iQOO presented the Z6 Pro in April, making it the first mobile phone in the Z series to convey the Pro moniker. We got a chance to spend some time with iQOO Z6 Pro, and then are our first-hand prints.
The iQOO Z6 Pro arrives in a retail box with a plan undifferentiated from the further improvement iQOO 9 series’ retail bundles, yet with a lower footmark. It includes a SIM ejector tool, a defensive case, some paperwork, USB- C string, and, unexpectedly, an 80W power appendage( the phone does not go that presto).
The iQOO Z6 Pro sports a 6.44″ FullHD AMOLED screen with a 90Hz refresh rate and nits peak brilliance. It’s defended by Panda Glass and has a point scanner under it, which is enough presto and accurate.
The showcase has a score for the 16MP selfie shooter, which feels dated in 2022 at this cost. Indeed last time’s Z5 had a centered punch hole, giving the mobile phone a more ultramodern look. It came with a TV of lower peak brilliance( 650 nits), however, but had a 120Hz refresh rate. It’s likewise worth focusing on that the Z5 included sound system speakers the Z6 Pro doesn’t have.
That said, the iQOO Z6 Pro has a Widevine L1 instrument, enabling 1080p videotape streaming on OTT apps. It also supports HDR10, HDR10, and HLG codecs, but does not play HDR vids on YouTube. iQOO told us it’s working to fix this and an OTA update will be released soon.
As far as screen refresh rate perpetration is concerned, you get three options under the Settings> Display & brilliance> Screen refresh rates menu- 60Hz, 90Hz, and Smart Switch.
The first option unexpectedly keeps the screen refresh rate locked at 60Hz, while the other two work the same way with utmost apps. They impinge up the refresh rate to 90Hz when you interact with the screen and switch it back to 60Hz after many seconds of inactivity. The only difference we set up was in the YouTube app, which remains at 60Hz all the time in Smart Switch mode but refreshes at 90Hz mode when the 90Hz mode is enabled.
Some apps, including Google Chrome, Google prints, Quora, and GSMArena, also remain at 60Hz all the time in the Smart Switch mode. So assuming you need the smoothest looking over experience conceivable, the 90Hz mode is your snazzy wagered. However, do take note that neither of these revive rate choices permits HRR gaming.
Moving to the other side of the iQOO Z6 Pro, we have a camera islet covered with a plastic plate enwrapping further than half the range of the smartphone. It has a LED glimmer and two major circles, including three cameras. The first one houses the 64MP primary camera, while the other bone hosts the 8MP ultrawide and 2MP macro units. Unlike the Z5’s main camera, which can record 4K vids at 60 fps, the Z6 Pro’s primary shooter can only record in 4K up to 30 fps.
The large camera islet causes the phone to wobble on flat shells, and the whisked case does not really fix it.
The iQOO Z6 Pro’s hinder panel itself is a dull finish and feels nice to touch on our Legion Sky interpretation. It features the iQOO totem at the bottom and hardly attracted any point smirches during our operation.
The iQOO Z6 Pro’s overall figure is decent, with the power button and volume rocker being clicky enough. The haptics of the cell phone is fine, yet not a huge deal.
The Z6 Pro has the Snapdragon 778G SoC in the engine the very chip that fueled last time’s Z5. Our unit came with 12 GB RAM and 256 GB of the storehouse, but there are two further memory configurations- 6GB/ 128 GB and 8GB/ 128 GB.
None of these have a microSD card niche for storehouse expansion, but they come with the Extended RAM point, allowing virtual RAM expansion up to 2 GB on the 6 GB RAM model and 4 GB on the 8 GB and 12 GB RAM variants. In our experience enabling this point hardly makes any difference in the real world beyond reducing your available storehouse.
On the software front, we’ve Android 12 with Funtouch OS 12 on top, which is not too different from what you get on other iQOO smartphones running this interpretation of Funtouch OS. That also means the iQOO Z6 Pro comes pre-installed with several third-party apps, but fortunately, their maturity of them can be uninstalled.
The iQOO Z6 Pro’s real-world performance was not as smooth as the iQOO Z5 we tried last time with the same chip and memory configuration. Indeed its standard scores were lower than the Z5. The smartphone stuttered at times during regular operation but performed more when it came to gaming. We hope unborn OTAs will bring some advancements to the Z6 Pro.
Keeping the phone up and running is a mAh battery with 66W charging support, announced to go from 1 to 50 in 18 twinkles. In our testing, the iQOO Z6 Pro went from flat to 50 in 25 twinkles, 59 in 30 twinkles, and 100 in an hour with the whisked 80W appendage. The battery lasted us a day of moderate operation- including an hour of gaming- when connected to Wi-Fi and the screen refresh rate set to 90Hz.
The iQOO Z6 Pro’s base model with 6 GB RAM and 128 GB storehouse is priced at INR23,($ 310/€ 290) in India, whereas the 8GB/ 128 GB and 12GB/ 256 GB variants are priced at INR24,($ 320/€ 300) and INR28,($ 375/€ 350), independently.
still, that is because the vivo T1 Pro blazoned last month in India is an interpretation of the iQOO Z6 Pro, carrying the same pricing, If all this sounds familiar. The only difference is the T1 Pro does not come in a 12GB/ 256 GB configuration.
At the time of writing this, last time’s iQOO Z5 is priced at INR23,($ 308/€ 288) for the 8GB/ 128 GB base variant, while the 12GB/ 256 GB model, launched at INR29,($ 385/€ 360) and presently priced at INR32,($ 425/€ 400), is out of stock. It offers a high-level invigorate rate screen,3.5 mm earphone jack, sound system speakers, and greater battery( mAhvs. mAh) but does not have an AMOLED screen with in-display point anthology and is slower to charge( 66Wvs. 44W).
Other Snapdragon 778G- powered smartphones from the BBK group in India include last time’s Realme GT Master Edition and the Realme 9 5G Speed Edition unveiled a many months agone, with the ultimate being the most affordable, starting at INR19,($ 260/€ 240). You can head this way to see how the iQOO Z6 Pro heaps up against the Realme GT Master Edition and Realme 9 5G Speed Edition in terms of specs.