iQoo Neo: A Snapdragon 845-powered smartphone for below RM1,100
smartphone. It was a great execution of an idea at a good price point–something I haven’t really seen from a smartphone maker like Vivo. And the good news is that this doesn’t look like just a one-off thing because the company has just announced a brand new smartphone flying the iQoo flag, and that smartphone is called the iQoo Neo.
Now, the Neo isn’t a phone that’s designed to supplant the original iQoo, instead it’s supposed to sit right below it as a more affordable option. But, the iQoo’s done this with a very interesting approach: Instead of just slapping a mid-range Snapdragon 6 series or Snapdragon 7 series processor to the iQoo Neo, they’ve actually bundled the phone with last year’s Snapdragon 845 flagship chipset.
A lot of people like to ask us if picking up a previous year’s flagship smartphone would be better than this year’s mid-range handsets, and I’m always hesitant to recommend doing so. But that’s not because I think the previous-gen flagship processor is necessarily bad. Instead it’s more about the other factors like software support, for example.
That’s why this handset is so interesting because the only thing “last-gen” about its performance–at least, from what I can tell– is the device’s processor. Alongside that, the iQoo features either 6GB or 8GB of RAM with a choice of either 64GB or 128GB of internal storage, which is solid by any measure. On top of that, iQoo also included a massive 4,500 mAh battery, which means it has a bigger cell than even the iQoo, with support for 22.5W Flash Charge fast-charging.
It’s hard to quantify whether the Snapdragon 845 is better than some of Qualcomm’s new upper mid-range processors like the Snapdragon 730 in daily smartphone activities. This is especially so when you consider a lot of a smartphone’s smoothness and performance comes from software optimisation as well. However, the Snapdragon 845 is not a slow chip and in my experience, it’s practically indistinguishable from even flagship processors of today in day-to-day performance.
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