Xiaomi Poco X4 Pro 5G Unboxing

Hey friends! So the United States is turning off 3G cell towers this year - AT&T's are already off - and I had to get a new phone because my previous phone only went up to 3G. So I saw a review for the Xiaomi sub-brand Poco X4 Pro 5G that really got me interested - basically, I could get a lot more phone for the price of a much simpler one. Now I'm not real techy with the phone specs, but my previous phone only went up to 16GB of memory and this one has 128GB (there was a model with double that but I got the smaller one); my previous phone had just regular camera lenses at 13MP for the main and 5MP for the selfie; this one has three cameras on the back at 108MP for the main and 16MP for the selfie plus an ultrawide and macro lens (have never had those on a phone before!). So this is definitely feeling very fancy for me. :)

The review I initially saw that made me look into this phone was from Mrwhosetheboss on YouTube, where he was basically saying that it was possibly as close as you could get to a flagship phone at a discount phone price. Xiaomi phones aren't really marketed in the US - I could find it on EBay or Amazon, but not at Best Buy, for example - and as you'll see in the video, the phone store that I bought it from included a US adapter separate from the original packaging because the phone doesn't come with a US-plug charger. But it should work with my carrier (about to switch over my SIM card today), so I'm down to try a new brand (and charge it like I'm traveling internationally, hee hee) for a better phone!

If you're wondering, this phone cost me $292, or $318 with tax. The Samsung phone I was looking at before I found this one was $250 before tax with 64GM memory and a 50MP main camera (the Galaxy A13 5G) - so I'd say I seriously upgraded for 40 bucks more.

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