Poco M2 Pro India has been launched at an initial price of Rs 13,999 and given its specification, it seems that it Redmi Note 9 Pro And Realme 6 There can be a strong rival for, which are two behrant products coming with the same price. However, only writing specifications on paper is not really not known about the ability of the smartphone. We have reviewed it for how Poco M2 Pro performs in real life. Let us see that the Poco M2 Pro is really as good as it is made.
Poco M2 Pro Design
Poco wants to convince people in India that M2 Pro is an indigenous phone. For this, the company has specially labeled the front and back of the box. However, the strange thing is that the Mi logo has been given in the charger coming with the phone and when you turn on the phone, you are welcomed with the MIUI logo.
The Poco M2 Pro offers an attractive design and is well made, but it looks similar to the Redmi Note 9 Pro (review). Everything, including display, button, port, hole-punch and rear camera bump, is completely similar. Poco has used a new pattern on the bottom of the phone. There have also been some minor changes in the camera module. The M2 Pro has a P2I water-reaplent coating, which is said to have a splash proof. Poco M2 Pro looks slightly heavy and large in the hand. It is set in the fingerprint sensor power button and it also unlock the phone with a simple tap.
Poco M2 Pro Performance
The performance of MIUI and app was fantastic during our review. This was largely due to Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G chipset. This is the same processor that has been used in Redmi Note 9 Pro and Realme 6 Pro. I am testing the mid -variant of Poco M2 Pro, which is 6 GB LPDDR4X RAM and 64 GB UFS 2.1 storage and is priced at Rs 14,999. Apart from this, a 4 GB RAM + 64 GB storage variant of the phone and 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage variants are priced at Rs 13,999 and Rs 16,999 respectively.
Navigating in MIUI interface was fast and multitasking also did a good job in it. The app loading was normally fast. Gaming performance was also very good. I played some heavy-grfix games and walked easily with all good graphics. I did not see any kind of heating problem, even after playing for a long time at once. Game Turbo is a useful feature, which gives you a shortcut for screen recording etc. while playing games.
Video experience also looks good on the display of Poco M2 Pro. However, single speaker is not very impressive. If you use wired headphones, you can enable software enhancement for audio, but no feature is available to increase the speaker’s volume.
Poco m2 pro cameras
The Poco M2 Pro has four rear cameras, with the primary sensor of 48-megapixels. This includes an 8-megapixel wide-angle lens, 5-megapixel macro camera and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. You get a 16-megapixel hole-panch selfie camera. Poco M2 Pro is the same version of the MIUI camera app that comes in the Redmi Note 9 Pro. The only real difference in both the functionality of both is that you can use night mode for selfie camera on M2 Pro.
There are also some interesting features, such as the ability to record full-HD videos with a macro camera and its outputs were surprisingly good. Video recording can also be done in Pro mode, allowing you to set the exposure by yourself and it also gives the ability to record in LOG format.
In the daylight, the primary camera of Poco M2 Pro takes good looking photos. Landscape shots had details sharp and Rang was Vivid. The pro color togle involved in this gives you a better color when needed. Close-up also looks good, although the camera app shows bright colors a little more than the actual scene. The wide-angle camera gave extremely weak colors and details than the primary sensor. Portrait mode did a good job and set the level of background blur well.
Primary and wide-angle cameras struggle in low light conditions. The camera app did a good job of suppressing the nois (small grains), but the photos usually showed lack of exposure. Apart from this, there is also a lack of details on zoom. Night mode was also not effective, barely a few photos were improved.
The selfie shot in good light looked good. Details and skin tones were usually good. As long as there was enough light all around, the shots were civilized.
The M2 Pro supports video recording up to 4K 30fps. The video shot at this resolution shows warm color tone and color also appears excessively sharp. There is no stabilization in this resolution. Talking about 1080p, video stabilization is better here and colors were also more natural. The video quality is not good in low light and the videos are slightly granular.
Overall, the cameras of Poco M2 Pro performed better in good light, but struggled quite a lot in giving good results in low light.
Poco m2 pro battery
I liked Poco M2 Pro’s battery life very much. Even with gaming and camera use, the 5,000mAh capacity battery took out a full day comfortably. With mild use, I was able to remove the second day in it. The phone lasted a little longer than 17 hours in our HD video loop test, which was good. The charger that comes with it charges the battery with 33W output. With this charger, the battery of the phone is charged about 95 percent in an hour.
Verdict
I think that Poco M2 Pro The sub -15,000 rupees is a good addition in the smartphone segment and I have no problem in advising it. Almost every angle you Redmi Note 9 Pro Can think similar to (review), certainly with more charging output. Also, it should be much easier to purchase it than Xiaomi’s flash cell system. Poco M2 Pro gives good build quality, sharp display, solid battery life and good performance. The cameras are not very bad, provided you are shooting during the day.
However, I would not say that Poco M2 Pro is the only option in this price segment, as it is similar to Redmi Note 9 Pro, which has been selling in the country for some time. Realme 6 (Review) also remains as a solid option, as it is still the only phone for a sub-Rs 15,000, which comes with a 90Hz display.