Today a top Chinese smartphone manufacturer company Vivo whose sub-brand iQOO has finally made its latest flagship smartphone duo official, following many weeks of leaks, rumors, and speculation. Both the iQOO 9 and iQOO 9 Pro can be had with BMW M stripes on the back in a special version. Vivo spinoff brand iQOO launched the iQOO 9 and iQOO 9 Pro high-end gaming phones in China on Wednesday, 5th January 2022.
iQOO 9
The ‘vanilla’ smartphone comes with a flat screen – a 6.78″ 1080×2400 AMOLED panel display with 120 Hz refresh rate and 1,500 nit peak brightness, more specifically. The two phones share a lot of the same specs including Qualcomm’s top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, 50MP triple rear cameras with f/1.75 aperture and alongside a 13 MP 120-degree ultrawide with a 12 MP 2x zoom lens, Selfies are taken care of by a 16 MP snapper with f/2.45 aperture. Origin Operating System Ocean Software, and a 4,700mAh battery with 120W fast charging support. The smartphones are running on the latest and greatest Qualcomm’s software of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 which is paired with 8/12GB of RAM and 256/512GB of UFS 3.1 storage.
The 4,700 mAh battery charges at 120W, with a promised time from zero to 100% of just 19 minutes. The phone runs OriginOS Ocean based on Android 12. The iQOO 9 is offered in the three colorways you can see above and starts at CNY 3,999 (approximately $629 or €556 at the current exchange rates) with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The next step up keeps the same storage amount but bumps up the RAM to 12GB, and this version can be yours for CNY 4,399 ($692 or €611), while the top of the line iteration has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage for CNY 4,799 ($755 or €667).
iQOO 9 Pro
The iQOO 9 Pro model also keeps the same screen size but increases the resolution of the screen up to 1440 × 3200 with the same refresh rate at 120Hz but it’s an LTPO 2.0 panel, which means it should be able to vary it from 1Hz to 120Hz dynamically.
The SoC at the helm is also unchanged, as is the main rear camera. However, the ultra wide here is a 50 MP with a 150-degree field of view. As for the TV, it is a 16 MP unit with 2.5x optical zoom. The selfie snapper remains the same. The 4,700mAh battery with 120W wired charging is also unchanged, but the iQOO 9 Pro also boasts 50W wireless charging and support for 10W reverse wireless charging. Like its sibling, it also runs Android 12-based OriginOS Ocean.
