iQOO is a Chinese
consumer electronics
Consumer electronics or home electronics are electronic ( analog or digital) equipment intended for everyday use, typically in private homes. Consumer electronics include devices used for entertainment, communications and recreation. Usuall ...
manufacturer headquartered in
Dongguan
Dongguan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. An important industrial city in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the ...
,
Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
. The company was founded on 30 January 2019 as a subsidiary of the consumer electronics manufacturer
Vivo based in the same city.
History
In March 2019, the world's second largest smartphone manufacturer,
BBK Electronics
BBK Electronics Corporation is a Chinese multinational conglomerate. The company specializes in developing consumer electronics products such as smartphones, tablet computers, smartwatches, smart TVs, Hi-Fi equipment, Blu-ray players, and d ...
, announced iQOO as a sub-brand of
Vivo as its newest member to its smartphone brand lineup along with
Oppo, Vivo,
Realme
Realme (stylized as realme) is a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer based in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It was founded by Li Bingzhong (known as Sky Li) on May 4, 2018, who was former vice president of Oppo. Started originally as a sub-brand o ...
and
OnePlus. The brand was introduced in India in February 2020. The iQOO is also a performance focused sub-brand giving more importance to build and market their phones specifically for gaming and other performance intense tasks, rather than their Vivo phones focusing mainly on camera and sound quality. The smartphone iQOO 3 introduced on 25 February 2020 is their first smartphone with
Snapdragon 865 giving a competitive advantage for gamers. The smartphones are sold online initially. .
During 2020–2021, the iQOO introduced six smartphones in the Chinese market and three smartphones in the Indian market, as of May 2021.
* iQOO U3 with
Mediatek
MediaTek Inc. () is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides chips for wireless communications, high-definition television, handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers, navigation systems, consumer multimedia ...
Dimensity 800U processor
* iQOO U1x with
Snapdragon 662 processor and 5000 mAh battery
* iQOO Neo3 with
Snapdragon 865 processor and 144 Hz refresh rate display
* iQOO 5 with
Snapdragon 865 processor and 55 W fast charging
* iQOO 7 with latest
Snapdragon 870 processor and 66 W fast charging
* IQOO 9pro, launched in 2022 with the latest
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (2022) processor, 1500 nits of brightness and 120w fast charging.
* iQOO 11 launched in 10 January 2023 with the latest
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, and 120 W Fast Charging
Products
Smartphones
iQOO 3 5G
iQOO 3 is a 5G smartphone launched in 2020 with
Snapdragon 865 processor and iQOO UI 1.0 based on
Android 10. The phone has a
Super AMOLED
AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode, ) is a type of OLED display device technology. OLED describes a specific type of thin-film-display technology in which organic compounds form the electroluminescent material, and active matrix ...
display with support for
HDR10+
HDR10+ is a high dynamic range (HDR) video technology that adds dynamic metadata to HDR10 source files. The dynamic metadata are used to adjust and optimize each frame of the HDR video to the consumer display's capabilities in a way based on the ...
and
Corning Gorilla Glass 6. It has an aluminium frame with a glass back, and has
UFS 3.1 for storage. It comes with a quad camera on the rear equipped with a 48mp primary senor capable of recording at
4K@30/60fps. It has support for
wifi 6 and has an indisplay fingerprint scanner. It supporta 55w fast charging capable of charging the 4400
mAh to 50% in 15 minutes.
iQOO series
iQOO Z series
iQOO U series
iQOO Pro series
iQOO Neo series
Custom UI
While introducing iQOO 3, along with it
iQOO UI 1.0 is also introduced as its custom UI of iQOO on top of
Android 10 for its smartphone lineup with customisable 'Always on' display and gaming focus features.
Notes
References
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BBK Electronics
Chinese brands
Electronics companies of China
Mobile phone companies of China
Mobile phone manufacturers