Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This looks great on paper… – Poco X5 Pro”.
We are back with another Poco phone, I know you love mid-rangers and I love talking about them and this one looks mid-rangey as heck. It’S the Poco X5 Pro 5G, which is what we’ve been waiting for on Poco phones and they finally listened. We have this nice, the standard kind of black and yellow text that Poco loves and honestly I love and who is it? Wiz Khalifa loves you like jazz, nothing too crazy about the Box. Just says Poco X5 Pro all over the place and what we have for specs on the back. But I like to be surprised.
Well, I guess not too surprised because I looked spoiler alert. We have the the Poco. Oh someone’s definitely been here because it’s got fingerprints. All over it, two million Subs, no respect, we’ve got the Sim popper we’ve got. Our handy dandy case feels, like the included case with a Poco phone, and what else we got in here. Oh okay, we’ll come back we’ll come back to this guy. In here we got our 67 watt Euro charger and the orange USB a to c for that fast charging. And then we have our meter long, a to c cable again with those nice colored orange tips, and that’s it we’re already onto the phone no frills here in the box.
But, oh I got ta say I really like this yellow I’m actually not a huge fan of the color yellow, but this is like a frosted glass yellow. So it might look like it’s kind of the reflection, that’s making it that pale, but no it’s just like a a nice frosted yellow. It’S got some goo on it, but that’s fine. What’S a little goo, we got our branding here for 5G and all of the safety things and, of course, that big old Poco logo – and this looks like it’s part of the camera bump.
But it’s not it’s just flat flush, colored plastic. It is a plastic frame and a plastic back with a glass front which is fine. I think it actually feels pretty nice in the hand – and we have our cameras on the back here, but before we get too far into that, let’s take a look at what we have on this phone. So we have our volume rockers here: oh good sounding buttons and the yellow power button, slash fingerprint scanner.
I can’t get over those buttons, and that sounds great on the top. We got our well. We got my favorite, the IR Blaster, the Michael one of our dual speakers and the headphone jack, because again this phone’s under a thousand dollars, so it has all the features you want on the left side. Here we got absolutely nothing just that nice, Rail and on the bottom we have our SIM tray, Michael USBC and speaker, and I’m just going to open it up here.
As I know, it’s a dual SIM phone, but I want to see if it has uh expansion. Does this get rid of the SD card slot, or does it keep it drum roll ooh just dual Nano, so they got rid of the headphone expansion even compared to the m5s, which we’ve covered previously a little disappointing. I mean again one of those weird things where these mid-range phones seem to have features like that, but I guess lacking an SD card.
Slot is a feature that’s now falling down from the flagships into the mid-range, but I hope this isn’t something that kind of sticks around on the front. Here we have our 6.67 inch full HD, Plus AMOLED display and it’s 120 hertz. It is really nice to have that high speed from when you’re scrolling through feeds or even just your settings on your phone, and it doesn’t look so choppy so really glad to see it here and it’s Gorilla Glass, 5 on the front.
So again, not the newest hottest, Gorilla Glass, but pretty good. I don’t know what it is about. This aspect ratio, if it’s just the rails and how flat it is, but it doesn’t feel like it fits great in my hands and yet this one kind of noticeably stands out as like, not feeling great and, as you can see, I can’t reach all the edges. Super comfortably, which isn’t ideal, but if you have bigger hands, maybe you won’t notice or if you consistently two-hand your phone whatever.
It is obviously good for media to have a larger size phone as for thickness only 7.9 millimeters thick, which we’ve deemed I don’t know what millimeters are, but it’s thin and again, the camera bump is not too big, especially when we have a whopping, 108 megapixel main Cam, that’s nuts, it’s too much. We also have the 8 megapixel Ultra wide and 2 megapixel macro, which you’re going to use all the time I can tell this is the year you do macro photography at two megapixels plenty, but otherwise that’s about it. It’S a very minimal phone, just like a slat with bright, yellow coloring. So I guess all that’s left is to turn it on.
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These ones are great and I’m not biased, because I shot and edited them, but hey they’re great times. We can see some of the behind the scenes of what we’ve done when we go to all these different places or how it actually works to make a video. I think the nanosis Vlog is really good for that, where you can see James. Actually, writing talking the different analysis, employees and then shooting the video. It’S really cool to see how we do it, and hopefully get – is a little bit of insight into what it’s like to work for what a multinational corporation. So if you want to see more from us and how we work make sure to subscribe to floatplane for just five or ten bucks a month at lmg.gg, SC floatplane all right well, the phone was dead, so it’s plugged into the charger. Now we can test out that fast charging, because I actually don’t have an advertised charge time with their their fast charger. We’Re not using it. So we’ll never know, but it is a 5 000 milliamp hour battery, which is a pretty good size, especially for again a mid-ranger phone. They do advertise some interesting battery lengths so first for call time they advertise 28 hours so plenty for you and your significant other to chat on the phone literally all day.
They also advertise 20 hours of video playback. So you can binge watch Malcolm in the Middle again all day and then finally, they offer 21 hours of reading time, which is not a spec I’ve really ever heard of, but go nuts with your ebook as for brightness, it does get pretty dim. So if you like to use your phone at night or while you’re in bed, you won’t have your eyes absolutely searing, but the max brightness isn’t fantastic. So it’s only 500 nit to the max of 900 Peak brightness, which isn’t going to be great for outdoor use.
Like, obviously, it will be usable but again be aware if you’re coming from a higher end Flagship, those are hitting up to like 2 000 nits. So it’s gon na be quite a big difference, but you will be able to survive with something like this now. This does have the fingerprint scanner built into the power button, so let’s give that a try make sure it’s not completely awful all right. This seems a bit excessive. This is this is taking on a minute all right, this better work.
Well – and it’s asking if you want to add face it – does have the AI Face Unlock as well, but again, I’m not a huge fan of that. Yeah not bad goes right in. That means a fingerprint scanner it works. I don’t think I mentioned this is MIUI 14 built on Android 12. and there is a ton of bloatware AliExpress Bubble.
Shooter, crazy, juicer dust settle, there’s a ton of stuff that just comes default on these. That again, I am not a fan of you have to go through and delete them manually, always a bummer. Some of the ways that these phones stay cheap is actually by selling the space on these phones that they come pre-loaded with these certain apps. So that’s why? I’M keeping the price down.
I guess that’s fine, all right. Let’S take a look at the screen and speakers by doing some crab raving. Oh, it sounds okay, definitely not the best sounding fun. I’Ve ever heard, but I think it’s not anything awful. It’S more apparent that the sound is louder on the left side instead of that dual speaker on this right side, but when you hold it up to your ear, there is some separation, but it doesn’t feel wide if you’re, really hoping for Dolby Atmos an affordable phone. I don’t think you’re gon na really have that expectation here.
As for the screen, it looks good nothing to really complain about here. Everything’S crisp, it is a you know, full HD, Plus screen. It’S not gon na, be extremely sharp, but it does look pretty good.
What is noticeable, though, is that camera bump wobble it’s on quite a bit of an angle and Wobbles around quite a bit, not great, but also not really avoidable, with any phone, unless you have the pixel 7, which is not gon na rock. But it’s going to be on a definite angle: there, all right, let’s take a look at these cameras and see if that 108 megapixel camera kicks everything else to the curb we got our friendly faces over here James doing work. We have our Ultra wide now it does show a zoom button, but do know it is just cropping in on that 108 megapixel camera.
So it’s nothing too too wild there and we got to try out our macro mode. All right. We have our model here. Let’S see how that macro camera does I’m assuming it’s just going to automatically switch to it here.
Maybe wow there’s a lot of bokeh there all right. You know what, for a a two megapixel photo, it doesn’t look bad, it’s definitely noisy, but the bokeh looks really good in the depth of field. It’S pretty solid, definitely not bad. I don’t know how often you’ll use a macro camera, especially enough to have its own dedicated lens.
A lot of them will use the ultra wide lens just as a macro, but obviously it’s kind of nice to have for the other shots here. The 2x Zoom does look good. You do lose a little bit of clarity, because again it’s just punching into that regular 108 megapixel sensor, but I don’t think it looks bad at all all right.
This is the ultrawide and it’s got an interesting look. It’S almost like film, which I don’t think it should be for eight megapixels, but the colors are just really kind of deep there’s a lot. You lose a lot of detail between James’s blue shirt and his green pants that look Brown, it’s very odd and when you zoom in his hands have lost all sort of quality and it just looks bit crushed, which is very odd onto the main camera. It’S still not fantastic, as you can see. If we zoom in on his hands here, James’s hands again are pretty crushed like they.
They, it doesn’t. Look like there’s enough pixels, even though that 108 megapixel sensor is binning down to a 12 megapixel photo. So it’s taking nine pixels, making one big pixel to hopefully give you better night shots, but we can take a photo in the Pro mode that will be just the straight 108 megapixel mode. So let’s try that wow One Fine Young gentleman! Let’S take a look at that photo so with this 108 one it seems to be affected by our studio lighting a bit more, but it does look a bit sharper again, not a great photo. I don’t know if it’s like an AI trying to smooth or beautify or sharpen, but it doesn’t seem to be doing quite great. James does a look a little bit like a painting, So something to be aware of, even though on paper does have some impressive specs. It might not actually translate to what you’re going to be taking in your day-to-day life. Selfie time I love taking selfies, I’m a millennial guy, it’s the Millennials known for selfies, I don’t know, but I’m taking one looks like we got our our little stars highlighted here.
So there’s definitely some filters on original. There’S me in all my glory. Selfies look good. I look sharp, I’m glad, there’s just an original mode again. We have seen it before where you just have to turn everything down by itself, which I was not a fan of. So Poco has changed their ways. Amazing, video again here, I’m connected to a cable. I’M gon na have to unplug now again adjustments bright, studio, lights, they’re, leaving it blown out to keep me fairly exposed, which is, I think, the the better way to do things. My skin color looks accurate even with James’s, very red jacket. We can see all the colors uh do look pretty lifelike, which is great to see two red two red there’s. No such thing the video looks good. I don’t think it sounds good, though.
So if you do want to use this as a sort of vloggy phone, I actually do think it could be viable like it does. Look quite sharp, steady everything like that. It does film at 1080p 60 on the front camera so pretty solid, but that mic is pretty darn tinny, but maybe the main camera is better.
Here we are taking a video there. He is there’s James, I’m Jocelyn. This doesn’t have any sort of optical image stabilization, but maybe it still looks good we’re zooming. What was he swallowing that wow it goes 6X? Does it go all the way out to 1x cool okay? So this is really weird. I was going to talk about the video quality, but there’s a related videos bar at the bottom, and these are not videos on the phone and guessing it’s like Billy Billy or some other YouTube, knockoff really weird to have in your gallery. I guess that’s a thing uh. As for the actual video quality, it looked really good. The stabilization looks like there’s ois built in, but they don’t say, there’s any sort of spec and the mic is still not great so again be aware. If you’re going to use it, video very very viable on this, but you’d want another audio solution, but that’s not why you bought this phone right.
You bought this phone because you are a gamer, so let’s try gaming. We got ta talk about. What’S in this thing, it’s got the Snapdragon 778g, which is a pretty strong mid-range performer which will handle most anything you throw at it and then gentian or you know, Cod mobile. Any of those more intense games will probably be able to handle medium to high, depending on how sensitive you are to that 60 FPS.
But if it’s something more basic or you find with low settings, you should be able to hit 60 easily or over 60. Since this screen supports it, if the game does so we’re in the settings for gention impacts, visuals I put into medium – and it warned me that this phone probably can’t handle it it’s going to go into overclocked mode, which is very hardcore. If you do it on low, it says it’ll be smooth, but I would like to try medium I feel like it should be able to handle that and maybe part of it’s because it’s not fully charged, but I’ve Got Confidence yeah, it’s a little choppy so far, But maybe it just needs to load for a second, I got ta say even a medium. This game looks pretty good, and now it is running a bit smoother, but as you walk into different areas, it is choppy like.
This is not a smooth 60., be aware. Again, this is a mid-range phone, so maybe put your expectations in like the mid-range you know. Is it does that make sense medium medium? It’S got great specs on paper for the camera. It’S got great specs on paper for the soc.
It’S got ip53 water resistance. It doesn’t have wireless charging, but it does have 5G and an IR blaster. It costs 295 US dollars. I do think the price is starting to creep up a little bit there like 300 US dollars for this. It really depends on your use case if you’re someone, who’s playing gentian impact, maybe get something different if you’re somebody who takes a lot of photos, maybe look into something different, but if you want a general all-around phone, that’s going to be decent at everything, and just That the odd time that you want to play games, you can – and you know, when you’re out with friends, you just want to be able to take a quick photo or a video at a concert. I think this will do fine, but I do feel this budget range is starting to get pretty darn competitive as we’ll start to see with some of the devices coming up for mwc and into this new year.
So, if you’re in for a phone right now – and you really need something – that’s going to do you well, this might be it, but this isn’t a review, I’m not telling you what to do. Do not say this is review. This is something I’ve only been using for the last hour, so this phone might not be enticing for very long thanks. So much for watching this has been short circuit, make sure to like comment and subscribe right now.
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