iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G Assessment: Good Worth

The iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G is the corporate’s newest smartphone below Rs. 40,000 in India, sitting above the Neo 7 5G (Assessment), which was launched earlier this 12 months. In comparison with its reasonably priced sibling, the Neo 7 Professional 5G packs a extra highly effective SoC, an additional digital camera sensor on the again, and is available in two finishes. The sub-Rs. 40,000 phase is at the moment stuffed with a plethora of choices, together with the likes of the OnePlus Nord 3 (Assessment), OnePlus 11R 5G (Assessment), Vivo V27 Professional (Assessment), Nothing Cellphone 1 (Assessment) and the Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G (First Impressions).

Does the iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G have what it takes to be the most effective smartphone in its phase, or must you skip it and take a look at the alternate options? Right here is our full evaluate that will help you determine.

iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G worth in India

iQoo has launched the Neo 7 Professional 5G in India with two storage choices. The bottom mannequin packs 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage and is priced Rs. 34,999. Our evaluate unit comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and is priced at Rs. 37,999.

iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G design and show

The iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G seems to be just like the Neo 7 5G by way of design. It sports activities a curved-edge rear panel and a plastic body. Similar to the Motorola Edge 40 (Assessment) and the Realme 11 Professional+ 5G (Assessment), the Neo 7 Professional comes with a vegan leather-based rear panel. This one is on the market in a saturated shade of orange, which the corporate calls Fearless Flame. I actually just like the textured end, which, coupled with the light-weight design (194.5g) of the telephone, helps provide a wonderful in-hand really feel. There’s additionally an AG glass choice known as Darkish Storm, which feels premium and has a barely shimmery look when gentle falls on the again panel.

iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G in its two color choices

iQoo says that the Neo 7 Professional 5G has an IP52 score, which is alright however not nice contemplating among the rivals provide as much as IP68 water and dirt resistance. The iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G has an in-display fingerprint scanner, which is fast to authenticate and unlock the machine, nonetheless it will have been higher had iQoo positioned the scanner a bit greater.

The iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G has a 6.78-inch AMOLED show with a full-HD+ decision (2400×1080 pixels) and 120Hz refresh price. Regardless of sporting a flat show with pretty skinny bezels, the machine provides a superb multimedia expertise with vibrant colors, deep blacks and a loud dual-speaker setup. Though, the bezels should not as slim because the OnePlus Nord 3 (Assessment).

iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G’s fingerprint scanner is positioned a bit too low for our liking

Additionally, with a peak brightness of 1,300 nits, you shouldn’t expertise any points utilizing it indoors or outside. The show provides three refresh price settings — 60Hz, 120Hz and Good Swap. There aren’t any stutters throughout the UI when utilizing the telephone in Good Swap mode.

iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G specs and software program

The iQoo Neo 7 Professional contains a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC, which can also be discovered within the new and dearer Nothing Cellphone 2 (First Impressions), Oppo Reno 10 Professional+ 5G (Assessment) and the OnePlus 11R 5G (Assessment). The machine additionally options LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. It packs a beefy 5,000mAh battery with 120W quick charging help, and the charger is bundled with the telephone.

When it comes to software program, the iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G runs on the Android 13-based Funtouch OS 13 out of the field. Whereas the telephone does include just a few preinstalled third-party apps, the software program state of affairs is just not as unhealthy as Realme UI 4 or ColorOS 13, the place you get greater than 50 preinstalled apps. The iQoo Neo 7 Professional comes with some fashionable apps resembling Spotify, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Netflix and Amazon. If you don’t use these apps, you may select to uninstall them.

There are additionally Scorching Apps and Scorching Video games advice folders, which will be hidden from the app drawer or dwelling display screen by disabling the toggle within the ‘Dwelling Settings’ part of the Settings app.

iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G is promised to get two main Android updates

Aside from that, you get a bunch of personalisation and customisation choices, which now we have detailed in our iQoo 11 5G evaluate. iQoo has promised to offer two main Android updates and month-to-month safety patches for 3 years for the Neo 7 Professional 5G.

iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G efficiency and battery life

With the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC below the hood, efficiency is of no concern within the iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G. Throughout my week-long use, I didn’t expertise any points, even whereas taking part in video games. I performed Battlegrounds Cell India (BGMI) and Asphalt 9: Legends on the telephone and the general efficiency was fairly glorious.

BGMI helps ‘Excessive’ framerate should you go for ‘HDR’ graphics. In order for you ‘Extremely HD’ graphics, the framerate help drops to ‘Extremely’. I most popular the HDR graphics and Excessive framerate mixture, and through my gameplay classes, there have been no indicators of any stutter or lag. The telephone did get a tad heat across the digital camera module area, nevertheless it was nothing alarming.

The iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G is claimed to have an impartial show chip, which unlocks help for ‘Body Price Interpolation’. The function basically provides additional frames in between whereas taking part in video games to supply a smoother gaming expertise. You may allow this by going to the ‘Extremely Sport Mode’, which additionally offers some further options that assist improve the gaming expertise. These embody Movement Management, locking display screen brightness, disabling notifications, and so on. You can too change between Battery Saver, Balanced and Monster modes. The latter ensures that there isn’t a CPU throttling whereas taking part in video games however will devour extra battery.

iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G packs some best-in-class {hardware}

The iQoo Neo 7 Professional dominates its closest rivals in benchmark assessments. In AnTuTu (v10), the iQoo Neo 7 Professional scored 12,63,884 factors. The OnePlus Nord 3 with its Dimensity 9000 SoC and the OnePlus 11R 5G with a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC scored 8,47,115 and 10,26,784 factors, respectively. In Geekbench 6’s single-core and multi-core assessments, the iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G managed to get 1,727 and 4,459 factors, which once more, is greater than the Nord 3 (863 and a couple of,978 factors) and the 11R (908 and three,430 factors).

Battery life on the iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G can also be fairly good. I averaged about 7 hours and 40 minutes of screen-on time (SoT) throughout my evaluate. This included gaming for 45 minutes to an hour, capturing some pictures and movies, and scrolling on social media. In our HD video battery loop take a look at, the iQoo Neo 7 Professional lasted for 22 hours and 7 minutes, which is sort of spectacular.

The telephone additionally comes with a 120W quick charging adapter within the field, which takes about 27 minutes to cost fully.

iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G cameras

The iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G contains a triple-camera setup on the again. There’s a 50-megapixel major digital camera with an f/1.88 aperture, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide digital camera and a 2-megapixel macro sensor. For selfies, the telephone has a 16-megapixel entrance digital camera.

The first digital camera’s daylight pictures provide good particulars and dynamic vary. The colors are principally near actual life however at occasions, the algorithm boosts the greens in bushes. In low gentle, the digital camera exposes the general image fairly nicely however I might suggest switching to Night time mode to get the proper stability of publicity between highlights and shadows. There are some publicity points with regards to Night time mode and I hope iQoo fixes this with future updates.

iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G major digital camera samples (faucet to see full measurement)

The ultra-wide digital camera’s color temperature is fairly near that of the primary digital camera. You additionally get good dynamic vary and colors however the pictures should not as detailed. There’s distortion across the edges, one thing that we see in virtually all ultra-wide digital camera samples.

When it comes to selfies, the iQoo Neo 7 Professional’s entrance digital camera does a reasonably good job with regards to getting the pores and skin tones proper typically. There’s beautification on by default for individuals who are not looking for the additional step of post-processing a picture. Nonetheless, even should you disable it, the algorithm smoothens the pores and skin a bit and likewise exposes the general picture barely greater than required.

iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G digital camera samples (High: Extremely-wide digital camera, backside: entrance digital camera)

When it comes to video, the iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G can report as much as 4K 60fps movies with the rear major digital camera, and the general output is fairly good with regards to colors, dynamic vary and stabilisation. The entrance digital camera captures 1080p 30fps movies. Whereas colors are normally good, dynamic vary efficiency wants enchancment.

Verdict

The iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G introduces some key options that have been lacking in its youthful sibling, the Neo 7 5G. You get a extra full digital camera system with higher efficiency and a extra highly effective SoC. The telephone additionally provides a clean 120Hz AMOLED show with good audio system and a powerful battery life with 120W quick charging. As a bundle, the iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G provides nice worth and clearly has an edge over the OnePlus Nord 3 (Assessment) with regards to uncooked efficiency. Nonetheless, the Nord 3 5G provides 16GB of RAM and does have an edge with regards to total digital camera efficiency.

The 12GB RAM variant’s worth of the iQoo Neo 7 Professional 5G is sort of near the OnePlus 11R 5G’s (Assessment) base mannequin. The 11R 5G provides a better decision show with curved edges and has the identical efficiency unit. The primary distinction between iQoo and its OnePlus rivals is the software program expertise, and I feel most shopping for choices will in the end boil right down to the choice of Android skins. 

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