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Switching between different photo modes and the rest is suitably quick and the device is generally fast when achieving initial focus, key for those moments when you need to catch something quickly. The camera app doesn’t particularly entice when first launched, somehow looking a little barebones and cluttered simultaneously. The inclusion of a short telephoto is a little unusual, but highly welcome as an alternative to the ubiquitous (and always terrible) macro sensors found on many budget brand devices.Īll rear sensors are stabilised using the mentioned ‘gimbal’ system, which promises to be more effective than more traditional stabilisation options. This isn’t an issue in the slightest, but it is interesting to note.įrom a pure ‘spec’ point of view, the 9T offers a 50Mp (binning to 12.5Mp) main sensor, an x2 12Mp telephoto and a 13Mp ultrawide, followed by a 16Mp selfie sensor.

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When it comes to BBK electronics and its subsidiaries, however, the situation becomes a little more complex.Īlthough they ostensibly compete with one another as well as those on the wider market, Oppo, OnePlus, Realme, Vivo and iQoo all share the same designs and supply chains, meaning there is often a lot of common design language between their devices.Īs such, the 9T has a highly similar ‘gimbal’ optical stablisation system to that found on the likes of the Vivo X80 series, and offers a specific night video mode typically allowed by the MariSilicon found inside the Oppo Find X3 Pro (in this case provided by the V1+ chip included). Features a V1+ chip for extra noise reduction in low-light videoĬamera modules and components on smartphones have long been the primary means by which manufacturers have tried to differentiate their offerings from the rest.The chip also means you get 5G connectivity which may be an important tick box for some users.

It flies through anything, and on that metric is a resounding success – provided it isn’t pushed so hard that it has a minor meltdown. On the whole, this is a smartphone that provides completely adequate performance for almost any conceivable use case. Mobile games may need to tread carefully if this ends up as their smartphone of choice. This was following a particularly intense benchmark test, however, it doesn’t speak well either to the cooling solution used and potentially to the longevity of the device. No great claims are made regarding the cooling potential of the iQoo 9T, but I found that the device gets very warm under sustained load, sometimes becoming too hot to hold. The 9T is the firm’s latest offering, aiming for a more premium section of the market and consequently to make inroads in the west where it has yet to make a name for itself. IQoo has been in the fray for some time now, a sub-brand of Vivo (owned by conglomerate BBK electronics), and it has a somewhat brash marketing style paired with high performing devices and relatively low prices. From more well-known western brands such as Apple through to a panoply of Chinese and domestic manufacturers, it seems that almost everyone is looking for a piece of what remains one of the great ‘untapped’ markets. Save for the likes of China, there’s almost nowhere in the world that has such a competitive smartphone market as India. But for poor thermals, some finish issues and ads in the notifications this would have been an instant recommendation. The iQoo 9T does a lot right, with a great screen, dependable battery life and blazing performance it mostly manages to stand out in the right ways from the competition.

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