Cell phone creator Vivo is a monster in local China and other Asian business sectors, yet its presence is missed in a significant part of the remainder of the world. Like opponents Xiaomi and Huawei, it made a sub-brand, iQoo, to carry its innovation to the majority at frequently less expensive costs.
The iQoo Neo 6 is an exceptionally strong telephone with near-lead specs or more normal execution for the asking cost. The plan sticks out, the product is unpretentious, and the principal camera focal point is truly proficient.
The telephone is accessible now in India and China, yet it probably won’t get an authority discharge elsewhere. That is a disgrace since a telephone gives mid-range Realme, Samsung, and Oppo telephones a run for their cash.
I checked on the Indian rendition of the telephone, which has the Snapdragon 870 though the Chinese model has the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
Design and build
- Cool color options
- Matt plastic finish
- Hole-punch selfie camera
The plan of my Neo 6 survey unit would have been completely mediocre were it not in a parma violet purple and blue blast that iQoo is calling ‘Digital Fury’. However, there’s nothing seething about affable lilac tones changing with the light. I think it looks perfect, and it contrasts with 1,000,000 dark-section telephones.
iQoo has saved money on costs and further developed strength by deciding on plastic rather than the glass on the back as well, a move more producers ought to make, especially here where it doesn’t feel modest. The two long edges of the back are somewhat bent which assists the telephone with nestling serenely in your grasp.
The camera module is a somber square shape with three focal points and a glimmer, with detail beneath a plastic strip that has the Neo marking on it. With no administrative imprints and a perfect silver iQoo logo, this is a telephone to purchase to stand apart from the group. The other variety choice is a more muffled ‘Dim Nova’ that is a dim greenish blue.
Around the front is a less rousing undertaking. There’s a recognizable dark bezel around the edge of the presentation with adjusted corners and a solitary opening punch cut out for the forward-looking camera at the top.
There’s no earphone jack, and the USB-C port is flanked by a descending terminating speaker and nano-SIM opening. A volume rocker sits over the power button on the right-hand edge. Up to this point, so telephone. In any case, purple.
Display and audio
- Flat 6.62in OLED
- 120Hz refresh rate
- Stereo speakers
The Neo 6 has a major, splendid 6.62 AMOLED screen that gets bounty brilliant and is receptive to taps, swipes, and squeezes. I appreciate that it’s level as opposed to bending at the edges.
The screen doesn’t go right to the edges however the bezel didn’t irritate me as it is extremely slight, and the four corners are adjusted flawlessly not at all like a few different telephones I’ve tried. The in-show unique finger impression sensor is solid and responsive.
High revive rate shows are exceptionally normal in Android telephones now, which is perfect for yourself as well as your eyes. 60Hz was the cell phone standard for quite a long time however 120Hz on the Neo 6 duplicates make application livelinesss, menus, and message scroll two times without a hitch. You can pick 60Hz or 120Hz in the settings or decide on iQoo’s Savvy Switch programming that flicks between the two relying upon what you’re doing. Utilizing 60Hz when things aren’t moving cases to save battery duration.
I had no hesitations with the board on the Neo 6 involving it as my fundamental telephone for a long time. I looked over Twitter, watched YouTube, and took photographs absent any real missing the showcases of additional costly telephones like the Google Pixel 6 Ace or Samsung World S22 Ultra. Those telephones improve screens yet taking into account the cost of the Neo 6 you’re not passing up an excessive amount of additional quality.
The speakers are additionally very great, especially for paying attention to digital broadcasts or the radio or talking calls hands-free. The earpiece and down-terminating speaker are utilized as a sound system pair and possibly mutilate when you wrench music through them uproariously. In any case, given it ought to be against the law to play music at any volume from your telephone, you would be stressed over that will you, dear peruser?
It’s perfect to see the telephone guaranteed to play Hey res music, so in the event that you buy into a help like Flowing or Qobuz you’ll partake in the nice remote sound quality.
One minor point is that in direct daylight you can see the secret surrounding light sensors and different sensors behind the showcase, something I haven’t seen in that frame of mind of late.
Specs and performance
- Snapdragon 870
- 5G
- 8GB/128GB or 12GB/256GB
The Neo 6 sparkles when you contrast the amount it costs with how well it performs. It is a mid-range valued telephone that acts essentially as well as a leader telephone that retails two times or multiple times more.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 870 chipset is the majority of the motivation behind why given it is a score below the ‘leader’ level nowadays. However, for a great many people, myself included, it’s over-the-top excess. The processor is definitely more remarkable than what a large portion of us do on our telephones in any case. It handles virtual entertainment, informing, photography, and video calls easily.
It additionally implies the Neo 6 is a fair decision as a gaming telephone and has inconspicuous considerations in the engine like a vibration motor that thunders along to interactivity.
My survey unit had 12GB Slam which assisted things with flying by rapidly, however that sum is as yet a truckload for a versatile. iQoo additionally included what it calls ‘expanded Slam’ where the telephone can help an extra 4GB of Smash execution out of the free extra room – so the 12GB Smash can imitate the exhibition of 16GB (or 8GB supported to 12GB on the other model).
It does this consequently to keep games streaming and applications running behind the scenes when there’s a great deal of stuff open on the double.
In benchmark tests, the Neo 6 was close to as zippy as the Poco F4 GT, a gaming telephone with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip carefully designed for gaming. It was likewise quicker than the OnePlus Nord 2T, a telephone that costs more, and scarcely beneath the superior Vivo X80 Ace.
Benchmarks aren’t all that obvious, so I’m glad to back up that the Neo performs well in genuine use as well.
Unfortunately, perhaps of the most exceedingly terrible thing about the telephone is its haptics. However the gaming thunder highlight worked pleasantly with little knocks and hums that appear to be legit in setting, the haptic engine for composing and framework vibrations is exceptionally metallic and pingy, to the place where every individual vibration resembles a perceptible ‘ping’. It is truly irritating and causes the telephone to feel modest. Without precedent for years, I switched off the console vibration on an Android telephone. Boo.
Camera
- 64Mp Samsung sensor
- No telephoto lens
- Software spoils selfies
A common quality among numerous fair mid-range telephones is the presence of one very great camera focal point close by two not-incredible ones, and a similar applies here. iQoo has involved Samsung’s 64Mp GW1P sensor for the fundamental focal point and it produces extraordinary shots in light. It’s likewise used to edit 2x to copy fax without a committed zooming focal point.
Results are punchy thanks to HDR and optical picture adjustment (OIS). Indeed, even with computer-based intelligence modes switched off, the product actually wrenches up the immersion so it’s somewhat difficult to get consistent with life variety balance yet to the extent that Android point shoots go, this is exceptionally strong. Assuming you take a ton of pictures of moving items like kids and creatures, be cautioned that shots frequently turn out somewhat hazy with any development.
The product disturbs me more while taking selfies with the 16Mp front camera. The product is set up with face thinning, brightening, coloring, and different other man-made intelligence-improving modes out of the case and it’s an enormous aggravation to go in and turn them generally off. It’s quite possibly the most irritating thing about the telephone.
The 2Mp large-scale focal point offers a touch of tomfoolery getting very close, yet an oddity doesn’t keep going long. Results aren’t generally so nitty gritty as on the iPhone 13 Master or as close up as the insane 30x camera seen on the Oppo Track down X3 Star, however, those are extremely exceptional telephones. Fundamentally, mid-range telephones shouldn’t have full-scale cameras since they’re never any great when the parts are modest.
A 16Mp super wide focal point is great for catching even more of a scene, yet it’s of recognizably lesser quality than what the primary focal point is prepared to do.
Battery and charging
- 80W wired charging
- No wireless charging
- All day stamina
One of the Neo 6’s best elements is its wired 80W charging speeds, which in my testing charged the telephone from 0% to 88% shortly. Quick charging is turning out to be more regular on Android telephones and it’s one more motivation to go for the Neo 6.
In the event that you’re not in India or China, remember you’ll need to purchase a fitting connector (as I did) to utilize the packaged quick charger. You probably won’t see top charging speeds along these lines.
The Neo 6 handily endured an entire day of weighty use on its 4700mAh battery, possibly plunging to perilously low levels when I’d been pounding Important mission at hand. All things considered, it very well may be a piece capricious. A ten-minute CoD shootout just dropped the telephone by 4%, yet leaving the telephone on Wi-Fi short-term saw it drop from 84% to 56%. Beneficial thing the charging is super-quick.
The PC Imprint application battery test it went on for 16 hours and 43 minutes, which has just been beaten in our new testing by the 18 hours and 30 minutes of the Realme 9 Star.
Software and updates
- Android 12
- FunTouch OS is solid
- Gaming features
iQoo’s FunTouch operating system charmingly astonished me by not being excessively domineering. A few makers intrude with the presence of Android – even Google nowadays – and it tends to divert.
iQoo changes a couple of things about Android 12 (each organization does, for example, where things are concealed in the settings application, however generally, I found it a perfect and simple kind of Android that has not utilized it much beforehand.
There are some slick programming contacts, for example, the Game Space application where you can see what games you have downloaded and how long you’ve spent on them (risky), and the amount of Wi-Fi or portable information you’ve utilized playing them (helpful). I additionally like the in-game menu that can be gotten to by swiping from the left that shows central processor and GPU strain, battery duration, switches for battery saver balance, and, amusingly, the beast mode that wrenches the equipment as far as possible.
There’s even a voice transformer switch and a WhatsApp picture-in-picture button that brings the visit application onto the screen to shoot fast texts without stopping your game.
iQoo guarantees two years of Android updates to Android 13 and 14, and three years of safety refreshes. This is equivalent to OnePlus and better than Honor, yet behind Google’s three and five years of Android and security refreshes individually, and Samsung’s standout four and five.
Price and availability
The iQoo Neo 6 is at a bargain in India from ₹34,999, which is about £360/$450. On the off chance that you can find one to import at this cost, it’s awesome and worth being sure.
At the hour of composing the 8GB/128GB, the Chinese model was at a bargain at Giztop for $499 and the 12GB/256GB model for $549. Remember this isn’t the model I assessed, and has various specs. Look at them here.
Verdict
With a truly alluring plan that advantages from being plastic and in this manner strong, the Neo 6 is a decent decision assuming you need an Android telephone that performs like a leader for a mid-range cost. The product is perfect, the primary camera is strong, and the battery charges extraordinarily quickly.
In the event that you’re beyond India or China, you could like to purchase the OnePlus Nord 2T as it has comparative highlights, a similar programming update commitment, and will accompany nearby guarantees. It’s difficult to return or fix an imported telephone. In any case, the Neo 6 is certainly worth a look on the off chance that you need something a piece different with extraordinary execution. It simply appears as though bringing in the Indian version is difficult.
Specs
iQoo Neo 6: Specs
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G
- 8GB/12GB RAM
- 128GB/256GB UFS 3.1 storage
- 6.62in AMOLED display (2400 x 1080 resolution)
- 64Mp f/1.9 Wide angle camera
- 8Mp f/2.2 Ultra-wide camera
- 2Mp f/2.4 Macro camera
- 16MP f/2.0 Selfie camera
- Max Video Quality – 4K @ 30fps
- Funtouch OS 12 (based on Android 12)
- 5G
- WiFi 6
- Bluetooth 5.2
- GPS
- NFC
- Dual-SIM
- USB-C charging port
- 4700mAh battery (supports 80W Fast Charging)
- 163 x 76.2 x 8.5 mm
- 190g
