Today, iQOO held a new product launch conference and officially released the new iQOO 7.
iQOO 7 Selling Points
The iQOO 7 uses marine aluminum as the middle frame material, which has better corrosion resistance and toughness. It has a glass back cover using the new AG technology and has a thickness of 0.6mm.
Our protagonist also adopts a 120Hz full-sensing screen, with 1000Hz instant touch sampling rate and 300Hz touch reporting rate. It supports four refresh rate application scenarios, and a maximum brightness of 1300 nits and 4096 levels of brightness adjustment. The screen comes with SGS low Blu-ray, low smear certification, and HDR10+ high dynamic range certification.
Apart from the aforementioned features, the iQOO 7 sports under-screen dual-control pressure sensing, dual-line motor, and dual speakers to form a full-sensing control system. Among them, the dual-control pressure sensitivity under the screen can map the two operating areas of the screen to any position in the game according to the user’s preferences; the dual-line motor supports two vibration units to build a sense of orientation and layering of vibration; the loudness of dual speakers is as high as 71.5dB.
iQOO stated that it worked with Tencent, Qualcomm, and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology to formulate game voice technology standards, and first released game voice optimization technology. The iQOO 7 comes with the CS43131 processing chip and also has two small Sony gold standards.
As we are dealing with the official KPL game machine, the iQOO 7 brings a brand-new game box and a more powerful Monster mode.
Hardware and Software
It is worth mentioning that all iQOO 7 series handsets come standard with a 120W FlashCharge flash charging technology, which can charge to 100% in 15 minutes. At the same time, the iQOO 7 comes standard with a 120W charger, compatible with 65W PD protocol, and has a 1.5-meter charging cable.
Inside the iQOO 7 carries a 4096 square millimetre heat spreader. The internal heating plate adopts a power pump with a “spiral braided wire” structure. The latter can reduce the temperature of the whole machine and still have a good grip during games.
The iQOO 7 adopts the “horizontal full-scene antenna”. It has an additional antenna outlet and its Wi-Fi 6 has also been upgraded to the “enhanced version”. The maximum theoretical download rate has been increased to twice that of the iQOO 5.
In terms of core configuration, the iQOO 7 features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor, an enhanced LPDDR5 RAM and an enhanced UFS 3.1 storage. It supports Multi-Turbo 5.0.
This series run OriginOS, which supports functions such as atomic components, consoles, and energy cube behavior wallpapers.
Photography
On the back, the iQOO 7 sports a 48-megapixel high-definition main camera, with a 120-degree field of view, a professional imaging lens with a 50mm equivalent focal length, an OIS system, a professional video mode, and the new RAW HDR 2.0 Technology, new super night view algorithm, black light night vision 2.0 and “photo repair” function.
Price and Availability
The iQOO 7 has three color options: Latent Blue, Black Realm and Legendary Edition. The 8+128GB is priced at 3798 yuan ($586), while the 12+256GB model is priced at 4198 yuan ($648). The pre-sale has started today, and it will go on sale on January 15.
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