Hey, what’s up? Sami here.
It’s been crazy.
We’ve just entered the year 2022, and this is the first week.
We’ve already had the Xiaomi 12 series, Galaxy S21 FE, the realme GT 2,
and iQOO 9 series, which I will talk about in this video.
Next week we’ll have the phone Honor Magic V, the Oneplus 10, and maybe some other random
phones I don’t know.
OMG, the phone battle has already begun!
These phone manufacturers don’t seem to want tech reviewers like me to have a good
new year!
But I like it!
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Without further ado, let’s get started.
First things first, the unboxing.
Inside the box, we’ll find the phone, some paperwork with nonsense on it, under that
we have an orange case, a pin, and a 120W charger.
But this time they adopted the gallium nitride technology, which makes the size smaller but
still capable of 65W PD output and should be no problem to power most laptops on the
market.
Moving to the phone.
What we got is the classic orange from iQOO.
They use this plain leather texture material, which feels elegant.
For the camera module, seems they are trying to catch up with its vivo flagship phones.
Now the camera module fully extends the whole upper part.
Remember that vivo x70 pro+?
The same design language, right?
But if we look closer, they have slightly different designs.
But I guess they all learned this from Xiaomi 11 Ultra.
The more dramatic the camera module, the more distinctive their phones will be.
Compared to the iQOO 8 Pro, the size of the 9 Pro remains the same.
While the 203 grams of weight and 9.21 mm thickness are definitely not something you
can easily ignore.
The iQOO 9 Pro houses the newest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and if you are wondering about the
Antutu Benchmark or GeekBench test, here you go.
It’s in the first tier if we compared it to others, but heat dissipation is still a
big problem.
To solve this, the iQOO 9 Pro sports a dramatic dissipation structure, which they called “Eighteen-layer
stacked waterfall VC three-dimensional cooling system”, which sounds like a gimmick that
probably doesn’t help.
I won’t go into details about the technology, it’s just too boring.
We just did the 3D Mark Wild Life Extreme stress test.
After 20 rounds of testing, the result shows that it has almost the same performance as
the moto edge X30, but not as stable as the Xiaomi 12 Pro.
The highest temperature reached 55 degrees on the back and 50 degrees on the screen,
which is… super hot, as hot as this host from Phoenix Lab.
Just imagine when you are playing games.
Speaking of gaming experience, we tried the Genshin Impact in high graphics straight for
30minutes, the frame rate remained at a good level and we didn’t experience any obvious
lag, and as you can see the highest temperature on the front and back are actually not that
bad, much better than the results when we were doing the 3D stress test.
Anyway, it’s enough for your normal daily gaming.
To be honest, I don’t even care because I don’t play games.
But I do care about the battery life, it packs a 4,700mAh battery, which you can charge 38%
in just 5 minutes and fully top up in just 18 minutes with their 120W fast charging adapter.
That’s crazy fast.
As for the camera, iQOO 9 Pro sports a main 50MP snapper, it’s Samsung’s new-generation
GN5 sensor, a 50MP ultra-wide-angle lens Samsung JN1 sensor, it supports 150° viewing angle,
and 2.5X 16MP telephoto lens.
As iQOO told us that they will update a new firmware for the camera, so here in this video
we are not going to talk about the camera performance, please subscribe if you want
us to do more photo tests.
Now about the screen.
The iQOO 9 Pro comes with a 6.78-inch 2K 120Hz high refresh rate display.
This screen is the Samsung E5 display that supports LTPO 2.0 technology.
It has an excellent color performance from our test.
It also incorporates an ultrasonic 3D wide-area fingerprint scanner just like its predecessor,
it’s accurate by the way.
One thing we really love is because it has a super wide recognition area, you can unlock
your phone and at the same time enter a pre-set App to whether scan the QR code to pay or
do other operations, it’s convenient.
And lastly, if you want to know the sound, we compared it with the Xiaomi 12 Pro, let
me know which one do you like.
Alright, that’s the video.
For us, this phone has great performance in almost every aspect and has no obvious shortage
whatsoever.
For me it seems like this iQOO sub-brand is trying to kill their main brand vivo.
For the pricing and availability, you can check out the link in the description.
Thanks for watching and please don’t forget to subscribe, I’m Sami and I will see you
in the next one.