You can improve the Poco X4 Pro’s results by switching from Auto HDR to HDR. The full foreground becomes much brighter, and the pictures look both cleaner and more detailed up-close. However, it also results in creating a slight “halo” effect around high-contrast objects such as tree branches poking out into the sky. GFXBench: on screen Car Chase Onscreen | 1920x1080 Car Chase Offscreen | on screen Aztec Ruins High Tier Onscreen | 2560x1440 Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen | on screen Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Onscreen | 1920x1080 Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Offscreen 3DMark / Wild Life Extreme Unlimited This camera’s image quality is variable. Image processing, including noise reduction, is significantly worse than some of Xiaomi’s previous efforts at this price — including, not surprisingly, the Xiaomi 11T Pro. This is evident up-close, where fine detail looks fuzzier than that on images taken with last year’s Redmi Note 10 Pro. Just look at the Poco X4 Pro’s 3DMark Wild Life test scores. It achieves 1207 points, which doesn’t come close to the last-generation Poco X3 Pro’s 3450 points.

With its Snapdragon 695 5G, the Poco X4 Pro isn't the mightiest phone at its price, though with an ample 6-8GB RAM and 128-256GB storage, and a memory card slot, you still have some flagship-grade numbers in the mix. Overall, the Poco X4 Pro 5G is a little more toned down over previous devices, although still more of a bicep-flexor than the Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G.

Finally, the SIM tray has two slots. The second can be used for either a second SIM or a microSD card. Our review phone has 128GB of storage, but there’s also a 256GB version of the Poco X4 Pro. Display The X4 Pro 5G is a successor to the X3 Pro, but it's not a straightforward upgrade, but rather a shift of focus. The overall effect is to make your pictures look less natural – and in other scenes this HDR mode is too much, so leaving it on 24/7 isn’t the solution. This phone may get better all-round with successive software updates. But if the aforementioned issues are tied to the compromises inherent in its Snapdragon 695 processor, it may well not. There’s plenty to like here, but we can’t help but feel that Poco series fans will end up disappointed by the Poco X4 Pro 5G. Xiaomi Poco X4 Pro 5G price and availability As for the screen – it's stellar for the price, with a zingy AMOLED panel sporting a smooth 120Hz refresh rate at the heart of the experience.

Could this again be down to the Snapdragon 695, perhaps? We don’t know for certain, but it seems that either the SoC’s limited image signal processor is so weak that Xiaomi is unable to push it to do more without slowing down the photography experience. Or, Xiaomi’s own processing isn’t yet in harmony with the image signal processor’s capabilities. The OnePlus shows significantly better mid-tone contrast, and cleaner, brighter areas of shadow. The 11T Pro, which uses the same sensor, produces much brighter, punchier pictures all-round, and is only let down by a tendency to amp up color too much. Whether you fire up night mode or not, the Poco X4 Pro 5G outperforms cheaper competition like the Realme 9 and Realme 9 5G. Its noise handling is exceptional for the price, and while in automatic mode there's a natural darkness to photos, in night mode, you can grab some more exposed low-light photos that take advantage of computational photography.Users should not have high expectations of the Poco X4 Pro's selfie camera, but the photo quality is solid. In difficult lighting conditions, the 16-megapixel shots are often overexposed, especially in portrait mode, and the sky looks burned out. Moreover, the soft focus is quite pronounced.

Such an update won’t dramatically improve the Poco X4 Pro’s gaming performance, however. The Poco X4 Pro doesn’t come close to the likes of the Pocofone F1, the Poco X3 Pro and Poco F3for gaming. The X4 Pro is ordinary at best, as a result of its Qualcomm's Snapdragon 695 processor.As far as style's concerned, it's a choice between a circular camera module and a rectangular one. We like the Poco X4 Pro 5G's design but would've preferred a livelier color, like the Poco Yellow, or at least the Laser Blue.