Xiaomi has finally unveiled the second best selling phone the Poco X2 to compete with the likes of Tecno and Infinix. It’s another attempt from the company to produce a high-performance, low-cost phone for the extremely competitive Indian market.
Two years ago, Xiaomi launched a new brand called Poco X2 with the aim of providing flagship-level specs at the lowest possible price. The India-first Poco F1 wasn’t the prettiest phone in the world, but it turned heads by including a Snapdragon 845 for under $300 — then the brand largely went dark. Poco now markets its phones independently from Xiaomi, and the X2 is the first product since that operational change.
The Poco X2 resembles Xiaomi’s own Mi 9T Pro (Redmi X2) that was recently announced for China. The Mi 9T Pro was widely viewed as a spiritual successor to the Poco F1, even though its somewhat higher price disappointed some consumers where it launched in India. The K30 and the X2, though, don’t have bleeding-edge specs across the board.
Here's a final list of the unbelievable specs that the #POCOX2 has to offer for an experience that's #SmoothAF!
— POCO India (@IndiaPOCO) February 4, 2020
– #120HzDisplay
– Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G
– LiquidCool technology
– 4500 mAh battery
– 27W charger in-box
– 64MP Quad camera Sony IMX 686
– 20 MP dual front camera pic.twitter.com/r6J55TkgVw
The Poco X2 has a Snapdragon 730G processor, a 6.67-inch 20:9 1080p LCD screen with a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 4,500mAh battery with 27W fast charging. The phone charges over USB-C, includes a headphone jack, and has a fingerprint sensor integrated into the power button.
It uses Sony’s new 64-megapixel IMX686 sensor, the successor to the 48-megapixel IMX586 that dominated the phone landscape in 2019, and that part is backed by an 8-megapixel ultrawide camera, a 2-megapixel macro module, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. There’s also a 20-megapixel selfie camera with a 2-megapixel depth sensor housed in a hole-punch display cutout.
The Poco X2 has a Snapdragon 730G processor, a 120 Hz refresh display, a slightly bigger battery, a primary camera sensor from Sony rather than Samsung, dual selfie cameras in a hole punch rather than a (higher-resolution) single unit in a notch, and 27W charging that the company claims is faster than Mi 9T Pro’s 30W solution.
The phone costs $225 minus taxes for a model with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage and the 8GB of RAM will cost $281, but Poco’s has double the storage with 256GB. The Poco X2 will be available in India on February 11th. It’s not clear whether the phone will be released elsewhere.
