The sub-brand of Vivo, iQOO, has recently officially launched its new flagship smartphone in China, named iQOO 5 and 5 Pro. These two smartphones come with the highest specifications that can be presented in 2020.
Equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 flagship chipset, the iQOO 5 Series comes with a screen with a refresh rate of 120Hz and an AMOLED type measuring 6.56 inches. The smartphone is also equipped with fingerprint technology under the screen (under-screen fingerprint).
Entering the camera section, the iQOO 5 and 5 Pro come with a 16 MP front camera. The rear camera itself comes with three lenses that have a resolution of 50MP, 13MP, and 13MP. These three lenses have their advantages.

It is stated that the iQOO 5 variant has EIS support with 20x Digital Zoom. In contrast, the iQOO 5 Pro variant can support OIS, 5x Optical Zoom, 60x Hybrid Zoom, and can also be used to record 8K resolution video.
Running the iQOO UI 5.0 operating system based on Android 10, this smartphone also has a battery capacity of 4,500mAh for the regular variant and 4,000mAh for the Pro variant. Even though it sounds strange, the Pro variant of iQOO 5 comes with 120W Fast Charging while the original variant has 55W Fast Charging only.
The following is a price list of the iQOO 5 and iQOO 5 Pro smartphones in China as quoted from the Gizmochina website:
iQOO 5
- 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage – 3,998 Yuan
- 12 GB RAM + 128 GB storage – 4,298 Yuan
- 12 GB RAM + 256 GB storage – 4,598 Yuan
Colors: Star Trace and Hao Ying
iQOO 5 Pro
- 8 GB RAM + 256 GB storage – 4,998 Yuan
- 2 GB RAM + 256 GB storage – 5,498 Yuan
Colors: Track Version and Legendary Edition
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