It’s merely been a couple of months since the launch of the flagship iQOO 3 5G. It also landed in India and is a feature-rich offering, except for one little caveat — a standard 60Hz display. Yes, a gaming phone without a higher refresh rate in 2020. Well, iQOO Neo 3 5G was unveiled in China today to write this wrong. It features a 144Hz display, Snapdragon 865 chipset, 44W fast-charging, and a lot more.
Starting off with the design, iQOO Neo 3 5G does not look a whole lot different from the iQOO 3. You still get a punch-hole display on the front and a rectangular camera cutout on the rear. But, the device now has a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, which also doubles as the power button.
No, this is not a mid-range gaming phone. Instead, iQOO Neo 3 5G can be seen as the slimmed-down version of iQOO 3. It is powered by the Snapdragon 865 chipset, same as the iQOO 3. It has dual-mode 5G (SA/NSA) support and the chipset is coupled with up to 12GB of LPDDR4X RAM and up to 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. The device runs Android 10-based iQOO UI out-of-the-box.
Price and Availability
iQOO Neo 3 5G is priced starting at 2,698 yuan (around Rs. 29,000) for the 6GB+128GB base variant. The price tag for all other configurations is listed below:
The smartphone will be available in three colorways (translated from Chinese), namely Dark Night and Sky Blue. iQOO Neo 3 5G is now up for pre-order and will go on sale starting from 29th April.
