To achieve such a regular iterative upgrade, in addition to careful product establishment and route planning in advance, as well as strong control of the supply chain, sufficient technical reserves are needed. Obviously, there are iQOO backed by vivo.
In the specific product path planning, iQOO's digital flagship positioning and characteristics have been very firm since the brand was born. The first generation iQOO laid the foundation of its bucket machine, as did iQOO 3, iQOO 5 and iQOO 7.
IQOO digital flagship with Pro suffix is not available in every generation. It is more interested in building a super flagship above a bucket. Vivo's first commercial 5G mobile phone is equipped by iQOO Pro; IQOO 5 Pro is the first IQOO mobile phone with curved screen, and the first launch is 120W fast charge.
When I arrived at iQOO 8 Pro, I made great improvements and supplements in screen, wireless charging and camera. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a flagship that can represent the brand and technical strength of iQOO and even vivo.
Just the screen, iQOO 8 Pro has taken a big step this time. In the past two years, smart phone screen technology has made remarkable progress, and mobile phone manufacturers also intend to regard screen quality as the dividing standard between ordinary flagship and top flagship. When iQOO 8 Pro comes to the sixth generation, it will inevitably take the screen as the upgrade focus.
Screen competition has just begun.
Surprisingly, iQOO 8 Pro, which launched the screen, wanted to catch up with the industry level, but it had to catch up with it in an all-round way. This can be seen from iQOO 8 Pro directly skipping the best E4 luminescent material at present and grabbing the first launch of Samsung E5 luminescent material.
In fact, the luminous material on the screen is only a small piece of puzzle in the overall quality of the screen, but it is precisely because of the involution of the mobile phone industry that the user education is getting deeper and deeper, and the competition has already surpassed the luminous material.
This is of course a good thing. The more thorough the user is, the better the quality of all aspects of mobile phone products will be improved. Taking luminescent materials as an example, it can not only have higher peak brightness, but also reduce power consumption, which is also a major factor to promote the continuous evolution of screen luminescent materials.
The higher brightness and contrast brought by the upgrading of luminescent materials will better present the quality of this screen, such as 2K resolution, P3 wide color gamut, 10bit color depth and HDR 10+. To the naked eye, even in strong light, this screen can display more light and dark details, which is also very important for playing games and watching videos outdoors.
In addition to the first E5, iQOO 8 Pro also integrates four elements: 120Hz refresh rate +2K resolution +LTPO+ curved screen, which supports 2K+ 120Hz simultaneous opening. According to different usage scenarios, the screen refresh rate can be freely switched between 1- 120Hz.
For example, when I brush Weibo, friends circle and short video, I stop to look at the beautiful photos of others' Weibo and friends circle. The screen has low power consumption of 1Hz, and when I keep sliding upward, I have a visual effect of 120Hz, without dragging.
As for the problems that many people are concerned about, such as touching the curved screen by mistake and the color cast on the edge, due to the characteristics of the curved screen and the curved surface structure on the left and right sides, there will be obvious highlights when the light hits the screen. From the front, iQOO 8 Pro has no color cast, but if the angle is low, there will still be a slight color cast.
I don't think it's necessary to worry about touching by mistake. At present, manufacturers have done a good job in optimizing the edges to prevent accidental touch, and there is no accidental touch in the four corners that iQOO 8 Pro is easy to encounter when playing games.
Since the screen parameters are all piled up, it is not surprising that iQOO 8 Pro has also obtained DisplayMate's 14 screen A+ certification. The overall jump of this screen cannot be simply said to be catching up. The world's first 2K screen mobile phone is actually vivo Xplay3S.
IQOO 8 Pro is not only IQOO's first 2K screen mobile phone, but also the return of its 2K screen mobile phone after Xplay series, so I prefer to regard it as a "screen revival" of vivo. Sweeping monk has been working for too long. It's time to come out. The competition of flagship mobile phones on the screen has just begun.
2K screen+120Hz high brush+Snapdragon 888+, can the fever be suppressed?
Letting iQOO 8 Pro restart the 2K screen is caused by industry competition on the one hand and product power consumption can be suppressed on the other hand. In this regard, iQOO engineers have thought of many ways, such as E5 luminescent materials and LTPO mentioned above, which all help to reduce power consumption. In addition, iQOO 8 Pro also newly supports 50W wireless fast charging. What does this mean? Not only iQOO, but also the first mobile phone in vivo that supports wireless charging.
Compared with the above function updates, there is no suspense in upgrading iQOO 8 Pro processor to Snapdragon 888+, and the key is adjustment and optimization.
First of all, Ann Bunny runs 850,000 points, which is higher than Xiaomi MIX 4 and Glory Magic 3 Pro that we evaluated before. Geekbench 5 single-core score is basically around 1 100, and multi-core score is around 3600, which is normal.
In terms of game performance, Genshin Impact is still used to exploring its upper limit. First, turn on monster mode in the game box. At the same time, the "frame rate priority" function is built in to ensure the stability of the frame rate and reduce the quality of the game when necessary.
As you can see, iQOO 8 Pro is a rare mobile phone that can keep Genshin Impact at 60fps for a long time without dropping frames. Of course, there are still some frame drops in the middle.
And I have always said that the current flagship processors, including high refresh rate screens, are already in a state of performance overflow for games such as the glory of the king and Peace Elite. What iQOO 8 Pro has done can be used as a reference-by improving the frame rate interpolation algorithm in frame rate mode, it can break through its own frame rate limit, so that the glory of the king and peace elites who originally had the highest frame rate of 90fps can also reach 120fps.
The realization of this function also benefits from iQOO 8 Pro's brand-new independent display chip, which automatically supplements a transition picture between two moving pictures and upgrades the original 90-frame game to 120 frame. Although there is no big difference between 60 frames and 90 frames, the improvement of fluency is still perceptible.
More worrying is the fever. After all, Snapdragon 888 is not easy to tame. The higher frequency of Snapdragon 888+ plus 2K screen and 120Hz high brush are turned on at the same time. Can the fever of iQOO 8 Pro be controlled?
In fact, when I first started using this mobile phone, the heating problem really bothered me, especially the plastic back shell used by iQOO 8 Pro, which led to the obvious heat storage effect of the metal middle frame. Fortunately, after two OTA upgrades, the fever problem has been alleviated. The highest temperature in Genshin Impact after 30 minutes is 39.4, which shows that there is room for further adjustment in Snapdragon 888+.
Comparable, even caught up with the image flagship level.
Of course, the most typical is the rear camera module boldly upgraded by iQOO 8 Pro. It can be said that even if there is no joint name, the camera configuration and function of iQOO 8 Pro is already the flagship level of the current image.
The main camera adopts a 50-megapixel IMX766V sensor customized by Sony. On the basis of IMX766, the filter and focusing are further optimized to improve the photosensitive performance and enhance night imaging.
At the same time, it is equipped with a new generation of micro-pan-tilt, which allows the pan-tilt to complete flexible "three-dimensional anti-shake" in the X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis respectively. The rotation angle of micro-pan/tilt based on mechanical motion compensation is larger than OIS, so it can cover more shaking scenes when taking photos and videos.
For example, in an environment where artificial light sources interfere seriously in the city at night, the mobile phone can also clearly present light and dark details, so that "the bright place is bright and the clean place is clean".
In fact, whether it is IMX766 or IMX766V, it is mainly video. IQOO 8 Pro combines the advantages of this main camera and miniature pan/tilt, and gives me many surprises in video anti-shake and video night scene.
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Watching this live video, you can hardly feel the jitter, but it was actually shot in a single handset, and the jitter is very large during operation.
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Video night scene has improved the problems of insufficient brightness, dazzling background and much noise, and has good clarity and stability.
In terms of super wide angle and telephoto, iQOO 8 Pro is equipped with 48 megapixel IMX598 and16 megapixel telephoto portrait camera with a focal length of 60mm respectively. Because the equivalent focal length of IMX766V is 23mm, which is wider than the wide angle of ordinary mobile phones, in my opinion, it can take wide-angle shooting in many cases, and only in a few cases can I use another wider equivalent 14mm ultra-wide angle.
Therefore, iQOO also developed the horizon anti-shake function by using this ultra-wide angle. With larger frame clipping space and gyro data, no matter how the mobile phone rotates, the video picture will not change with the angle of the mobile phone, and the horizon direction will always remain the same. The actual shooting is very interesting.
However, the color consistency of these three cameras still has obvious deviation, which needs to be further optimized in the later algorithm.
From top to bottom are 0.6X super wide angle, 1X main camera and 2.5X telephoto.
Due to the obvious improvement of the camera and screen as a whole, and the Snapdragon 888+, iQOO 8 Pro has several function upgrades, which can only be collectively referred to as small details, but these actually greatly affect the user's cognition of a mobile phone. Like fingerprint unlocking.
At present, there are not many mobile phones using ultrasonic fingerprint scheme. IQOO 8 Pro adopts ultrasonic 3D wide-area fingerprint jointly developed based on the second generation ultrasonic sensor technology in Qualcomm. Its main feature is that the fingerprint identification area is large. According to official data, it is larger than iQOO 711times, and the unlocking speed is 4 1.7% faster and the fastest is 0. 19 seconds.
When in use, it can be clearly perceived that the unlocking speed is faster than that of mobile phones with other optical schemes, and because of its larger fingerprint recognition area, higher success rate and faster feeling, it is obviously less necessary to press repeatedly to recognize. I have also tried to unlock my wet hands without drying them after washing, and I can still identify them quickly and successfully.
Generally speaking, iQOO 8 Pro is actually an enhanced version of the bucket. It has been further enhanced in terms of screen, image, fast charge and multiple details experience, which is enough to compete with the current top flagship.
On the one hand, iQOO adopts the standard digital flagship, which makes Snapdragon flagship machine more cost-effective; On the other hand, it occasionally produces all-round flagships like iQOO 5 Pro and iQOO 8 Pro, which are "strong, but not short-board", enough to compete with traditional high-end flagships. This is why it is still a young brand, but it is enough to make competitors dare not underestimate, or even nervous enough.
At the same time, iQOO has the price advantage of Internet brands. If you just come for the bucket machine, then iQOO 8 is the flagship choice of Snapdragon 888 that meets your game performance requirements at present, and iQOO 8 Pro is to improve the overall experience above the bucket. It is foreseeable that such a dual-machine strategy will further attract more and more users for this young brand in terms of recognition and stickiness.