The premium iQOO 12 series has just arrived, starting in China. The iQOO 12 Pro and iQOO 12 are very similar, except for some design tails, displays and batteries.
Starting with the iQOO 12 Pro: It’s the curver of the two with a slim bezel and tapered glass panels on both sides. It is available in three colors, each with its own finish. The edition in collaboration with BMW Motorsport is available in white with textured glass in porcelain enamel. The black model has an AG fluorite glass back with a soft texture that shimmers. Finally, the red model has a vegan leather finish with what iQOO calls a “windprint texture.” The camera island has a nail-of-Paris structure, not unlike the new Xiaomi 14.
The iQOO 12 Pro packs a 6.78-inch AMOLED E7 display with 1440x3200px resolution and 144Hz refresh rate. The panel performs PWM dimming at 1440 Hz and can reach up to 1,600 nits in normal conditions and 3,000 nits in peak mode.
Being a gaming-centric phone, iQOO 12 Pro has impressive features. It uses the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip with 16GB of LPDDR5x RAM and up to 1TB of UFS 4.0 storage. There’s an in-house developed Q1 chip that delivers smooth gaming up to 144Hz (at 1080P) and does tricks like low-latency, superframe, and super-resolution frame insertion (DLSS-like supersampling). The iQOO 12 Pro packs a 5,705mm² vapor chamber for heat dissipation.
The iQOO 12 Pro
The iQOO 12 Pro also packs an impressive all-round camera system. The main sensor is a 50MP 1/1.3″ OmniVision OV50H sensor behind a 23mm optically stabilized lens.
The telephoto lens has a 64MP 1/2″ sensor and an optically stable 70mm f/2.57 lens. The lens is a 3x optical unit that can perform 10x “HD zoom” and up to digital zoom at 100x.iQOO calls this periscope a 70-230mm camera and claims it can do telephoto macro.
Finally, there’s a 50MP 15mm ultrawide with its own macro mode and a 16MP f/2.45 selfie camera.
The iQOO 12 Pro has a 5,100mAh battery with 120W wired and 50W wireless charging support. iQOO boasts that the battery would retain at least 80% of its capacity after 1,600 cycles.
The iQOO 12 Pro runs on vivo’s new OriginOS 4, based on Android 14.
Moving on to the iQOO 12, it comes in the same three colors with its own finishes, but the non-Pro has a wider, glossier bezel and flat front and back panels.
The iQOO 12 has the same chipset and cameras but offers different displays, battery, and charging capabilities. There is also a variant with 12 GB of RAM.
The iQOO 12
Initially, the iQOO 12 has the same 6.78-inch display but with a lower resolution of 2800x1260px. The panel still maxes out at 144Hz.
There are two battery options available: a 5,000 mAh unit and a 4,880 mAh unit (it’s unclear what differentiates the two), and both offer 120W wired charging and not wireless charging.
iQOO 12 Pro on the left, 12 on the right
Both the iQOO 12 and 12 Pro are available for pre-order today and will go on sale on November 14th. iQOO 12 Pro starts at CNY 4,999 (€642, INR 57,150) for the base 16/256 GB model, up to CNY 5,499 (€707, INR 62,800) for the 16/512 GB model and goes up to CNY 5,999 (€ 770, INR 69,670) for the 16GB/1TB model. The iQOO 12 costs CNY 3,999 (€515, INR 45,700) for the 12/256 GB model, CNY 4,299 (€552, INR 49,150) for the 16/512 GB model and CNY 4,699 (€605, INR 53,700) for 16GB model/1TB model. Hopefully, both models will hit the global market sooner rather than later.
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