IQoo is the newest smartphone brand to enter the Indian market. While most companies enter the new market with the intention of occupying the budget segment first, iQoo has come up in India with a different plan to the contrary. The company made its debut in India with the iQoo 3, which is a premium smartphone and comes with some robust hardware.
iQoo 3 Design
When we first saw iQoo 3, we were quite happy with its build. With a weight of 214.5 grams, it certainly feels heavy, but also premium. It has a 6.44-inch AMOLED display. It has a small hole-punch cutout for the selfie camera. There are extremely thin bezels around the display.
iQoo 3 specifications and software
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset has been given in Iku 3. It is by far the most powerful chipset in Android smartphones, with one core operating at 2.8 GHz, three cores at 2.4 GHz and the other four cores operating at 1.8 GHz clock speed.
iqoo has launched three variants of iQoo 3 in the Indian market. The base variant has 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage and is priced at Rs 36, 990. Its second variant has 256 GB storage with 8 GB RAM, which costs Rs 39, 990. The phone also has a 12 GB RAM and 256 GB storage variant, which supports 5G. Its price in India is Rs 44, 990. All variants of iQoo 3 include UFS 3.1 storage and LPDDR5 RAM.
iQoo 3 performance, battery life
The display of the iqoo3 has a 60Hz refresh rate panel. Nevertheless, its color production is very good. The viewing angles of the panel are good and it performs quite well even in the sun. There are three color modes to choose from and you can also tweak the color temperature. The iQoo 3 display has a small hole-punch, but it won’t disturb you while watching content. However we were not happy with the iQoo 3’s loudspeaker. It lacks stereo output and makes very little noise to our liking of the speaker.
iQoo 3 cameras
The back of the iqoo 3 comes with a quad-camera module, which reminds us of the Vivo V17. The primary camera has a 48-megapixel Sony IMX582 sensor with f / 1.79 aperture and the secondary camera has a 13-megapixel telephoto sensor with f / 2.46 aperture, which supports 2x optical zoom and 20X digital zoom. The other two cameras feature a 13-megapixel wide-angle lens with an f / 2.2 aperture and a 2-megapixel depth sensor with an f / 2.4 aperture. The camera app is similar to the one found in Vivo’s smartphone.
Verdict
The IQoo 3 is the first smartphone of this new brand in India and comes with some powerful hardware. The phone has Snapdragon 865 chipset and also includes support for UFS 3.1 storage. Both these combinations appear in very few smartphones. The phone also has a 5G connectivity variant, if you take the top variant and spend Rs 44, 990. However 5G networks are not available in India at the moment, so you can also choose the below variants without any worries. However, in our review, we have tested only 5G variants with 12 GB RAM.
The software of iqoo 3 is good. However, it gets better when the bloatware involved is removed. However the camera felt lighter on several occasions. Apart from its camera performance, iQoo 3 did not give us a chance to complain.