Decent cameras (wait what?

On the other hand, it brings a triple camera array at the back consisting of a 64MP primary, an 8MP
ultrawide, and a 2MP macro shooter housed inside this wide camera island. Upfront, there’s a 16MP
selfie camera inside the hole-punch cutout.

POCO M4 Pro 4G - Back Cameras

Now, apart from the cameras, the POCO M4 Pro 4G is pretty much identical to the Redmi Note 11S. So if
you’re conflicted between these two phones, I’d suggest going for this one because of the cheaper price
tag. Plus, the 108MP camera on the Note 11S isn’t going to make a whole lot of difference for the
additional money anyway.

Normal, Ultrawide Images

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Here, the main 64MP shooter actually takes decent photos with a good amount of details and
saturation, contrast levels—even though the overall shot comes off warm.

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The ultrawide camera introduces a cooler hue instead but there’s not much detail to talk about here.

Portrait Images
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Portrait photos have acceptable edge detection but it messes up the subject’s skin tone rather horribly.
You can notice the unnatural pink tint alongside a hint of beautification on its portrait shots.

Selfie Images

It’s the same with the selfie cameras too. What’s worse is that Redmi and POCO phones with a
MediaTek processor have always struggled with maintaining a good skin tone—so I doubt a future
update is going to solve this!

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Nighttime Images

Low-light photos are pretty impressive on the M4 Pro with decent exposure control. With Night Mode
turned on, you can get well-balanced photos with greater highlights, details, and reduced noise as well.

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In terms of videos, both the front and the back camera is limited to 1080p 30 fps recording—exactly like
the POCO M4 Pro 5G and the Redmi Note 11S. As you’d expect, the videos are of strictly average quality
with slight wobbles.

What to expect in terms of battery life

Finally, there’s no upgrade in the battery department this time since you’re getting the same 5000mAh
cell that supports 33W Pro fast charging.

Under medium usage consisting of taking a bunch of photos/videos, streaming Netflix and Twitch,
browsing the web, alongside some gaming every now and then, I managed to get around 7 hours of
screen on time here. Pretty amazing stuff! As for charging, the phone can climb from 0 to 100% in a little
over an hour.

POCO M4 Pro 4G Impressions: Final Words

Wrapping it all up, I think the POCO M4 Pro 4G is a great budget phone. Especially with that bank
discount I talked about earlier (not sure the phone will launch at a similar price in Nepal though).
Sacrificing 5G connectivity, it brings an AMOLED display which makes it an impressive device for
multimedia consumption. And its battery life is pretty remarkable as well!

Sure there are a bunch of rough edges that POCO has got to sort out, like optimizing the cameras,
responsiveness of the 90Hz refresh rate, and the Android 12 update thing. Nonetheless, that doesn’t
keep the M4 Pro 4G from being a good budget phone under INR 15,000.

Check out our unboxing and impressions video of the POCO M4 Pro 4G.