iQOO 12 5g: India's first mobile with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

iQOO 12 launched in India on 12th December, 2023 and it has made a significant impact in the mobile market, particularly for the users who don't want to compromise in gaming and overall performance.

It is also the first smartphone coming with Qualcomm's latest cheapset Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, setting a tough competition in the smartphone market.

Smartphone is available in three colour variants - Legend, Alpha and Desert Red.

iQOO 12 Specifications and Features

Display: The smartphone features a beautiful 6.78 inch LTPO Amoled display with sharp 1.5k resolution and 144Hz fast refresh rate. Higher refresh rate offers smoother scrolling and super responsive touch interaction, which improves the gaming experience. This is a LTPO panel, so refresh rate will go from 1Hz to 144Hz, which will increase the battery efficiency.

It has a peak brightness of 3000 nits and HBM is 1400 nits, the display remains visible even under direct sunlight.

Display also has 2160Hz PWM dimming, so you can use this smartphone even in dark room with low brightness and it won't cause pain in the eyes.

It supports Dolby Vision and HDR10+ which make your content viewing experience further better.

Battery: The smartphone is equipped with a 5000 mAh Pro- Performance Graphite battery, which supports fast charging. It can be charged so quickly with 120W charger included in the box. So charge it for 15 minutes and play games for hours.

OS & Updates: Device runs on FunTouch OS based on Android 14. Company promises 3 years of major updates and 4 years of security updates. Although iQOO has to work on overall UI because of its boring look, but with 144Hz refresh rate overall UI experience feels smoother and faster.

iQOO 12 Processor

The device comes with the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor which is based on 4nm process. This chipset is designed for smooth performance, boasting an octa-core CPU architecture with a prime core clocked at 3.3GHz. It offers significant leap in both CPU and GPU performance which provides smooth multitasking, fast app opening-closing and amazing gaming performance.

It also features a dedicated Supercomputing Chip Q1 to further enhance gaming performance and enable 144 fps gaming.

Antutu score of this chipset is more than 2 million. So you don't have to be worried about the performance of this device. Heavy games like B.G.M.I, Call Of Duty, Genshin Impact will run smoothly in iQOO 12.

Also it has 12GB or 16GB LPDDR5X RAM, which can be extended with virtual RAM. For storage we get 256GB and 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage which makes the device much more faster and smoother.

iQOO 12 Camera

iQOO 12 doesn't just excel in performance but also features good camera setup. It has a triple camera setup in back - 

- 50MP Main Camera comes with OIS 2.0, which captures stunning and sharp pictures even in challenging lighting conditions.

- 64 MP Telephoto Lens with 3x optical zoom and 10x digital zoom, which takes DSLR like portraits with good dynamic range.

-50MP Ultra-Wide Lens is perfect for capturing landscapes and group pictures.

There is also a 16MP camera in front for selfies and video calls. You can click beautiful selfies with your loved one's and friends. This smartphone can shoot video upto 8k at 30fps and 4k at 60fps with EIS for stable footage.

iQOO 12 Price in India

iQOO 12 comes with two storage variants. 12GB/256GB which costs ₹52999 and the price of 16GB/512GB variant is ₹57999.
But with some offers you can get the base variant under ₹50000.

Conclusion

I think iQOO 12 can be considered as a "almost perfect smartphone", as it keeps balance between performance and camera. Which is very hard to find nowadays even in some flagship devices. It features a beautiful display, a flagship chipset, huge battery and a good camera setup. Whether you play heavy games, consume content on mobile, use smartphones for casula photography or do heavy tasks like video editing, in every scenario iQOO 12 will live upto your expectations.