Unboxing and First Look: Poco M3

The base variant of the Poco M3 comes with 64 gigabytes of internal storage, which can be expanded using a dedicated micro SD card slot. The phone runs on MIUI version 12, which is still based on Android 10. Although the latest Android version is Android 11, it seems that Poco has chosen to stick with Android 10 for now. As seen in the unboxing video, about 18 gigabytes of storage are already used out of the 64 gigabytes.

For users who plan to install a lot of apps and games on their device, the 128 gigabyte variant would be a better option. It is available at an additional price of around 1000 rupees, which seems like a fair pricing for the upgraded storage capacity. The Poco M3 features six gigabytes of RAM, powered by a Snapdragon 662 SoC.

Setting up the phone initially was smooth, but it may have been because it was updating in the background. However, users should not expect any major issues with performance since the SoC and RAM combination is typical for mid-range devices. The Wi-Fi connectivity on the Poco M3 works well, connecting to both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands.

The phone also comes with the Me Remote app, which features an IR blaster that can be used for remote control purposes. However, users should be cautious when installing apps and granting permissions, as some of them may require permission to access sensitive data. The Poco M3's Me UI is somewhat different from other MIUI versions.

During setup, the phone prompts users to agree to terms and conditions, which can be a bit invasive for some users. However, it is essential to review these agreements carefully before proceeding with the installation process. The phone also has an "Get Apps" feature that may prompt users for permissions or updates, so it's crucial to manage app installations wisely.

The fingerprint scanner on the Poco M3 is located on the power button, which can be convenient but may take some time getting used to for those who are accustomed to traditional fingerprint scanners. The phone's unlock speed is fairly fast, considering its price point and specifications.

Camera Performance

The primary camera on the Poco M3 features a 48-megapixel sensor, accompanied by a 2 MP depth sensor for macro photography and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. When taking photos with this device, the camera app's shutter speed is fairly fast, but it may not be the fastest in its class.

In natural lighting conditions, the Poco M3's rear camera performs reasonably well, capturing decent images with good color accuracy. However, the contrast levels are somewhat lacking, especially when shooting indoors. The portrait mode feature works adequately, even if the results may vary depending on lighting conditions. When photographing people or objects in soft light, the result can be disappointing due to poor contrast.

The Poco M3's front-facing camera has limited capabilities as well, resulting in average photo quality. In low-light conditions, the color accuracy is not great, and the overall image quality suffers. Considering its price point, the Poco M3's camera performance may not meet expectations for users who rely on taking high-quality photos.

Conclusion

The Poco M3 offers a good balance of features and pricing, making it an attractive option for budget-conscious buyers. While some aspects, such as the camera performance, may not meet expectations, the phone still has its strengths, including its screen quality, Wi-Fi connectivity, and overall performance.

The Poco M3's Mi UI is typical of other MIUI versions, with a focus on customizing features like the home screen and notification shade. However, users should be aware that some apps are pre-installed, which can lead to unnecessary permissions being granted. Additionally, the phone may have some minor jitters during initial setup, but this seems to be resolved after the update process.

Overall, the Poco M3 is a solid choice for those looking for a budget-friendly smartphone with features like a dedicated micro SD card slot and an IR blaster. While its camera performance may not impress, the phone's overall value proposition makes it worth considering for users who prioritize affordability over top-of-the-line specs.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys this is ranjit and in this video let's do the unboxing and have a first look at this poco m3 and guys after a long time i'm actually happy to unbox and look at a budget mid-range android smartphone because lately from last year onwards in this price man of about 10 to about 14 000 uh we had a lot of smartphones but nothing was that exciting either the specs were not that good or they had other compromises but the spoko m3 is very different and i'm actually unboxing this after the event so we know the pricing uh it actually is available in two variants this is the storage is different one comes with uh six gigabytes of ram and 64gb of storage that's what's eleven thousand other is 6 gb of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage that's for 12 000 but this one also has stereo speakers and this is something that we haven't seen in this price range in fact even other aspects like the ram is lpddr4 and even the storage is ufs 2.1 and 2.2 so again pretty excited about this one after a long long time i think so we are getting a good smartphone at a very good price which is a rare idea these days and according to poco uh who's that anuj sharmas i was watching the launch event he says that this one does not have ads so let's have a closer look at the same now so here it is the poco m3 back if you look at it it gives us the basic idea it has that big battery 6000 milliamp hour and a 48 megapixel raid facing camera it's having the qualcomm snapdragon 662 and we are having a full hd plus ips led screen not that 720p stuff so let's open it up and this we get and here i think so uh we'll get some sim ejector tool uh we do get a case so finally uh and some paperwork so we are getting any something to box unbox this time flagships we don't get anything so you're getting this so you're getting the phone itself obviously uh they sent us this blue color one this pack is very different guys this is plastic no doubt it's polycarbonate but gives that very good feel it said and i don't know about this you guys let me know what do you feel about this big poco logo over here if it would have been just black it would have looked more classier but again i won't complain i will come back to the phone later i'll just keep this thing to the side and uh what else do we get these days in boxes we are not getting anything uh you get a usb type-c cable that's nice usb type-a to type-c and this is supposed to be a 18-watt fast charger i'm glad they are not skimping on this thing like some other big companies are doing these days first impressions guys first impressions they say this is having a six thousand milliamp hour battery it should actually feel a lot more heavier than it is uh the weight balance is excellent it just does not feel heavy many of the phones that hover around that 6000 milliamp feel heavy they have done a great job in terms of weight management weight balance it means very balanced uh on the top uh oh i like that it is having an ir blaster even at this price point uh we have uh what do you say headphone uh 3.5 mm headphone jack uh this is the speaker sorry guys because it has that dual speaker stereo speaker here is the ir blaster and i like the build quality yes it's polycarbonate kind of but it does not feel cheap guys uh so here we have this is the volume rocker and this is the fingerprint scanner come power on a button i like it it's actually pretty convenient i would say and bottom will be the speaker type c port this will be the main microphone and this will be your sim fortunately yes it's a triple slot they had sense so two uh what do you say nano sims and i believe uh this also supports uh what do you call that uh voice over wi-fi and even uh dual band uh wi-fi that is 2.4 as well as five gigahertz so that's actually nice so i'm liking what i'm seeing here guys back main camera is 48 then again that two two megapixel uh front is supposed to be eight let's just power this on guys i hope it has a charge yes and guys by the time it actually boots up and i set it up here is a configuration overview the spoko m3 is having a 6.53 inch full hd plus ips lcd screen it is provided by gorilla glass 3. it's part with the snapdragon 662 soc which has the arduino 610 gpu it comes in six gigabytes of ram and 64 or 128 gigabytes of storage it has a triple rear facing camera main camera is 48 megapixel then we have a 2 megapixel macro and 2 megapixel depth front facing camera is a 8 megapixel it also has stereo speakers and a 6 000 milliamp hour battery i'm almost done setting up the phone guys but i have noticed that you're getting all this so user experience certain diagnostic personalized ads turn off didn't even glance for me so these things were there so i'm disabling it um location i'm just leaving because some apps might require it but hopefully we don't see ads let's see what happens i'm just going to use this so guys i've set up the device so let's have a closer look at the same now and guys i had updated this device it got one software update so i had applied that and uh this is uh still miui 12 but we have that poco launcher on this one but if you notice there's quite a bit of bloatware that is pre-installed i didn't install anything as you can see some junk games etc get apps all those things are still there so quite a few apps let's see if we can uninstall this facebook app so yeah you can uninstall so luckily you can uninstall a lot of junk not all but as you can see the style funnel whatever you can uninstall some of the junk that is installed and i feel that is important because what we have is the base variant 64 gigabytes and let me actually show you the storage if i go over here how much do we get and if you go about the phone as you can see it's running on the miui version 12 which is still android 10 guys it's not android 11 and roughly uh about 18 gigabytes was sort of used so out of that 64 gigabytes 18 gigabytes is sort of used but again it has the dedicated micro sd card slot but again if you're sort of a heavy user install a lot of apps and games then i feel that the 128 gigabyte variant would be a better option it's available just for about 1000 rupees more which is a fair pricing i would say and if i go over here if you can see all the specs all variants come with that six gigabytes of ram and this is that snapdragon 662 soc while setting up the phone initially i saw some minor jitters but again it might be because it was updating in the background uh but it should handle this phone fine for the most part i would say and this is typical me ui guys and good thing is wi-fi it's connecting on both the 2.4 and 5 gigahertz band that's what i like and this is typical uh me ui as i've told you guys and we also have the me remote app because it has that ir blaster as you can see that me remote up but again a lot of me apps are also pre-installed so you have to agree to the terms and conditions so be careful about it because while i was just setting up the phone i didn't invoke anything i got this mojo or something just popped up like that so be careful about it what permissions do you give to apps and stuff let's see it's too early to judge if i will see ads or not on this uh poco claims that this will not get ads but we have to see that uh we have this get apps still install i hate that app because it keeps prompting us for a lot of third party apps so this is there let's look at the fingerprint scanner it's over here and if you press it it's even the power button so if you press it it unlocks and fairly fast it's not the fastest i would say but fairly fast and i will simply not complain considering the pricing of this smartphone as you can see i'm not even seeing and it's unlocking so it's pretty reliable but not the fastest i would say now let's also look at the camera on this one i'm not expecting that much but again the good thing is that the primary camera is a 48 megapixel then we have that 2 2 megapixel for depth and macro and front facing is just 8 megapixel uh so uh let me do one thing let me actually take some sample shots with this one and again as i saw that it's slightly on the slower side i'm just going to allow it and sell it okay so again xiaomi app and the shutter is fairly fast it's not the fastest quarter of a second delay but i like the screen quality on this one though it's a sort of a budget oriented phone i'm liking the screen quality what they have done it's a full hd plus not that typical hd plus so and the viewing angles are fine on this one so we even have the portrait mode and yes in real time we can see that and this is the front facing camera we have the beauty mode and all those things as you can see beautify filters and all this thing just disable it uh so let me do one thing let me actually take some sample shots around my office these are shot with the rear facing camera and artificial lighting and i would say it does okay job but again the contrast levels are not that good so you got to be careful while taking snaps and indoor lighting condition as you can see the contrast is not that good this is the portrait mode but when the lighting is good you can get some decent shots but this is my other part of the office again as you can see these shots simply did not come that great in fact the pictures are very soft i was expecting a lot better going to the front-facing camera the color accuracy is not that great and it's a pretty average camera so guys uh that's it for now for the unboxing and first look at this poco m3 so what do you guys think about this poco m3 do let me know in the comments section certainly a pretty good smartphone for the price point of about 10 or 11 000 i would say but what do you guys think about the same do let me know in the comment section below anyways guys if you are still not subscribed hit that subscribe button this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guyshi guys this is ranjit and in this video let's do the unboxing and have a first look at this poco m3 and guys after a long time i'm actually happy to unbox and look at a budget mid-range android smartphone because lately from last year onwards in this price man of about 10 to about 14 000 uh we had a lot of smartphones but nothing was that exciting either the specs were not that good or they had other compromises but the spoko m3 is very different and i'm actually unboxing this after the event so we know the pricing uh it actually is available in two variants this is the storage is different one comes with uh six gigabytes of ram and 64gb of storage that's what's eleven thousand other is 6 gb of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage that's for 12 000 but this one also has stereo speakers and this is something that we haven't seen in this price range in fact even other aspects like the ram is lpddr4 and even the storage is ufs 2.1 and 2.2 so again pretty excited about this one after a long long time i think so we are getting a good smartphone at a very good price which is a rare idea these days and according to poco uh who's that anuj sharmas i was watching the launch event he says that this one does not have ads so let's have a closer look at the same now so here it is the poco m3 back if you look at it it gives us the basic idea it has that big battery 6000 milliamp hour and a 48 megapixel raid facing camera it's having the qualcomm snapdragon 662 and we are having a full hd plus ips led screen not that 720p stuff so let's open it up and this we get and here i think so uh we'll get some sim ejector tool uh we do get a case so finally uh and some paperwork so we are getting any something to box unbox this time flagships we don't get anything so you're getting this so you're getting the phone itself obviously uh they sent us this blue color one this pack is very different guys this is plastic no doubt it's polycarbonate but gives that very good feel it said and i don't know about this you guys let me know what do you feel about this big poco logo over here if it would have been just black it would have looked more classier but again i won't complain i will come back to the phone later i'll just keep this thing to the side and uh what else do we get these days in boxes we are not getting anything uh you get a usb type-c cable that's nice usb type-a to type-c and this is supposed to be a 18-watt fast charger i'm glad they are not skimping on this thing like some other big companies are doing these days first impressions guys first impressions they say this is having a six thousand milliamp hour battery it should actually feel a lot more heavier than it is uh the weight balance is excellent it just does not feel heavy many of the phones that hover around that 6000 milliamp feel heavy they have done a great job in terms of weight management weight balance it means very balanced uh on the top uh oh i like that it is having an ir blaster even at this price point uh we have uh what do you say headphone uh 3.5 mm headphone jack uh this is the speaker sorry guys because it has that dual speaker stereo speaker here is the ir blaster and i like the build quality yes it's polycarbonate kind of but it does not feel cheap guys uh so here we have this is the volume rocker and this is the fingerprint scanner come power on a button i like it it's actually pretty convenient i would say and bottom will be the speaker type c port this will be the main microphone and this will be your sim fortunately yes it's a triple slot they had sense so two uh what do you say nano sims and i believe uh this also supports uh what do you call that uh voice over wi-fi and even uh dual band uh wi-fi that is 2.4 as well as five gigahertz so that's actually nice so i'm liking what i'm seeing here guys back main camera is 48 then again that two two megapixel uh front is supposed to be eight let's just power this on guys i hope it has a charge yes and guys by the time it actually boots up and i set it up here is a configuration overview the spoko m3 is having a 6.53 inch full hd plus ips lcd screen it is provided by gorilla glass 3. it's part with the snapdragon 662 soc which has the arduino 610 gpu it comes in six gigabytes of ram and 64 or 128 gigabytes of storage it has a triple rear facing camera main camera is 48 megapixel then we have a 2 megapixel macro and 2 megapixel depth front facing camera is a 8 megapixel it also has stereo speakers and a 6 000 milliamp hour battery i'm almost done setting up the phone guys but i have noticed that you're getting all this so user experience certain diagnostic personalized ads turn off didn't even glance for me so these things were there so i'm disabling it um location i'm just leaving because some apps might require it but hopefully we don't see ads let's see what happens i'm just going to use this so guys i've set up the device so let's have a closer look at the same now and guys i had updated this device it got one software update so i had applied that and uh this is uh still miui 12 but we have that poco launcher on this one but if you notice there's quite a bit of bloatware that is pre-installed i didn't install anything as you can see some junk games etc get apps all those things are still there so quite a few apps let's see if we can uninstall this facebook app so yeah you can uninstall so luckily you can uninstall a lot of junk not all but as you can see the style funnel whatever you can uninstall some of the junk that is installed and i feel that is important because what we have is the base variant 64 gigabytes and let me actually show you the storage if i go over here how much do we get and if you go about the phone as you can see it's running on the miui version 12 which is still android 10 guys it's not android 11 and roughly uh about 18 gigabytes was sort of used so out of that 64 gigabytes 18 gigabytes is sort of used but again it has the dedicated micro sd card slot but again if you're sort of a heavy user install a lot of apps and games then i feel that the 128 gigabyte variant would be a better option it's available just for about 1000 rupees more which is a fair pricing i would say and if i go over here if you can see all the specs all variants come with that six gigabytes of ram and this is that snapdragon 662 soc while setting up the phone initially i saw some minor jitters but again it might be because it was updating in the background uh but it should handle this phone fine for the most part i would say and this is typical me ui guys and good thing is wi-fi it's connecting on both the 2.4 and 5 gigahertz band that's what i like and this is typical uh me ui as i've told you guys and we also have the me remote app because it has that ir blaster as you can see that me remote up but again a lot of me apps are also pre-installed so you have to agree to the terms and conditions so be careful about it because while i was just setting up the phone i didn't invoke anything i got this mojo or something just popped up like that so be careful about it what permissions do you give to apps and stuff let's see it's too early to judge if i will see ads or not on this uh poco claims that this will not get ads but we have to see that uh we have this get apps still install i hate that app because it keeps prompting us for a lot of third party apps so this is there let's look at the fingerprint scanner it's over here and if you press it it's even the power button so if you press it it unlocks and fairly fast it's not the fastest i would say but fairly fast and i will simply not complain considering the pricing of this smartphone as you can see i'm not even seeing and it's unlocking so it's pretty reliable but not the fastest i would say now let's also look at the camera on this one i'm not expecting that much but again the good thing is that the primary camera is a 48 megapixel then we have that 2 2 megapixel for depth and macro and front facing is just 8 megapixel uh so uh let me do one thing let me actually take some sample shots with this one and again as i saw that it's slightly on the slower side i'm just going to allow it and sell it okay so again xiaomi app and the shutter is fairly fast it's not the fastest quarter of a second delay but i like the screen quality on this one though it's a sort of a budget oriented phone i'm liking the screen quality what they have done it's a full hd plus not that typical hd plus so and the viewing angles are fine on this one so we even have the portrait mode and yes in real time we can see that and this is the front facing camera we have the beauty mode and all those things as you can see beautify filters and all this thing just disable it uh so let me do one thing let me actually take some sample shots around my office these are shot with the rear facing camera and artificial lighting and i would say it does okay job but again the contrast levels are not that good so you got to be careful while taking snaps and indoor lighting condition as you can see the contrast is not that good this is the portrait mode but when the lighting is good you can get some decent shots but this is my other part of the office again as you can see these shots simply did not come that great in fact the pictures are very soft i was expecting a lot better going to the front-facing camera the color accuracy is not that great and it's a pretty average camera so guys uh that's it for now for the unboxing and first look at this poco m3 so what do you guys think about this poco m3 do let me know in the comments section certainly a pretty good smartphone for the price point of about 10 or 11 000 i would say but what do you guys think about the same do let me know in the comment section below anyways guys if you are still not subscribed hit that subscribe button this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guys\n"