Poco C65 Quick Review: Best value for money!

Poco C65 Quick Review: Poco is known for offering budget smartphones in India and its latest offering is available at Rs 8,499 for the base variant of 4GB + 128GB variant. The other two variants 6GB + 128GB and 8GB +256GB are priced at Rs 9,499 and Rs 10,999 respectively. Is this smartphone worth buying? Find out here. 

Poco C65 Quick Review: Design 

The Poco C65 is a good-looking smartphone. It has a plastic frame and back with a matte finish. The smartphone is a little bit slippery because of the matte finish but makes it smudge and fingerprint-resistant. 

Poco C65 Quick Review: Display

The smartphone has a 6.74-inch HD+ display with a refresh rate of 90Hz and a touch sampling rate of 180Hz. It's a decent display with 600 nits of peak brightness. L1 Widevine certification allows users to watch content at 1080p resolution on Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video.

Poco C65 Quick Review: Performance

The smartphone is powered by a MediaTek Helio G85 SoC. This isn't a new chip and you can notice lag while using the device. Multi-tasking isn't that smooth on this device but it can handle your task. However, you can try some light games like Subway Surfer. 

Poco C65 Quick Review: Software

The Poco C65 boots on the MIUI 14 skin based on Android 13. It has a decent UI but comes with many pre-installed apps. The good thing is that most of them can be uninstalled.

Poco C65 Quick Review: Battery and charging

The Poco C65 comes with a 5,000mAh battery and supports 18W fast charging. However, the box comes with only 10W charging brick. The device will take anything above 150 minutes to get fully charged. Once juiced up, it can easily last for an entire day in moderate usage.

Poco C65 Quick Review: Camera

It comes with an AI triple rear camera setup with a primary sensor of 50-megapixel. It is accompanied by a 2-megapixel macro camera and an AI depth camera for portrait photos. The Poco C65 has an 8-megapixel waterdrop notch camera on the front for selfies. Camera performance is just fine for the price.

Poco C65 Quick Review: Verdict

If you are tight on budget and looking to buy a decent smartphone, the Poco C65 is one of the best options. Several things could have been better, especially the performance, but nothing so problematic that you will complain about at this price point.