If you happen to’re in the marketplace for an inexpensive Android smartphone, the newest midrange Poco duo from Xiaomi needs to be in your radar. Accessible now within the UK, Europe, and India, however not the US, the Poco X6 (£319) and Poco X6 Professional (£369) provide stacked spec sheets with few weaknesses. You possibly can count on glorious shows, good battery life, and stable efficiency from each, although there are just a few cons lurking right here.
Xiaomi presents a really gargantuan line-up of smartphones. Not content material with its finances Redmi sub-brand, it launched the midrange Poco sub-brand in 2018. There’s appreciable overlap, with many telephones launched beneath the Redmi identify in China being tweaked and rebadged as Poco for the European market. The X6 and X6 Professional fall into that class. In case you are questioning, the phrase poco means “a bit” in Spanish and Italian.
The Poco model has taken off as a price cellphone. The X6 and X6 Professional sit on the backside finish of the midrange, undercutting a lot of the comparable competitors. With a lot in widespread, the Poco X6 would be the more sensible choice for discount hunters, however I’ll lay out the variations so you’ll be able to resolve whether or not the X6 Professional is value digging deeper for.
Poco Peas in a Pod
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At first look the Poco X6 and X6 Professional are very related. The X6 is a teensy bit taller, slimmer, and lighter, however the variations are paper skinny. Each have plastic frames with a quantity rocker on the higher proper aspect and the ability button under. Solely the X6 has a 3.5mm headphone port. The in-screen fingerprint sensors are responsive, with digicam cut-outs on the high of the close to bezel-less screens. Each telephones rating an IP54 score, so rain is ok, however dunking just isn’t.
{Photograph}: Simon Hill
Flip them over, and they’re much simpler to inform aside as a result of the X6 Professional has a barely curved again and a digicam module that features 4 equally sized lenses (although one among them is definitely the flash). The X6 has two pronounced lenses on the left with a smaller third lens and flash. The digicam modules are the one design aspect that stands out, except you go for one of many extra “attention-grabbing” finishes. The Poco X6 Professional colours are black (like my evaluation unit), grey, or, for the courageous, hanging vibrant yellow in a faux leather-based end. The Poco X6 is available in plain black or blue, or white with a marble impact.
