Last year, Vivo’s sub-brand iQOO made a significant entry in India with its smartphone, the iQOO 3. The company launched a few more phones, but all are available in the home country, China.
According to the source, iQOO has now gone ahead and launched another phone in the country, which promises to go heavy on specifications but affordable. The phone has also been announced at a starting price of 1,498 Yuan and 1,698 Yuan, respectively. Both the variants are available in two colors — Black and Glow Blue. The company has announced that the handset is up for pre-orders but at a discount of 50 Yuan, with the sale of the device starting in China from December 17.
iQOO U3: Specifications and features
If we talk about its hardware then,
- The iQOO U3 comes with a 6.58-inch IPS LCD screen with a waterdrop notch that houses an 8-megapixel selfie camera inside it. The display here is a screen that offers support for a 20.07:9 aspect ratio and a Full HD+ resolution of 1080×2408 pixels.
- The panel is rated for 401ppi pixel density and can support HDR10 and a refresh rate of 90Hz.
- It also offers an impressive screen-to-body ratio of 90.61 percent.
- The phone offers a dual camera set-up inside a rectangular camera module.
- The lenses here are a 48-megapixel primary lens sat next to an f/1.79 aperture and a 2-megapixel depth sensor.
- The lenses offer support for features such as night scene mode, panorama, time-lapse photography, EIS, and 4K video recording.
And For software:
- The phone offers iQOO UI 1.5 based Android 10 OS. The phone packs a Dimensity 800U chipset along with up to 8 GB of LPDDR4 RAM under the hood. For data, there’s UFS 2.2 128GB storage, which is not expandable.
- Powering the phone is a 5000mAh battery that supports 18W dual-engine fast charging.
- The iQOO U3 also comes with liquid cooling technology, dual SIM support, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.1, GPS, USB-C, face unlock, a side-facing fingerprint reader.
