The Poco X3 Pro - basically the X3N souped up for performance - SD860 (or SD855++) in place of the X3N's SD732G & UFS 3.1 replacing the X3N's decently fast UFS 2.1 (and some material upgrades such as gorilla glass 6, 2-textured plastic back, & a full verification of the sides' materials - glossy plastic). Also the last brand-new device I purchased as a whole.
Summary : X3N with less overspecced camera (which still produces a viewable picture at least), 2019-flagship-grade performance (which is at least better than the X3N & F1), matte stripes flanking the more noticeable POCO logo stripe (all because of the back panel), & no inbuilt mountrw scripts to make modding easier (not that it matters). Or the full-on upgrade to the F1. I recommend crossreading alongside X3N review as it has some similarities with X3P on hardware.
The X3P is 99% similar to the X3N, so refer to the X3N review for it. The only difference would be on the back panel, as it has a matte finish on the sides of the POCO stripe (which is another component that can be replaced with the X3N's). More details about the backplate in a blogpost
Another thing that would differ the X3P from the X3N is the fingerprint scanner. While both seem similar (side mounted, doubles as power button), the X3P's scanner seems to be better.
The X3P has a bottom loudspeaker + earpiece / top speaker stereo combo & a headphone jack.
The speaker quality is very good - the top speaker competes with the top speaker well enough that it doesn't feel drowned out, but it'll also vibrate the back, which you'll feel the most when the X3N's not covered with a case. The back vibration is an unfortunate side effect of using a plastic back.
The headphone jack quality is passable. Loudness wise, it squarely falls into "average" territory.
The 6.67' 20:9 120hz LCD with a centered punch hole is mostly the same as the X3N (aside from cover glass), so refer to the X3N review for it... again.
No changes from the X3N, so it's still the worst bootloader unlock protocol, no questions asked. You need a Xiaomi account, have to submit your phone number to Xiaomi servers, and use a proprietary Windows-only application to unlock its bootloader. That, combined with 168 real-world hours (maybe even more, up to 2 weeks at worst - and yes, it's longer than the F1, as far as I can remember) of wait time (which gets triggered somewhere around the unlocker app as far as I remember), makes it the worst. With Xiaomi's server getting less reliable nowadays, good luck.
Repair difficulty on the X3P is no different from the X3N, so just look up that one.
For custom ROMs, the X3P can be worked with in A11 as it contains some decent builds from ArrowOS, crDroid (with one unofficial build being updated to final A11 security patch), & LineageOS (though I'd rather go with the former 2); as well as some late 2021 unofficial builds from Pling (which I'm not really sure about, especially in the presence of reliable alternatives like ArrowOS). Going past that, the only decent-ish A12(L) build comes from crDroid (but its microG support seem to be borked); while we get plenty of choices in A13 & A14 that I can no longer be bothered to cover.
When it comes to recovery, there's a decently-maintained official TWRP, which doesn't mount partitions as rw by default, though there's a workaround for it.
For custom kernels, they were definitely there, and with KernelSU to boot. However, the old hands have mostly retired from the scene, with newer developers taking the stage (mostly in Telegram) with varying levels of success...
As for the old hands, in case you'd want to use them :
Generally, there's not much problems with the X3P, aside from:
As for avoidable problems, we got :
To cut things short, here's what the X3P are :
Generally, I can somewhat recommend the X3P only if you're fine with Xiaomi's bootloader protocol & the reality of dynamic partitioned device hitting at full force (though there's a less convenient workaround). If you were to choose between the X3P & X3N, pick the former. However, I cannot ignore the elephant in the room on both - random hard-bricking. Be careful if you actually plan on getting it, & make sure you have a solution in case your X3P hard-bricks.
And, as with the X3N, the X3P has 2 hardware variants : Global with NFC (vayu) & Indian without NFC (bhima). The Indian variant might be more prone to hard-bricking due to QC issues so I recommend avoiding it whenever possible, especially since there's no added battery to replace the missing NFC, unlike the Indian X3.
12/10/2024 Update : With Xiaomi being rumored to shutting down its Global bootloader unlocking program (currently it's getting less reliable), I'm no longer able to recommend any Xiaomi devices unless you get it with the bootloader already unlocked. However, that is also somewhat risky as well since the seller might've fucked something up as well.
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