Poco X5 Pro Review: A midrange performance champ!

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Poco X5 Pro is the successor to the much loved Poco X4 Pro which impressed everyone with its bold design, performance upgrades and price competitiveness. Needless to say, Poco has continued its tradition of rebranding Redmi smartphones. Last year, the Poco X4 Pro was essentially a rebranded Redmi Note 11 Pro Plus with a new design language and this year, the Poco X5 Pro is the rebrand of the Redmi Note 12 Pro Speed edition which was launched in China. But rebranding is not a bad thing as long as consumers get a price-competitive and feature-packed smartphone. After all, performance and looks are what people want.

And while the smartphone does not offer an entirely new design or a completely new set of specifications, it has made sensible upgrades that add quite a lot of value. Compared to its predecessor, the Poco X5 Pro gets a more powerful chipset, better cameras and a slightly redesigned camera module to set itself apart.

One thing that did make Poco X4 Pro such a loved device was its price competitiveness. The smartphone came with a starting price of Rs. 18,999. But this year, Poco has decided to increase the price of the smartphone to Rs. 22,999, likely due to rising cost of components. But this decision has also placed it in a much more demanding sub-Rs. 30,000 segment, albeit at its lower end, where pleasing the consumers can be a tough job So, the question is, has Poco done enough to meet the expectations set by last year's device or does it fall short of it?

We have used the smartphone for more than a month now and in this time, we have found some interesting insight into this stylish performance-centric smartphone. So, let's get down to the brass tacks.

The Poco X5 Pro retains the broad design elements from its