It’s been a while since we saw a smartphone launched under the Poco name, with the Poco M4 Pro 5G from November last year the last we heard from the Xiaomi sub-brand. However, it seems as though Poco will be coming back soon enough, with reports and pictures of the upcoming Poco X4 Pro already appearing online.
Based on these pictures and reports, it appears that the Poco X4 Pro will come with a 6.67-inch FHD+ AMOLED display and would be able to push a refresh rate of 120Hz. It also has a triple camera setup on a massive camera island almost as though it’s a Mi 11 Ultra. The main camera is a 108MP shooter and it’s flanked by an 8MP ultra-wide camera and a 2MP macro lens, while the front camera appears to be a 16MP selfie camera. There will be a 5,000mAh battery with 67W fast charging too, on top of dual speakers and NFC support.
However, it looks like there will be a huge downgrade when it comes to the processor. While last year’s Poco X3 Pro came with some very respectable hardware including a flagship-class Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 system-on-chip, it seems as though the Poco X4 Pro will be coming with the mid-range Snapdragon 695 instead. While the pictures don’t directly indicate that it’s a Snapdragon 695, previous leaks along with the ‘6nm’ branding seem to suggest the marked shift from nearly flagship to the midrange class. Leaks also indicate that the Snapdragon 695 will be paired with up to 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and up to either 128GB or 256GB of UFS 2.2 storage. Curiously, it seems that it’ll come with an Android 11 version of MIUI 13 too, rather than an Android 12 version.
Looking at it as a whole, it does look to be almost a rebadge of the Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G. We say almost, because it doesn’t entirely look the same, thanks to the Poco X4 Pro’s massive camera bump from the early shots of it. However, a number of key specs are the same between the two, such as the 6.67-inch AMOLED display, the Snapdragon 695 processor, the camera setups and even the battery capacity and charging speeds too.
If the Poco X4 Pro does end up launching with these specs, it will put it almost in direct competition against its Xiaomi stablemate. It’s not the first time Xiaomi has done this though of course, with the Poco M3 Pro 5G and Redmi Note 10 5G both offering nearly identical specs, with the Poco M3 Pro 5G edging it out with a lower starting price thanks to having a lower spec model with half the storage. The same then could happen here, with the Poco X4 Pro maybe having a model with half the storage and priced ever so slightly below the Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G’s RM1,199 price tag. Of course, we’ll have to wait until the Poco X4 Pro officially launches to find out.
