A few weeks ago, we reported iQOO may launch a less-powerful variant of its gaming phone called the iQOO Youth Edition or iQOO Lite. It turns out we were wrong about the name. iQOO has released a poster revealing its next smartphone is called the iQOO Neo.
While the poster doesn’t expressly confirm that this is indeed a less-powerful variant of the iQOO gaming smartphone, the name pretty much does. If I remember correctly, the last time a manufacturer used the name “Neo” was for a less-powerful variant of the main device. That manufacturer is Samsung and the device is the Galaxy Note3 Neo, a lite version of the Galaxy Note 3.
The iQOO Neo has a waterdrop notch like the iQOO gaming smartphone. It also has triple rear cameras arranged vertically but unlike its sibling, its LED flash is also inside the housing for the cameras.
It will come in two color variants – Purple with a gradient design and Samurai Black. Unfortunately, the iQOO Neo doesn’t have an LED strip on its back like the iQOO gaming smartphone.
Previous reports say the phone will come with a Snapdragon 845 processor. It might be a year old already but only a handful of SoCs can outperform it. The phone is also said to have a 4000mAh battery, 6GB of RAM and 128Gb of storage.
The iQOO Neo is believed to be the same device as the Vivo V1914A which was benchmarked in May. It runs Android 9, has 6GB of RAM and is powered by the Snapdragon 845. The same device was also certified by China’s 3C agency and the certificate revealed it has support for 22.5W fast charging. This is the same charging speed as the base model of the iQOO gaming smartphone. The other variants support 44W. Since the iQOO Neo is a lite version, it makes sense that it only supports 22.5W fast charging.
iQOO didn’t mention a release date for the phone but we expect it should be very close.
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