iQOO 12 Pro Q1 chip blessing, the all-around gaming flagship in appearance and imaging

iQOO 12 Pro's Q1 Chip Brings Powerful Performance and Stunning Design, the Ultimate Gaming Flagship with Superior Imaging Capabilities

Thanks to iQOO’s down-to-earth and user-oriented product planning and innovative features, each generation of iQOO smartphones can enter the market at the first time and become the preferred choice for many users. In the process of continuous iteration, keywords such as “strong performance”, “maxed-out configuration”, and “affordable price” have become increasingly popular, and many users who pursue high performance will choose iQOO smartphones at the first time.

iQOO 12 Pro

However, in the latest iQOO 12 series, we can see that iQOO has put more thought into it. iQOO does not want to restrict the digital series flagship to just a performance phone, but to build the digital series as an all-around flagship under the iQOO brand.

If it’s called all-around, it should be good in every aspect, and the improvements in appearance and imaging of iQOO 12 Pro undoubtedly make it a powerhouse flagship that can meet the current and future needs.

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To create an all-around flagship, it is necessary to consider more users, and to convey the distinctive side of iQOO through the design, which has become the core idea of the iQOO 12 series this time.

The three-color stripes become small three-color patterns on the body

Compared with the previous iQOO digital series that adopted straight lines and a more hardcore overall appearance, iQOO 12 Pro uses more curved elements, making the whole machine look much softer. Take the white Legendary Edition as an example, its surface has a bright ceramic glaze texture, and the original three-color stripes have also become small three-color patterns on the body, continuing the sense of speed of iQOO smartphones, while adding a touch of elegance to the whole machine.

The imaging system area adopts a gentle rounded rectangle, hiding three lenses inside, and there is also a special engraved texture around it. This design adds a sense of layering to the lens area, and whether horizontally or vertically held, the volcano-like protrusion can minimize the impact of the imaging system on the hand feel.

As for the overall design, it still follows the design concept of the iQOO digital series flagship in recent years. Its front uses a Samsung 2K E7 144Hz curved screen, with a maximum global brightness of 1600nit, and a peak local brightness of up to 3000nit. It has higher hand-to-hand and touch sensitivity and supports 1440Hz PWM dimming. The double-sided curved glass with rounded edges greatly improves the grip comfort. Moreover, with the combination of a 510mAh battery and 120W extreme flash charging, the thickness and weight of iQOO 12 Pro are controlled at 8.58mm and 210g, showing remarkable performance.

In terms of appearance, the iteration of the iQOO 12 Pro has made it more suitable for everyday use by the general public. There is not a single flat surface or straight line on the device, making it look more elegant and soft, while still maintaining a sense of simplicity that a flagship phone should have.

These days, it has become our norm to use our phones to capture the moments of our lives. To become an all-round flagship, advancements in imaging are essential. Compared to its predecessors, the iQOO 12 Pro has taken a big leap forward in terms of imaging. In terms of hardware, it features a 50-megapixel main camera, a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera, and a 64-megapixel periscope telephoto lens. The ultra-wide-angle lens uses a large 1/1.3-inch sensor, supporting spectral imaging technology. The telephoto lens has a more commonly used 70mm equivalent focal length and supports optical image stabilization. It can be said that the iQOO 12 Pro has made significant improvements in focal lengths such as 1X, 2X, and 3X, which are used more frequently.

Shot with iQOO 12 Pro

Shot with iQOO 12 Pro

On the software side, the iQOO 12 Pro also has many features developed by the vivo imaging team. For example, the texture colors from the previous X series, and the natural style of portraiture. This time, iQOO even provides different styles of watermarks, such as text, frames, and traditional Chinese art signatures, so you can always find one that suits you.

Shot with iQOO 12 Pro

Looking at the sample images, the iQOO 12 Pro truly delivers exceptional imaging results. The 50-megapixel main camera captures images with excellent quality, combined with the texture colors, significantly enhancing the visual experience. It also performs well in low-light conditions. With software support from the vivo imaging team, the iQOO 12 Pro’s portrait photography capabilities are also among the top tier.

iQOO is renowned as the “performance pioneer,” and every generation of the iQOO digital series flagship is equipped with the most powerful chipsets from the start. The iQOO 12 Pro is the first to feature the third-gen Snapdragon 8 as its core, coupled with LPDDR5X and UFS 4.0, forming a new generation “performance iron triangle.” In benchmark tests, it achieves over 2 million points on AnTuTu, maintaining its status as one of the top-performing devices.

iQOO 12 Pro’s running score reaches 2,147,709 points

As the leading brand in the gaming flagship category, iQOO naturally provides users with a more stable and smooth gaming experience. This year, iQOO 12 Pro also debuted the self-developed Q1 chip, which can help iQOO 12 Pro achieve the ability to surpass native game graphics. It can be said that it is specifically designed for gaming.

Q1 chip

The so-called “surpassing native graphics” means providing clearer and smoother images through the computational power of the phone’s chip. Thanks to the Q1 chip, when running the high-quality game “Genshin Impact,” iQOO 12 Pro can freely choose between original graphics, high graphics, and ultra-high graphics, with each option corresponding to different resolutions. Ultra-high graphics has higher clarity compared to the game’s native resolution, resulting in a more outstanding visual experience. Moreover, while achieving higher graphics quality, the Q1 chip of iQOO 12 Pro can also provide smoothness that surpasses the native frame rate. In tests, while running “Genshin Impact” with 2K ultra-high graphics enabled, iQOO 12 Pro can stably achieve a maximum of 72 frames per second, allowing “smoothness” and “high graphics quality” to coexist on one device.

Enable super frames

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Thanks to the optimization by the iQOO team, the Q1 dedicated graphics chip has a more comprehensive understanding of the data of in-game visuals. It can “frame by frame” recognize and calculate the game scenes, achieve accurate scheduling and allocation, and also relieve the computational pressure on the SoC, thereby reducing power consumption and heat generation during gameplay. At the same time, iQOO 12 Pro also has a more powerful “all-time four-zone heat dissipation architecture” internally. It can adjust the temperature specifically for the four areas frequently touched by the left and right hands, effectively dissipating the heat generated by the chip to the outside through a larger area of heat-dissipating plate and graphite heat-dissipating film. Thus, when running high-quality and high-frame-rate games, the temperature of the entire device’s back panel and the areas touched by the hands are still well-controlled.

Playing games with iQOO 12 Pro

In addition to its powerful performance, iQOO has continuously improved its gaming experience in recent years, making the iQOO digital series a comprehensive leader in the gaming flagship category. Today’s mobile gaming practices are more diverse and require comprehensive optimization from touch control to audio sensitivity. This time, iQOO 12 Pro has also comprehensively upgraded the touch experience of the phone, optimizing aspects such as screen taps and edge misoperation, greatly enhancing the responsiveness in games. Especially when playing games like “Arena of Valor” and “League of Legends: Wild Rift,” the lower touch latency and the experience of “aim and hit” like controls undoubtedly greatly enhance the immersion in the game. And this focus on details, aimed at enhancing game stability, may also be one of the reasons why iQOO 12 Pro has once again become the designated device for “Arena of Valor” KPL competitions and the 2023 Tencent Open AI National Championship.

With the popularity of linear motors, more and more users are starting to feel the sensory enhancement brought by “vibration”. This time, the iQOO 12 Pro uses a larger volume, crisper X-axis linear motor, and provides vibration optimization for dozens of characters in “Genshin Impact”, greatly enhancing the immersion of the game by triggering vibrations that match the actions and animations.

Similarly, dual speakers are also a standard feature of the iQOO digital series. This time, in addition to dual speakers, the iQOO 12 Pro has also enhanced the volume of the bottom speaker cavity, which brings a wider sound field and further improves the listening experience.

This year, the iQOO 12 Pro can be said to be a flagship phone with comprehensive upgrades. It is not a “performance phone” that can only be used for gaming in the traditional sense. Instead, it is a product that is fully upgraded in terms of appearance, imaging, and performance.

For the majority of ordinary users, “esports” is only a part of life. We also use our phones to communicate with others and record those wonderful moments around us. The iQOO 12 Pro can always accompany us. Its design is more gentle and closer to ordinary users, its imaging is outstanding, allowing us to easily take good photos, and it has powerful and stable performance, satisfying the complex needs of different users.

This is the iQOO 12 Pro, a flagship phone that excels inside and out and is versatile in every aspect. In 2023 and even the upcoming 2024, it is enough to become everyone’s good companion.

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