In less than six months, the iQOO digital series has been renewed again, and the nascent brand is now more mature and comprehensive than the original positioning of games and performance. The iQOO 9 Pro has also begun to explore from the stacking bucket model and become a truly high-end flagship.
Flagship models need more than just configuration and performance, texture and design is among the high-end flagship of the foundation, iQOO after several years of tempering, but also in the domestic market this hellish difficulty of the mobile phone Red Sea to find their own positioning, the speed and sense of technology from the beginning of the implementation of the present, the formation of a set of their own design language.
The legendary version of the iconic three ribbons and the stepped double-layer transition of the image module on the back are all the embodiment of speed and technology.
The iQOO 9 series in the powerful configuration, from the design to the texture, from the inside to the outside has a comprehensive upgrade, as the first model of the new year of the blue factory, it is also a good start.
Panoramic porthole, both sense of technology and recognition
When I first got the two mobile phones of the iQOO 9 series, the most intense impact on me was the design of the "panoramic porthole" outside the rear camera module, which is also the most obvious and intuitive change of the iQOO digital series.
Aesthetics is a private and subjective thing, but I really feel the balance and order brought about by its integrated design, which gives a more tough sense of technology while also bringing a high degree of recognition, which can be recognized at a glance in the cookie-cutter iPhone-like models.
Between the panoramic porthole and the back panel of the mobile phone, there is also a layer of metal base, forming a step-like transition, which makes the visual more layered and more technological while enriching the back feel.
The iQOO 9 Pro in our hands is still the classic "Legendary Edition" color scheme, continuing the iconic three color bands that are stitched and collided with the white AG glass back cover. In addition to the inheritance of this color match, there are also some new explorations and thoughts. The carbon fiber texture is hidden under the white glass of the back cover, which has a different perception of light and shadow at different angles.
A good screen, top-notch viewing enjoyment
iQOO 9 Pro is equipped with a 6.78-inch 3200 x 1440 resolution E5 material OLED flexible curved screen, supporting 100% P3 wide color gamut and 10 bit color depth, this screen can be said to be "no regrets" in terms of parameters, completely reaching the best level of mobile phones on the market.
The center-mounted digging hole + hyperboloid design + extremely narrow bottom border brings a higher screen ratio at the same time, but also gives users a strong shock of approaching the true full screen perception.
What struck me most was its brightness in the intense daylight. You may not know the number of global maximum brightness 1000nit, but when you find that you can see the mobile phone screen clearly outdoors when the sun is shining on a sunny day, you will understand that this screen is not simple.
Another significantly improved experience brought by the manual maximum brightness of 500nit, the local peak brightness of 1500nit, and the contrast ratio of 8000000:1 is the movie viewing. When watching HDR10/10+ video, it can bring more shocking visual effects, and the flashes and explosions in the video are as dazzling as if they were really happening in front of your eyes.
In addition, the iQOO 9 Pro screen also brings a smarter LTPO stepless variable speed 2.0 technology, which can intelligently switch the screen refresh rate between 1-120Hz, achieving a smooth experience where low power consumption and delicate high brush coexist.
For example, the screen refresh rate drops to 10Hz in the no-action stationary state, the game is turned on to full frame 120Hz, and the daily application switches between 30/60/90Hz as needed, and different refresh rate gears are automatically matched in different applications and different usage scenarios.
The previous generation's critically acclaimed wide-area ultrasonic fingerprint has also been fully upgraded on the iQOO 9 Pro. Unlocking is 0.2s faster, and entry can be done with just one recognition. Wet hands and outdoor strong light do not affect the unlocking, compared to the optical screen fingerprint, will no longer be used at night when the strong light "flash blind".
The large cup of iQOO 9 also has a flexible E5 material OLED screen, the straight screen design brings better edge display effect, also supports 120Hz high brush and 360Hz touch sample rate, for the game, but also get a better sense of control.
Peak performance, tame a new generation of Snapdragon
Equipped with a new generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile phones began to increase, and about the new SoC information, we are most concerned about the performance, although for the same chip, but each scheduling strategy is different, the heat dissipation ability is different, so the final release of the performance will be different.
We also did a relatively complete run score for it, testing it at room temperature 23°C, Monster mode.
The specific situation is as follows, An TuTu running score 1033467, has broken through the million level. Among them, the CPU score is 242674 points, and the GPU score is 440801 points, which is a huge improvement over the Snapdragon 888.
Geekbench5 has a single-core score of 1245 points and a multi-core score of 3752 points.
OpenCL scored 5342 and Vulkan 5278.
Although it does not reach the officially announced increase of 20% CPU and 60% GPU, the performance improvement is still very intuitively reflected in the game, and the highest king of glory can also maintain a stable frame rate at 120 non-caton for a long time.
We monitored the frame rate of the entire game of King of Glory in real time through Perfdog (about 20min), and we can see that the frame rate fluctuations of the whole game are very small, except for when the game is loaded at the beginning, it has almost always been stable at 120 frames.
The actual experience of high performance is determined by heat dissipation, iQOO 9 Pro this time the heat dissipation is also very luxurious, not only has a large area of VC vapor plate and fitted graphite ladder heat dissipation, but also uses the panoramic porthole to dissipate heat from the back SoC heat source point, so that the whole machine heat has been greatly improved.
When held horizontally and naturally, the panoramic porthole can also play a role in heat insulation, even if the temperature of the fuselage is suitable for a long time, after the Glory of the King 1h game, the back of the fuselage is only 35.3 °C, and the front is only 37.3 °C.
Benchmark flagship, more all-round and more comprehensive
The iQOO 9 Pro debuts a Samsung GN5 sensor with an area of 1/1.57 inches and a unit pixel of 1.0 μm, reaching 2.0 μm after a quad in 1. At the same time as the high pixels in the outsole, the blue factory's housekeeper technology "micro gimbal" was added to achieve VIS five-axis video stabilization.
The ultra-wide angle uses a Samsung JN1 sensor with a wide viewing angle of 150°, thanks to which it can achieve stabilization of the horizon.
The iQOO 9 Pro is more comprehensive and balanced than ever, equipped with a new closed stereoscopic dual speaker, the sound is fuller, and different customizations and optimizations have been carried out for different use scenarios of music, video and games, intelligently improving the listening experience.
In terms of battery life, there has been a huge upgrade, the battery capacity has been increased to 4700mAh, supporting 50W wireless flash charging and 10W wireless reverse charging, and 120W ultra-fast flash charging has completely solved the problem of "battery life anxiety".
We also tested the charging time in practice, the iQOO 9 Pro takes 23 minutes and 16 seconds from 1% to 100%, and in daily use, when the battery is low, it may be full.
The standard 120W charger is also smaller and lighter thanks to GaN material and has been upgraded to a Type-C interface. Support PD protocol and PPS protocol, has a high degree of compatibility, only with a charging head can also meet the charging needs of each device.
In addition to the performance of the game experience, some personalized services are also particularly important. Swipe right in the game to call out many game tools, such as shock, background calls, death playback and other common game functions, in addition to the live assistant, voice changer, screen projection these more comprehensive gadgets, whether it is an e-sports player or a game streamer, can be handy.
At the same time, this interface can also directly switch the performance mode in the game, and open the Monster mode with one click, so that the game experience is also directly full.
summary
In fact, in the domestic mobile phone market for so many years, there have been many amazing products and brands, many of which are either short-lived or forever disappear in history. But iQOO is completely different. As a nascent brand, iQOO's growth is very rapid, it and vivo in the market and positioning to achieve perfect complementarity, thanks to excellent design and strong product force, iQOO has been steady, accurately found their own track, and deeply rooted in this.
In such a position that can be attacked and retreated, so that iQOO has a steady stream of vitality in the constant thinking and progress, has not been stuck in the configuration, experience and price of the dilemma, from the cost performance step by step to the high-end flagship, iQOO 9 Pro is such an inevitable result of thick accumulation.