If iQOO's Digital Series is the flagship of upward exploration, then the Neo Series' pursuit of performance and price/performance ratio is even more focused. With the iQOO Neo9, what kind of strong performance and extreme price/performance ratio can they create? Let's take a look today.
New style of body, weight control is the highlights
Compared to previous generations, iQOO Neo9's appearance is undoubtedly more flamboyant, especially the "red, white and soul" color scheme in our hands, as the name suggests, it adopts a red and white color clash design, corresponding to the white carbon fiber grain leather and red skin texture lychee grain leather materials, colliding a unique sense of visual impact in the simple. This is a unique visual impact in simplicity.
This pursuit of simplicity is also reflected in the design of the camera modules of the iQOO Neo9 series. The number of cameras is still two, and the cameras have the same silver ring, vertically arranged on the top of the white part of the leather, giving the impression that the left side of the white leather is also a decorative surface. Of course, this feeling belongs only to the red and white Soul color scheme, the other two color schemes do not have this unique feeling.
As for the center frame, although it does not use the metal material, but the overall texture is still relatively good, and remove the plastic bracket, but also further presents a simple sense of view, but also make the straight screen looks more sharp, from these perspectives, iQOO Neo9 is still a more thoughtful a machine.
We also need to emphasize the body parameters of the iQOO Neo9, which is only 7.99mm thick (glass version) and weighs only 196g (glass version), and the vegan leather version we have in our hands is even lighter at 190g, which is quite a rare body design among similar products.
Strong performance at an excellent price/performance ratio
The reason why we have been emphasizing the cost-effectiveness of the iQOO Neo9 is naturally inseparable from the generous hardware configuration of this standard model. It's powered by the second-generation Snapdragon 8, the previous generation's flagship platform, which in theory achieves pretty decent performance. We also used it for theoretical scoring, and it achieved 1.68 million points in AnTuTu, which is already quite good.
As for actual gaming performance, we also used the flagship level standard and ran the Sumeru City test in ProtoGod. As you can see, its overall frame rate curve is still relatively stable, and the final average frame rate can come to 59.4 frames, which is quite good. Compared to the new generation of flagships equipped with the new generation of platforms, its final frame rate results are not too inferior, that is, the frame rate fluctuation is relatively more, from this perspective, the iQOO Neo9 Standard Edition does have a flagship-level performance.
Big bottom sensor support, image performance is quite good
In terms of image configuration, as mentioned earlier, the iQOO Neo9 still carries a dual rear camera, but the main camera is upgraded to the same IMX920 large bottom main camera as the flagship camera, and the secondary camera is equipped with an 8-megapixel sensor with an ultra-wide-angle, so the overall configuration is still relatively good in similar products.
In the sample photos, we can also see that, with the support of texture color, the iQOO Neo9's image performance is really very special, and in the richness of the details can be shown relatively good, so that the originally bland daytime scenes show a different light. Of course, it also offers vivid and natural color schemes, so if you don't like this richness, you can also try other color schemes.
▲Texture Color
▲Vivid Color
The iQOO Neo9's performance is still on line at night, the overall night scene atmosphere is still relatively sufficient, without losing flavor, at the same time, as much as possible to show the details, which may be the main camera's outsole to bring the effect, after all, 8 megapixel ultra-wide angle at this time, it is rightly a little less, but the good thing is that it is the style of the color performance and the main camera is quite consistent, which is worth the extra points. The
Good battery life in a thin and light body
We talked about the iQOO Neo9's thin and light body, but to our surprise, it's not only thin and light, but also has a good battery life, equipped with a large 5160mAh equivalent battery, and also supports 120W flash charging, which makes this model one less shortcoming that might have existed.
The large battery also delivers a pretty good battery life, as you can see, in low-intensity social media browsing and online video playback scenarios, the iQOO Neo9's power consumption is very low, and in the highly-loaded Proto-Gods, it guarantees a frame-rate experience while keeping its power consumption under control, so the overall battery life performance is quite good.
With the 120W flash charger, the charging speed of the iQOO Neo9 is also quite good, starting from 2% and charging to 100% in 23 minutes, which is similar to the previous iQOO 120W fast chargers that we have tested, a good experience in the lineage of iQOO products.
Conclusion
The iQOO Neo9 series is really good across the board. If the iQOO Neo9 Pro with the Tenguet 9300 is a performance flagship that goes "over the top" in terms of performance, then the iQOO Neo9 with the second-generation Snapdragon 8 is the price-performance flagship that is responsible for the groundedness of the iQOO Neo9.
After achieving excellent performance and long battery life, the iQOO Neo9 also brings an excellent body feel, and after these experiences, it is actually stuck in a unique position, not facing too many competitors at the moment, and at the same time, there is still a lack of such a product on the market. From the sincere pricing point of view, iQOO Neo9 Standard Edition has been very competitive, in the development of their own performance positioning, but also to win the favor of some users who like thin and light feel, I believe that it will be able to record good results after the market.
