iQoo Neo 7 5G was first launched in China in October 2022 and the Vivo sub-brand recently officially announced that the smartphone will also be coming to India. The launch date for the Indian model is set for February 16th and the device will be sold exclusively on Amazon India. The smartphone will replace the iQoo Neo 6 5G launched in India in May last year. However, the iQoo Neo 7 5G heading to India appears to be a rebranded iQoo Neo 7 SE that launched in China in December 2022.
the Home page for the phone, which recently went live on Amazon India, has gradually started revealing the key features of the upcoming smartphone, starting with the processor, now dubbed the MediaTek Dimensity 8200 SoC. Now there are more details on the RAM and storage options in the iQoo Neo 7 5G.
This site has now also revealed that the Indian variant of the iQoo Neo 7 5G will come in a 12GB RAM variant paired with 256GB of storage. According to the homepage, the phone is said to have LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. iQoo also allows for up to 8GB of virtual RAM (taken from internal storage), so buyers can expect the device to function like a device with 20GB RAM. This allows up to 36 background apps to be kept in memory, according to the brand’s tests.
iQoo also teases the phone’s claimed AnTuTu score. The Vivo sub-brand claims that the top-end variant of the iQoo Neo 7 5G can score 8,93,690 points in the aforementioned configuration, which is a noticeable increase compared to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 SoC in a position in the currently available iQoo Neo 6 5G. Following the variants available with the phasing-out iQoo Neo 6 5G model in India, a second variant with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage should also be on offer at launch.
So far, the iQoo Neo 7 5G has been launched in three models in China. The first to be announced was the iQoo Neo 7 with a MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ SoC. Months later, in December, the Vivo sub-brand also announced another model called the iQoo 7 SEthat seems to be who it is drove to India like the iQoo Neo 7 5G.
Also announced was a third model of the iQoo Neo 7 called iQoo iQoo Neo 7 Racing Edition. This smartphone offers almost identical features to the standard iQoo Neo 7 available in China, but replaces the MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC.
Available in China, the iQoo Neo 7 SE features a MediaTek Dimensity 8200 SoC and is available with a maximum of 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, with prices starting at CNY 2,099 (about Rs. 24,800). It offers a 64-megapixel primary camera (with OIS), a 2-megapixel macro camera and a 2-megapixel depth camera. Selfies are handled by a 16-megapixel front camera. The phone features a 6.78-inch AMOLED panel with a 120Hz refresh rate and Full HD+ resolution and a 5,000mAh battery with 120W wired charging support.
