Xiaomi’s Poco brand takes the fight to Realme with Poco M3 Pro, its first ‘affordable’ 5G phone

The Poco M3 Professional begins at Rs 13,999 for the bottom variant with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage.

Xiaomi’s Poco model simply introduced its first 5G cellphone in India, the entry-level Poco M3 Professional. Although it has 5G, which technically makes it next-gen to some extent, it’s really a mid-cycle refresh of the funds Poco M3 which was launched barely 4 months in the past. Poco is utilizing a brand-new system-on-chip, a sooner display screen and a tweaked design within the Poco M3 Professional — all updates that matter — however it’s the worth of the cellphone that makes it actually stand out. This can be a cellphone constructed from floor as much as tackle Realme whilst Poco takes a shot at making an attempt to decelerate the Oppo spin-off model’s speedy strides in 5G.

Poco M3 Professional is Poco’s reply to Realme 8 5G. It’s priced and packaged on very comparable grounds. Although it isn’t an actual spec-to-spec comparability. There are areas the place the Realme 8 has a transparent edge, whereas there are some areas the place it’s positively benefit Poco. This implies, each telephones have their distinctive promoting factors which makes this competitors all of the extra thrilling. We are going to after all have extra to say in regards to the Poco M3 Professional quickly, however for now, let’s take a fast take a look at the way it stacks up in opposition to the Realme 8 5G.

The M3 Professional has a 6.5-inch 1080p LCD show with a 90Hz “dynamic” refresh charge and centrally aligned gap punch cut-out. The Realme 8 has a smaller 6.4-inch display screen with 1080p decision which may additionally refresh 90 instances per second, however Realme is utilizing a Tremendous AMOLED panel which may additionally get barely brighter. Additionally, Realme’s nook implementation of the opening punch is one thing I personally favor however your mileage might range. The M3 Professional has Corning Gorilla Glass 3 safety although which makes it extra sturdy than the Realme 8, no less than on paper. For biometrics, whereas the Realme 8 has an optical in-display fingerprint reader, Poco is utilizing a standard side-mounted reader within the Poco M3 Professional.

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Beneath the hood, each telephones have the identical 7nm MediaTek Dimensity 700 SoC however whereas Realme pairs its cellphone with as much as 8GB LPDDR4X RAM, Poco caps the Poco M3 Professional at 6GB RAM although it’s utilizing sooner UFS2.2 storage (as much as 128GB). Extra particularly, the Poco M3 Professional is available in 4GB/64GB and 6GB/128GB configuration whereas the Realme 8 is available in 4GB/64GB, 4GB/128GB and 8GB/128GB configurations. Each telephones help expandable storage however solely the Realme 8 has a devoted micro-SD card slot. Each telephones are powered by a 5,000mAh battery and help 18W quick charging.

Each telephones have an analogous three digital camera setup on the rear with a 48MP essential and two 2MP digital camera, one for depth and one other for macros. The Realme 8 has a 16MP entrance digital camera. The Poco M3 Professional has an 8MP entrance digital camera.

Each telephones are based mostly on Android 11 with customized UI (Realme UI 2.0 in Realme 8 and MIUI 12 in Poco M3 Professional).

The Poco M3 Professional begins at Rs 13,999 for the bottom variant with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage whereas the 6GB RAM and 128GB storage variant of the cellphone will set you again by Rs 15,999. On June 14, when the cellphone will go on sale for the primary time, Poco will promote it at lowered costs of Rs 13,499 and Rs 15,499, respectively.

Realme 8 5G begins at Rs 13,999 for the bottom 4GB/64GB mannequin. The 6GB/128GB and 8GB/128GB fashions of the cellphone value Rs 14,999 and Rs 16,999 respectively.