Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks


The Chinese smartphone brand iQOO has just launched its much-awaited iQOO 9 series of smartphones in India. The series consists of iQOO 9 Pro, iQOO 9, and the iQOO 9 SE models. All three devices feature chipsets from Qualcomm and the iQOO 9 Pro is the premium model of the series that comes with the latest and most powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen1. On the other hand, the iQOO 9 SE model is the cheapest offering in the lineup. Mentioned below are the specification and pricing details of the newly launched iQOO series.
Specifications for iQOO 9
The vanilla model of the series has been launched with a display featuring a 6.56-inch full-HD+ 10-bit AMOLED display along with a 120Hz refresh rate and 300Hz touch sampling rate. Under the hood, the smartphone features an octa-core Snapdragon 888+ chipset paired with up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM. The available onboard storage on the device is 256GB.
For the camera front, iQOO 9 comes with a triple rear camera headlined by a 48MP Sony IMX598 primary sensor along with a 13MP wide-angle/ macro shooter and 13MP portrait shooter. The front of the device features a 16MP selfie shooter. iQOO 9 operates on FuntouchOS 12 based on Android 12. The device is backed by a 4,350mAh battery that supports 120W FlashCharge fast charging and features an in-display fingerprint scanner as well.
Specifications for iQOO 9 Pro
The premium model of the series, iQOO 9 Pro has been launched with a 6.78-inch 2K E5 AMOLED display with a 3D curved glass protection. The display features LTPO 2.0 technology and has an adaptive 120Hz refresh rate along with a 300Hz touch sampling rate. The device is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 8 Gen1 SoC coupled with up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM. The pro model also features 256GB of internal storage.