iQOO Z3 is the third smartphone offering from iQOO this year, interestingly they’d launched their 2nd smartphone after a gap of one year.
And iQOO Z3 is launching one a month after iQOO 7 series This smartphone is a premium mid-range smartphone at
it’ll be priced between 20-25K
USB type c cable, documentation, sim card tool, good quality TPU
case, iQOO Z3 smartphone, 66W fast charger (phone supports 55W)
Design - This has a polycarbonate
back, but it looks like glass & it reflects different colors from
different angles & it actually looks nice.
In-Hand Feel - It is a
lightweight smartphone & it fits very well in your hands.
It has a narrow form factor so
even if you have an average to medium size hand, it’ll fit perfectly in your
hands.
Build quality - The case you get
is of very good quality & fits well.
Drop Test - Front side drop: no
damage. Backside drop: it's all good with no signs of damage as the case is
of good quality.
Ports & Buttons - bottom side
- you have a speaker grill, Type C port, microphone, 3.5mm jack.
On the left side - there’s
nothing. On the top side, you get a sim card tray & noise-canceling microphone.
On the right-hand side - you have
a volume rocker & power on/off button that doubles up as a fingerprint
scanner.
The sim card tray - it is a hybrid
sim card slot (you can insert a dual sim card or 1 sim + SD card).If we talk
about its weight, it should be around 183-184 grams. Let's check it out
Time to check the weight - It's
188 grams. It's around 187-188 grams.
The weight is average & it
isn't too heavy. It fits very well in your hands.
The display here is a 6.58’’ screen
& it doesn't feel like a big display as it fits well in your hands.
It is an IPS LCD FHD+ screen with
120 Hz fast refresh rate with 180 Hz of the touch sampling rate. And it has a 90.6%
screen to body ratio as it has small bezels & it looks nice overall. It
looks slightly outdated because of the water drop design but still, I like it
overall & it gets a panda glass for screen protection
Specifications - This is the
first phone to come equipped with Snapdragon 786G 5G & it is a successor of
SD 765G.
Talking about performance, it
gets a 15% performance boost because the performance cores of this SoC are
clocked at 2.8 GHz while SD 765G is clocked at 2.4 GHz.So it has a 15% boost in
performance. It is based on a 7nm process & it is a 5G ready smartphone.
The base variant comes with
6GB/128GB storage & the other variant is 8GB/256GB.
6GB variant could be priced
around 22-23K Rs & if it comes at that price, then this will be a good
performance-oriented smartphone.
Storage type is UFS 2.2 & RAM
type is LPDDR 4X
Battery - It has a 4400 mAh battery
& 55 W fast charging. The adapter you get is 65W but the phone supports 55W
charging. It charges 50% of battery in just 19 min & 0-100% in 50 min
Software - It runs on FunTouch OS
11.1 based on Android 11 & this is a much-improved OS compared to its
previous versions. There are system notifications so they’ll pop up in your
notifications panel.
There are some really good things
about FunTouch OS 11, especially on this phone. For eg: You can set the refresh rate to 60/90 Hz. It also has a virtual RAM extension feature, this will
extend your RAM by 3GB so you have a total of 11 GB RAM & it's a nice
feature to have
Performance - AnTuTu score is
around 4.5 Lakh + & you can play games on very high settings easily without
any problems.
We played games for about 1 hour
& we didn’t experience any heating issues and it performed flawlessly. This phone has 5 layer liquid cooling system so it’ll keep your phone’s temperature
under control
Sensors - it has all the sensors
& side-mounted fingerprint also sensor works quite well
Connectivity - It comes with a 5G
with 2 5G band supported, Wi-Fi calling, Wifi 6, Bluetooth 5.1 so all the
latest connectivity options are present
Additional features - Wide vine L1, Cam2Api & SAR value is within limits. FM radio & notification light are missing.
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