POCO M4 Pro 5G Review

POCO is back with its improved M series with 5G

Introduction

Not too long ago, POCO announced the all new POCO M4 Pro 5G, which is a new refresh over its older M3 Series.

Specifically our focus here for the review is the POCO M4 Pro 5G , a formidable mid ranger that feature much on the affordable budget level pricing but with certain features and hardware upgrade close to a mid range performer. Let’s look at the new POCO M4 Pro 5G and find out what it can do in this review.

Design

The POCO M4 Pro 5G design is built similarly to the previous POCO M3, which is a model released around 10 months ago. The POCO M4 Pro 5G back is made of smooth hard plastic construction with a fine touch while it looks normal, it represents durability on its all round body strength giving it minimal flex. Due to its matte surface build, you will have no trouble touching on it with reasonable grip and it leaves almost no fingerprint mark or traces.

Xiaomi does provide a translucent casing in the box so at least, it is protected against any light surface drops. The camera portion is an island of bump consisting of 2 camera sensors and a flash. Putting it on the table is almost flat and it shows the slimness of the phone at just 8.8mm.

Continuing on the sides, on the right hand side, there is a volume up and down button and a power button that also functions as a fingerprint scanner, while the top houses an IR blaster for remote control, a top speaker, microphone and DUAL SIM Slot, while the bottom portion has a speaker, mic, 3.5mm headphone jack and a USB C port. All of the phone sides are made of aluminum. Over to the camera design, the darker black color applies to the side of the phone and the bottom/top part as well with mirror finishing touch to it. Audio wise, this ensures good call quality and clear stereo speaker enjoyment at anytime. Since there is a Headphone jack, you can plug in any of the headphones of your choice.

The POCO M4 Pro 5G comes in three colors, Poco Yellow, Power Black and Cool Blue which carries the weight of 195 Grams. Personally the weight is not too heavy overall with good device body ratio holding on to my hands.

Display

Over the display department, the POCO M4 Pro 5G is powered by a 6.6 Inch FHD+ 90Hz IPS LCD screen with Gorilla Glass 3. Display is spot on with visible accuracy and contrast level which POCO decides it quite reasonably based on its price point. It has adaptive refresh rate display which means when the screen is sitting idle, it will run at 60FPS, once you start your browsing and work or play, it will automatically adjust up to 90FPS. Depending on your daily usage and just a handful of games does support 90FPS gameplay. On top of that with the density of 399PPI, you will enjoy the best of display with bright colors when streaming your favorite movies or even scrolling over web pages and a few sessions of your favorite games.

Camera

When it comes to the camera portion, the POCO M4 Pro 5G rear camera consists of one 50MP Wide PDAF camera, and one 8MP ultra-wide camera, followed by a single LED flash. Pictures taken were clear during day with good amount of light and clarity produced on each picture. During night shots, it came out not too bad as well with visible shadows and contrasts still present during capture. The selfie images are bright and good during day time as well which is powered by a 16MP wide angle lens , A few shots were taken over different modes as above and the result truly works well. A sample of 10x zoom, normal, 50MP and automatic shots taken were balanced, with visible noise.

On video recording you get support up to 1080 at 60FPS, stutters are visible while recording but it’s very minor with good details during recording. FHD video is awesome with good stabilization support. While there is no dual video mode as present with the new Xiaomi 11 series, it is still satisfied as the POCO M4 Pro 5G still has features that matches as an affordable device that produces quality over its camera optics.

Performance

Performance wise, the POCO M4 Pro 5G is powered by the Mediatek Dimensity 810 5G Octa-Core Processor, 64/128GB of internal storage and 4/6GB RAM. Call quality test shows no problem with a choice of calling via 3G, VOLTE or WOWIFI depending on your Telco Carrier. Once 3G towers shutting down by end of this year, this device should have no effect on your daily use over major available local telco carriers. The phone does come with 5G connectivity support if you are looking for a 5G phone, WiFi AC, Bluetooth 5 and NFC. Testing over WiFi connection gets up to an average of 433MBPS transfer speeds, ensuring good fast speed for multimedia and streaming. If you have a WiFi AC router, you will be able to make use of the hardware features without issues.

Over to the gaming side, basically this phone will perform well on games such as Mobile Legends, Genshin Impact and the newly launched FINAL FANTASY VII THE FIRST SOLDIER with low mix medium settings applied and with such light weight, gaming is quite fun holding on the phone.

Above is the Benchmark performance, which delivers a very good scores on each of the test between its graphics, and processor performance. POCO M4 Pro 5G is suitable for those seeking for a Mid High range performing phones.

Battery performance wise, you will get around 10 hours of it with the built in 5000mAH battery, a mix of calls, surfing, email, streaming, and a few Mobile Legend matches. Turning on the battery saving mode under 20% will get you around extra 2 hours of conservative usage. POCO M4 Pro 5G comes with a 33W fast charger, which will charge up the phone to 100% from 10% in around 1hour 50min average. 

Specifications

Verdict & Conclusion 

The POCO M4 Pro 5G is a device that is generally for those who are seeking for a budget, yet still performing like a mid ranger phone embracing to experience 5G technology which should be available to some of the public areas beginning early next year. This is also a phone that is suitable as a mid range gaming device which does not break everyone’s budget and paying for the absolutely affordable price. The phone could fit also on any productivity person alike, that is meant for most in the era of 5G coming with things done fast, reply emails, gaming and all is complete with just a phone in your pocket.

Pros

• 90Hz Refresh Rate Display
• Reasonable display quality with 240Hz touch sampling rate
• Has 3.5mm headphone jack

Cons

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Pricing and availability

Starting from now, the POCO M4 Pro 5G will be available in two variants at RM 749 for the 4GB+64GB variant and RM 999 for the 6GB+128GB variant, and can be purchased from Shopee.