POCO's latest releases here the m4 pro this is an affordable model from them with dual five
sim support and a lot of spec on offer for its price tag it's all powered by the demensity 810
now this model that poco sent out to me has six gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage
ufs 2.2 spec it is expandable with micro sd card support 3.5 millimeter headphone jacks
on board with this our main camera on the rear is 50 megapixels we have an 8 megapixel ultra wide
the screen well it is 90 hertz 6.6 inches full hd plus it's an ips screen
5 000 milliamp hour battery with 33 watt charging included in the box you'll find a sim tray tool
we get some poco stickers safety information quick start guide warranty card and a clear tpu case so
it's a 6.6 inch phone not that big in hand and it does weigh well 195 grams that's because it
does have a 5 000 milliamp hour battery now with the camera arrangement here it is interesting
because we've just got two cameras we have the main camera 50 megapixels this one and then we
have an 8 megapixel camera now the 8 megapixel camera has a field of view of 119 the ultra wide
i really wish it was 13 but they make it look like we do have two additional cameras here now there
is a flash in there but why do we have to have a little red dot and this saying ai making it look
like it's got four cameras i don't agree with this design choice i think it would have been
better if we just had a smaller camera module and then we've got the large poco branding here
that really does stand out now this plastic on the back so yes it's a plastic frame plastic back here
gorilla glass 3 on the front this is the cool blue color and it reflects quite nicely and it
has a texture to it a matte finish means it doesn't pick up fingerprints which is good
the thickness is 8.75 millimeters and we have an always on capacitive fingerprint reader this one
works really well it does have plastic over the top of it and the volume up and down button there
too is plastic so just demonstrate that when i touch it the phone then unlocks and that
well it's really quick it's only about a second there isn't it very fast and i do find it is very
accurate too so no problems with that on the other side here we've got our sim tray so this
does take two nano sims or a nano sim and micro sd card so yes you can expand upon the storage
down the bottom of the m4 pro 5g you'll find our type c port it does not support video out it's
usb 2 spec loudspeaker one of two there's also one on the top microphone and 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack so that still remains which is great i'm glad to see it there and it does offer
very good 3.5 millimeter analog out quality so there you can see up the top we do have an ir
transmitter secondary mic for noise cancellation in calls and that is the top port speaker and
then up here in the top the cutout we've got a 16 megapixel camera now it does support
face unlocking so if i tap and then look at it i get a little tick a little smiley face there we go
and i can unlock it so we have a 90 hertz screen in this one it is ips the touch response i find to
be good now the touch rate of it is 240 megahertz so it's a lot quicker than what the refresh rate
is here and all up it is normally quite good now what i have noticed with the screen is
the brightness their claim is 450 nits now i do find that it's a little bit less than that
actually i'm measuring about 412 and in direct sunlight you can struggle a little bit to see
the screen i can still make it out and just make um calls or answer text messages things like that
so here you can see that looking at the colors in every sync it's not a bad screen full hd
plus resolution but it's not amazing and it's not an oled or an amoled screen which would have been
better of course now for our refresh rate options we do have a few in there so just get out of this
and show you in the settings that you can adjust it and force it onto 90 hertz which i'm currently
running right now at the moment under display we've got all those typical options so here i
have it set to 90 hertz but if you want to save one battery run 60 of course and i'll get onto
battery life soon and all my other tests that i do on these mobiles with the reviews so color scheme
standard kind of options here with miui 12.5 that we can adjust things here so i've kept it on vivid
that's out of the box setting but i do actually prefer standard to me looks a little bit more
correct especially the white balance but it's all down to of course personal preference scaling can
be adjusted all those typical settings you get with android 11 which of course this is running
at the time of me publishing this video i am on the latest firmware there has been no
extra updates but do expect them to push any out for bug fixes and whatnot so miui 12.5.1
stable it is on first boot you will have approximately 106 gigabytes free remember it
does support micro sd cards so you can expand upon the storage this is good wide vine level one cert
i have tested and can confirm that netflix does run in full hd great however amazon prime video
standard definition until this is a white listed device which could take months weeks or never i
don't know when we will get that so does support camera to api level three so if you want a gcam
port for the 50 megapixel camera you can hunt and look and try and find one so with this demensity
810 chip we do get an accuracy with gps of one meter and the gps works well a good average
signal strength and it's not like the mediatek gps we used to have about two or three years ago
which was hopeless terrible not anymore so wi-fi speeds will top out around 200 megabits per second
close to my router there is no wi-fi 6 support so no wi-fi ax only wi-fi ac downstairs the speed is
okay and for an affordable category phone here this one with this chipset it's okay so ufs 2.2
and very good speeds out of it random reads and writes are excellent sequential reads and the
right z2 this is one of the definite positives of this phone is it has quick storage that you
wouldn't normally find in this category of phone now this does still happen we get adverts so
when you install the app you're going to see some advertising bloatware just to mention there are a
lot of pre-installed bloatware apps i counted about 13 or so over a gigabyte that i removed
which didn't take too long but still it's a slight annoyance why they have to cram so much bloatware
and adverts here is antutu so it gets a fairly decent score here uh 352 000 points is not bad
i don't know why it says it's not verified here it had some issue with connecting to
their servers and it kept happening this is about the third test result and it still kept saying it
couldn't verify but anyway that's the score and i don't think it's too bad battery life
so this was forcing it to 90 hertz it runs from 100 to fixed battery life test down to 20 gives
us the result so 13 hours 11 minutes is good real world use you're looking at 9 to 10 hours
uh that's not bad at all so good for battery life charge time now it will take 51 minutes to go to
17 to 100 that is my time there and their claim is 59 minutes to fully charge which yeah i happen to
believe sometimes it might be just over an hour still not bad 33 watt charging to get
from zero to 100 percent in an hour for a 500 milliamp hour battery it's okay it's still good
so my time using the phone i've encountered no bugs so if you swipe from the left top left you
get all your notifications there and of course all of our toggles you can see at 90 hertz it does
seem quite quick the only complaint i have is that that sometimes with the full screen gestures i've
just noticed that it can sometimes show a tiny little bit of lag in this animation it doesn't
always happen most of the time it'll be nice and fluid and you probably think what on earth is
chris talking about i'm not seeing it at all it's just now and then i've noticed it will do that
little stutter so all up the performance is good rom stability seems to be fine all notifications
everything's coming through signal reception call quality good all fine there and you can get onto
5g it does support in fact dual 5g with this audio so we've got 3.5 millimeter headphone support
great and it also does sound great it's loud it's clean and clear that's good we do have fm radio 2
on board so if you're someone that still listens to fm radio you've got it with this phone so it
does have quite a bit on offer the i transmitter micro sd card support dual 5g support and 3.5 all
at this price point is great and dual loudspeakers so most of the sound most of the volume at least
is coming out of the bottom one i'd say it's like 60 40 maybe even 65 35 the balance and at least we
do get the secondary loudspeaker and the sound coming out of it so track i'm going to play you
now is my standard track and it's at 100 volume you can hear that the volume is good it sounds a
little flat so it's not an amazing loudspeaker but it ticks the box there with the volume
and gaming with everyone's favorite pub g what settings can we use with this so
if you want to try out hdr ultra hd those options are not available to us and we get balanced which
gives us the ultra frame rate 45 frames per second and smooth which is again 45 frames per second so
no 60 or 90 support which would be really good but i'm not too sure the chipset would actually
be able to handle a continual 90. so i'll try it out at 45 with those settings and we'll see how
pubg runs performance is excellent i have two kills already and yes we are kept at that 40
frames per second and definitely this chipset should be able to do at least 60. so i hope the
developers of this game will be able to add that option so looking around here there is really no
lag and even when you look down the scope sites no problem so be able to get all those kills and
all the games out there in play store will be playable of course on this phone and the spec
and does it get really hot no it doesn't it gets a little warm after long extended plays
but nothing alarming nothing is sufficient enough for me to break out my thermal imaging camera
moving over to our cameras now so the front facing camera this one's 16 megapixels it has electronic
image stabilization so you can see as i walk around that it is being smoothed out a little
bit here now the quality of the front-facing video here for 1080p it seems to be okay but it's
certainly not the best i have seen now when i step in and out of the shadow here adjust to that quite
well with the audio auto exposure right now bright background it's still picking up my face okay here
so let's move over to the rear camera so this rear footage from the 50 megapixel camera i
am really disappointed in this quality it looks super washed out lacking details it really looks
like 720p video that has been upscaled to 1080p yes it has electronic image stabilization but
only at 1080p 30 frames per second you can shoot 60 frames per second 1080p but then it does not
have any electronic image stabilization and shakes all over the place and even looks worse
the quality so a lot of room for improvement when it comes to video quality on the m4 pro
and with the 8 megapixel ultra wide camera we're able to shoot video that does have
again electronic image stabilization it's using 30 frames per second as a walker here the stability
is good but the quality of it is looking a little bit washed out certainly lacking details around
the edges there so not as good as the main camera now stills performance it can take an okay still
the main 50 megapixel camera plenty of detail cap shed sometimes looks a bit washed out selfie
stitching definitely needs a bit of work and here's another main camera shot so quite a bit
of detail as you can see if you've got the good light from the 50 megapixel camera this one is
also okay but nothing amazing ultra wide however disappointing it's 8 megapixels looks a bit washed
out and here with the main camera again if you zoom in take a look at the details and the cast on
the background washed out low light not that great either it just boosts the brightness a little bit
with the night mode here is another sample so average cameras kind of expected for this price
group so all that is on offer here what i do like about this phone is the build quality even though
it's all plastic and we do have good glass 3 on the front it's not bad it's a solid phone we've
got 33 watt fast charging a 5 000 milliamp hour battery that does last for about 9 to 10 hours
and then you factor in we've got micro sd card support 3.5 millimeter headphone jack dual standby
5g support with this and even an ir transmitter and fm radio that's a lot there that's on offer
the rom performance is in general very good and smooth but what i don't like about this model is
the fact that we've got quite a bit of bloatware when you first turn it on that you need to remove
lots of games and other junk it does have advertisements just out of the box when you
install applications you'll sometimes see that come up with the installer or the cleaner app
some system apps that shouldn't be there and then now and then there's a few little lags i am seeing
present when you multitask with this and only when running full screen gestures though it seems to
happen with this so that's a possible firmware update to fix it so we've got the widevine level
1 cert netflix and full hd that is great to see there with it the main camera takes a good photo
ultra wide is quite weak 8 megapixels i would have preferred a 13 megapixel camera there
and what is with the design here making it look like it's got four cameras so great that they
did away with those two megapixel cameras like the depth one and the macro camera
but then they've made it look like it's got four when it doesn't that's a bit silly if you
ask me either but all rounded for the price this sells for i think it's fantastic value
and a good phone considering all that is on offer here from poco so thank you so much for watching
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