Review on Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC DotDisplay by Stanislaw Stanislaw ᠌

Name: Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC DotDisplay
Item: Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC DotDisplay
Rating: 4

July 04, 2023

I am satisfied with everything, both price and quality, I advise you to buy.

No serious shortcomings were noticed, except that instead of convenient MIUI dialers, contacts and SMS, inconvenient analogues from Google are installed in the global firmware. The only adequate solution to these shortcomings is to flash the phone to the official version for Indonesia with a bootloader lock. I tried to install firmware from Xiaomi. Eu, which claims support for Google Pay. Google Pay "out of the box" with this firmware did not work, shamanism with magic and root rights, although it allowed setting up contactless payment, but when choosing a configured card in Google Pay, a crossed-out wireless payment icon with the text "Not configured" remained above the card, although the reader application cards installed on another phone, the card data was successfully read. But nevertheless, such shamanism does not pass without side effects, I immediately noticed that after these actions, the Tinkoff Bank applications stopped offering fingerprint login, and the ability to turn it on again disappeared from the settings. Therefore, I decided to reflash to Indonesia, at first without blocking the bootloader - Google Pay refused to work, then I flashed it with the bootloader blocked and then everything was OK.

Pros

Large screen, good hardware, NFC module, low price.

Cons

Plastic body, wide bezels around the screen, which in general gives the phone a cheap look. Instead of MIUI Launcher in the phone, POCO Launcher, the main difference of which from the MIUI launcher is the presence of an application menu, which is not removed using the settings.