We’ve been tracking the POCO X8s from the Vietnam pre-order via the global launch and now Europe is finally getting it too. It’s on sale at the German Amazon, which also ships it to Slovakia, while neither the Slovak Xiaomi website nor shops on Heureka have it yet. A compact phone with a 6.35-inch display and a 6330 mAh battery—otherwise you’d hardly find in the mid-range.
From the German Amazon, you’ll have it at home within a week
POCO X8s is sold and shipped directly by Amazon.de from its European warehouse—not a seller from China, and not any other store that merely lists its goods on Amazon. To Slovakia, the phone should arrive in about a week. Shipping is around 7 € and since the package doesn’t travel through customs, VAT is already included in the price and you don’t pay anything else.
POCO X8s
TIPExpress delivery from the German warehouse with no customs duty and no VAT.
This product will be delivered to you express from a local German warehouse. Delivery from Germany usually takes 7-10 days, and it’s brought by courier. When it arrives, you don’t pay any extra fees—no customs duty or VAT.
TIPExpress delivery from the German warehouse with no customs duty and no VAT.
This product will be delivered to you express from a local German warehouse. Delivery from Germany usually takes 7-10 days, and it’s brought by courier. When it arrives, you don’t pay any extra fees—no customs duty or VAT.
Buying from Germany: what are the terms?
All you need is an Amazon.de account, a Slovak address, and a payment card—and if you don’t know German, you can switch the page to English or Czech. We tried to place the order all the way to the last step: standard delivery cost 7,21 € and the phone ordered on Wednesday was supposed to arrive on Tuesday. For next-day express delivery, Amazon charges 16,44 €.
With a Slovak address, Amazon applies Slovak VAT of 23 % instead of German 19 %, so you see a price roughly 14 € higher than what Germans pay. Today, they can buy it for 429,90 €, the same as in Xiaomi’s official German store. The recommended price is 529,90 €, so right from the start of sales the phone is 100 € cheaper.
You get a three-year warranty too, since Xiaomi adds a third year on top of the usual two years, without any registration, and any warranty claim is handled with Amazon. You can return it up until January 15, 2027. Plus, POCO includes two months of YouTube Premium, three months of Spotify Premium, and three months of Google One with 100 GB.
Just keep in mind that in the European box, the charger isn’t included. You’ll only reach the full 100 W with an adapter that supports PPS, while with a regular USB-C charger the phone will charge as well—just more slowly.
A small phone you can hold in one hand
The phone measures 151,1 × 71,8 × 8,06 mm and weighs 187 g, which is very little given a battery capacity of 6330 mAh. The frame is made of slightly curved aluminum, the back is glass, and on Amazon you can choose black, blue, or white.
The Samsung Galaxy A57 is 76,8 mm wide, so it’s a full 5 mm wider; the Honor Magic8 Lite measures 76,1 mm and the Honor 500 with its 6,55-inch display measures 74,2 mm. Otherwise, you’ll find small phones only among more expensive models—for example, the Google Pixel 10a with a 6,3-inch display costs 649 € after the October price increase.
Display with 3500 nits and an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor
AMOLED with a 6,35-inch diagonal and a resolution of 2656 × 1220 dots, giving a sharpness of 460 pixels per inch. As the first display in a POCO phone, it changes its refresh rate from 1 to 120 Hz thanks to LTPO technology. At the peak, it reaches up to 3500 nits of brightness, supports Dolby Vision and HDR10+, and the bezels around it are only 1,18 mm wide.
Under the glass, there’s an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor that the base POCO X8 doesn’t have. In games, the touch is sampled up to 480 times per second, and the display also responds to wet fingers—handy in the rain or right after washing your hands.
A telephoto lens that even the X8 Pro Max doesn’t have
The main Light Fusion 800 sensor has 50 Mpx, a 1/1.55-inch size, f/1.77 aperture, and optical stabilization. Next to it is a 50 Mpx telephoto lens with a 57 mm focal length, providing 2.5× zoom. It’s rounded out by an 8 Mpx ultra-wide camera and a 20 Mpx front camera.
The more expensive POCO X8 Pro and X8 Pro Max only have a main and an ultra-wide camera on the back, so zoom without a digital cut in the POCO X8 lineup is only available on the smallest model. Video is recorded in 4K at 30 frames per second.
Battery 6330 mAh, but with one compromise
Inside you get Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 made on a 4-nanometer process with a clock speed up to 2.8 GHz, and heat is handled by 3D IceLoop cooling with a surface area of 4497 mm². The silicon-carbon battery with a capacity of 6330 mAh, according to POCO, should last for more than 24 hours of video playback and retain at least 80% of its capacity after 1600 cycles. You can also charge other devices with it, with a power output of 22.5 W.
The trade-off is older LPDDR4X memory and UFS 2.2 storage, which are slower than what you get from similarly priced competitors. If you don’t need the small dimensions, POCO X8 Pro with the Dimensity 8500-Ultra chip and a 6.59-inch display is more powerful, and on Heureka you can find it for less than 320 €. With the X8s, you’re mainly paying for a one-hand body, a telephoto lens, and an LTPO display.
You also get IP68 rating, stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos, Wi‑Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.4, NFC, and an IR blaster, and the phone can run two eSIMs at once. Since it’s the European version, HyperOS 3 includes Slovak and all Google services, and the phone supports the 5G n20 and n28 bands used by operators here.
| - | POCO X8s |
|---|---|
| Display | 6.35 inches AMOLED LTPO / 2656 x 1220 / 1 up to 120 Hz |
| Brightness | up to 3500 nits |
| Chip | Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 (4 nm) / up to 2.8 GHz |
| Memory | 8 + 256 GB / 12 + 512 GB (LPDDR4X / UFS 2.2) |
| Main camera | 50 Mpx Light Fusion 800 / 1/1.55 inches / OIS |
| Telephoto | 50 Mpx / 57 mm / 2.5x zoom |
| Ultra-wide angle | 8 MP |
| Front camera | 20 MP |
| Battery | 6330 mAh silicon-carbon |
| Charging | 100 W (PPS) / 22.5 W in reverse via cable |
| Dimensions | 151.1 x 71.8 x 8.06 mm / 187 g |
| Durability | IP68 |
| System | Xiaomi HyperOS 3 |
| In the box | without a charger |
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