iQOO U1

Vivo-owned iQOO presents its budget smartphone iQOO U1 with Snapdragon 720 SoC integrated with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The phone is powered by Android 10 with iQOO UI. For the optics, there’s a set up of 48 Megapixels triple rear cameras and an 8MP selfie snapper. The display of the phone is a 6.5-inch color IPS LCD. The phone has a side-mounted fingerprint sensor for security and is backed by a 4,500mAh battery with an 18W fast charger. Let’s read about iQOO U1 specifications in detail and see how it performs against the existing competition.

Display and Camera

iQOO U1 comes fitted with a 6.5-inch color IPS LCD display with a punch hole. This multitouch panel has a Full HD+(1080x2340px) resolution with a pixel density of 400PPI. Based on the configuration, you may expect from the display to produce sharp and detailed visuals. The aspect ratio of the phone is 19.5:9 with 90% of screen to body ratio. Which is to say, the display is long and can be used for entertainment and other counterparts such as scrolling and gaming.

iQOO U1 has a set up 48 Megapixels triple rear cameras with an LED flash. The main 48MP camera is followed by a 2MP Macro camera(f/2.4) and a depth sensor of 2MP(f/2.4) with autofocus. The camera app features Digital Zoom, Auto Flash, Face detection, Touch to focus for capturing better pictures. There’s an 8MP camera lives inside the punch hole for capturing selfies, video calls. Also, it supports face unlock. As far as the video recording is concerned, you can record FHD 1080p videos @30fps using the rear cameras on the phone.

Performance and Battery

iQOO U1 runs of Android 10 based on iQOO UI skin. The performance of the phone depends on Qualcomm’s midrange Snapdragon 720 chipset. This 8nm SoC has 8-performance cores that clocks at a speed of 2.3GHz. For dealing with the multitasks and the background activities the phone is assisted with 6GB of RAM. The phone houses Adreno 618GPU for rendering the graphics to run the demanding applications and games. User-friendly sensors such as Light sensor, Proximity sensor, Compass, Gyroscope are present to better the user experience.

iQOO U1 is backed by a 4,500mAh Li-ion battery that supports fast charging. Also, there’s an 18W fast charger out of the box. Based on the battery size, you may expect a day of power back up under average usage.

Storage and Connectivity

iQOO U1 has 64GB of inbuilt storage capacity. This storage option can be used for storing apps, games, videos, photos, music, etc. A reminder that iQOO U1 lacks an external card slot that limits the storage capacity.

iQOO U1 has the usual sets of connectivity options that include 3G, 4G VoLTE that enables HD voice and video calls on supported Jio networks, WiFi, Bluetooth5.1, UFS2.1 for sharing data, USB Type C connectivity. For online location tracking, it features constellations like GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, and GALILEO.