iQOO unveiled the iQOO 15R as the primary ‘R’ mannequin in its quantity lineup in India. It’s primarily geared toward younger professionals in search of a smartphone that’s compact and straightforward to make use of with one hand, but additionally packs a robust chipset underneath the hood and has an awesome battery life. Does the iQOO 15R ship all that? We used it for a few weeks to search out that.
Design
The iQOO 15R has a 6.59″ 1,260p 144Hz AMOLED display on the entrance, surrounded by 1.25mm bezels on the left and proper sides, with the highest and backside bezels measuring 1.46mm and 1.77mm, respectively.
The show has a centered punch-hole for the 32MP selfie digicam.
Moreover, the iQOO 15R’s show has a 3D ultrasonic fingerprint scanner embedded, marketed to work even with sweaty fingers. We discovered the fingerprint scanner to be quick and correct throughout our utilization, with its placement, which isn’t near the underside bezel, facilitating a cushty phone-unlocking expertise.
Flip the iQOO 15R round, and also you get a squircle-shaped digicam island. Its design reminds us of the iQOO 15 and former iQOO flagships. We wish iQOO to undertake a brand new design for the digicam island, however we will see iQOO’s loyal followers arguing that Apple additionally launched iPhones with an similar digicam structure for years.
iQOO 15 (left) with iQOO 15R (proper)
That mentioned, despite the fact that the iQOO 15R digicam island’s form is similar to the iQOO 15 and former flagships, the cameras inside are organized otherwise. The island homes two horizontally aligned cameras – 50MP major and 8MP ultrawide – with the LED flash positioned outdoors.
It’s additionally price noting that the digicam island doesn’t protrude a lot, so the cellphone hardly wobbles when used on a flat floor, which is good.
The iQOO 15R is available in Darkish Knight and Triumph Silver colours, and it’s the latter that’s the topic of this assessment. Each fashions have flat rear panels; nevertheless, their thickness and weight differ. With an 8.10mm thickness and 206 g weight, the Triumph Silver model is 0.2mm thicker and 4 g heavier than the Darkish Knight model.
iQOO 15R’s Darkish Knight mannequin (left) with Triumph Silver mannequin (proper)
The Darkish Knight mannequin seems greyish in some lighting circumstances and contains a fiberglass again that smudges simply. It has a stealthy look, although, and is healthier suited for many who need one thing for a proper event.
The Triumph Silver model, however, flaunts a glass again that not often acquired smudged throughout our utilization. The again cowl has a checkered design, and whereas it would seem like the panel has a textured end, it really doesn’t. That mentioned, this design appears cool, but it surely’s solely correctly seen when gentle displays at proper angles. It’s good for these wanting one thing with an informal look.
Just like the flat again panel, iQOO 15R’s frames are additionally flat. They’re fabricated from steel and have a matte end. On the correct body are the amount rocker and energy button – each with good suggestions. On the backside is the USB-C port, joined by the SIM card slot, the first microphone, and a speaker grille. On the alternative facet is the secondary microphone with an IR blaster and one other speaker outlet.
iQOO 15R’s ports and controls
With a 6.59″ show, the iQOO 15R isn’t precisely a compact cellphone, however we discovered it compact sufficient to comfortably maintain and use with one hand. It’s IP68 and IP69-rated, and has a pleasant construct and an in-hand really feel. Nevertheless, the totally flat rear panel may not be to everybody’s style, and it might have benefited from some curved edges like these on the iQOO Neo9 Professional and iQOO 12 have for a extra comfy in-hand expertise.
Show
The iQOO 15R is constructed round a 6.59″ AMOLED show having 2,750×1,260-pixel decision and 459 ppi pixel density. It helps a 144Hz refresh price, but it surely’s restricted to gaming, which is a bummer. Equally, the 360Hz contact sampling price is restricted to gaming, whereas common utilization helps a 130Hz sampling price. iQOO can also be promoting an instantaneous contact sampling price of as much as 3,200Hz, which could be achieved solely when gaming.
The iQOO 15R’s display, protected by Schott Xensation Alpha glass, helps 1.07 billion colours. Moreover, it helps HDR10, HDR10+, and HLG codecs, and is Widevine L1-certified, enabling 1080p video streaming on suitable apps.
The smartphone’s show has 5,000 nits peak brightness, with the bottom brightness potential being 1 nit. The display is extremely vivid, and we had no points watching any content material even underneath robust daylight.
Circling again to the display refresh price, the iQOO 15R’s AMOLED panel helps 60Hz, 90Hz, 120Hz, and 144Hz refresh charges. You get three refresh price choices within the show settings menu – Good adaptation, Customary (60Hz), and Excessive (144Hz). When you choose Excessive, you get an “Apps operating at a excessive refresh price” choice in that menu, which lets you choose the apps/video games you wish to run at 144Hz.
With the refresh price set to Excessive and enabled for all apps and video games, the refresh price elevated from 60Hz to 120Hz for the system menus and apps when interacting with the display. It remained at 60Hz when viewing photographs within the default Images app, Google Images, Fb, Instagram, and X, and when taking part in movies in YouTube and the Images apps.
With the Customary mode, the whole lot expectedly remained at 60Hz. The Good adaptation mode is principally the Excessive mode, with the utmost refresh price restricted to 90Hz in most apps, together with YouTube, Google Chrome, Google Images, Fb, Instagram, and X. A couple of apps, together with GSMArena and Quora, have been restricted to 60Hz.
iQOO says the 144Hz refresh price is just for gaming. Nevertheless, after we performed among the video games on the iQOO 15R that we often play on smartphones throughout critiques, we didn’t see the panel switching to 144Hz in any mode.
The body price and refresh price remained at 60FPS and 60Hz when taking part in Name of Obligation: Cell, whatever the refresh price mode, whereas Sky Power: Reloaded ran at 60FPS in Excessive mode, with the panel reaching 120Hz. Useless Set off 2 was playable at 120FPS and 120Hz in each Excessive and Good adaptation modes.
To conclude, in order for you the smoothest expertise potential on the iQOO 15R, the Excessive refresh price mode is the best choice.
Software program and Efficiency
The iQOO 15R has the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC on the helm, in contrast to the flagship iQOO 15, which is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip. The 15R comes with as much as 12GB of LPDDR5X Extremely RAM and 512GB of UFS 4.1 storage. The unit we now have is the top-end 12GB/512GB mannequin.
Moreover, the iQOO 15R has the Supercomputing Chip Q2 underneath the hood, designed to help low-latency gaming with improved body stability and enhanced picture processing. The Chip Q2 can also be marketed to help 1.5K Sport Tremendous, enabling steady 144 FPS gaming by sport body interpolation, which didn’t occur after we performed the video games talked about above.
On the software program facet, you get Android 16-based OriginOS 6 with the promise of 4 years of OS upgrades and 6 years of safety updates. iQOO instructed us that safety updates might be launched month-to-month for the primary 4 years and quarterly thereafter.
The iQOO 15R comes pre-loaded with eight third-party apps and video games, all of which could be uninstalled.
The general software program options and expertise you get with the iQOO 15R are virtually similar to the iQOO 15, so you may learn our iQOO 15 assessment to be taught extra about OriginOS 6.
Concerning efficiency, the iQOO 15R was very easy in on a regular basis use, and there have been no stutters, even when taking part in video games comparable to Name of Obligation: Cell for over an hour. The cellphone did get sizzling after lengthy gaming classes, however to not the purpose that it affected the efficiency or hampered the person expertise.
You may verify the charts beneath to see how the iQOO 15R carried out in artificial benchmarks. Its scores are consistent with different Snapdragon 8 Gen 5-powered smartphones we examined; nevertheless, the 3DMark scores have been fairly low.
And now we now have a few screenshots displaying the iQOO 15’s sustained efficiency in CPU and GPU stress checks.
CPU take a look at • GPU take a look at
Digicam
The iQOO 15R comes with three cameras – one on the entrance and two on the again. The entrance digicam makes use of the 32MP GalaxyCore GC32E1-WA1XA sensor, has an f/2.45 aperture, and may document movies in as much as 4K decision at 60 FPS.
The twin digicam setup on the rear includes a 50MP major and an 8MP ultrawide digicam.
The first digicam makes use of the Sony LYT-700V sensor, has OIS, f/1.88 aperture, and is able to recording movies in as much as 4K decision at 60 FPS. The ultrawide digicam makes use of the OmniVision OV08F10-GA5H-001B sensor and has an f/2.2 aperture.
Evidently, this digicam setup gained’t provide the similar outcomes because the one on the flagship, dearer iQOO 15. Nevertheless, it does take daylight photos which are ok for social media. The digicam system isn’t the iQOO 15R’s KSP in any case.
We took some photos with the iQOO 15R, which you’ll verify beneath.
Daylight Images
Let’s see the daylight photos first, captured with the iQOO 15R’s 8MP ultrawide digicam, adopted by the 50MP major digicam.
Ultrawide digicam, 8MP, 0.6x magnification.
Ultrawide digicam, 8MP, 0.6x magnification
Main digicam, 12.6MP, 1x magnification.
Main digicam, 12.6MP, 1x magnification
Main digicam, 50MP (Excessive decision), 1x magnification.
Main digicam, 50MP (Excessive decision), 1x magnification
Low-light Images
We additionally took a number of fast photographs in low gentle with the iQOO 15R’s major digicam.
Main digicam, 12.6MP, 1x magnification
Battery
The iQOO 15R is fueled by a 7,600 mAh battery, having 100W wired charging and seven.5W reverse wired charging help. It additionally helps bypass charging.
We couldn’t run our customary battery checks on the iQOO 15R as these can solely be run at our HQ. Nevertheless, anecdotally talking, the smartphone simply lasted a complete day on a single cost with reasonable utilization when 5G cell information and Wi-Fi hotspot have been turned on, and the Excessive (144Hz) refresh price and a couple of,750×1,260-pixel decision have been enabled.
The iQOO 15R’s battery is marketed to cost as much as 50% in 33 minutes and to 100% in 63 minutes with the bundled 100W FlashCharger. Nevertheless, that wasn’t the case in our charging checks.
In our testing, the iQOO 15R charged 17% in quarter-hour, 36% in half-hour, 50% in 42 minutes, 71% in 1 hour, and 100% in 1 hour and 19 minutes. It took one other 5 minutes for the battery full standing to look on the display.
Your mileage will probably fluctuate relying in your utilization and the ambient temperature when charging the iQOO 15R.
Conclusion
Originally of this assessment, we acknowledged that the iQOO 15R is geared toward younger professionals in search of a smartphone that’s straightforward to make use of with one hand, comes with a robust chip, and affords good battery life. Does the iQOO 15R ship on that? Sure, completely.
The iQOO 15R is straightforward to make use of with one hand, affords easy, lag-free efficiency, and has an awesome battery life. The smartphone’s show is extremely vivid, and whereas the rear cameras aren’t flagship-grade, they produce photographs ok for social media.
The iQOO 15R is available in Darkish Knight and Triumph Silver colours with three reminiscence choices in India – 8GB/256GB, 12GB/256GB, and 12GB/512GB, priced at INR44,999 ($480/€415), INR47,999 ($510/€440), and INR52,999 ($565/€490), respectively.
All issues thought-about, the iQOO 15R will get our suggestion.
