QUICK REVIEW
Dec 13, 2023
The iQOO 12 holds the crown to give buyers the first dibs at the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
The pricing is crazy, to put it gently. A version with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage costs Rs 52,999. The top-of-the-line 16GB/512GB trim is priced at Rs 57,999.
The iQOO 12 feels like the first phone from iQOO in years to look like it’s coming out of Vivo’s shadow and doing its own thing. It looks like an iQOO phone. Not a Vivo.
Once again, iQOO is offering a choice of white and black. Both are handsome looking.
The screen is chef’s kiss. There’s plenty of real estate at 6.78-inch, plenty of pixels at 1.5K (2800x1260p) resolution, and it is plenty fast at 144Hz.
iQOO has also managed to put an IP rating— a rarity in these phones— even if it is limited to IP64.
iQOO pairs the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with up to 16GB of LPDDR5x RAM and up to 512GB of UFS4.0 storage. The VC setup for cooling is up to 40 percent bigger than that on the iQOO 11, iQOO says.
iQOO is doubling down on software efforts, too, making the iQOO 12 among the first phones to launch with Android 14 out of the box.
The iQOO 12 has a trio of 50-megapixel, 50-megapixel, and 64-megapixel sensors sitting behind a 23mm wide (with optical image stabilisation), 150-dgree ultrawide, and 70mm periscope-style telephoto (for 3x optical and up to 100x digital zoom).
Rounding off the package is a 5,000mAh battery with 120W fast wired charging.
Barring wireless charging and “full proof” water resistance, the iQOO 12 covers big ground, the kind that no other iQOO phone has covered before.