I've got with me here my first mediatek Dimensity 1100 powered phone it is the POCO x3
gt this particular model here does have a very good spec and that chipset a lot of power for the
price point so my model has eight gigabytes of ram 256 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage it is a review
unit that POCO sent out to me in exchange for this review what we've also got with this model is a 64
megapixel main camera 8 megapixel ultra wide a cutout in the front screen that houses a 16
megapixel selfie camera and we've got a 6.6 inch ips pen on this one 120 hertz what else well a 5
000 milliamp hour battery with 67 watt charging and in this in-depth review i'll let you know
everything basically is to know about the new POCO x3 gt all the pros and cons after using this phone
now for over a week this is what we get with the x3 gt we've got a 67 watt charger i'll give it
the exact time in this in-depth review type c to type a cable some POCO stickers safety information
leaflet quick start guide warranty card a type c to 3.5 millimeter adapter and a clear tpu case
now the build quality of this one it's typical POCO feels good in hand it is a solid phone and it
does weigh 193 grams so it's not the lightest now the thickness of it you can see here that it's not
too bad now it's 8.9 millimeters now i've just got the sim tray pulled out i wanted to show you that
it takes two nano sims so no micro sd card support there is a gasket around that which is great
and then over on the right hand side here always on capacitor fingerprint reader volume up and down
button and you can see the camera module here sticks out by about three millimeters now the
backing material here this is made out of plastic and they call it the star glaze gaze black sorry
stargaze black because it goes from silver to the black and you can see little sparkles in it when
you look at it and reflect it in the light it's not a bad finish so they do have gorilla glass
victus on the front of this one which is great so that is the latest one from them and the most
smash resistant glass there too which is excellent and right down the bottom here you'll see that
we do have a type-c port loudspeaker our microphone so the frame around the outside
this is plastic but it does have a good feel to it and then right up the top
here we have the other loudspeaker so yes dual loudspeakers ir transmitter and our microphone
and our cameras here on the rear so we do have a 2 megapixel which is used for macro that's f 2.4 and
then an ultra wide which is f 2.2 8 megapixels this one i really wish it was 13 it is a bit
of a weaker ultra wide and then our main camera which is 64 megapixels this one right here and a
dual tone led flash one of our most important things in a phone of course is the screen is
what you're looking at and using all of the time now this one's an ips panel 6.6 inches 120 hertz
it does have a dynamic refresh rate so depending on the content it will go from 30 right up to
120 but you can override and set 120 hertz which i'll be running for the duration of this review
and i've been running all the time 120 hertz why not i mean you're paying for 120hz phone so that
is really what you'd use but if you want to save better life then you can chop it down to 60. now i
really wish they'd had the sweet spot 90 hertz in the middle i really do like that because it's both
smooth fluids and you save a little bit on battery but still better life is pretty good on this model
which i'll get on to later on so overall the display has a lot of options we can set up here
maximum brightness tops out at well they claim it's 450 nits i'm measuring about 465. it's going
to vary from panel to panel indirect sunlight it's not the best as you'd imagine because it can't
push 800 or 1000 nits you can still make it out though it can still do things with the screen but
it certainly won't be the best there now being an ips panel you will notice that the colors whites
especially aren't uniformed around the cutout here for the 16 megapixel front-facing camera
so at certain angles you can see a little bit of that it dims around there and the
edges you won't get that if it was an oled screen which it isn't a course so all up for the price
it's a nice panel fully laminated of course has the gorilla glass victus and that smooth 120 hertz
is really nice to have so how's it been now i've had the phone for a week and by the time
i published this review it'll probably be over a week that i've been using this phone in total as
my main phone and it's been fine no problems with bugs i haven't seen any major bugs or anything
like that now swiping down from the right hand side we've got our toggles here with me ui 12.5
and then on the left all the notifications they all come through and i've intentionally left a
few there just so i can show in the video that things pop up we get the little dots there to
tell us that we've got notifications for the apps and everything is very smooth 120 hertz it really
runs great and i can't bring that through in this video because i'm recording only in 30 frames
per second but very good performance there is one thing that baffles me with this phone though this
is a european model i've got the european rom the global rom lte band 20. now check the spec sheet
lt band 20 is missing and i'm stuck on 3g normally sometimes on 5g that works okay but without lt
band 20 it's a little bit of a concern for a lot of european countries use this band especially
here in spain as well for me to get good 4g speeds i do need lt band 20 and it's sorely missed so
don't understand their reasoning to go with the modem with this one with the Dimensity
1100 performance wise the dimensional 1100 is excellent i mean take a look at this
wireless speeds are flagship performance here we're talking about thousand euro phones thousand
dollar phone same level of wireless performance here at the spot i always test downstairs
excellent performance over a gigabit speeds is just great really good now the gps works
great with a good average signal strength one meter accuracy beating the qualcomm chips they
don't have that restriction they can actually get an accuracy of one which is good and we
do have another blunder here but this should be fixed so wide vine security level three not one
so amazon prime video netflix disney plus and standard definition until this is corrected
and amazon will probably also need approval they need to like white list this phone which they
eventually hopefully will get around to doing before we even get full hd with amazon video
internal storage speed so ufs 3.1 256 gigabytes this is impressive look at the sequential speeds
here and those randoms really really good for a phone of this category this price point
that is great so it is really that's flagship performance like the wireless and the chipset
itself is really kind of flagship performance take a look at the gpu scores we're getting here
cpu might not be as powerful but that gpu is good memory core scores there and the ui overall almost
600 000 with antutu version 9 is an excellent score now charge time 52 minutes to go from 2
to 100 for a 5 000 milliamp hour battery that's actually good not bad anything under an hour there
that's a good charge time for me and the battery life at 120 hertz this is a fixed looping test
i compare this with all phones i review with the same 200 nits of brightness a 10 hour result isn't
actually that great for 120 hertz bloatware however like pretty much all brands there's
a lot so i counted about 26 or 27 applications 2.6 gigabytes almost of bloat now it's very
easy to uninstall you go into settings and you can select it all then you go through settings
applications uninstall it takes about two minutes three minutes and you can remove it all but hey
it's there and i just wanted to point that out and then we've got an android security update security
level of june here which is good to see and free available storage i ran about 225 gigabytes
on this top spec model now if you want to use 3.5 millimeter tick unfortunately you're going to
need that the adapter so type c adapter and it's sorely missed still a 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack would have been great on this so audio quality type c it seems good kind of typical
POCO there and what about the loudspeakers to me the loudspeakers they sound good but they could
be a little bit louder i also wanted to mention haptics haptics is okay and the call quality is
fine too but here's the loudspeakers now so from the top and the bottom down here at 100 volume
and then gaming ever so popular title here pubg the options we get with the frame rate if you have
it on hd or balance it's ultra only now if you put it onto smooth which is what i will test out now
we do have then the extreme frame rate option now no surprises here that pubg runs very smooth it's
fluid and no noticeable lag at all now it's not the most demanding settings in fact i've got it on
the last visuals here but the highest frame rate so the performance is really to be expected here
it's not exactly pushing this immensity 1100 that hard but i will test out a game now
that is very demanding i have the graphics now on the maximum setting so it's set to
highest possible and 60 frames per second and it plays really well but i have been really playing
on you for about 10 minutes at the moment and i can already see that the frame rate has dropped
down a little bit before it was around 50 frames per second it's now 49 now it's getting back
up to 50 there it is getting a little warm but this performance is a little started just then
is really flagship gaming phone performance here very very good to be able to run this game on the
absolute top settings so what i'll do now is i will play this for one hour and report back
on the thermals just how hot is this phone gonna get so on the rear we're looking at after one hour
of gaming it's currently here 48 degrees but i've seen hotter i've seen 51 degrees celsius
on the rear flipping it over it does feel quite warm this screen just in this area you can see
quite a hot patch there and that has gotten up to 49 degrees celsius it's currently 47. now
it did pop up saying that it was overheating the device and that wi-fi gps was going to be
restricted and once it did that the temperatures did lower down a little bit but a gaming
session for one hour on this phone with a very demanding game here like gen shin impact at the
maximum settings it's going to get hot moving over to the cameras now so front facing video
we have 1080p maximum now the audio bit rate is good it's 256 kilobits per second which is great
but look at this there is no electronic image stabilization with the front facing camera here so
it shakes all around and you really do need a gimbal to get nice smooth footage with this
so we do hope that with a firmware update they can at least add some electronic image stabilization
so we have 4k 30 frames per second with electronic image stabilization maximum so there's no 4k 60
frames per second with this phone i hope that they might be able to actually add that with a firmware
update now the electronic image stabilization i've had a look at on my pc i think it's okay but i do
think some of the qualcomm chips tend to be a little bit better there or just slightly better
optimize the electronic image stabilization so i'm just going to jog ahead a little
and you can see there are a few little shakes coming through now when you pan around
sometimes you see some of that also common electronic image stabilization jatter come through
and now ultra wide video if you do shoot ultrawide video it's 1080p max with this
the 8 megapixel sensor doesn't seem to be able to do 4k or they simply don't want us to be shooting
in 4k with the ultra wide and you notice that the edges and the quality overall
does not look as good as the main 64 megapixel sensor which is to be expected
so those cameras i think the main camera the 64 megapixel one takes a good image low light
performance i would say is average the ultra wide average front facing selfies need a bit
of work because as you saw from my example the 16 megapixel camera at the moment the way it's
optimized is overexposing and the stitching with the portraits as well doesn't look very good so
excellent battery life it can run for about seven to eight hours at 120 hertz charges in under one
hour and the performance from the dimension 1100 is impressive it's flagship level performance
flagship level wi-fi i'm getting gigabit speeds on my wireless 6 router which is excellent
and very very good range and then ufs 3.1 storage which is very quick and then the ui 120 hertz 120
frames per second very fast fluid smooth that's great gaming performance is good but it does get
a little hot the phone if you game for extended periods well up get up to 50 degrees celsius i
have seen so it's going to get warm this one even warmer if you use it in a case so for me the big
corn of this one being based here in europe and it's really puzzling why POCO would release this
without alti band 20 that is sadly missing so i don't have 4g here where i'm based i'm stuck on 3g
i sometimes get 5g so at least it does have 5g support now there's no electronic image
stabilization with the front-facing camera we have no micro sd card slot no 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack that's kind of common those two there and no wide vine level one cert at the time of this
video i do believe POCO will be correcting that so there we go that is really the full story about
the gt here's the x3 gt from POCO thank you so much for watching this video i
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