IQoo 3 Design
When we first saw IQO 3, we were very happy with its build. It certainly seems to be quite heavy with a weight of 214.5 grams, but at the same time it seems to be premium. It has a 6.44 -inch AMOLED display. It has a small hole-panchut for the selfie camera. There are extremely thin bezels around the display.
IQoo 3 The earpiece is set on the frame, which is difficult to find at a glance. The phone includes a metal frame, which gives a premium look to the device. Power and volume buttons are on the right side of the device and are set very well. It is not difficult to reach the thumb. The power button comes in orange finish.
IQO has also given capacitive shoulder buttons on the right side of the frame. These have been set in such a way that you can use them in a landscape manner at the time of gaming. There is a smart button on the left side of IQO 3 that can be used to access Google Assistant. This phone has a 3.5mm audio jack at the top, while the bottom is USB Type-C port and loudspeaker.
The rear panel of the device comes with the security of Corning Gorilla Glass 6, which will protect the phone from small scratches in daily use. IQO has introduced this smartphone in a three -colored option – Tornado Black, Quantum Silver and Volcano Orange. Our review unit Tornedado Black variant was colorful, but we liked Volcano Orange Finnish, as it seems different from the common color.
The Iqu 3 has a quad-camera setup at the back. The camera module looks the same as most of the smartphones nowadays. The IQO 3 has a 4,440 mAh battery and the good thing is that the phone’s box gets a 55 watt “super flashcharge” charger, which helps in charging the device quickly.
IQoo 3 specifications and software
The Iqlcom Snapdragon 865 chipset has been given in Iqu 3. It is the most powerful chipset ever in the Android smartphone, with a core at 2.8 GHz, three core at 2.4 GHz and the other four core at 1.8 GHz clock speeds.
Iqu has launched three variants of IQO 3 in the Indian market. The base variant has 8 GB RAM RAM and 128 GB storage and is priced at Rs 36,990. Its second variant has 256 GB storage with 8 GB RAM, which costs Rs 39,990. The phone also has a 12 GB RAM and 256 GB storage variants, which supports 5G. Its price is Rs 44,990 in India. All variants of IQO 3 include UFS 3.1 storage and LPDDR5 RAM.
The smartphone has a 6.44-inch Full-HD+ AMOLED display, which comes with 409ppi pixel density and HDR10+ support. The IQO display has a schott xensation up glass for security and it comes with a 91.4 percent screen-to-body ratio.
Connectivity options on IQO 3 include 5G (only top variants), dual 4G VoLTE, Bluetooth 5.1, GPS and Glonas. It has a battery of 4,440 mAh capacity, which supports 55 watt fast charging and 55W super flashcharge charger is also available in the phone box. This charger has a pill-shaped 90-degree folded connector and Iqu claims that it gives convenience to charge smartphones at the time of gaming.
Come into software. IQO 3 comes with IQO UI 1.0 based on Android 10. We liked its user interface, as it is quite easy to run and is also simple to look.
Iqu’s UI does not have an app drawer and all icons come on the home screen. It does not cause much problem while using one hand. There are also many customization options available on IQO. You can choose different animations for lockscreen, fingerprint and facial identification. This phone also has an allways-on display feature.
Users also have an option to choose between three-button navigation layout and swipe gesture. This feature is convenient to use and IQO has also added a quick launch gest to it, which comes to hold a spy -spy back. Vivo’s smart assistant joi is also present on the device.
Android 10 features such as digital wellbying and parental control are also present. IQO 3 has a monster mode, which immediately increases the CPU performance and closes all power-saving options. This feature also changes the theme of the smartphone. It also has an ultra game mode, which starts all the gaming features of the smartphone as soon as it is turned on.
Iqu 3 fills the blotware like Hello, DailyHhant, Flipkart, Facebook, WPS office, Amazon shopping and opera. The device also has its own app store, called V-Apastor. Let us know that if you launch apps like DailyHhant and Hello, spam notifications start coming. If you do not want to use these apps then we will advise you to remove them.
IQO 3 performance, battery life
The display of Iqu 3 has a 60Hz refresh rate panel. Yet its color production is very good. Panel’s viewing angles are good and it performs quite well in the sun. There are three color modes to choose from it and you can also make the color temperature twenty. The IQO 3 display has a small hole-pan, but it will not dissolve you in entertainment while watching the content. However, we were not happy with the loudspeaker of IQO 3. It lacks stereo output and the speaker gets very little sound in it according to our choice.
Along with the in-display fingerprint scanner, it also has a face unlock feature, which is fast and also accurate. While playing apps or games, we did not see any kind of problem in it. Because we had 12 GB RAM variants, multitasking was also feeling like butter.
We saw PUBG Mobile and Asphalt 9: Legends playing it. Both games went on high settings and we did not feel any kind of leg or frame skipping during full gaming. We also tested gaming trigger while playing pubji mobile. We found that it is quite useful for Pubji’s fond players.
You will be happy to know that IQO 3 gives a good battery life. In our HD video loop test, this phone managed to run for 19 hours and 13 minutes. With regular use, this phone can last about one and a half days without any problem. In our charging test, IQO 3 took 30 minutes to charge 78 percent and took about 50 minutes to fully charge. The five -minute short charge was capable of bringing the smartphone to 16 percent which is impressive. If some people compare it with Realme X50 Pro 5G, then let us know that the phone takes less than 3 time to charge 100 percent, but it is worth noting that 65W charger comes with realmes phones and has a small battery of 4,200 mAh.
IQoo 3 Cameras
The back of the Iqu 3 brings a quad-camera module, which reminds us of Vivo V17. The primary camera has a 48-megapixel Sony IMX582 sensor with F/1.79 aperture and a secondary camera has a 13-megapixel telephoto sensor with F/2.46 aperture, which supports 2X optical zoom and 20X digital zoom. The other two cameras have a 13-megapixel wide-angle lens with an F/2.2 aperture and a 2-megapixel depth sensor with an F/2.4 aperture. The camera app is similar to the app found in Vivo’s smartphone.
The camera setup of IQO 3 locked the focus rapidly and its AI easily finds out which subject of the phone is trying to focus towards the subject. Apart from this, the camera also suggests which camera would be right to use to take a particular shot. In the daylight, the smartphone holds the light correctly. The pictures taken in the daylight are good, but in some pictures the color tone faded a bit.
Most of the photographs did not show lack of details, after zoom-in, the pictures are seen in the pictures. Switching on the wide-angle camera reduces the quality of the photographs and the distortion appears on the edges. We also saw that the color tone in the pictures also comes a little different. The telephoto camera supports 2x optical zoom and can take some good pictures like the primary camera.
Close-up shots were good with primary camera. The smartphone creates a natural depth effect between the subject and the background. You can also switch on wide-angle camera and also take macro shots with IQO 3. Macro shots have good details and IQO 3 allows you to take pictures from very close to the subject.
Portrait shots are also good in the phone. The phone gives you the option to set the blur’s level before taking the shot, but it shows a slight decrease of details compared to other smartphones of this price range.
In low light, the performance of the camera becomes average of fall and we also saw the lack of details in the photographs. Switching on night mode makes only a slight difference in photos. However, the phone’s camera performs a little better in areas with light shadow to the opposite to the whole dark. The exposure also looks good with details in the photos.
The selfie taken with IQ3 also looked better. The focus is faster and the smartphone implements the beautification by default. When shooting in light, the smartphone enables HDR automatically, which helps to give better output.
Talking about video recording, you can record 4K with a maximum of 60fps with a primary back camera and 1080p resolution on 60fps from selfie camera. In the daylight, we saw that the video shows a little twinkling. It also has a super stedy mode. However, even after using it, the video shows a little vibration. The video footage is bad in low light, but the super stedy mode improves to some extent in the video.
Verdict
IQO 3 is the first smartphone of this new brand in India and it comes with some strong hardware. The phone has Snapdragon 865 chipset and includes UFS 3.1 storage support. Both these combinations appear in very few smartphones. The phone also has a 5G connectivity variant, if you take the top variant and spend Rs 44,990. Although 5G networks are currently not available in India, you can also choose the variant below without any concern. However, in our review, we have tested only 5G variants with 12 GB RAM.
The software of the Iqu 3 is good. However, this becomes better when the blotware involved is removed. However, the camera felt light on several occasions. Apart from its camera performance, IQO 3 did not give us a chance to complain.