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iQOO is pushing its Neo series a lot closer to proper flagship territory. The company just officially teased the Neo12, and the big talking point is how hard it’s going after heat management. We’re looking at a formal launch (and immediate sales) in China on October 28.
The cooling setup is the real headline. Official materials show a brand-new Ice Dome active cooling fan with 59 large blades and three-level smart speed control. It’s got a double-layer waterproof circuit board, a high-strength rotor, and shaft welding for durability.
Sitting underneath that is an 8.2K 3D Ice Dome vapor chamber, the biggest one the Neo series has ever used, which iQOO claims improves heat dissipation by 15% over the Neo11’s VC. Active fan plus big vapor chamber is clearly aimed at keeping performance steady during demanding gaming sessions.
Power comes from the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, paired with iQOO’s own Q3 gaming chip and the same “Monster super-core” performance engine that’s part of what makes the iQOO 16 a capable gaming flagship.
The display includes a 2K 185Hz panel (using pTSF technology), a dedicated 2K 185Hz high-performance driver chip, and the Super Sensing Touch Chip from the iQOO 16. Peak full-screen brightness hits 2200 nits. It also gets self-developed XDR dynamic range enhancement and a 1-nit minimum brightness. Touch sampling can spike to 5000Hz instantaneously and stays at 500Hz for multi-finger input.
On the gaming side, iQOO is leaning hard into that high-refresh panel. They’re claiming industry-first concurrent 2K 185FPS super-resolution and super-frame processing, native 2K support for some titles, adaptation for more than 50 native 185fps games, full-scene ray tracing, game filters, visual enhancement, and the same Q-flex control tech found on the iQOO 16.
To keep everything running throughout the day, the phone packs a 9,000mAh single-cell battery with support for 100W wired charging. Color options so far are “Confrontation,” “Shadow Black,” and “Frostblade Blue.”
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(Source: iQOO on Weibo)
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