Xiaomi Poco X4 GT smartphone review - Affordable high-performance phone with 144 Hz display

[Redaktion]

Xiaomi's Poco line-up is filled with affordable smartphones with good specs. One such phone is the Xiaomi Poco X4 GT, which is officially available for 380 Euro (around US$370) and offers an exciting combination of a high-end processor, a fast 144 Hz display and a large battery. Is this more than enough for everyday use? We put the phone through its paces in our review.

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[NikoB]

In fact, these are the latest Xiaomi smartphones on IPS that is not flickering and comfortable for the eyes and nervous system, but even here Xiaomi (knowing perfectly well who it does this for) cannot make a normal smartphone. With alert LED, 4k@60fps+OIS. Well, how can you try to sell a smartphone without 4k@60fps at the price of 360 euros at the end of 2022?

Well, taking into account the prices for SSDs, they could at least deliver 256GB for such a price, since there is nothing more to cover. Moreover, it is the Chinese SSD that are falling in prices the fastest. Now it's true that after the US embargo, they will get very sick in 2023. And the world's population hoped so much that the Chinese would saturate the world's SSD market as much as possible and drop prices by another 2 times ...

And the funny thing is that all markets for both PCs and smartphones are rapidly falling, which means that there seems to be a heap of extra components in warehouses now, in contrast to the shortage in 2021...

[Don]

I like your way of reviewing, very detailed and comprehensive.
However for instance there is a portion about pwm on screens which is not present in other sites. Even though you measure and bring it front, you also complain about the LCD screen phones.
This one and other good LCD screen phones have less or no flickering thanks to this technology. However you're at the end complaining about them being LCD but not Amoled.
If Amoled is better then why do you pay attention to pwm?
Personally pwm is an issue for me but the way Amoled is promoted doesn't make sense. I understand the colors are better but considering the reviewing criteria it becomes confusing at the end.

[NikoB]

I understand the colors are better but considering the reviewing criteria it becomes confusing at the end.

You are wrong, like most. Reviews of laptops with AMOLED screens, as well as smartphones, clearly indicate that with hardware calibration they almost always lose to good IPS in terms of color accuracy. And the owners of even top-end OLED TVs abandon them in favor of projectors with much worse contrast, but with much better color reproduction without banding (banding on gradients) and without poor color reproduction in the dark hue region.
Look at many reviews - a typical AMOLED laptop screen can't even be calibrated with dE less than 2, where most IPS with 72%+ NTSC pass the test easily...

This is a deliberate marketing lie (as well as the forceful suppression of the truth in large media about flicker harmful to the eyes and nervous system, which has already been proven by science a long time ago) thrown into the masses. Even a head-on comparison of the "top" AMOLED screens in the demo areas of stores on the stands of smartphones easily reveals the winner - IPS.

[NikoB]

I also want to draw attention to one nasty trend - on smartphones with a hole in the screen, where the camera is located, it is extremely difficult to close it with tape, unlike classic smartphones and smartphones with a strip at the top. You will almost never be able to make a solid permanent shutter for this camera. Most adequate people immediately close it with black tape or something else, because. on smartphones, unlike decent laptops, there is not even a light that the camera is actually turned on and transmits information about you and the environment somewhere. As well as forcibly made non-switchable microphones. All this is a conspiracy to infiltrate the masses with 24x365 devices spying on them. Most gave up and ended up in a digital concentration camp, turning themselves and their homes into a glass aquarium for large corporations, intelligence agencies and criminals who got exploits or took advantage of fools with the help of social engineering.

[NikoB]

And against lidars and infrared sensors and ultrasonic and microwave sensors, no electrical tape helps. We ourselves voluntarily carry in our pocket and keep with us 24x365 devices, which are the ideal spy device for wiretapping and video recording. Moreover, there are more and more methods of hiding this unauthorized activity at the level of industrial equipment and software, and not vice versa.

[Reza]

Hello . Is pwm it really 50,000 Hz?!
And is there a mobile phone that has more PWM?That is, more than 50,000 Hz

[Sakib Mohd]

Since many popular mobile games rely on gyroscope these days. Gyroscope responsiveness should also be tested to see how fast and responsive gyroscope feels. iPhones has good and fast gyro and some android phones has fast gyroscope sensor too but not all. Sometimes even flagships has bad gyroscope performance in games.

[Neenyah]

Very true Sakib, great suggestion and it would be quite useful to see it added for future reviews. It's not even important just for games but for general usage; my old OnePlus 5T was horrible in that regard and just trying to rotate it quickly to watch any video in full screen was an impossible task sometimes and all games where gyro was needed were quite unplayable because of how slow it was to react. Unpleasant experience with a great phone back then.