The iQOO brand held a big launch event in China where we saw the debut of the iQOO Neo8 series, iQOO Pad and TWS Air Pro earphones. The Neo8 series comes in two variants with the iQOO Neo8 and Neo8 Pro featuring the new chipset MediaTek’s Dimension 9200+.
iQOO Neo8 series
Dimensity 9200+ features a Cortex-X3 prime core clocked at 3.35Ghz along with 3 Big Cortex-A715 cores humming at 3.0GHz and 4 Little Cortex-A510 cores clocking at 2.0GHz. MediaTek’s new SoC It also packs an ARM Immortalis G715 GPU and managed to outperform the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in Geekbench 6 benchmarks, so it’ll be interesting to see how the two fare in real-world testing.
iQOO Neo8 Pro chipset and vapor chamber
The Dimension 9200+ also features Wi-Fi 7 connectivity and support for up to 16GB LPDDR5x RAM and 512GB UFS 4.0 storage for the Neo8 Pro model. The engineers behind the phone have also added a massive chamber of 5002mm2 steam to help keep thermals in check.
The regular iQOO Neo8 gets a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip with up to 16GB LPDDR5 RAM and 512GB UFS 3.1 storage.
Both phones share the same 6.78-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1260x2800px and a refresh rate of 144Hz. The Neo8 Pro brings a more elaborate 50MP Sony IMX 866 sensor on its main cam with OIS along with an 8MP ultrawide module. Neo8 features a 50MP Samsung GN5 sensor with OIS and a 2MP depth sensor. Both new phones also get the added benefit of vivo V1+ ISP.
The software side is covered by OriginOS 3 based on Android 13 and both phones are equipped with 5,000mAh batteries with 120W fast wired charging.
iQOO Neo8 and Neo8 Pro are equipped with 120W wired fast charging
iQOO Neo 8 starts at CNY 2,299 ($325) for the 12/256GB version and goes up to CNY 2,899 ($410) for the 16/512GB version.
iQOO Neo 8 Pro starts at CNY 3,099 ($440) for the 16/256GB version and goes up to CNY 3,399 ($482) for the 16/512 version. Both phones are available in red, green and black colors. Open sales in China start on May 31st.
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