Long term review
It’s been 5m since I bought this phone had a great experience, switched from iqoo neo 6 and this upgrade is worth it if you want best performance and overall good camera, the photos are really good as it’s vivo’s sub brand so the image pipeline is really good just vibrant on some occasions but you will not be disappointed. And the video quality is the one which surprised me the most it’s actually really not iPhone level but up there, really good video zoom just use pro mode if you want to pull out the most details keep it around 500 ISO AND EVERYTHING AUTO, video in night auto mode is good but it does have some grains in it. Battery life if good if you play bgmi, you will probably get 6 hours I play with smooth 90fps and 4x anti aliasing and don’t use frame interpolation there is slight delay in gyro but does make it smoother but not recommended. Battery is good few games and camera ussage will probably get you 6+ hours and light usage will get 8 hours +. Charging takes 35 min to full charge. I haven’t updated my phone since July, if you’re in July patch then don’t update that’s the best update I’ve had and tested for performance and camera quality and would not recommend updating your phone as all other companies it might slow down if you want to update then look it up first then decide if you want update the software but wouldn’t recommend only if the banking or other apps need the latest firmware the you need to update or you can go to the service centre and ask them to downgrade.Pros* Good camera for the price could be bit better in video.* One of the best gaming phones does heat up but in a controlled way and cools down pretty fast.* Really Fast charging speed ( does heat a bit nothing to bother or just open settings – battery – charging and disable fast charging it will slightly slow down charging speed but it will decrease phone’s surface temp ).* Good display very bright overall really goodscreen.* Very good after sale service ( disclaimer had experience with previous phone iqoo Neo 6 regarding screen replacement bit pricey but really good experience and very fast.Cons* Mediocre Selfie camera my old IQoo Neo 6 had better selfie’s than this paid 55k for a phone and no 4k Selfie video front is the biggest downside of this phone.* UI is good very reliable but not as good as other Android Skins ( Just updated to android 15 did make a way better and smoother but could be better).* And audio transmitter has kinda bad the output is not upto to the mark with bluetooh specifically had same problem with my Neo 6 my poco f1 had really good audio Dec on board than this two new phones.Overall – 4.4/5This is rating completely biased based on my experience I am a long term iqoo user been using iqoo brand since 2022 but overall the phone is really good and has impressed me. That’s the reason I’m taking my time and giving a review here.Quick updateAnd BTW regarding updating your phone I still stand by NOT UPDATING YOUR PHONE, but I have updated to android 15 I did reasearch thoroughly and decided update because there were a lot improvement and I don’t plan on updating after this update ( So the phone is on android 15 Nov security patch ).