Poco x2 and I have been actually using this smartphone for the last seven days with my primary Sun that is 8l and gay I'll share my experience what I like about this and what is the things that I do not like and as you can see we are outdoors I was also bored shooting indoors so I've taken a lot of samples also I'll talk about that and I'll talk what I feel about this poco x2 because it was launched at about 16,000 and I would say camera is a big plus point on this one but before we jump into the review let's talk about the specs this polka x2 is having a 6.6 7 inch IPS LCD screen it's 120 Hertz screen it's part by the Snapdragon 730 GSoC it comes in six or eight gigabytes of RAM it actually has a quad camera setup with the 64 megapixel main sensor a twitty megapixel front-facing camera and as you can see other specs are on the screen for your reference so guys let's talk about the pros first then we will talk about the cons and the first thing.
That I liked about this one is that if you recall the poco f1 there I never liked the build quality but here as you can see the build quality is really good on this one the back is also glass it's actually Gorilla Glass and it feels very nice in the hand it feels substantial it doesn't feel like cheap or something so definitely in terms of build quality they have done actually a very good job no issues it's slightly on the heavier side and I'll talk about that later but build quality definitely feels actually premium now if we talk about the fingerprint scanner it's here within the power on/off button and I would say it works very well but again it will take you a day or two to care to use to it but as you can see it works very well without any issues now let's also talk about the big elephant in the room that is the type of screen that is used on this one that's a six point six seven inch IPS LCD screen and it's 120 Hertz clean that what they have used I'll talk about the screen later on I shot some footage I'll show you that but thing is that everybody is now hyping that 120 Hertz so what is this within the UI a normal love what you say LCD screen or an AMOLED screen junkies sixty years it can refresh about sixty times this has an option of refreshing up to 120 I think so I just set it to 16 but as you can see you can set it to 120 I just played around with self so what happens is within the UI you're the UI elements are refreshing at about 120 frames per second but again do note that every app also needs to support this for example it was fine in the web browser and stuff it is fine as you can see the schooling is very smooth the camera might not be able to capture it but I mean I notice that on Twitter it was a little bit choppy so again the apps also need to support it and I would say this 90 or 120 Hertz make a big difference especially for gamers if your games also support the actor refresh so I am some neutral about it in day to day usage.
I would say I don't notice that much of what do you say difference in this one but yeah you have that option of setting it to 60 or 120 Hertz but it's a IPS LCD screen and the screen quality is good here is a footage to give you an idea and there's a lot of talk about the display on this one this has neat a one-point be hurt but again guys it's only in the UI and stuff where you'll see and some of the optimized app for example in Twitter also I don't see it I see that jerk but in what you say browsers it is very smooth because it does support that so in you I guess it can go up to hundred twenty Hertz and stuff but the thing is that this is an IPS grade screen the quality of the screen is good as you can see I'm outdoors I just want to test how is the screen in direct sunlight so I'm just going to move here here is the direct sunlight and as you can see we are able to see it a camera is having difficulty capturing it but I am able to see the screen easily even in direct sunlight now I have this real me X and this has an ambulatory in both are on auto and yes as you can see both are sort of visible but slight brightness as I would give to the poco but if you just move to slightly normal shadowed areas both are sort of visible so yes it doesn't have an AMOLED screen but the quality of panel that they have put let's got the color reproduction is kurd and yes we do have that to 120 Hertz screen stuff I would say it's just for hardcore gamers but the reality is that even the most popular games are still at 60 Hertz so again I'm sort of neutral about that 60 or 120 Hertz but the IPS panel what they have given on this one there's a good one now let's talk about the performance under the hood this is having the Snapdragon 730 G chipset and some of you were annoyed that poco didn't go with the flagship like the poke we have fun guys no note that this is the XO not the f-series and the 730 handles everything fine it's still a very good processor it has everything you throw on it as I've told you the UI I did not notice any lag enos or anything when I was using this device and it has everything and the good thing is that even the base variant actually comes with 6 GB of RAM and also in terms of RAM management it is doing actually a good job so you don't have to worry but again has its me UI guys you know me you is sort of aggressive in terms of RAM management so what I've noticed is that if you don't use a particular app for a couple of hours it will try to like kill it so that is something you have to note and you can go in the settings and enable it not to do it for example I enabled it for trueCaller but general I would say the operations the RAM management was fine I did not have a problem and because of the 730 G it handles everything you throw on it fine I'll talk about gaming also I played Call of Duty quite a bit and even pop G so in that area is also discard and generally why you don't have a issue it's typical me either that you're getting and I like the fact that this one has the IR blaster so you can control televisions and a C's with this one now if we talk about the battery on this one it has a 4500 milliamp hour battery and it also comes with the 27 water fast charger supplied and charge is fairly quickly with that I did not thank him it guys to be exact so I give you the figures but it charges pretty quickly and I also tried charging it with a regular 18 watt qualcomm charger and it did charge it quickly.
I would say but not as quickly as 27 water but again it does support that Qualcomm eating what quick charging also I tested that so that way it's nice but if you talk about the battery life I'm going to show you some stats here as you can see the battery life is actually really really good this one easily I can give you about two two and a half days worth of battery life and the standby time was really good the idle drain that I was having was very very low on this one so in terms of battery life I would say even if you're sort of a medium to heavy use it should give you about one to one and a half days easily and if you're sort of a casual user using it with a single sim I would say I can go above two and a half days as you go and see one day I got about three days of charge it was Sunday was there's not a heavy date middle but as you can see the battery life that you can get is very good now talking about the cellular network reception and the earpiece that was also very good of this one I did not have a problem in terms of Year peace because if you recall some of the earlier redmi phones I had issues with an earpiece but here the earpiece is very clear and even the microphone was good other parties never complain me that the call quality was bad or something and right now I'm on a ten and if you notice this close link underneath this Wi-Fi you have a call light and that means voice over Wi-Fi is enabled so via Wi-Fi that is a new thing is enabled on this handset and that's why even a setting in this row where the signal is very low I can take calls and I thought that works brilliantly so in terms of network reception I did not have a problem with this device I also did some gaming and here is the footage now if we talk about gaming as you can see I'm playing Call of Duty with this one and I played this game quite a bit plug in this game is also not that 90 or 120 FPS regular what do you say 60 FPS but as you can see it handles it then I you played pop G and was fine but the thing is I got killed the thing is that if you notice the speaker is over here so while I was playing this game you try to hold it tightly like this and as you can see now you can't hardly hear me you completely block it so I have to be cautious that have to keep my hand a little bit of a and so that is the con that I have the placement of the speaker while you're gaming if you're not careful you can completely block it as you can see you can attend to block it so that's the only thing but in general gaming the Snapdragon 730 SOC is fine so you don't have to worry about it it's just that the speaker as you can see you hold it like this completely actually block it but gaming performance was good and it also claims to have liquid cooling over here at the back and after about two games it does tend to get a little bit warm but that's how it's designed it it's designed to dissipate the heat so in gaming I would say good experience you will have but speaker placement that is something you have to note now let's also talk about the camera which I feel is the trump card for this device and if you notice at the back we are actually having a port camera setup and the main camera is actually a sixty-four megapixel sensor from Sony this is the new imx6 86 and I was very doubtful because this is the first time they say the sensor is being used in India but the image processing what Xiaomi has done on this one is very good and I'll show you a lot of sample shots the results that I got were very good then you have 8 megapixel wide-angle lens,
I wish it was 12 but yeah that's what we are getting and next we have a 2 megapixel 4 depth and 2 megapixel for macro I'll show you also show you some macro shots but here are some of the samples that I've taken with this smartphone so these were some of the outdoor samples that I took this is regular this is the 2x zoom and this was at wide angle these are taking completely artificial low lighting conditions and this was at the night mode and I feel a lot efficient low lighting conditions as you can see with these samples it does actually very good this is regular short and here I used the 2x zoom and here I used to fight angle again to give you an area regular short this was that wide-angle lens and onion this is a regular shot here I use the 2x zoom and finally here I use the wide angle lens this is regular and this is that macro option that I used one more example this is regular and here see there needed with the macro I mean regular shot and this was with the macro again regular and again this is that close-up macro knowing the human subjects also as you can see it did a very good job the skin tones are produced then but when you use the portrait mode as you can see this was blown out so you have to be careful in regular shots it's okay but with the portrait mode as you can see you have to be careful if there's a bright light behind this was with the wide angle lens and these were taken with the front-facing camera and as you can see the front-facing camera performance was also very good I would say even when you use the portrait boquete mode it is actually doing a pretty good job shooting this video at the poco x2 in the regular mode and as you can see I'm just walking and even though I'm walking handheld it looks like stabilization is on by default and we will just switch to the wide-angle mode and see now shooting the video and as you can see now this isn't the right angle more so you can shoot videos and wide-angle mode with this one okay those are the good things about this device now let's talk about the cons and the first thing that I do not like is this pill-shaped not why do they have this I think so this was simply unnecessary they could have gone with a single camera that 20 megapixels would have made sense because but software you can get that depth effect and even the xiaomi is own read me line-up of phones just having a single front-facing camera do that so I feel this was unnecessary move it could have been avoided next if we talk is I don't like the fact that you don't have a dedicated microSD card slot on this one so if you go with the based storage variant that comes with just 64gb of storage it is a limiting thing because I know many people here in India actually use both the SEM so that's a miss missing feature I would say hence I would not suggest the base varium that's for 16.
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