vivo iQOO officially arriving on March 1

Yordan, 20 February 2019

The Chinese manufacturer vivo announced a sub-brand named iQOO earlier this month. The company hasn’t revealed any phone until today but finally posted a teaser on Weibo, announcing March 1 as the launch date. We will see the “Monster Inside” at an event, taking place in the city of Shenzhen, China.

The official vivo iQOO teaser

The vivo iQOO phone will be “the most powerful ever” if we can trust the image. We already know it will have 12 GB RAM, 256 GB storage and 44W fast-charging, allegedly named vivo FlashCharge, making it the second fastest standard after the 50W SuperVOOC. Since an UD fingerprint scanner was also teased, the front is likely to have an AMOLED screen.

The vivo FlashCharge in action

Previous rumors suggested the vivo iQOO will be a foldable phone, but with every single day, we are leaning to our initial guess that this will actually be a gaming handset with a massive 4,000 mAh battery and three cameras on the back.

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Reader comments

Anonymous
21 Feb 2019
Kx1

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AnonD-731363
20 Feb 2019
SH3

Yes one UI is amazing compared to IOS which is othervise. Even the windows phone was a much better idea than the does not cooperate at all with the user IOS.

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20 Feb 2019
TRK

While I do have some unhappiness based on the appearance of OneUI, overall it does feel fresh and "lighter" in that sense, which does help in improving software updates. Of course, I really do hope that they can fix one thing that my friends who have...