IQOO NEO is equipped with last year's flagship processor Snapdragon 845, 22.5W fast charging, 4500mAh large battery, and the starting price of 6GB+64GB is only ￥ 1798.
*The picture was taken by Chen
Starting from the packaging, the packaging continues the iQOO design. The asymmetric design is adopted. Several oblique orange lines can be seen from the side of the packaging. The front is the orange iQOO logo, and the back is some information parameters. The packaging of iQOO NEO is relatively simple. It uses dark black as the background color, and bright orange as the ornament. In terms of packaging, vivo still has a lot of ideas.
There are all necessary accessories, including security card, instruction manual and silicone protective case. There is no Type-C to 3.5mm adapter, because the iQOO NEO has headphone holes.
Mobile phone body, we are already familiar with this design, which can be called mold design.
The front is equipped with a 6.38 inch water drop screen, the screen panel is Samsung Super AMOLED, the screen scale is 19.5:9, and the resolution is 2340 x 1080. The screen driver uses Samsung's S6E3FC2. The earpiece is located on the top of the front. The three sides of the frame and the width of the chin are easy to perceive.
In the metal middle frame, there is an independent Jovi AI button on the left, which is highlighted in red to make a difference. It can be seen how much Vivo attaches importance to Jovi. Even low-end machines are equipped with independent AI buttons, which is not available to Xiaomi and Samsung. The SIM card slot is above the Jovi AI button. It is designed with dual Nano SIM and cannot be extended. Therefore, you should consider carefully when purchasing 64GB of storage. If it is not enough, you cannot upgrade it.
On the right side of the middle box are the volume button and power button. The buttons are soft and rebound moderately. At the bottom, from left to right, there are 3.5mm headphone holes, main MIC, Type-C connector, and speakers. It's better to have earphone holes. The top is simple, with only one noise reduction MIC,.
The transition from the middle frame to the screen has an obvious plastic wrapping strip, which affects the texture of the whole machine.
The back is the highlight of the overall appearance ID design. There are two colors in total, electric purple and carbon fiber black. The carbon fiber black uses the Kevlar texture design, and the stair like texture can be seen under the light. From the official rendering, Electro Purple should be a gradient color. The camera uses IMX363, the ultra wide angle uses the Hercules Hi846 with 800W pixels, and the 200W GC2375 of Geke Microelectronics, forcing three shots. The Hercules CMOS is relatively rare, and this CMOS has been used on the Nubia V18. As for the quality of taking photos, the following will release samples for your reference.
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In general, iQOO NEO lacks a sense of refinement, and its ID design is ordinary, but it is a sub flagship mobile phone starting from ￥ 1798, which is understandable.
performance
However, I believe that the focus of students who pay attention to this mobile phone should be on the processor of this mobile phone, which is Snapdragon 845. Last year's Android flagship SoC, let's briefly review this old friend. Using the 10nm process, the CPU consists of four large cores with a dominant frequency of 2.8 GHz and four small cores with a dominant frequency of 1.7 GHz, forming four large cores and four small cores. The big core is based on the A75 architecture, and each big core has 256KB L2 cache. The small core is based on the A55 architecture, and each small core has 128KB L2 cache. 8 cores share 2M L3 cache. The GPU is Adreno 630 with a maximum frequency of 710MHz.
The performance of this processor is also very strong today, and its performance is second only to the flagship SoC.
The iQOO NEO in our hand uses 6GB LPDDR4x memory, 128GB UFS2.1 flash memory and Samsung's chip. The detailed model is KLUDG4U1EA-B0C1.
Now let's take a look at the performance of this old flagship compared with the current flagship and the high-end SoC by running a minute:
CPU
It can be seen from the CPU that there is still a significant gap between this year's flagship iQOO (Snapdragon 855), whether it is single threaded or multi-threaded. It is much more powerful than the high-end CPU such as Xiaomi 9 SE (Snapdragon 712) and Meizu Note9 (Snapdragon 675).
GPU
The performance advantage of the GPU is even greater. The performance is more than twice that of the Snapdragon 712. Qualcomm still makes a great difference between the flagship and the mid and high-end GPUs. In recent years, Qualcomm's mid and high-end SoCs are basically the same idea. The CPU performance is close to the previous generation flagship, and the GPU performance gap is large. Therefore, the 6 Series and 7 Series have no problem with common applications, But when it comes to playing games, 8 series is better.
Both use UFS2.1 flash memory. Because Snapdragon 712 and Snapdragon 675 only support single channel UFS2.1 flash memory, the two dual channel flash phones perform well.
The iQOO NEO is equipped with a 4500mAh super large battery. Due to time constraints, there is no time to test the endurance. It is estimated that if there is no negative optimization, the battery life of this mobile phone should not be poor.
The charging is equipped with vivo Flash Charge fast charging, high voltage and low current scheme, 10V/2.25A, and the maximum charging power is 22.5W.
It takes 15 minutes to charge 20%, half an hour to charge 40%, and one hour to charge 78%. It takes one hour and 47 minutes to fully charge.
The highest online power is about 20W, and the first half of the online power remains above 15W. The charging speed is good. The proportion of trickle charging time to the rear is relatively long. For 4500mAh batteries, the charging speed is not bad.
Three photo samples:
Main camera
Super wide-angle
In addition to the fact that the viewfinder cannot preview the HDR effect in real time, the photo taking experience is fairly good, the film is produced quickly, and the whole photo taking process is not stuck. As for photography quality, please refer to the sample above.
summary
Carrying Snapdragon 845 into the gear of less than 2000 yuan, we have to say that this mobile phone is a good choice for performance and game party. The performance of Snapdragon 845 is undoubtedly better than that of Snapdragon 710 and 675. In addition to charging, endurance and three shots, even if it is not a pure performance party, it can be used with ease.
However, last year's 845 flagship has almost dropped to the same price. You can buy last year's Xiaomi flagship MIX2S for only one yuan, with a stronger camera combination, a full screen without bangs, support for wireless charging, multi-functional NFC and other practical functions.
So, do you choose NEO or the old flagship?
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