Vivo's sub brand, iQOO, has just presented two new devices of the Neo family, the iQOO Neo 5s Neo: iQOO Neo5S and Neo5 SE; let's go and discover them together.
iQOO Neo5S and Neo5 SE official: a flagship and a gaming phone starting from 2199 yuan (305 €)
Let's start with the Neo5S which continues the fantastic design style of the Neo family. The rear camera module adopts a rectangular “cloud” design and will be available in three colors: night space, sunset canyon and orange light space. The latter once again uses the fantastic design with the pixel-style neo lettering.
As for specs, the iQOO Neo5S features a 6,62-inch OLED screen that supports a high refresh rate of 120Hz, 100% coverage of the P3 color gamut, 16.000-level brightness adjustment and features HDR10 +, Eye Care Display and Seamless certification.
In terms of performance, the smartphone is equipped with a Snapdragon 888, LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 internal memory, a mix that allows faster downloads and installation procedures. In particular, compared to the Neo5, the sequential read speed has increased by up to 6%.
We also point out that the iQOO Neo5S is equipped with an independent display chip, which can share half of the rendering work for the GPU in the game scene, ensuring a gaming experience with high frame rates, reducing power consumption and with greater fluidity.
Thanks to the support of this independent display chip, we also have a unique MEMC motion computation and compensation technology. Through frame insertion technology, a low frame game can also be increased to 120 frames, and it can also ensure a long-term stable high frame rate image. Official data shows that 120-frame “Honor of Kings” playback can last 2 hours in a stable frame.
In addition, in order to improve the performance of the Snapdragon 888, iQOO first launched the high conductivity heat dissipation, the thermal conductivity reached 200% of the original elements covering up to 89,4% of the space of the phone. We also have a large area with graphite plates and liquid cooled plates. The whole can guarantee high performance and longer.
In terms of photos, the Neo5S is equipped with a triple camera, including a 48MP with optical image stabilization, a 13MP with a wide-angle lens and a 2MP black and white lens. There is support for night scenes, starry sky mode, timelapse mode, dual view video, movie mode etc ...
For the rest, the iQOO Neo5S has a large built-in 4500 mAh battery that supports 66W flash charging, to charge to 70% in 18 minutes and run with the OriginOS Ocean system.
The iQOO Neo5S will be available for presale in China starting today and will be officially sold on December 24 with a starting price of 2699 yuan (€ 374) for the 8GB + 128GB version.
Switching to the iQOO Neo5 SE, the smartphone adopts a 144 Hz LCD screen, a maximum brightness of 650 nits
The iQOO Neo5 SE comes with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 with a frequency of 3,2 GHz, which can easily cope with everyday use and various games, adapting to 120 frames on games like "Honor of Kings".
In addition, the iQOO Neo5S is equipped with UFS 3.1 advanced flash memory, has a 4500mAh battery capacity, supports 55W ultra-fast flash charging, and maintains a 3,5mm headphone jack. There is no shortage of dual stereo speakers, linear motors, etc.
It is worth noting that the iQOO Neo5 SE is equipped with a Wi-Fi engine for e-sports, which can reduce game latency and works with TP-LINK routers to improve signal performance.
The smartphone will start the presale tonight and will be officially launched on December 28 at the starting price of 2199 yuan (305 €) for the 8GB + 128GB version.
