POCO M2

Beginning with the design angle, Poco M2 features a plastic body with an ergonomic construct. The design of this budget-phone is pretty similar to Poco M2 Pro depicting a two-tone design. The device has a 6.53-inch Full HD Plus display paired with 1080x2340 resolution and Mali G52 GPU graphics support. So, your display comes to life while watching content.

Along with the plastic body, the device comes with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection and P2i coating on top, making it splash-proof and resistant to break, crack or scratch from minor drops.

Under the hood, this handy smartphone is powered by a MediaTek Helio G80 processor, which supports 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The memory of the phone is expandable to 512GB using a MicroSD card. Poco M2 features a separate slot to insert an external MicroSD card slot, a 3.5mm headphone jack and dual-band Wi-Fi connectivity.

Coming to optics, this smartphone has a quad-camera set-up at the back, which includes a primary 13 MP sensor, a 5 MP macro lens, an 8 MP ultra-wide lens, and a 2 MP depth sensor.

Lastly, Poco M2 comes with long battery life. The phone is backed up by a powerful 5,000mAh battery, which is supported up by an 18W charging technology. The phone can run uninterrupted for a day on a single charge.

Poco M2 performance is just as good as you can expect with any premium smartphone. The performance of any budget-centric phone has never been this smooth under 15,000 INR, thanks to its Snapdragon 720G chipset!

Snapdragon 720G is an 8nm octa-core chipset that is powered with two high-performance Kryo Silver cores clocked at 1.8GHz and Kryo Gold cores clocked at 2.3Ghz. This chipset maintains a great balance between battery life and phone performance.

Also, the device comes with an Adreno 618 GPU clocked at 750Mhz controlling the quality of the graphic. Poco M2 does lag in doing GPU-driven tasks. For example, you may experience a little issue while gaming but in all the other aspects, the phone gives the top performance.

The phone will never let you down while surfing the social media feeds, making calls, doing long chats, shopping online, sending emails, watching videos, browsing apps or doing any other day-to-day tasks. If you are an average user of a smartphone and looking for a mid-range phone, just go for Poco M2, it will be the best buy for you.

Also, Poco M2 comes with a powerful 5000mAh battery which delivers one full day of battery with heavy use. In my battery test, I experienced 10 hours of constant battery life. I didn’t find any signs of lagging, hanging or stuttering even after the constant use of the device for hours.

From a camera angle, Poco M2 comes with a quad-camera setup at the back. The rear camera comes with an autofocus setup and it sports an 8 MP front camera for selfies. 

Its quad-camera setup includes a 13 MP primary lens with f/2.2 aperture, an 8 MP ultra-wide-angle lens with f/2.2 aperture, a 2 MP depth sensor lens and a 5 MP macro lens with f/2.4 aperture. The front camera features a single 8MP f/2.0 Wide Angle Primary Shooter, which can click stunning selfies effortlessly.

Both front and back camera setup help you capture clear and bright photos in daylight. The colours in the photos look rich and vibrant even without enabling the Pro Mode. With Pro enabled mode, colours in the images look quite saturated, pretty similar to the point of looking unnatural. Hence, you will rarely feel the need to enable the Pro Colour mode.

Coming to the video mode, both front and back camera setups can shoot stunning steady videos with 1080p. Video quality is decent and stable even in low-light. Macro mode performs well in good lighting.

With so many advanced modes and camera options, this affordable phone can smoothly capture clear photos and shoot steady videos; anywhere, anytime.

Poco M2 features a beautifully textured finish design with a sturdy plastic body coupled with an ergonomic build. The back of the phone features a quad camera setup and attracts a fast fingerprint scanner.

There is also support for Face Unlock and Speaker output. Sensors on the device include an ambient light sensor, accelerometer, IR sensor, fingerprint sensor and proximity sensor.

Its width is 77 mm, weight is198 grams, the thickness is 9.1 mm and height is 163.3 mm. The device has a triple card slot to hold two nano SIMs and a MicroSD card. The bottom of the phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack, a speaker grille and a Type-C port. 

Coming to the front, the phone displays a 6.53-inch Full HD Plus screen paired with a 1080x2340 resolution. The device has a Full HD+ Dewdrop Notch display which is splash-proof and has a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The screen to body ratio of the phone is 83.06% paired with a 395ppi pixel density.

This mid-range smartphone comes in three colours and two storage variants. Poco M2 price in India is INR10,999 for the 6 GB RAM and 64GB storage and INR 12,499 for 6GB RAM and 128GB storage model. Slate Blue, Brick Red, Pitch Black are the three colour choices of this phone that you can choose to buy as per your preference.