iQOO 11 launches concurrently in China, Malaysia and Indonesia as the worldwide version of a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered flagship smartphone

iQOO has taken the unprecedented step of debuting its newest vanilla flagship smartphone internationally, making the 11 official in Indonesia and Malaysia in addition to the model’s native China. Moreover, they’ve been revealed as just about the identical system in both area, besides that its new Isle of Man colorway appears to be unique to its home market.

This leaves the hallmark iQOO choices of Monitor and Legend finishes for the worldwide version of the 11. It has been unveiled as having the identical “Superior” trio of RAM, storage and SoC specs as its Professional counterpart, full with the customized V2 secondary chipset and, thus, the large branded rear digital camera window that goes with that.

Nonetheless, the chip boosts completely different triple cameras on this case: an ISOCELL GN5 as a important sensor, an ultra-wide that’s 8MP the place the Professional has 50MP and a 13MP portrait shooter. Then once more, the 11 has the very same show because the 11 Professional, right down to the scale, upgraded 2K 144Hz E6 AMOLED panel with an 1,800-nit peak brightness – nevertheless, it’s flat with minimal bezels throughout reasonably than curved on this variant.

Just like the Professional, the iQOO 11 runs Android 13-based software program out of the field, launching as OriginOS 3 in China and Funtouch OS 13 elsewhere. Alternatively, the iQOO 11’s wired charging goes at not more than 120W, and there’s no wi-fi charging right here. It does have 16GB of RAM, although – which is the one possibility accessible within the Indonesian or Malaysian market.

The brand new bleeding-edge flagship’s single 16/256GB SKU begins at 9,999,000 rupiah (IDR; ~US$641) together with VAT or 3,999 ringgit (MYR; ~US$909) and appears to be accessible to order from now. In the meantime, in China, the vanilla 11 has shirked its one storage SKU per RAM increment sample of the Professional for a extra numerous, doubtlessly wallet-friendly, vary of choices.

Its 8GB RAM choices have 128GB or 256GB of that UFS 4.0-rated capability for simply 3,799 yuan (~US$545) to 4,099 yuan (~US$588); alternatively, there’s a single 12/256GB SKU for 4,399 yuan (~US$618), whereas the 16/256-512GB top-end fashions go from 4,699 yuan (~US$674) to 4,999 yuan (~US$718).

Regardless of this Xiaomi-beating value reveal, the iQOO 11 can’t be pre-ordered in China till December 12, 2022.

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