the demand city 8100 all models have eight gigabytes of ram
and this model i've got has 128 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage and there's also a model with up 256.
it has 67 watt fast charging a 5080 milliamp hour battery and the screen it's 6.6 inches in
ips screen with a 144 hertz maximum refresh rate the camera in the cutout is 20 megapixels our
main camera is 64 megapixels with an 8 megapixel ultrawide and sadly they are still giving us the
2 megapixel macro sensors we've got that if you ever wanted to take a lower quality macro photo
so in this review i'll go over it in depth so let you know all the pros and the cons now in my
time of using poco's x4 gt inside the box you'll find a type a2 type c cable our charger it's 67
watts now the charge time is normally around about 40 minutes sim tray tool and a little
bit of paperwork here so we have a quick start guide a few other things and a clear tpu case
of course coming from the manufacturer this case does fit the x4 gt perfectly
the x4 gt's build is plastic the back of it the frame around the outside and even the camera
housing a side always on capacitor fingerprint reader now i just demonstrated that it does unlock
really quick i've had no problems with it it's accurate it's typical xiaomi so the phone's weight
is 200 grams the thickness of it is about 8.9 millimeters plastic volume button and in hand it
does feel good no real problems with it at all and you'll notice too that the top and bottom
bezel and the chins aren't the slimmest now the camera in the front here that's 20 megapixels
down the bottom you'll find a loudspeaker type c port microphone and the sim tray well it does take
as you'll see here two nano sims so these nano sims mean that well there is actually no room for
a micro sd card sadly that is not supported with this phone then up top we have an ir transmitter
secondary loudspeaker and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack the x4 gt has a very average ips
panel in it it does have some positives that is that there is a 90 hertz mode so you get the best
of both battery life and fluidity 144 maximum is what i'll be using for my review and what
is it like in direct sunlight so it is bright enough it gets up to 650 nets officially in the
high brightness mode that it can be made out in direct sunlight now you do get your typical white
balance settings all of that is in there touch response is 270 hertz and i do find it to be good
and it does respond really quick so no problems with that it's just that you can see around the
cut out notch some darker dimmer pixels now the phone does come with me ui 13.0.1 i'm on the
latest firmware for this review so this is miui 4 poco with poco launcher it does have an android
security patch level of the 6th of june the performance is good so with gestures no problems
detecting my gestures i'm not really experiencing any lag with it the only thing is that sometimes
when i do unlock it or do anything demanding i occasionally see a little spinning icon that does
pop up in the middle there which is frustrating so that is a moment of lag but the toggle's bringing
those down no lag there and with notifications the performance in general is very quick and snappy
one thing they have not toned down on and that is the bloat where you get quite a lot of
junk pre-installed as soon as you power it up this phone you can see games other applications
now i did end up uninstalling over two gigabytes worth of garbage here so i do hope in the future
they can tone down on this it's not really good to see at all now the battery times here for charging
the five thousand and eighty milliamp hour battery they're good 40 minutes 67 watt charging to go
from 14 to 100 i don't think that's a bad score anything that is under one hour is good for me
that's quick so battery run time this is the fixed benchmark i do with pc mark got 11 hours
and 26 minutes at 144 hertz that is not an amazing result real world use at 144 hertz screen refresh
rate you're looking about six and a half to seven hours only the battery life is not amazing standby
drain there is a little bit i'm using losing about six to seven percent overnight so it's not amazing
there either the antutu score is not bad at all so this score is very similar to that of this
snapdragon 870 so a nice powerful gpu good for gaming this is the geekbench 5 score another score
that is similar to the snapdragon 870 and it's a solid score for the price of this phone not bad at
all so it does have a widevine level 1 cert this means that netflix yes is in full hd but amazon
prime video not white listed by amazon themselves so it's stuck in standard definition along with
other streaming apps too we do have a camera 2 api now because this is a mediatek power phone
you may have trouble getting that gcam port that you want open camera will also work on this model
finally it does have the safety net status pass that we want nfc is on board so banking
applications will work on the x4 gt audio quality now so we've got noise cancelling with our voice
calls voice calls do sound fine and yes this 3.5 millimeter support the sound output is loud it's
clean sounds good to my ears we do have dual loudspeakers on board with this model here they
don't sound amazing they're quite tinny and hardly any bass here's a sample of them at 100 volume
gaming performance with the demand city 8100 is actually very good very similar to say a
snapdragon again the 870 it's stable it's fast and with pubg i'm able to get 60 frames per
second a solid 60 i don't experience any lag at all and it gets a little warm so on the back here
i have noticed that temperatures will get up to about 42 43 degrees right now they're at about
40 which isn't too bad so this may seem warm but it's actually a lot cooler than say a snapdragon
triple eight or the eight gen one so overall great gaming performance and it really doesn't
get that hot but do bear in mind that i do not have the case on it so it will probably get up
to another two or three degrees more around say 45 degrees tops again that's actually perfectly fine
moving over to the cameras now with the poco x4 gt so the front-facing cameras has electronic
image stabilization 1080p maximum and it's a 20 megapixel sensor we've seen a lot of the sensor
before so this quality looks alright for 1080p the audio bit rate is 256 kilobits per second so great
to see they're not using 96 or let's have a look at those rear cameras now this phone does let you
shoot in 4k but unfortunately as you can see and probably notice that no there is no electronic
image stabilization with 4k even though this chipset can do it for some reason poco does have
it disabled now i found the focus hasn't really been an issue at all with my testing that i've
been doing but let's have a look now at some 1080p footage with the electronic image stabilization
now you can see that's a big difference to the stability it's not shaking around all over the
place even as i walk around so if you want those steady shots and nice footage you are
sadly going to have to just stick to the 1080p unless a software update does eventually give us
4k with electronic image stabilization which i hope poco is going to release and the ultra
wide this certainly is the weaker camera like we're seeing before with xiaomi phones when they
use this 8 megapixel sensor 1080p is the maximum resolution when you pan around you sometimes see
a few jatters but it's not too bad here because of that lower resolution
so electronic image stabilization but no 4k option with the ultra wide sadly
over to our camera so i've noticed the selfies can sometimes look a little white or skin smoothing
even though i've got the beautifying off this is a portrait shot at the moment and this one lacking a
little bit of detail here too with the main camera of this flower my cat here vera the shot's alright
but again it's not the sharpest i've actually seen out of some cameras this one here is a portrait
mode of my daughter and the stitching seems to be all right with that no complaints with that photo
daytime photos here with good light do come out excellent as you'd expect most phones can do
this not really a problem the ultra wide however lacking some detail it looks a little blurred and
quite soft here's a low light standard photo then with our night mode you can see it does
sharpen it up a little bit and again outside this is the night mode off
and now with the night mode on there's a lot of like blurriness to it doesn't look amazing so
the low light performance out of the x4 gt i do find to be quite disappointing look at all that
noise it's very pixelated blocky parts don't know it's just not great so that is the poco
x4 gt one of the things i like about it well the dementia 8100 very good chip very potent fast and
the thermals seem to be pretty good they're a lot better than the qualcomm counterparts that can get
quite a bit hotter than what i'm seeing gaming say pubg or genshin impact so we do have a main
64 megapixel sensor that can take some good photos however no optical image stabilization
you do get that however with the poco f4 but i don't currently have a review unit for that
so i can't really say much about it but it should take better low light photos than the x4 gt
so we've got 67 watt charging which charges in around 40 minutes that's great the 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack also another positive there and the dual loudspeakers with it eight gigabytes of ram
and the ufs 3.1 storage the things i don't like about this model well we have a 2 megapixel
macro camera the ultra wide camera is a bit of a weakness there it's not very detailed at all
can't shoot 4k and then the 4k video from the main sensor it doesn't have any electronic image
stabilization which is a real shame they need to enable that poco it's just a software thing
because the hardware does support it and the sensor does there too it doesn't have micro sd
card support and it's an ips screen which means around the cutout of the camera there you can see
slightly dimmer pixels around the edges it's not uniformed color like we would get if it did have
an amoled screen so there we go that is the full story of poco's x4 gt thanks a lot for
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