Infinix Note 60 Pro review

Android 16 with iOS-like XOS 16

The Infinix Note 60 Pro runs the company's highly customized and customizable XOS skin on top of Android 16. Our review unit shipped with XOS 16.1 on board.

The phone comes with the promise of three major OS upgrades and five years of security patches.

As you will see, XOS and HiOS, which is Tecno's custom skin, are very similar (and iOS-like looking) and basically the same skin with different names. The Android OS, even with the Infinix skin, is pretty straightforward.

XOS 16

There are plenty of customization options, including spatial wallpapers.

Personalization

The phone offers an always-on display, though the name is a bit generous since the panel only stays lit for about 5 seconds at a time. On the plus side, it does support landscape orientation while charging, letting it double as a bedside clock.

The not-so-AOD

You get a pair of handy shortcuts on the lockscreen - one for quickly launching the camera and another for toggling the flashlight.

On the productivity side, the phone supports the usual split-screen multitasking and pop-up window view for compatible apps, which is pretty standard fare these days.

Out of the box, the software package is relatively tidy, but not entirely free of extras. There are a few pre-installed apps that many users would likely label as bloat, including XClub, Calcare, Visha Player, WPS Office, Themes, and the Hola Browser.

There is a One Tap button, where you can assign a shortcut for when you long press it. It can be mute, flash, camera, Folax, Health, Note, DND, Matrix game, etc.

One Tap

The Dynamic Bar gives you iOS-inspired multi-tasking and/or notifications similar to Apple's Dynamic Island.

Dynamic Bar

There is also the Active Matrix (dot) display. You can configure the Active Matrix (dot) display on the back to show the time on flip and on shake, which is neat.

Active Matrix Display

It can also display some cool animal animations, both useful (notifications, NFC), or just for fun. There are even two arcade games available - one uses the volume buttons, the other one uses the accelerometer. It also displays the charging percentage when charging.

You can design your own custom animations.

Active Matrix Display

When not in use (the screen is unlocked), the Active Matrix is usually off and the Halo light flashes for charging, notifications, calls.

Out of the box, the Infinix Note 60 Pro relies on Infinix's own Folax voice assistant, which is based on the DeepSeek R1 model.

Folax AI assistant

Pressing and holding the Lock key launches Infinix's Folax assistant.

Infinix AI menus

Infinix bundles a fairly wide set of AI-powered tools, including real-time translation, writing and document assistance, turning sketches into images within Notes, AI wallpaper generation, and photo editing features like object removal and image expansion, among others. The company has also done a nicer job organizing and presenting these features this time around, which makes them easier to find and use.

Image AI

Google's Circle to Search is also included out of the box.

Performance and benchmarks

The Infinix Note 60 Pro uses the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chip, a mid-range platform built on the 4nm manufacturing node. It's the same chip that powers the Redmi Note 15 Pro+ and Poco M8 Pro.

The 8-core processor has 1x Prime Cortex-A720 core clocked at 2.7 + 3x Cortex-A720 (2.4GHz) units and 4x Cortex-A520 (1.8GHz).

The Adreno 810 brings improved performance, and it has Snapdragon Elite Gaming features like Adaptive Performance Engine 3.0 and Snapdragon Game Super Resolution.

There is also an updated Hexagon NPU that offers better AI performance with support for Llama 1B and Qwen 1B and real-time translation. On the connectivity side, the new 7s Gen 4 chip supports Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.4. It also brings support for the aptX Lossless and aptX Adaptive audio codecs.

The Infinix Note 60 Pro is available in three LPDDR5 RAM + UFS 2.2 storage configurations - 8GB/128GB, 8GB/256GB, and 12GB/256GB (ours). There is no microSD expansion slot.

And now, let's run some benchmarks.

The Infinix Note 60 Pro is a mid-ranger by the book, as its scores are between the upper and lower mid-rangers. It has an adequate processor and graphics, which present a proper update over the Note 50 Pro 4G. While it's nowhere near the Note 60 Ultra, it does deliver good hiccup-free performance across the board. It sure is no gaming phone, and yet games ran pretty fine when we tried them.

Finally, the sustained performance is exemplary with 87% retained CPU and 99% retained GPU raw power on our usual stress tests.

The phone never really got hot, which is nice, too.