iQOO 12 Review: Well balanced, well priced, gaming phone

[@ReinKayomi]

Vivo needs to sell iQOO devices in more countries, I would totally buy the iQOO 12 if it's on sale in the Philippines officially

[@MebiManga]

Bloatwares always turns me off, but dang if you showed me this phone and the camera samples as they are I wouldn't have thought it was marketed as a gaming phone, though like you said they are shifting away from that to a more general phone.Overall I've been seeing vivo releasing better phones recently (or maybe I just never bothered last time), and it's exciting for me with so many options should I get a new phone next time.

[@axhng]

yeah, the camera performance is really quite surprising from a supposing "gaming focused" brand. and it's shame that some of the bloatware can't be disabled or installed too. Ironically, their CN only OriginOS actually allows for most of the pre-installed app to be removed, even a lot of their own apps. This is the same for CN HyperOS and ColorOS too, both allow the removal of a lot more built-in apps than their global version. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but well, it's not a huge deal breaker in the end. i can still go into those bloatware's app info page to turn off permissions and whatnot, then chuck them into a folder and ignore them completely. 🤣

[@pinex5773]

which one would you choose? k70 pro or iqoo 12?

[@axhng]

between the 2.. probably the iQOO 12 but only if it's CN ROM. if it's global ROM iQOO 12 vs k70 Pro, I will probably lean more towards K70 Pro since software experience is quite important to me and FunTouchOS is just.... not that great imo... iQOO 12 is a bit more expensive, but the camera performance is noticeably better to me and i think worth the extra if you care about camera quality. Plus smaller things like haptics, and speakers are better too. But personally at this point, i might not consider the K70 Pro anymore even if i don't care about camera quality, since there is the new Neo9S Pro+ which also has a SD8Gen3 processor, but has bigger battery as well as ultrasonic fingerprint sensor.😅or even the older Neo9 Pro or Neo9S Pro are both still good options if you're okay with mediatek's chipset.

[@pinex5773]

@@axhng oh I didn't know there's a new neo9s pro variant, i guess I'll have to take a look on that one, and see which of these phone i will buy. thank you for that information.

[@axsprk]

Pulling Clorinde?^^

[@axhng]

😅skipping. at this point i'm just saving up for Natlan!

[@chookwangzhee1889]

How did you import from my?

[@axhng]

@@chookwangzhee1889 through a friend who has a MY address and can help to buy 😅 if don't have, then I not sure already.