Appearance and feel: Recognizable and exquisite
Although there have been some psychological expectations before, but the first hand iQOO 9 Pro is still shocked by the huge black glass behind the fuselage, this generation of module design style mutation is really a bit unexpected, the official call it "panoramic porthole", it is like the "panoramic canopy" on the racing car, bringing a more regular, layered sense of integration design and the impact of the super field of view, and its horizontal and vertical directions have achieved symmetrical processing, recognition at the same time, but also reached the balance between function and form , which is another new interpretation of the "aesthetics of speed".
Although the design is simple, but the process used in this sharp panoramic porthole is very clean, its metal parts, including the metal base bracket, the metal edge around the porthole and the camera decorative ring, are made of the same space-grade aluminum alloy, which has undergone 24 processes, fourteen milling processes and physical sandblasting process, the surface has a frosted feel and AG light and shadow effect, and very good support, waterproof, heat dissipation performance.
This space-grade aluminum alloy part surrounds the panoramic porthole and forms a slight step difference, which visually creates a sense of hierarchy and precision value, while also reducing the protruding sense of prominence and feel of the raised edge, and the feel is better when holding the horizontal screen.
The iQOO 9 Pro in Abu's hand is orange, the official name is "Burning Engine" - the burning engine, the sense of vitality highlighted by orange is in line with the speed, passion and breakthrough symbolized by the name, this re-conditioned orange comes from the classic color of the car, black orange bursts out of strength in the collision, showing the quality of detail.
The supie shell of the iQOO 9 Pro ignition engine is extremely close in texture to the previous iQOO 8 Pro track version of the supie backshell, they are through a special embossing process, realistically restoring the carbon fiber touch on the car interior, while having a delicate feel, it is also like driving a racing car, as if you are on the track scene, everything is mastered between the inches.
Put iQOO 9 Pro in your hand, its three-dimensional size is just right, most people should be enough to control with one hand, although visually, iQOO 9 Pro's center of gravity is in this huge panoramic porthole, but in fact, it will not fall in the hand, there is no top-heavy feeling, the balance of weight is still quite in place. And iQOO 9 Pro in the pile of so much material, battery capacity has also increased the premise, the weight can remain at about 203 grams, which is also really rare, its feel part is worth giving a good review.
Audiovisual experience: double the pleasure of the eyes and ears
iQOO 9 Pro is equipped with a 6.78-inch 3200×1440 resolution E5 luminous material OLED flexible curved screen, supporting 100% P3 wide color gamut coverage and 10bit color depth, HDR10/10+ presentation, the display effect is the current industry's ceiling level, at the same time, this screen also supports 120Hz high refresh rate and 300Hz high touch sampling rate.
We always hear many manufacturers now saying Samsung E5 luminous material, so what are the advantages of this latest Samsung E5 luminous material compared to the previous E4? In simple terms, the peak brightness is higher and the power consumption is lower, the global maximum brightness of the E5 luminous material screen can reach 1000nit, the local peak brightness is as high as 1500nit, and more importantly, compared to the previous generation of E4, the power consumption of the E5 screen is also reduced by 25%, which is stronger and more power-saving.
Abu's personal favorite is the color temperature adaptive function based on the iQOO 9 Pro screen, which is similar to the iPhone's original color display, which can detect the change of ambient light color temperature, so that the display light is closer to the ambient light, making the overall performance more realistic and natural. Moreover, its color temperature sensor will also color compensate the white displayed on the screen, bringing better eye protection effect and paper reading experience.
The previous LTPO stepless variable speed technology has now evolved to version 2.0, iQOO 9 Pro can achieve "more comprehensive, more intelligent" scene adaptation, such as in video, games, camera previews and other common scenarios, the screen can automatically match the native frame rate of 24/30/60/90/120Hz, enjoy the pleasure brought by high brushing at the same time, can reduce useless refresh, have better power performance.
It is worth mentioning that before the use of other ultrasonic fingerprint mobile phones, Abu encountered the occasional problem of not being able to unlock has never appeared on the iQOO 9 Pro, its entire unlocking process in one go, without dragging mud with water, but also without fear of water droplets and stains, unlocking at night will not have a glare.
The ultrasonic 3D wide-area fingerprint of iQOO 9 Pro is based on qualcomm 3D Sonic 2nd generation sensor, which has been comprehensively improved in fingerprint recognition, entry, security and convenience, and can be said to be the best mobile phone unlocking solution in the current epidemic era.
The iQOO 9 Pro's dual speakers have also been enhanced, it is equipped with a new closed stereo dual speaker, the upper speaker is a customized ultra-linear 0.55mm large amplitude speaker, the cavity volume increased to 0.61cc; the bottom speaker equivalent cavity 1.02cc, can bring better balance, full of high-fidelity surround sound effect. When holding the iQOO 9 Pro landscapely to play games or watch videos, this great dual speaker paired with a ceiling-level screen delivers an immersive audiovisual experience.
Game experience: powerful, calm, no worries
Gaming experiences tend to be iQOO's best bets, and powerful performance is the foundation of a great gaming experience. iQOO 9 Pro is equipped with the strongest flagship processor in Android at present: Snapdragon 8, which uses the latest generation of 4nm process, the CPU is 1+3+4 triple cluster design, the core of this time is all new, including a 3.0GHz X2 super core, three 2.5GHz A710 large core and four 1.8GHz A510 small core, compared to Snapdragon 888, CPU performance increased by 20%, power consumption reduced by 30%.
Snapdragon 8 upgrade focus on the GPU, it is equipped with a newly designed 818MHz Adreno graphics processor and Spectra image signal processor, compared to the Snapdragon 888, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform GPU performance increased by a staggering 60%.
Not only that, iQOO 9 Pro also has an enhanced version of LPDDR5 memory + overclocking version of UFS 3.1 storage combination, this huge upgrade in storage performance means that iQOO 9 Pro is always one step ahead of the game launch and game installation, helping you save a lot of valuable time.
Powerful performance is bound to be combined with a powerful heat dissipation system to fully release, iQOO 9 Pro in order to tame the dragon, the use of eighteen layers of waterfall VC stereoscopic cooling system, it with a large area of VC vapor plate + laminated stereoscopic graphite completely covered the core heating unit, can significantly reduce the body temperature under the heavy-duty game scene, and, thanks to the iQOO 9 Pro panoramic porthole aerospace grade aluminum alloy material, iQOO 9 Pro back SoC heat source point can be reduced by about 2 °C compared to the front.
In order to test the performance of iQOO 9 Pro and the cooling system, we prepared a very stressful game test: at room temperature of about 18 degrees, connect the phone to wifi, set it to manual 50% brightness, turn on monster mode, we first carried out nearly an hour of League of Legends test, although the League of Legends mobile game optimization is very good, but the long time running at the highest image quality is still a lot of load.
We measured iQOO 9 Pro one-hour League of Legends average frame rate of 59.5 frames, the whole process is stable as a straight line, in addition to the inevitable frame rate fluctuations before and after the opening, it did not appear to drop frames even in the later stages, the game experience is silky, at the end of an hour, Snapdragon is not "excited", the fuselage does not feel significantly warmed up.
Then there is the well-known "running score" game - the original god, no matter how powerful the performance of the mobile phone, in front of it is still gray, and iQOO 9 Pro's performance on the original god is really surprising, it actually ran in the highest quality of the original god in half an hour of 55.3 frames, although it can not be said to run completely smoothly, but it is very close, iQOO 9 Pro did not appear in the game process of large Caton dropped frames, such results in 2021 is unimaginable.
What is more surprising is that after the end of the half-hour highest quality progeny test, although the iQOO 9 Pro has also heated up significantly, the maximum temperature of its fuselage front is only 41 degrees, and it seems that the eighteen-layer waterfall VC stereoscopic heat dissipation system of iQOO 9 Pro does have something.
In addition, iQOO 9 Pro also has a dragon trainer - independent display chip Pro, the reason why it has a Pro, it is because it can achieve a higher frame rate than before, now it supports the native low frame rate game screen to 90 frames or 120 frames, to get lower power consumption than the native frame rate and beyond the native frame rate of the smooth experience, to the original god as an example, iQOO 9 Pro after opening the optimization of power consumption, the game running frame rate is stable at 45 frames, but the game screen can interpolate to 90 frames, The perfect balance of image quality and power consumption.
At the same time of measuring the game, we also recorded the power consumption of iQOO 9 Pro by the way, its battery capacity has now increased to 4700 mAh, to cope with a day is still more than enough, we measured iQOO 9 Pro in the case of screen manual brightness, 2K resolution and intelligent refresh rate, an hour of glory of the king of the power consumption of 23%, an hour of peace elite power consumption of 21%, half an hour of vibrato, Weibo, WeChat for 6%, 7% and 5%, and finally we visited Taobao for half an hour, The iQOO 9 Pro's remaining power is fixed at 33%, which is a rare mobile phone with a 2k resolution + 120hz refresh rate.
On a fortuitous morning, Abu also found that the iQOO 9 Pro still has an application in the background, and when the network connection is maintained, the standby power consumption is only 1% all night! It seems that the snapdragon 8 gen 1's new A510 small core is really more energy efficient than the previous A55 small core, and it will have more advantages in handling daily light load applications and standby.
In the face of powerful 120w ultra-fast flash charge, endurance anxiety and charging anxiety are all non-existent, Abu Shi measured that it only takes 18 minutes to charge the iQOO 9 Pro's large battery from 0% to 100%, its built-in dual 6C system battery with array polar ear design process and double half-voltage charging chip, in the fast charging at the same time, but also to ensure safety.
For users who prefer to use wireless charging, the 50W wireless flash charge supported by iQOO 9 Pro can also provide enough security, it can fully charge iQOO 9 Pro from 1% to 100% in as fast as 42 minutes.
If iQOO 8 Pro is a "hexagon warrior", then the new iQOO 9 Pro is a more powerful "polygon warrior", which polishes some details better on the original basis and brings a more extreme comprehensive experience, this time it can indeed be called: you want, it has it all.