iQoo 12 was launched by the corporate in India as we speak and is the corporate’s newest flagship telephone to debut within the nation. The Chinese language smartphone maker beat Xiaomi, OnePlus, and different OEMs to launch the primary smartphone with Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in India — additionally it is paired with the corporate’s in-house Q1 coprocessor. This smartphone will compete with upcoming flagship telephones such because the OnePlus 12 and Xiaomi 14 which might be each anticipated to launch in India within the coming weeks.

The corporate has launched its newest flagship handset in Alpha and Legend colourways. The previous is black with an AG Glass rear panel, whereas the Legend — that is the mannequin we obtained for assessment — is white with a white colored porcelain enamel glass materials. In contrast to its predecessor — the iQoo 11 5G — this flagship handset doesn’t have the elongated BMW Motorsport-inspired racing stripes throughout the rear panel.

iQoo 12 is on the market in Alpha and Legend (pictured) colourways

The iQoo 12 has flat metallic edges which might be clean with a barely curved rear panel that’s simple to carry. It has a flat 6.78-inch LTPO AMOLED show with very slim bezels on all 4 edges and iQoo says the show has a peak brightness of 1,400 nits (3,000 nits in excessive brightness mode) — you’ll be able to see the contents of the display screen clearly even in shiny daylight.

This can be a telephone with a big show, and it is difficult to achieve for the highest of the display screen with one hand — I’ve pretty massive fingers. There is a built-in function that scales down the show output to the decrease nook which helps a bit of, however you can see your self utilizing the telephone with each fingers regularly.

On the rear panel, iQoo has geared up the handset with a triple rear digital camera setup that’s housed in a squircle-shaped digital camera island that the corporate says is impressed by a submarine porthole. The glass on the digital camera module protrudes barely, the steel edge has small ridges. Whenever you place the telephone on a flat floor, it’s largely secure, although the digital camera island is aligned to at least one aspect.

This yr, the iQoo 12 comes with some notable upgrades over its predecessor, the iQoo 11 5G. The handset is provided with a 1/1.3-inch OmniVision OV50H sensor. It additionally has a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle digital camera with a 120-degree field-of-view; together with a 64-megapixel periscope telephoto digital camera with 3x optical zoom, 100x hybrid zoom.

The corporate has geared up the iQoo 12 with the 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip that’s paired with as much as 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and as much as 256GB of inbuilt storage. The telephone is provided with a 5,000mAh battery and ships with a charger within the field.

iQoo 12 is provided with a 50-megapixel triple rear digital camera setup

The handset comes with a clear TPU cowl within the field, which seems to supply satisfactory safety with raised edges, together with the display screen and cameras. It additionally comes with a big charging brick and a USB Kind-C to Kind-C cable that may cost the telephone at 120W. It’s important to toggle a setting to permit the telephone to cost at 120W, and it will get a bit of heat once you’re performing a full cost.

Within the time that I’ve spent with the iQoo 12 up to now, the telephone feels simple to make use of whereas packing a whole lot of high-end specs. The handset will face competitors from many flagship smartphone makers within the coming weeks and its comparatively cheaper price level is probably going to assist the corporate provide higher worth for the specs on provide. iQoo has touted the efficiency of the smartphone’s processor and its battery effectivity, and we’ll put these claims to the check in our full assessment which shall be out on Devices 360 quickly.