In the past year, the domestic mobile phone market has gradually stabilized after experiencing many "shuffles". At the same time, the competition between various manufacturers is also becoming more and more intense. This is mainly manifested in the high-end market, in order to seize the market as soon as possible, major mobile phone brands are breaking through from all aspects and looking for differentiation from the entire ecology. It is not difficult to predict that in the high-end market in 2022, technological innovation and product upgrades will still be the main competitive areas of manufacturers, which can be seen from the newly released iQOO 9 Pro.
Last year, iQOO brought the first iQOO 8 Pro to impact the high-end market, which won the affirmation of many users with its outstanding performance in all aspects and helped the brand gain a firm foothold in the high-end market. Now that it has just entered 2022, iQOO 9 Pro has a new debut, so as the first answer sheet handed over by iQOO in 2022, what kind of performance and surprises will this phone have? Through the actual hand experience, let's take a look.
New design for superior quality
First of all, from the perspective of design, iQOO 9 Pro has added a lot of new design elements compared with the previous generation, such as "panoramic porthole". Through a whole piece of aerospace-grade aluminum alloy, the camera and the metal edges around the porthole are all included, and then polished with many advanced technology technologies, which can effectively reduce the abruptness and feel caused by the bulge of the lens module, even if the horizontal screen grip playing the game, will not affect the experience. In addition, in the arrangement of the lens module, iQOO 9 Pro has achieved simple symmetry in the horizontal and longitudinal directions, so that the entire camera module and the fuselage cover have achieved perfect integration, not only creating a strong sense of order and layering, but also full recognition.
In the era of smart phones with good looks, how to grasp the attention of users through design is the focus of thinking of major manufacturers. In this regard, iQOO can be said to have an absolute right to speak. In terms of body design and color matching, iQOO 9 Pro continues the iQOO flagship series's pursuit of speed and power, while being supplemented by more advanced process technology to bring a more outstanding sense of quality. The color scheme of this "burning engine" in my hand is inspired by the classic "black orange" of the racing car, and the carbon fiber texture on the interior of the car is restored with plain leather material, making the whole machine not only look very fast visually, but also feel quite delicate to hold.
A new generation of 2K E5 screen, mobile phone screen display ceiling,
Looking at the current mobile phone market, whether the screen quality is excellent has become one of the measures of flagship mobile phones, and the iQOO 9 Pro has not disappointed this time. iQOO 9 Pro is equipped with a new generation of 2K E5 super retina screen on the front, supporting 100% DCI-P3 wide color gamut coverage, 10bit color depth and screen display HDR technology, the display effect can be said to be the ceiling in the current flagship mobile phone.
In addition, the iQOO 9 Pro not only has excellent display effect, but also has a good control of power consumption. In addition to the technical advantages of E5 material, iQOO 9 Pro also adopts LTPO stepless variable speed 2.0 technology, which can intelligently switch the screen refresh rate between 1 and 120Hz according to different use scenarios, so that users can enjoy the experience of "low brush use scenarios to reduce power consumption, high brush use scenarios to be silky and delicate". It can be said that whether you are a drama chasing party that likes to brush dramas, or a mobile game party that likes to play games, iQOO 9 Pro can bring you the ultimate visual experience.
Surprisingly, the iQOO 9 Pro is also equipped with the previous generation of highly acclaimed ultrasonic 3D wide-area fingerprint unlocking technology, which can effectively solve a series of pain points such as complex traditional optical fingerprint unlocking entry, small unlock range, and slow response. According to actual measurements, ultrasonic 3D wide-area fingerprint unlocking, only one time to complete fingerprint entry, and the unlocking speed is also very fast, the most important thing is that it also supports wet hands and outdoor bright light quick unlock. In addition, users can also set the common functions in the unlock area, so as to achieve unlocking at the same time can quickly open the corresponding functions, which can be described as fast and convenient.
Which "How to Train Your Dragon" is stronger? It also depends on iQOO
Affected by last year's Snapdragon 888 power consumption "overturning" storm, this year's mobile phone power consumption tuning with the new Snapdragon 8 processor is the most concerned issue for consumers at present. So, as the first mobile phone equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen1 processor, how does the iQOO 9 Pro perform?
It is understood that as Qualcomm's new flagship processor, Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is based on advanced 4nm technology, and also adopts ARM's new generation flagship core architecture, which has different improvements in performance, GPU, AI, network and power consumption. On the basis of Snapdragon 8 Gen1, iQOO 9 Pro also brings an enhanced version of LPDDR5, as well as the industry's first overclocking version of UFS 3.1, forming a new generation of performance iron triangle, and Antu Rabbit easily runs more than one million. In the Geekbench test, the iQOO 9 Pro achieved a single-core score of 1263 points and a multi-core score of 3689 points. It can be said that the performance strength of iQOO 9 Pro has reached the top level.
In addition, it is not difficult to see from the running score data that the iQOO 9 Pro is also quite good in terms of power consumption, with a maximum temperature of only 38 °C. You know, during the performance test of Antutu, almost all aspects of the configuration have been mentioned to the maximum power, and can still maintain excellent temperature control performance in this high-performance output scene, iQOO 9 Pro is very good in a group of Snapdragon 8 Gen1 mobile phones.
Of course, when it comes to performance, then the game experience naturally has to be said. The first to appear is the "Glory of the King" 120 frame ultra-high frame rate mode, the picture quality, frame rate and other settings are full, iQOO 9 Pro can very easily maintain the game frame rate at 117.9 frames, basically equivalent to full frame running. Even in fierce, large-scale team battles, the iQOO 9 Pro is guaranteed to be absolutely smooth.
In the relatively fast-tasting "Original God" game, although iQOO 9 Pro can maintain a relatively stable frame rate at the beginning of the game, with the growth of game time, the frame rate of the entire game process has fluctuated significantly. Especially in Liyue Harbor, where the scene modeling is more complicated, the frame rate fluctuates the most. However, in terms of overall performance, the iQOO 9 Pro is still relatively good, and the average frame rate can be stabilized at 51.7 frames.
It is worth mentioning that the iQOO 9 Pro is also equipped with a new unique display chip Pro, which has the functions of improving frame rate and high frame low power consumption, which can optimize the overall performance of the game from all aspects. For example, after we turn on the high-frame low-power feature, the unique display chip Pro can help the GPU share half of the screen rendering load, thereby effectively reducing power consumption and ensuring the stability of the game experience.
As shown in the figure, after turning on the high-frame low-power mode, we retested the performance of the iQOO 9 Pro in "Original God", and we can see that the frame rate line is more stable than before, coupled with the optimization of the game screen by this function, the overall game experience has been significantly improved.
The amount of acceleration does not slow down, the experience is better
Of course, for a flagship phone with high performance and excellent experience, excellent battery life performance is also essential, and the iQOO 9 Pro has also improved its battery life this time. The iQOO 9 Pro has a built-in 4700mAh large-capacity battery, which further enhances the endurance. Under the premise of turning on the 2K resolution throughout the whole process, the iQOO 9 Pro was used to carry out seven common scenes such as one-hour online video, 30-minute glory of the king and 30 minutes of 4K video recording, a total of 4 and a half hours of heavy use, and the final remaining power was 50%. Therefore, in daily life, iQOO 9 Pro is fully able to meet the needs of most mobile phone users, a full day of moderate use.
In terms of charging, iQOO 9 Pro supports 120W ultra-fast flash charge, charging under the premise of measuring the use of electricity, 71% can be charged in 10 minutes, and it takes only 18 minutes from 0% charging to 100%, compared to the previous generation, it can be said that "the amount of acceleration does not slow down".
In addition, although many flagship mobile phones on the market today use 120W charging technology, the charging head is too large to make it inconvenient for users to carry. In order to create a better charging experience for users, iQOO 9 Pro uses a smaller gallium nitride material charger this time, which is 26% smaller than the previous generation and weighs only about 135g, which is more convenient to use or carry. At the same time, it also supports PD and PPS protocols, up to 65W charging power, the experience is very comprehensive.
Best flagship for the start of 2022
Through a few days of in-depth experience, it can be clearly felt that iQOO has spent a lot of thought on the polishing of this product. Whether it is performance, screen, charging or image, there is a relatively large experience improvement, which can be said to be a "bucket flagship" without obvious shortcomings. In the current high-end flagship market where the "inner volume" is very serious, major manufacturers are trying their best to stand out from it, and for now, iQOO 9 Pro has the strength to become the gamebreaker.