iQOO Neo 12 launched in China with 9,000mAh battery and 185Hz display

Tech company iQOO has launched its new smartphone, the iQOO Neo 12, in China. The phone succeeds the iQOO Neo 11 released last year and has been placed in the mid-range price segment.

The 12GB + 256GB variant is priced at 4,399 yuan, about Rs 63,000. The 16GB + 256GB variant costs 4,799 yuan, about Rs 69,000. The 12GB + 512GB variant is priced at 5,099 yuan, about Rs 73,000, while the 16GB + 512GB variant comes at 5,499 yuan, about Rs 79,000. The top-of-the-line 16GB + 1TB variant costs 6,499 yuan, about Rs 93,000.

In China, the phone will be sold through Vivo's online store. Buyers can choose from three colours: Contest, Shadow Black and Frost Blade Blue.

The Neo 12 is a dual-SIM phone and runs on Vivo's latest OriginOS 7, which is built on Android 17. It has a 6.83-inch 2K (1,440 x 3,200 pixels) Super AMOLED display. The screen supports a refresh rate of up to 185Hz, a pixel density of 514 ppi and HDR. The touch sampling rate goes up to 5,000Hz. The screen displays 1.07 billion colours, has a screen-to-body ratio of 94.88 per cent and reaches a peak brightness of up to 2,200 nits.

For performance, the phone has an octa-core Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, built on a 3nm process with a peak clock speed of up to 4.6GHz. It is paired with an Adreno 840 GPU and a Q3 gaming chip. It offers up to 16GB of LPDDR5X Ultra RAM and up to 1TB of UFS 4.1 onboard storage. To keep the phone from heating up, it has an active cooling fan and a 3D vapour chamber cooling solution with a heat dissipation area of 8,200 sq mm.

There are two cameras at the back. The main camera is 50-megapixel (f/1.88) with a Sony IMX921 sensor, optical image stabilisation (OIS) and 20x digital zoom. It is joined by an 8-megapixel (f/2.2) ultrawide camera. A 16-megapixel (f/2.45) camera at the front handles selfies and video calls. The handset can record video at up to 8K/30 fps.

The Neo 12 has a 9,000mAh battery and supports 100W wired fast charging. Connectivity includes 5G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, a USB Type-C port, GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, Galileo and QZSS. The sensors include a gravity sensor, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, gyroscope, e-compass and IR blaster. A 3D ultrasonic fingerprint sensor is provided for security.