iQOO immediately launched the iQOO 13 smartphone in India because the second telephone to be powered by Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC. This has a number of upgrades from the iQOO 12 when it comes to show, efficiency, battery life and plenty extra whereas there’s not a lot hike the value. Is that this the very best flagship telephone out there within the 50K value vary? Let use dive into the assessment to search out out.

Field Contents

• iQOO 13 16GB + 512GB model in Legend color
• Clear Silicon case
• USB Sort-C Cable
• 120W Tremendous FlashCharge wall adapter
• SIM ejector software
• Fast begin information and Guarantee info

Show, {Hardware} and Design

The iQOO 13 sports activities a 6.82-inch (3168 × 1440 pixels) 2K 20:9 side ratio 8T LTPO AMOLED show with BOE Q10 Gentle-Emitting Materials and 144Hz refresh price. The display screen has as much as 1800 nits brightness in HBM mode, so the daylight legibility is nice, and it has as much as 4500 nits peak brightness. The color output good as effectively because it has 1.07 billion colours.

You may choose between 1080p and 2K show choices. The 144Hz refresh price, 300Hz contact sampling price and 2000Hz prompt contact sampling price provide a easy person expertise, particularly if you find yourself scrolling by way of the UI and when gaming.

You may choose from customary (default), skilled and shiny display screen color modes. You may choose good change or pressure it to 60Hz or 144Hz. Visible enhancement optimizes the colour and distinction of some photos for extra vivid show results, says the corporate. There’s additionally MEMC and tremendous decision for improved body price and backbone in some apps like YouTube, Netflix and Prime video. There’s 2592 Hz PWM Dimming that’s robotically activated if you find yourself utilizing the telephone in low brightness. The display screen has SCHOTT Xensation Alpha glass safety.

It additionally has HDR 10+ help, which works for YouTube, and Netflix. The telephone doesn’t have a notification LED, however there’s All the time on show (AOD). There’s additionally a brand new Monster Halo LED mild across the digital camera module that acts as a notification mild. The sunshine activates and off, matching the rhythm of video games and music. It additionally exhibits real-time notifications for calls, messages, and charging standing. It may be personalized for various video games, and there are as much as 72 totally different lighting choices.

The telephone has a brand new 32MP entrance digital camera contained in the notch, in comparison with 16MP within the older fashions. There’s an earpiece on the highest edge which additionally works as a secondary speaker. You may see ultra-narrow bezels across the display screen.

Even the bezel under the display screen has lowered. The haptic suggestions is nice as effectively, due to the ultra-wideband vibration motor.

Coming to the button placements and ports, the facility button is current on the fitting aspect together with the amount rockers. There’s nothing on the left aspect, so that you simply see the antenna band. The twin SIM slot, main microphone, USB Sort-C port and the loudspeaker grill are current on the underside and the secondary microphone is current on the highest together with the IR blaster.

It has a metallic body with a little bit of shiny end, so it attracts fingerprints. It weighs 213 grams, which is simply 9 grams heavier than the iQOO 12 regardless that it packs a 60000mAh battery. The burden distribution is nice.

The Legend model that we now have has BMW’s tricolor patterns and a matte end in order that it doesn’t slip out of your palms simply. It additionally is available in Nardo Gray color that has a shiny end. The digital camera deco has is now simply 2.25mm, making it 1mm thinner than the iQOO 12.

Even this time, there isn’t any vegan leather-based model. It has IP68 + IP69 scores for the primary time, which is a serious plus for the telephone, since it could possibly stand when immersed in as much as 1 meter of water or when uncovered to high-pressure water jets for 30 seconds. There’s additionally moist finger display screen management enabling calling, taking pictures, and gaming with a moist or sweaty hand.

Digicam

• 50MP digital camera with 1/ 1.49″ Sony IMX921 sensor, f/1.88 aperture, OIS
• 50MP 150° ultra-wide-angle digital camera with Samsung JN1 sensor, f/2.0 aperture
• 50MP 119.4° 2x telephoto digital camera with f/1.85 aperture, 1/2.93” IMX816 sensor, OIS, as much as 4x lossless zoom
• 32MP front-facing digital camera with GC32E1 sensor, f/2.45 aperture

The digital camera UI is identical as different telephones working Funtouch OS. It contains a number of options resembling AR stickers, Professional Sports activities mode, lengthy publicity, 50MP mode, supermoon, astro, fisheye and extra. This additionally provides new steet pictures options with a customized UI. Despite the fact that the telephone has a 50MP rear digital camera, the ultimate output is 12.5MP in measurement after pixel binning, and the entrance digital camera output is 32MP.

Coming to the digital camera high quality, the daylight photographs are sensible, due to VCS and vivo’s algorithm. It is suggested to allow HDR possibility which robotically switches on HDR based on the shot, in order that the dynamic vary is nice. The digital camera can focus rapidly. The 50MP ultra-wide digital camera with macro possibility is identical because the one current within the iQOO 12. This affords 12.5MP output after pixel binning.

Despite the fact that there are enhancements in the principle digital camera, and the corporate sticks to the identical ultra-wide digital camera, there’s a change within the telephoto digital camera which is now 50MP as an alternative of 64MP and switches again to 2x customary telephoto as an alternative of 3x periscope telephoto. Portrait photographs in 2x are tremendous, however the high quality is lowered if you zoom additional resembling 100mm mode, because it makes use of digital zoom, regardless that it makes use of AI enhancements.

You may alter the aperture manually within the portrait mode for the very best background blur, and there are totally different modes. Low-light picture high quality has improved, due to new NICE 2.0 algorithm. The night time mode is beneficial, due to the optimization, however low-light photographs from ultra-wide and telephoto digital camera are common. There’s additionally supermoon mode with as much as 100x zoom, similar as the conventional mode, and the astro mode makes use of GPS to location constellations round you.

The 32MP digital camera is nice in daylight, and the entrance digital camera portrait is first rate as effectively, and it might have been higher in low-light.

Take a look at some digital camera samples under

It may possibly document movies at 8k decision at as much as 30 fps, and 4k decision at as much as 60 fps from the rear digital camera and the entrance digital camera lastly helps 4K 30 fps recording.  It has customary and extremely stabilization, however the decision is right down to 1080p in extremely possibility because it crops the content material. OIS does a very good job in stabilization. It lacks HDR video recording.

Software program, UI and Apps

Coming to the software program, the telephone runs on Android 15 with Funtouch OS 15 on high.  It has Android safety patch for October 2024. The iQOO 13 will get 4 years of Android OS updates and 5 years of safety updates for the primary time.

Funtouch OS 15 brings vivo’s Precedence Scheduling mannequin for 15% quicker app startup time, has zRAM compression algorithm, leading to a 40% enhance in compression pace, vivo’s Origin Animation for a extra pure and intuitive person expertise. The Lightning-Pace Engine affords quicker app launches, and Aqua Dynamic Impact provides a visually pleasing contact to system interactions.

AI Picture Lab makes use of synthetic intelligence to robotically enhance photograph high quality, take away shadows from paperwork, erase undesirable content material with AI eraser and picture cutouts. Reside wallpapers are actually seamless, and there’s additionally personalized name background. There’s Hyperlink to Home windows that enhances collaboration between your vivo machine and PC. It additionally has Circle to Search characteristic.

Out of 16GB of LPDDR5X Extremely RAM about 14.76GB is usable, out of which 10GB is free when the default apps are working within the background. There’s extra 16GB RAM enlargement characteristic. Out of 512GB of UFS 4.1 storage, 456.6GB is free out of the field.

Because the telephone has an IR blaster, it comes with a Good Distant app. Aside from the standard set of utility and Google apps, it comes preloaded with quite a lot of apps resembling Fb, PhonePe, Netflix, Snapchat, Myntra and LinkedIn. These apps may be uninstalled, however they arrive again after reset.

Fingerprint sensor and Face unlock

The telephone has lastly adopted an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor, which is faster and extra correct in comparison with the optical fingerprint scanner. This could unlock the telephone in 0.12 seconds, says the corporate. You may add as much as 5 fingerprints. There are totally different animation kinds that show if you unlock, which you’ll disable. The telephone additionally has face unlock that may unlock the telephone in seconds, however it’s not as safe as fingerprint.

Music and Multimedia

The default Music Participant additionally has equalizer and DeepField sound results. It doesn’t have FM Radio help. There’s audio tremendous decision, and tremendous audio options. Audio by way of the stereo audio system is crisp and loud. Audio by way of the headphones is nice as effectively.

This has Widevine L1 as a way to play HD content material on Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and different streaming apps. It additionally helps HDR playback on Netflix and YouTube.

Twin SIM and Connectivity

It has the standard set of connectivity options resembling 5G with help for n1/n3/n5/n7/n8/n20/n28A/n28B/n38/n40/n41/n77/n78 bands, and helps Airtel and Jio 5G out of the field. There’s additionally twin 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 7 802.11be (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz), Bluetooth 5.4, GPS + GLONASS and NFC help. It additionally has USB OTG help, and it has USB 3.2 Gen1. We didn’t face any name drops and the earpiece quantity is nice. The corporate says it has 360° antenna for higher reception.

The iQOO 13’s physique SAR is 0.90W/Kg and head SAR is at 0.99/Kg which is sort of just like iQOO 12, which is means beneath the restrict in India which is 1.6 W/kg (over 1 g).

Efficiency and Benchmarks

This is likely one of the first telephones to launch in India with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Cell Platform. It has a brand new 2 + 6 all-big core structure that makes use of 2 x Oryon Prime CPU at as much as 4.32GHz, 6 x Oryon Efficiency CPUs at as much as 3.53GHz.

It’s fabricated utilizing the TSMC 3nm Course of Expertise.  It guarantees 45% efficiency enhancements and 44% improved energy effectivity. The telephone has the biggest, 7000 mm² ultra-large VC vapor chamber in iQOO’s historical past, 17% extra in comparison with iQOO 12.

The telephone has Q2 Self-developed chip that gives 2K tremendous decision (helps in 20+ video games) and 144 fps tremendous body price utilizing recreation body interpolation. It additionally permits Reside Streaming for the primary time, due to USB 3.2 Gen1. There are new animations in Extremely Recreation Mode, and it lastly will get real-time FPS Monitoring.

We didn’t face any points or body drops within the graphic-intensive video games like COD, BGMI and Genshin Affect, due to the brand new Adreno 830 GPU. The Tremendous Computing chip helps to realize extremely low latency even with the excessive body price video games. In 3D Mark wild life stress take a look at, it scored 60.2%, and the temperature shot up from 27 to 43 levels. Despite the fact that the steadiness is best, the temperature is barely extra in comparison with Dimensity 9400-powered OPPO Discover X8 sequence.

As you may see, it’s on the highest of the benchmark charts, beating the most recent Dimensity 9400. The Apple A18 Professional-powered iPhone 16 Professional Max is barely higher on the subject of single-core CPU benchmark.

Battery life

Coming to the battery life, the telephone packs a 6000mAh (typical) Silicon-Carbon battery, which is 1000mAh larger than the iQOO 12. The vitality density will increase by 8.7%, but the scale of the telephone stays the identical. It may possibly simply final for a day with heavy use, due to the optimization.

I acquired over 6 hours of display screen on time with over 2 days of use, totally on Wi-Fi, and occasional 5G use with Good refresh price. That is means higher than the iQOO 12.

Because the telephone has help for 120W quick charging, it could possibly cost from 0 to 50% in about quarter-hour and as much as 100% in lower than half-hour. You’ll have to allow quick charging possibility if you wish to scale back the charging time, however the telephone will get a bit sizzling. It doesn’t have wi-fi charging help. There’s additionally bypass charging characteristic when gaming, so the charging present bypasses the battery to go straight to the motherboard, so it doesn’t have an effect on the battery.

Conclusion

At a beginning value of Rs. 54,999, the iQOO 13 shines on the subject of efficiency. Nonetheless, the corporate doesn’t miss out on upgrading different facets resembling show, battery life, and the principle digital camera. The software program help has additionally been elevated, which is nice. Want it had retained the identical previous telphoto digital camera.

Pricing and availability

The iQOO 13 is priced at Rs. 54,999 for the 12GB + 256GB mannequin and the 16GB + 512GB mannequin prices Rs. 59,999. With the financial institution affords, the efficient value is Rs. 51,999. Will probably be out there from Amazon.in, iQOO.com ranging from December eleventh for everybody and from December tenth with pre-bookings beginning immediately at 2PM on iQOO.com and December fifth on Amazon.in.

Options

The realme GT7 Professional is presently the direct competitor, however you’ll have to spend extra. The OnePlus 13 that’s launching in India subsequent month ought to be a very good competitor, however is anticipated to be priced extra.

Execs

• 144Hz 2K AMOLED show is sensible
• Clean efficiency and good gaming efficiency
• Good primary digital camera
• Stable construct with IP68 + IP69 scores
• Good battery life with 120W quick charging

Cons

• 2x telephoto digital camera is common