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iQOO
9T
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It has
a snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 chipset
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It has
two variant 8/128 gb & 12/56 gb
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It has
a 4700 milliamp-hour battery
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It has
a super fast 120watt flash charger
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| iQOO 9T |
This is a brand new iQOO 9T. We already know the pricing of 49 triple
nine for the 8 to 128 GB variant and 54 triple nine for the 12 to 56 GB
variant. There's also a 4000 rupee discount if you have an ics card making the
price even better anyway. The iQOO 9T looks like a really good value-for-money
smartphone but is it as good as it seems are there any compromises?
let's find out starting off the biggest USP of the iQOO 9T, is the
fact that it brings the snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 chipset at this price. There
are also the latest specs in lpdd5 ram and 3.1 storage. There's also the v1
plus chipset. Which brings gaming and camera improvements. Now 8 plus gen 1 is
the big deal and I know that I've been phones with 8 gen 1 at 50k like the moto
h30 pro and the Redmi gt2 pro but we've seen the difference eight plus gen one
makes.
It is supposed to fix the agent one's issues like thermal throttling battery drain. Now we've seen the eight plus gen one chipset do really well in the rog phone six pro but that was a proper gaming phone. The question is how well does it here first of all the iQOO 9T does go higher in benchmarks. When compared to 8 gen 1 on the h30 pro in fact. There's quite a big difference. This is actually great however what I really wanted to see was the throttling performance. So we did all three tests that we usually do and in the first one. There's no throttling and the temperature is also under control at around 38, or 39 degrees. Which is just very normal. Now here are the scores of the second test the iQOO 9T does well again and here's the score with the third test which is an intensive hundred threads one artist and again the iQOO 9T does really well. I mean, this is really good especially because I was checking the temperatures all along and the iQOO 9T never really exceeded 42-43 degrees. I mean, I had my doubts about the 8-plus gen 1 chipset because I've used it on a proper gaming phone before but you know.
What the 8-plus gen 1 chipset is actually good
to see. The real-world performance is awesome too. This is a very smooth phone
to use but that's hardly a surprise. I mean with this exit pack general and
multitasking usage works without any lag whatsoever game performance is really
good too.
I
played all the games on the math graphic settings and there's almost no lag in
any of the games. I played with bjmi asphalt apex legends all of these games
look great on this phone and the gameplay is really smooth. Now I did notice
some heat build up around the camera module after like 45 minutes or one hour
of gaming but I'd call it warm not hot also the phone does cool quickly
probably thanks to its vapor chamber cooling system and one thing to note is
the v1 plus chip can push games to 90 fps
using memc aka frame interpolation and it can be turned on like this. overall the performance. Here is flagship grade and that's really good for the price but the iQOO 9T is good value all around. So the design is premium. The iQOO 9T comes in both the alpha and the legend variants. Which has the BMW theme on the back.
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| iQOO 9T |
Now we have the alpha variant and I actually
love this. It has an 8g glass matte black design on the back that looks really
good. The frame is aluminum and the new here when compared to the iQOO 9T is
this top glass panel. Which is covered in squat sensation glass and features.
The cameras have the v1 plus logo, and the 28 zoom text, and I like the subtle
carbon fiber texture in it. There's also this fascination meets imagination
tagline at the end of this glass panel. Which has been fascinating anyway. The
iQOO 9T has an in-display fingerprint scanner which is fast. The phone has an
ip52 rating for splash resistance.
There are stereo speakers with the second
speaker in the earpiece right here and apart from that. There's no headphone
jack no micro sd slot and there's no wireless charging. The front has a 6.7
inch e5 AMOLED screen with a 120-hertz refresh rate 1500 nits of big brightness
100 DCI pc coverage and I like the narrow unified bezels all around specs
apart. This is a high-quality AMOLED display the colors look great and vibrant
like you'd expect from a good AMOLED. The brightness is high viewing. Angles
are good and I like that the phone supports hdr 10 apps like Netflix and
youtube when I did play an hdr video I noticed a bump in the display's
brightness a little bit of boost to vibrancy. The point is, this display looks
good. When watching movies and even when just doing day-to-day tasks. Now
there's no LTP attack here but with the phone set to 120 hertz. The screen is
smooth and the UI is optimized for it.
The
phone has one touch os 12.1 on top of Android 12 and I love that 9T has
promised three major android updates for this and four years of security badges
and that is really good support. It has a 50-megapixel Samsung gnb sensor, a
13-megapixel ultrawide camera, and a 12-megapixel telephoto lens capable of 2x
optical zoom and 20x dash to zoom. There's also the v1 plus chip that enhances
photos and videos at night anyway. So the specs are good and the photos look
good. So far the main camera takes some really rich photos which have nice
colors good details and balanced exposure. Sometimes the photos look a bit
boosted in terms of color but other than that it seems pretty good even low light
situations. The ultrawide sensor has more natural toenails photos and unlike most
ultraviolet sensors. This keeps a good amount of detail so that's nice.
The
telephoto lens means, you can take zoom shots and 28 shots are decent but this
also works as a portrait camera, so ported photos are actually good in terms of
videos. It can shoot 4k 60 fps videos from the back while the front is still
limited to 1080p 30 fps a little strange for a phone that packs flagship specs.
Now another strange thing is that the ultra wide-angle camera is also limited
to 1080p 30 fps. So if you switch to 4k the 0.6 option just goes away. I also
found no way to quickly switch between different cameras while shooting a video
the front camera is a 16-megapixel Samsung sensor. Which I found to be pretty
good. It handles skin tones much better than most front cameras.
There's also a good level of detail in the
selfies cameras apart. The iQOO 9T has a 4700 image battery and comes with a
super fast 120-watt flash charge charger. Now, this is the 120 charger and it
takes the phone from one to two hundred percent in just 20 minutes. I know,
we've already seen fast charges like this but it is still impressive in terms
of connectivity. The phone has nine 5g bands wi-fi six support Bluetooth 5.2
and there's also a carriage aggregation spot.
The
iQOO 9T brings a lot of great features. I mean iQOO 9T is known for bringing
great performance to its phones and the iQOO 9T is no different see the eight
plus gen1 chipset is great and it fixes the issues.
iQOO 9T
Specifications
| BODY | Dimensions | 165 x 77 x 8 mm (6.50 x 3.03 x 0.31 in) |
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| Weight | 206 g (7.27 oz) | |
| Build | Glass front (Gorilla Glass 5), aluminum frame, glass back | |
| SIM | Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) | |
| Dust and dripping water resistant |
| DISPLAY | Type | AMOLED, 1B colors, 120Hz, HDR10+, 1500 nits (peak) |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 6.78 inches, 111.0 cm2 (~87.4% screen-to-body ratio) | |
| Resolution | 1080 x 2400 pixels, 20:9 ratio (~388 ppi density) | |
| Protection | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 |
| PLATFORM | OS | Android 12, Funtouch 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Chipset | Qualcomm SM8475 Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 (4 nm) | |
| CPU | Octa-core (1x3.19 GHz Cortex-X2 & 3x2.75 GHz Cortex-A710 & 4x1.80 GHz Cortex-A510) | |
| GPU | Adreno 730 |
| MEMORY | Card slot | No |
|---|---|---|
| Internal | 128GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 12GB RAM | |
| UFS 3.1 |
| MAIN CAMERA | Triple | 50 MP, f/1.9, (wide), 1/1.57", 1.0µm, PDAF, OIS 12 MP, f/2.0, 47mm (telephoto), PDAF, 2x optical zoom 13 MP, f/2.2, 16mm, 120˚ (ultrawide), AF |
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| Features | Dual-LED dual-tone flash, HDR, panorama | |
| Video | 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60fps, gyro-EIS |
| SELFIE CAMERA | Single | 16 MP, f/2.5, (wide) |
|---|---|---|
| Features | HDR | |
| Video | 1080p@30fps, gyro-EIS |
| SOUND | Loudspeaker | Yes, with stereo speakers |
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| 3.5mm jack | No | |
| 24-bit/192kHz audio |
| COMMS | WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct |
|---|---|---|
| Bluetooth | 5.2, A2DP, LE, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive | |
| Positioning | GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS, QZSS | |
| NFC | Yes | |
| Infrared port | Yes | |
| Radio | FM radio | |
| USB | USB Type-C 2.0, USB On-The-Go |
| FEATURES | Sensors | Fingerprint (under display, ultrasonic), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass |
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| BATTERY | Type | Li-Po 4700 mAh, non-removable |
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| Charging | 120W wired, 50% in 8 min, 100% in 19 min (advertised) |
| MISC | Colors | Alpha, Legend (BMW M branding) |
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| TESTS | Display | Contrast ratio: Infinite (nominal) |
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| Camera | Photo / Video | |
| Loudspeaker | -28.8 LUFS (Average) | |
| Battery life | Endurance rating 117h. |
