so this is the IQOO neo6 it's a new mid-range phone from them and it does have some decent
features that i think most people going to be looking for in a mid-range phone it has a very
good chipset you could say qualcomm's last chipset that didn't end up almost cooking your dinner or
reheating your coffee for you and that's the snapdragon 870 it's got that performance that we
all kind of want it does even have 5g support but it doesn't get hot it doesn't throttle and a bit
of a spoiler here the neo 6 doesn't throttle the cooling is very good in it so this model here has
a e4 amoled screen in it 120 hertz is the refresh rate it's full hd plus resolution 6.62 inches now
the battery within this one is 4700 milliamp hours but it does have 80 watt fast charging which i'll
let you know the exact times i'm getting in later on in this in-depth review it's quick
it's good and then our camera department we do have an optically imaged stabilized
64 megapixel sensor this one's from samsung an 8 megapixel ultra wide and a 2 megapixel macro yes
they're still giving us 2 megapixel sensors unfortunately included in the box with the
neo6 you will find an important information and warranty card a quick start guide we have a type c
to 3.5 millimeter adapter so no it doesn't have a 3.5 millimeter analog audio out unfortunately
our type a to type c cable a clear tpu case and our charger which is 80 watts and then
our sim tray tool now the materials i've used in the neo6 here it is plastic okay so the back
here is plastic it has a nice matte finish to it now this is what is called the cyber rage
color and you can see the colors do shift out so it goes from almost like a green to a blue
to a purple i don't mind the look of it and i do like the fact that yes it's not
picking up any fingerprints or smudges really so the frame around the outside it is plastic
so here on the right hand side we've got our power button volume up and down and the location of them
it is good that i can get to those easily enough and the fingerprint reader however i don't like
location i think that should have been about here but it's quite low and i just demonstrated that
it does unlock quite well and i'm not really experiencing any problems with it it is fast
now the camera set up on the rear of this we do have a main camera that does have optical image
stabilization this is a gw 1p sensor it does have an aperture of f 1.89 and oh 8 megapixel
ultra wide which yeah oh dear it's f 2.2 i really wish they'd gone for a 16 megapixel
one and then we have a two megapixel macro camera that you seriously will probably use one or two
times and that is about it so those two cameras i believe they should have combined just into a
higher quality ultra wide with perhaps focus to then give us the macro shots if you wanted those
the phone has a dual loudspeaker so here's one of them our type c port does not support video out
it's usb 2 data microphone and then our sim tray which does take two nano sims so unfortunately
no micro sd card support now this phone the thickness of it is 8.54 millimeters measuring here
not including the camera bulge up the top we have a secondary mic ir transmitter and the
second loudspeaker actually comes out from where the earpiece speaker is now the weight of this
phone it's not too bad because of all the plastics it has so it's 190 grams whereas other phones this
size would normally be around about 200 or over if they had the metal frames and glass on the
rear the front facing camera in the neo 6 is a 16 megapixel unit f 2.0 now it's got a gold or silver
ring around it and you can see here depending on how you get the light catch the light on it
it does make it stand out quite a bit so if i look at it now i'll just face onto my camera you can't
really notice it as much so i wish it didn't have that ring around it so fingerprint reader
as i mentioned before that fast it's quick it is accurate and our screen size here so this one is
a 6.62 inch screen the resolution is 2400 by 1080 and it can peak at 1300 nits the screen can be
made out in direct sunlight this amoled screen that does support hdr 10 plus it does also have
sgs icare display so it's being certified by them and you've got 120 hertz refresh now you can use
smart switch which is going to be swapping between 60 and 120 but like i mentioned in my other videos
the phones that lack it i really wish it had a option for the in between setting which would
be 90 hertz of course now it supports full screen gestures like all android 12 phones do and those
gestures i'm not having any issues with at all which is good and we do get a few options in here
but you'll see that when it comes to the screen colors you can go along and adjust these the
color temperatures you've got bright professional standard but they don't have like an e4 preset i
mean they don't have either like an s rgb or an rgb preset in there which would have been nice
but hey it's still good and you can tweak the color temperature which i think most people are
going to be happy with overall it is an excellent display i'll just go into some real world images
sorry here with uh display tester just to show you very quickly the touch response everything
that i'm doing here is quick now it is running at 360 hertz the touch rate on this one which
is pretty standard it's not like the gaming phones that have it a little bit higher than that but i'm
not experiencing any issues you see that when i touch it it's responding very very quick there and
no problem so deep blacks look good contrast is great and it's a flat screen which i'm happy about
so not curved or anything like that overall it's a very decent panel that's in this the e4 amoled
now the ui we have with this one is fun touch 12 os that they call it and the optimization the
performance of it is good i'm not seeing animation lag and stutter that i do see with other brands
like xiaomi or redmi or poco with miui this is i feel better optimized the ram management for
recent apps doesn't seem to be too aggressive now i do have the 12 gigabyte ram version here
with 256 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage the eight gigabyte byte model should be pretty much similar
there so the ui i like the performance it's not quite as refined i feel or as well optimized
as a real me ui or colour os but it's not bad it's definitely better than what it has been there is
the default browser that i've noticed that does seem to pump out a few notifications that can be
a little bit annoying here you can of course tone down on that if you want you can block those but
i wish that the default app wasn't actually doing that but it's a very simple easy fix for that too
the security patch level here is april the first and you'll see that in the settings we do have
four gigabytes more dedicated to the ram so they put 12 plus four but that four of course isn't
physical ram all it is is a caching system so it's like virtual memory there and that's to
help speed up the ui and the performance of it the haptics wanted to mention that that you get nice
little pulses but i wouldn't call this haptic's engine anything special the vibration the power
of it it's not as good as say the poco f3 which i quite do like those little short bursts of pulses
it gives you from the motor this one i would rate as yeah pretty average it's nothing special
now what about bloatware here so uh with the iq here neo6 you don't get a lot there are yes a
few applications you need to uninstall but it's nowhere near as bad as the likes of me ui with
about 20 bloatware applications and around two gigabytes worth not here there are a few things
you need to remove that you possibly might not be using but it's not bad i think it's definitely one
of the better brands there i am on the latest firmware of course and i haven't experienced
any bugs so if there would be any bugs they should be pushing through updates but i don't know what
their updates are like until i hang on to this for a little bit longer of course we do have
really good charge times so the 4700 milliamp hour battery in this example to go from nine percent to
100 percent only took 33 minutes other times i've charged it's been 35 36 31 you get the idea it is
very quick speaking of quick the snapdragon 870 it may be an older generation chip now
but it's one of my favorites this performance is absolutely solid look at this the best part
it only went up six degrees and it's not a hot chip so the newer triple eight or the eight
gen one they're much hotter than this that's why i really like this chipset now ufs 3.1 storage
very quick so good random reads and writes the sequential read there is excellent and
it's very fast now i do have the 256 gigabyte model so those speeds will be a little faster
especially the writes versus the 128 gigabyte model we do have a full level 3 here with camera
2 api if you wanted to use third-party camera apps they can gain full access to everything
so open camera gcam ports you get the idea there now for some reason it failed the safety net
check here and that was a cts profile match fail so hopefully with a firmware update that
can be corrected and we do have a widevine level one cert so that means netflix will be in full hd
amazon prime video disney plus standard definition they haven't been whitelisted yet
on those different streaming services the gps is typical qualcomm it is capped at three meters
but the average signal strength is good it gets a very quick lock and i'll probably be dropping
this in my future reviews there's no point me covering most gps and phones now is really good
it's not like the old days what about throttling so this is a throttling test here wildlife's
3dmark extreme test here and that is so good this look at that it barely even throttled only 1.5
that was it that it dipped down that is an amazing result that's again why i like this chipset the
snapdragon 870 still such a good chip even in 2022. finally battery life now i did have this
set to the smart mode so it's swapping between 120 then 60 hertz and you can see i managed to
get just over 11 hours now i had the brightness only set to 200 nits and it was was mostly social
media so twitter whatsapp youtube that was really it i didn't game so if you game that's going to
bring that battery life gaming time you're looking at approximately four hours to five depending on
the brightness you use and how demanding the game is speaking of gaming how well does it do so with
pubg here we can run the extreme frame rate this is hd and you can even download the ultra hd pack
and the snapdragon 870 even though yes it is um generation old now is running really well
really fluid you look down your iron sights or scope and there's no lag here it's it's really
good the performance and it barely even gets warm with this game it's really not taxing uh the gpu
and that 870 at all now if you swipe from the side here you can go into their gaming experience there
so i've got it on balance mode you can also force it onto monster and it doesn't really
seem to change the clocks there when it comes to the gpu or the cpu cores so i don't really
think with the game like this one light title anywhere that's really necessary now there are a
few other options there you can see so you can run a for example whatsapp window picture and picture
and then i got killed already and there are very different various different
options in there you can see that you can you can run there just tweaking different
things there so you can play around with that set it up record screen screenshots
and that's the end of my pubg experience which was very short and sweet but let's move over now
to again shane impact and see how that one runs i do have the game set to the highest possible
settings it does state custom there because i've got it set on highest and then the frame rate
cap to be 60. i don't want it 30 i want it at the top and when you look around it's
good occasionally you see some frame dips that do happen but the snapdragon 870 again is performing
really well here it is not a problem at all even a demanding game like this for this chipset to
be able to run it very smooth good frame rate so the frame rate is hovering around the mid 45s 50s
and occasionally you do see a little dip now and then when there's a lot going on
in screen but it's not bad so what i'll do now is i'll play for about approximately 40 minutes
and i'll take a look at the thermals how hot is it going to get when i run into problems all right
it's been about 40 minutes now and i can feel it's getting warm but it doesn't seem to be getting
any warmer so that's why i've stopped it so let's take a look at those temperatures on the front
here we're looking about 44 degrees almost which isn't too bad i mean yeah that's warm but not bad
and what about the rear of it now on the underside here 40 okay i'm close to well just over 41 really
so that's good these thermals are excellent it just goes to show you that that snapdragon 870
is just such an awesome chip it doesn't get hot like the triple eight or the eight gen one so no
this phone does not have our 3.5 millimeter audio jack in it which is a shame and they're just gone
and most phones only some mid-range ones do have it still but anyway we can use the adapter and
it sounds fine with it so voice calls they also sound fine on this no problems it does have noise
cancellation and then we have the loudspeaker in the bottom that i'll speak an earpiece here here's
a sample of it at 100 volume and let me know in the comments what you think of this loudspeaker
i think it's not actually bad the loudness is good there's a little bit of bass to it it's fine
moving over to our cameras now so the front facing 16 megapixel camera this one can only shoot 1080p
and you can see that it does not have electronic image stabilization so this is disappointing
but when you start to walk about it is shaking around all over the place because it doesn't have
that electronic image stabilization so i do hope with the firmware update they can add this because
i do think we really do need it otherwise you're going to have to use a gimbal with this particular
phone for vlog footage rear camera now this is the 64 megapixel sensor that does sometimes you can
see then had a bit of a problem they're focusing but normally it's actually quite good now it has
optical image stabilization with electronic image stabilization the audio bit rate is a
156 kilobits per second so you can see it is quite stable as i walk along here now just a short jog
still quite good and we can digitally zoom here so i'll just go up to about two times on the castle
dania right there that's 2.1 at the moment and then pull back it won't swap over to the ultra
wide however because that camera is not capable unfortunately of 4k 30 4k 60 which this camera can
this is now the ultra wide as mentioned it's only 1080p
can't do 4k and the quality nowhere near as good as that main camera it looks a lot more washed out
especially around the edges but at least we can shoot video with the ultra wide camera here
i just wish they'd used say a 13 megapixel or 16 megapixel sensor
one that could maybe even have autofocus to give us macro shots from it
and that right there is the weakness of the neo6 is its cameras so the low light performance i
found to be a little disappointing i think for an optically image stabilized camera it should
actually perform a little bit better than that so hopefully some tweaks coming through
with software updates the ultra wide the macro camera not very good the front-facing camera
not that great either especially when it comes to vlog performance so if you're shooting videos with
that front facing 16 megapixel camera it doesn't have any electronic image stabilization which is
let down there besides that even though the build is plastic it's solid it feels good it doesn't
pick up fingerprints it charges in around just over 30 minutes that gets a big thumbs
up from me battery life is quite reasonable you should be able to get around eight hours
of on-screen time using the smart mode for the refresh rate so that's swapping between 60 and
120 and the screen is very bright it's flat 120 hertz it's an e4 amoled it looks really nice and
then i know i've mentioned it so many times the snapdragon 870 is still a fantastic chipset it
delivers gaming performance that is sufficient enough not to top benchmarks but to play all
those demanding titles out there so pub g call of duty genshin impact all with playable great
frame rates on the maximum setting it doesn't get too hot so after 40 minutes of gen shed
impact was only around 44 degrees celsius which is very good compare that to a snapdragon 8 gen 1
or the triple 8 they will be overheating they will be throttling this phone doesn't throttle so the
3d mark stress test with that wildlife extreme test it only throttled down 1.5 from the initial
cold performance score to then after 20 minutes and the lowest performance score it didn't
throttle really you can say it doesn't throttle so fantastic chipset really good phone and
it's just that the cameras they do need to be improved there i hope with future models
they ditch the two megapixel macro camera eight megapixel ultra wide and just give us a better
ultra wide camera like a 16 megapixel sensor with autofocus could also give us the macro
shots there so thanks a lot for watching my review here of the aiku neo 6 a great mid-range phone