well it looks like poco aren't slowing down at all in fact it's speeding up we've got the poco
m5 series now we just had the m45g and i do have the m5 there's a separate video to review that
one but this is all about the m5s cm5s this one has the helio g95 in it we've got an super amoled
screen 60 hertz unfortunately so it's not 90 it's not 120 but it's a very good panel it's flat
six point four three inches and my model here that was sent out to me does have six gigabytes
of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage takes dual nano sims micro sd card support 33 watt charging
a 5 000 milliamp hour battery and a design that looks wow super familiar right it's very similar
a bit of deja vu well that's because it's pretty much a redmi note 10 just with a few little tweaks
and now branded as a poco so apart from that the camera modules on the rear well the main camera is
64 megapixels instead of say 48 that we have with the note 10 there are a few little changes and
tweaks and of course we've got poco launcher and there's software i'll be going over all of that in
this in-depth review of the new poco m5s included with the m5s you'll find a tpu case it's a clear
one we get a warranty card quick start guide and safety information then a type c to type a cable
and our 33 watt charger it's not a large charger good size to it now when you look at this design
the first thing that i thought was whoa hang on this is deja vu i've already reviewed this so this
is basically the redmi note 10 but this part is different and it now says poco so it's stating
poco and that's really about it but the camera instead of being 48 megapixels is now 64. we still
have the 8 megapixel ultra wide 2 megapixel for depth and another 2 megapixel for macro glass on
the back here then the front is also gorilla glass the in-screen fingerprint reader which by the way
uh just demonstrating now just touched it a little bit odd just then but it actually does work really
well this one's reasonably quick look at that okay for some reason it's gone really slow but it's
normally a lot faster than that so the same oled screen here i'm sorry super amoled screen this
is 6.43 inches gorilla glass 3 on it but of course we now have android 12 miui 13 with it and then we
still have the 13 megapixel camera in the front so weight wise about 180 grams and you're looking at
a thickness of around about eight point five eight and a half millimeters just measuring along here
which is not too bad the sim tray so it's one of those ones will take two nano sims and a micro sd
card which is good then we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack mic type c port loudspeaker and
up the top we do have a another loudspeaker secondary mic noise cancellation and used
in video and yes an ir transmitter so there's a lot of good things about it the frame around it
is plastic the buttons here they feel good and that capacitive always on fingerprint reader but
again it is essentially just like we took the redmi note 10 and then put the poco logo
on it and made just two changes really the camera and then the chipset the helio g95
instead of these snapdragon what do they have the 678 in the note 10. now let's take a look at our
screen so it is a flat super amoled panel and it's a very nice screen of course i've seen it before
it's really nice fully laminated with that gorilla glass 3 uniformed color too so you're going to get
no darker patches no darker patches around where the cutout is for that 13 megapixel front facing
camera that's the good thing about the oled screens blacks are very very deep you get no
light leakage coming in none of that is present now this screen they do claim that it's going to
be about i think 700 nits the brightness but i'm measuring around 620. it's very bright and it can
peak in the sunlight mode when it detects it the ambient light is very bright to over a thousand
nits and you can make it out in direct sunlight this is a fantastic screen it really is good so
under seating set you'll see that we've got a few options one of which i really do like to see and
that is of course anti-flicker mode aka dc dimming so dc dimming is there that's why we're seeing
absolutely no banding no flickering happening on camera it's a great screen however it's got one
thing just one thing and that is it is of course 60 hertz all right so it's not a 90 hertz screen
unfortunately now if this was exactly the same but at 90 hertz i would have been wow all over this
especially at the price point if you still like 60 hertz and you like these kind of screens by
all means go for it i mean you can get the poco m5 but that is a 90 hertz but ips screen it does not
look as good as this but it's a lot smoother the ui and you definitely do notice it now gestures
are working good touch response is good no complaints there overall it's a very nice screen
just 60 hertz this m5s is running android 12 with miui 13. now the performance is pretty good
normally it's only the helio g95 and i'll get on to synthetic benchmark scores and gaming later on
performance is good scrolling here looks fine but of course it's not as smooth as running the ui at
90 frames per second 90 hertz if we did have that of course would be really good so as i mentioned
those gestures are working good multitasking is great the fingerprint unlocking as i demonstrated
when we first looked at the design is occasionally just a little bit slow there you can see like one
two almost almost two seconds there now i have noticed a couple of times just a few
little stutters happening too with the ui that you occasionally see some animation lag and a
few times unlocking it you will see that little spinning icon there as it just starts to then
load in miui's launcher and it's only occasionally it seems to happen when you haven't used the phone
for a while for example overnight charging you go to unlock it and it's just that a little bit
of lag there but it's not too bad it's just that really with the launcher just minor things so we
have 33 watt charging with a 5 000 milliamp hour battery it's a very large battery now charge time
for me from 19 to 100 took 101 minutes now they do claim that it should be around about i think
it's 74 minutes so it's a little bit slower than that actually quite a bit slower there so it's not
incredibly quick but it's not too bad considering the battery capacity now it'd be great if it was
around an hour or under an hour 20 minutes shorter but hey it's only 20 minutes so battery life very
good on this that's because well it's running at 60 hertz not 120 hertz and it's got that large
battery capacity so you're looking at with a fixed battery test here so this is a looped test 200
brightness it goes for a really good time here but real world you see looking around nine hours
okay so about nine hours of on-screen time now if this was 120 hertz then it would not be of course
nine hours of real world use it would be more like seven there so it does make a bit of a difference
that 60 hertz definitely uses less battery so we can see here performance wise it is better than
the dimensi okay the dimension 700 that's in the poco m4 5g if i don't get confused here with so
many different poco models now it is a little bit better especially the gpu performance instead of
this being 70 000 points it's 91 and gaming wise you'll see later on too there's a noticeable bit
of difference so we've got ufs 2.2 storage and those speeds are i mean they're not bad they're
not going to be bottlenecking or holding up this phone's performance it would be more the chipset
that actually will be doing that limitation there not really this storage uh not with this kind of
power anyway that we do have so the audio bitrate for video is 192 kilobits per second this is good
to see i like to see at least this or 256 or 320 that they sometimes use in their flagship models
at least it's not 96 kilobits per second for audio which can be a little poor there so
there is a lot of bloatware i mentioned this in all of the videos of their products so me why
is extremely bloated to start with the two and a half gigabytes worth but you can go through in
the system apps uninstall and quickly remove all of this in about well about two or three
minutes you can get rid of everything so it's not too much of an issue but it's there and i
wish they would just tone down a little bit also this if you do install applications your own apk
files you will probably see this so they have an installer that puts ads in front of your face so
i don't like this i don't like this adverts we're paying for this phone why are you putting ads in
system apps this i think they need to do something about an address they did comment before that
they were going to tone down on it or completely remove it but hey it's still there and here are
some examples of just some of those bloatware apps that you will have when you first power it on so
tick tock fun tile some games spotify a few other bits and pieces which may not be bloat for some
people so i really like the fact that we got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on this and the audio
quality out of it does sound good using these hd pros so loudspeaker wise one down the bottom
here the other at the top they're off average quality and it's great that we do have dual
loudspeakers here is a sample at 100 volume just to give you an idea what it's going to be like
pretty good base to start with anyway and that's only about 30 volume and here's xbase
so again that mediatek helio g95 game well if you're gonna be playing pubg
this is the maximum we can set with our frame rate so we've got extreme and smooth so that's
good it's one of the higher frame rate settings there we'll take a look and see how it performs
so the performance is good i like the 60 frames per second it is very smooth for gaming here
and whoa whoa whoa oh i got really lucky there so you can get kills and i'm not experiencing
any lag now one thing i'm noticing too when gaming is that the helio g95 really is not heating up and
that's what you want you don't want it to get really hot and start to throttle that doesn't
seem to be the case here performance is good so if you do intend to play a lot of pubg with this
phone i think it's gonna be fine for that and it looks like i've got oh someone's shooting at me at
or again that must be another bot there so see if i can dispatch them where on earth are they
nope behind me here definitely a bot
okay so great for pub g and our camera so this is the front facing 13 megapixel selfie cam
not bad quality actually i think it's pretty good the colors this is indoors the 64 megapixel mode
shot of my cat vera a lot of detail captured and portrait mode here two of my daughter i
think the stitching is okay not the best there but still a pleasant photo and this surprised
me macro shot looks really good look at all that detail and the fine furs here as you can see there
ultra wide camera a little disappointing looks a little bit washed out it's only eight megapixels
the night mode now with the main camera it tends to do okay if it's not complete pitch black but
later on you can see there's a lot more noise to these photos here looks a little washed out and
look at the sky while it looks like a good photo when you zoom in you crop in 200 the sky has quite
a bit of noise but for the price point the set of cameras i think are actually reasonably good let's
have a look at video so this facing camera you can shoot only 1080p 30 frames per second there is no
1080p 60 option it does however have electronic image stabilization audio bitrate is 192 kilobits
per second so this video quality is a lot better than what we get with the poco m5 the m55g
only has well 1080p 30 with the rear cameras max but it doesn't have any electronic image
stabilization so it's a big shaky mess so if you need the superior cameras definitely go for the
poco m5s model instead of the m5 this is our 64 megapixel rear sensor so it can shoot 4k 30
frames per second however at 4k we don't have electronic image stabilization so if you need
the electronic image stabilization you need to go then to 1080p 30 which will give us the electronic
image stabilization this footage does look sharp it's just without the stabilization it's not
really that usable unless you have a very steady hand or you plan to use a gimbal now the focus
that hasn't really had any issues in the time i have been testing out these cameras this is
our ultra wide camera so it only allows for 1080p video 30 frames per second no 30 frames 60 option
and as i do pan around here you can see the quality definitely looks far inferior to what
we do have with that main camera is a lot better so it's only an 8 megapixel sensor
and well it has its limitations here with video quality especially around the edges
and a sample of 4k at night in low light
definitely not as good as daylight as you'd expect for these small sensors even if it's 64 megapixels
it still is a tiny sensor so you cannot overlook the fact that the price is selling this for and
the early bird pricing there is so much on offer with the phone that we've got gorilla glass 3 a
flat screen amoled panel that's very bright but yes of course it's only 60 hertz now if you want a
90 hertz panel you can go for the poco 5g faster smoother 90 hertz however the screen is an ips
and in comparison to this one so using and looking them both side by side it definitely looks a
little bit more washed out that at certain angles you're not getting that same viewing experience
definitely not compared to the amoled here with its uniform colors bright colors vibrant colors
it's it's a good screen and it's got dc dimming too so you're not going to see any flickers
or anything you don't see flicker of course with an ips pan or two as well the build quality is
superior it feels a little bit better rounded in hand it's got the 64 megapixel camera that one
has the 50. there's a few differences there with them and overall performance of this phone isn't
bad at all i did point out that the fingerprint reader capacitor is on i'll just touch it now
yes yeah it's a little slow there hopefully they can speed that up with some firmware updates and
the occasional little animation lags that i'm seeing especially when you haven't used the
phone for a while you go to unlock it you sometimes see that little spinning
loading the launcher icon there which is not too great there so bloatware there's plenty of
bloatware on this when you first power it on i wish they'd tone down on that and especially the
advertising and system apps is another area so it is a decent package we've got the 3.5
millimeter headphone jack micro sd card support great battery life 5000 milliamp hour battery so
if you're just whether it's say social media or whatsapp things like that like kind of use
we'll go for about about eight nine hours of on-screen time gaming around about five there
too and gaming performance the helio g95 well it's no top dog chipsets no you know flagship level but
it's still good it can play all of those games out there with a good performance like look at pubg
for example that was running really well on this phone so for the price for its value proposition
and where it is placed yes there's a lot on offer there but we're getting so many models
here poco slow down i mean us reviewers we can't almost keep up i only just reviewed the poco m4
5g so check out my review of that and now we've got the m5 so we're going from m4 5g to m5s m5
that we have here too so there's a separate video on this particular model here which does have
of course its differences it's got the helio g99 that 90 hertz ips screen is mentioned there before
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