iQOO will be announcing the iQOO 7v Legend later this month in India. Its launch date is likely to be confirmed in this week. iQOO India’s Country Director Gagan Arora revealed last week that the company will be launching multiple phones across different price points in India. Rumors are rife that an iQOO phone with Snapdragon 870 chipset will be heading to India. This handset could be a rebranded version of China’s iQOO Neo5. The iQOO U1x is also expected to arrive in India as it was certified by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) authority last week. Fresh information reveals that the iQOO Z3 5G could also be landing in Indian in the near future.

iQOO Z3 5G IMEI listing

Earlier this year, an iQOO phone with model number I2011 was certified by the BIS agency. At that time, it was speculated that it could be the iQOO Neo5 for India. However, it was later found that the Neo5 has a model number of I2012 in India. Rumors are rife that it may release an iQOO 7 series smartphone. Coming back to the I2011 phone, its IMEI database listing in India has revealed that it may arrive in the country with iQOO Z3 5G moniker.

The iQOO Z3 5G had gone official by the end of March in China. The device arrived with a 6.58-inch IPS LCD screen with a waterdrop notch, which offered a Full HD+ resolution. It runs on iQOO UI 1.0 based Android 11 OS.

iQOO Z3 5G
iQOO Z3 5G

The Snapdragon 768G chipset fuels the iQOO Z3 5G with up to LPDDR4x RAM and up to 256 GB of UFS 2.2 storage. It has a front camera of 16-megapixel, a 64-megapixel + 8-megapixel + 2-megapixel triple camera system, and a 4,400mAh battery with 55W fast charging, and a side-facing fingerprint scanner. The iQOO Z3 5G was introduced with a starting price of 1,699 Yuan (~$259) in China.

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