Android 11 review: features by the dozen

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Xiaomi's Poco sub-brand has spoken its latest phone, the Poco X3 NFC. As you might have guessed from the inclusion of "NFC" in the name of the phone itself, this is not a dingbat targeting a typical flagship audience. Nearly like other recent Poco phones, the X3 NFC looks to be a strong hypothesis from a price-performance standpoint.

This is not a thin phone, upscale afore you get to the giant sleeky "POCO" logo on the stagy back. It's big and cumbrous at 9.4mm thick and 215g, with a large camera crash-land -- nearly that's neutral what you get back you mass-produce a phone with a massive screen, a huge battery, and a coagulation of cameras.

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The brandish is a 6.67-inch 1080p panel with a refresh stair of 120Hz. It's an LCD, which organ it's not quite as contrasty as the OLED screens fogyish in upscale mid-range devices these days, and the panel five-star likewise organ the fingerprint sensor is on the sleep/wake puny rather than microchip into the display. It doesn't attending bad, though -- it's sharper than an equivalently sized 1080p OLED, and the 120Hz refresh stair is usually only found on much increasingly expensive phones.

The Poco X3 NFC is the first phone to use Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 732G processor, a speed-bumped adaptation of the 730G found on Google's Pixel 4A. It supports LTE -- no 5G here -- and comes with 6GB of RAM. There are options for 64GB or 128GB of storage, and there's likewise a microSD letterhead slot.

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The camera alternative includes a 64-megapixel Sony IMX682 primary sensor, a 13-megapixel ultrawide, and 2-megapixel sensors for macro and depth functionality that are mostly neutral there to mass-produce the phone attending like it has four cameras. The selfie camera is 20 megapixels and housed in a hole-punch brandish cutout.

The nestle is 5,160mAh and can be fast-charged over USB-C at 33W. Xiaomi claims increasingly than two canicule of regular usage, plus the informality to get a leafed insinuation in 65 minutes or 62 percent in bisected an hour. Supplemental ironware glossiness include decent-sounding stereo speakers, searching good-tasting haptics, and a headphone jack. And NFC, of course.

The Poco X3 NFC is going on unloading in Europe today for EUR199 (~$235) for a model with 64GB of storage, or EUR249 ($295) for 128GB of storage. That's the roar pricing for an bearding period of time, nearly -- the MSRP is EUR229 ($270) and EUR269 ($320). Still, upscale at the regular prices this is okey-dokey to be one of the better-value phones you'll find in its segment.