what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back so poco is back with another budget
friendly device the one that we have today is called the m4 pro and this is a phone that's
powered by the mediatek dynamicity 810. in my case i have the version that has six gigs of ram
and 128 gigs of internal storage the phone can also take an sd card and for those of you that
like benchmark scores well this device gets an antutu benchmark score of about 300 000
so you already know that you are not looking at a slow phone by any means
now i've also done a camera comparison between this phone and the iphone 13 i have the iphone
13 right here and for those of you that want to see the camera comparison and don't really care
about anything guys some you can find it here in this um video so you can skip right to that
camera comparison but today we're also going to do a bit of a review of this um device
so on the front here we have a 6.6 inches ips panel that has a 1080p resolution and we also get
a 90 hertz refresh rate not to mention the screen here is covered by gorilla glass 3 so it shouldn't
get scratched that easily this screen also has a maximum brightness of 450 nits so if you're gonna
be using the phone indoors the screen looks great the colors are nice and vibrant the viewing angles
are really good and the brightness is really good for indoors outdoors depending where you are i
mean if you're in direct sunlight it's gonna be a bit difficult seeing the screen but for budget
friendly phones this is fairly normal the phone's body is mostly made out of plastic i mean we have
plastic on the back here we have plastic on the sides we also have this some dual toner back if
i may say we've seen this in the past four other poco devices on the back there we have the cameras
so on the left hand side here we have the slot for the sim card this device can take
a sim card and an sd card at the same time or two sim cards at the same time at the top here we have
the second speaker so we get one speaker at the top and one speaker at the bottom so dual speakers
not to mention the speakers sound quite good for a budget friendly device and i'm also going to show
you a quick example so you can hear how those some speakers sound next to that speaker at the top
we have another hole that's probably hole for a microphone and we have an ir blaster so you could
use this phone as a remote control for your tv just to give you an example on the right hand side
of the device we have the volume buttons and the power button the power button also has a built-in
fingerprint scanner so unlocking the phone is super simple you just touch that fingerprint
scanner it takes i don't know half a second for the screen to unlock once you touch it
so it is a very quick um fingerprint scanner mostly taking in consideration the price of
the phone because i've seen other more expensive phones samsung galaxy s21 that takes a while to
unlock the screen when you touch the scanner at the top here guess what you get a 3.5 mil
audio jack so you can plug in some headphones into this device which is quite exciting these
days we have the usb c port and the second set of speakers that i mentioned um earlier and next i
want to show you a quick example just so you can hear how those some speakers some sound basically
again
the phone weights 195 grams and inside it we have a 5 000 milliamp hour battery so on
one charge you can easily get about 10 hours of screen on time so if you want the phone that you
don't have to charge daily this is definitely one that you're not gonna have to charge daily
inside the box you're also gonna find a 33 watt fast charger so the phone supports 33
watt fast charging so charging this one from zero to 100 is done in about an hour an hour
and five minutes something like that so very quick to charge for a budget phone take my um
iphone 13 for example this one takes much much longer to charge even though it has a battery
much smaller than this one so pretty impressive battery specs on this particular device the m4 pro
the phone also has an nfc chip inside it and that means that you can make payments using google
pay so all you have to do is touch the terminal with your phone if you have google pay setup of
course and you can make payments to the phone i've tried the gps unit inside it it takes a second or
two to find your location and once your location is found it doesn't seem to lose it and the phone
also supports 5g connectivity unfortunately my new carrier does not support 5g connectivity so i was
not able to use the phone on the 5g network as for sensors while we do have plenty of sensors for a
budget friendly device the 4 runs miui 12.5 which is based on android 11 and as we've seen with many
many budget friendly devices from xiaomi this performs really well even though it doesn't have
the craziest specs out there so of course we are not going to be comparing this to a flagship but
for a budget friendly device i think it performs really well so whenever you're closing apps when
you're opening apps when you're switching in between apps even multitasking works good but
we do have that six gigs of ram so multitasking was to be expected to work relatively good you
can even play certain games on it of course the phone will get a bit warm when you play games
for a longer period of time but i was even able to play games like call of duty and pub g for pubg it
works okay if you lower the graphics settings at the maximum graphics settings it doesn't do that
amazing but overall for a budget friendly phone i have to say that it does perform quite good
and we're moving on to our camera comparison between the poco m4 pro and of course the
iphone 13 and we are starting with some portrait mode pictures so looking at those portrait mode
pictures the edge detection is really good on both devices so i can really say that the iphone
did better or the poco m4 pro did better for the edge detection four colors well i kind of like the
colors that we get from the iphone they do look a bit more vibrant even though i kind of feel
that the poco m4 pro did retain the original colors a bit better mostly for our faces but
overall i still prefer the portrait mode pictures that i took with the iphone 13. now keep in mind
that the price of an iphone 13 is much much higher than the price that we get on this poco
m4 pro so you can buy about five of these for the price of an iphone 13. next we are moving on to
some five times zoom pictures keep in mind that neither device has a telephoto lens so they're
just doing digital zoom for those um five times zoom pictures here i have to say that the poco m4
pro does better in every single picture than the iphone 13. so every single picture that i took
poco is sharper than the picture that i took with the iphone 13. so for zoom pictures i'm gonna say
that the poco m4 pro does better moving on to some ultra wide pictures well the first thing you're
gonna notice here is the fact that the pictures taken by the iphone 13 are a bit wider so you
can see a bit more in those pictures some taken by the iphone 13. i've also noticed that the dynamic
range in most of those pictures taken by the iphone 13 is better than the dynamic range that we
get in the pictures taken by the pokom m4 pro as for colors i feel that the iphone has the warmer
tones where the poco is using somewhat cooler tones so i think it comes down to your personal
preference if you prefer cooler tones or warmer tones but once again for a device disaffordable
i don't think that the poco m4 pro does um bad at all all right then next we're gonna move on
and check out some pictures that i took with the main cameras and of course all the pictures taking
the main cameras are taken on auto mode and about a second apart from each other i'm gonna say so
overall after looking at all those some daytime pictures taking the main camera i can't really
say the poco m4 pro doesn't bad i mean in some pictures the iphone does better in a couple of
pictures the m4 pro does better but overall it will come down to your personal preference
and your style of pictures but once again for the price of the device you can't really go wrong
with these four daytime pictures next we're gonna move on and check out some pictures that i took
at night so for the night mode the night mode is only available if you're using the main camera on
the poco m4 pro so of course with the iphone 3 you get a night mode even with the ultrawide camera so
i'm only going to show you pictures that i took at night to the night mode and the main camera
here of course the iphone 13 does seem to do better in most pictures mostly because those
pictures taken by the iphone are a bit sharper than the ones that we take with the poco m4 pro
now funny enough if you look at the lights around those pictures so lights in buildings
lights on the street the poco m4 pro handles all those lights way better than the iphone 13 i was
quite surprised to see that in fact so once again for a budget friendly device um that has a night
mode i feel that the poco m4 pro does pretty well for its price and of course nighttime pictures
next we're gonna move on and check out some sample recordings some daytime and nighttime
sample recordings that i filmed do the poco m4 pro and of course um the iphone 13. so the maximum
recording resolution for the poco m4 pro the main camera is 1080p at 60 frames per second however if
you do want any stabilization i'm going to have to lower that resolution to 1080p at 30 frames
per second so all the recordings that i've done i've switched the resolution on from the iphone
to 1080p at 30 frames per second as well so i'll let you guys watch those sample recordings and i
will be right back all right we have a quick video test between the poco m4 pro and of course the
iphone 13. so the maximum recording resolution for the poco m4 pro is 1080p at 60 frames per second
however if you do want ime stabilization you're gonna have to lower the resolution to 1080p at 30
frames per second of course with the iphone 13 you could record at much higher resolutions so we're
currently doing 1080p at 30 frames per second we're gonna stop here i'm gonna pan left slowly
and back right we're gonna walk this way so towards the beach basically
this so you can see how that imi stabilization does um when walking a bit quicker
so yeah 1080p at 30 frames per second between the poco m4 pro and the iphone 13.
okay and we're moving on to another quick recording done with the ultra wide cameras
on the back of the iphone 13 and of course the poco m4 pro so the maximum recording resolution
for the ultra wide camera is 1080p at 30 frames per second for the poco m4 pro but at least
at this resolution of course the iphone 13 you could record
at much higher resolutions so we're gonna walk this way so the same way uh we are coming from
and i'm gonna turn right somewhere around here and we'll walk straight i'm gonna try to walk
as quick as i can so you can see how that imi stabilization does if you are recording would
ultra wide um cameras so yeah ultraviolet camera on the poco m4 pro and of course the iphone 13.
okay so for our next recording i'm using the front-facing cameras on the poco m4 pro and of
course on the iphone 13. the maximum recording resolution with a front-facing camera on the
poco m4 pro is 1080p at 30 frames per second but at least we do get image stabilization at
that resolution of course to the iphone 13 we can record at higher resolutions
so i'm going to start walking a bit faster just so you can see how data stabilization looks like
it's also between this you're probably gonna hear some wind aside from my voice
so yeah this whole recording down the front facing cameras on these two devices would look like
all right we have a quick video recording in low light between the poco m4 pro
and of course the iphone 13. for this recording i'm doing 1080p at 30 frames per second with both
devices and of course at this resolution both devices um support image stabilization so we're
gonna walk this way we have some straight lights around here so we should see better
stop here for a bit i guess we're gonna land left so it gets a bit darker around here
overall taking consideration how affordable this poco device is and what i'm seeing on
the screens here the video quality isn't bad but again i'm gonna have to see how
this footage actually looks um on the computer so yeah this is how recording
done um at night with the poco m4 pro and of course the iphone 13 would look like if
you're using the main camera of course i recording in 1080p at 30 frames per second
and of course as you've expected the iphone 13 did better the videos from the iphone are sharper but
that is kind of known that iphones do get the best video quality but what i was trying to show you is
that even a budget friendly device like the poco m4 pro can do decent enough for video recordings
but of course if would be to compare this to the iphone the iphone will always do better
moving on to some selfies well for daytime selfies the poco m4 pro doesn't do too bad but i still
feel that the iphone does have the edge for um though some daytime selfies as for nighttime
selfies of course the iphone will do better mostly because it has a night mode for those um selfies
so there you have it this is the poco m4 pro the latest budget friendly device from xiaomi
definitely leave a comment down below and let me know your thoughts about the cameras on
the back of this device are they good enough for a budget phone should they be better are
you happy with the quality so definitely leave a comment down below and let us know
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