Poco’s First Pro Max Phone Earns The Name With An 8,500mah Battery

Xiaomi subsidiary Poco has launched nan X8 Pro and X8 Pro Max phones, some of which characteristic ample silicon-carbon batteries, powerful chipsets, and 256GB of retention arsenic standard, pinch stronger specs connected insubstantial than nan caller Pixel 10A contempt costing less. Both Poco phones besides characteristic a amazingly subtle return connected RGB lighting, pinch mini rings of LEDs wrong each of their rear cameras.

The X8 Pro Max, a caller tier successful Poco’s X line, is nan much breathtaking of nan 2 acknowledgment to a immense 8,500mAh silicon-carbon battery — pinch an moreover larger 9,000mAh type disposable successful India and immoderate different markets. Either way, it should make for 2 to 3 days of artillery life connected a azygous charge, but you still get a reasonably slim phone, conscionable 8.2mm thick. The 100W PPS wired charging should guarantee accelerated refills too.

The Pro Max is powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500s, a caller chipset launched successful January that’s only a flimsy measurement down from its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5-rivaling 9500. It gets 12GB of RAM and either 256GB aliases 512GB storage, and has a ample 6.83-inch OLED display.

The X8 Pro is conscionable a small smaller, pinch a 6.59-inch panel. That brings pinch it a artillery reduction, though, pinch a reasonably steep driblet to a 6,500mAh capacity — still substantial, but possibly not rather capable to deed 2 days of use. It’s powered by nan sub-flagship Dimensity 8500-Ultra, pinch 8GB aliases 12GB of RAM and nan aforesaid retention options arsenic nan Pro Max. Both phones person awesome particulate and h2o resistance, up to IP69K, but likewise less-impressive cameras, pinch 50-megapixel main cameras, 8-megapixel ultrawides, and 20-megapixel selfies.

Poco has had a spot of nosy pinch nan creation of those cameras, though. Both phones person rings of RGB lights built into each camera ring, which tin beryllium group to flash for calls, notifications from circumstantial apps, euphony playback, and definite situations successful compatible games (currently only PUBG and Call of Duty). While you tin prime a circumstantial colour for calls and different for notifications, you can’t group civilization colors aliases patterns by interaction aliases app, making this little versatile than nan likes of Nothing’s various Glyph lights.

If it occurred to you that nan rings look conscionable a small for illustration Iron Man’s Arc Reactor, past you aren’t nan only one. Poco is besides releasing a constricted version Iron Man type of nan X8 Pro successful a garish black-and-gold design. It ships successful a cardboard briefcase, and includes a civilization case, cable, and SIM instrumentality too.

While nary of nan 3 phones are launching successful nan US, Poco supplied its world prices successful USD. The X8 Pro starts from $329, rising to $399 for nan apical configuration, nan aforesaid value arsenic nan Iron Man edition. The X8 Pro Max starts astatine $469, pinch 512GB retention disposable for $60 more.

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