Unboxing and First Look at the iQoo 9 Pro and iPhone 9 Pro

As I began to unbox the iQoo 9 Pro, I couldn't help but notice that it was slightly heavier than my usual smartphone. This was a pleasant surprise, as I had expected a phone of this caliber to be even more substantial. Upon closer inspection, I found that this weight was due to the added presence of bloatware - a feature that's been becoming increasingly common in modern smartphones.

As I started to explore the device, I discovered that it came pre-installed with a variety of apps that seemed unnecessary. However, what struck me as particularly interesting was that these apps could be easily uninstalled or removed if needed. This feature is often overlooked, but it's essential for users who want to keep their devices clutter-free.

The iQoo 9 Pro also boasts a unique feature called "quick toggles" which allows users to quickly switch between different modes with just a few taps on the screen. I found this feature to be both convenient and user-friendly. The device also comes equipped with NFC, making it an excellent choice for those who want seamless mobile payments.

The iQoo 9 Pro is powered by the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, which promises lightning-fast performance and impressive power efficiency. This makes it an ideal choice for gamers and heavy users alike. Furthermore, the device comes with a gaming accessory called the Iku Gamepad, which pairs seamlessly with the phone via Bluetooth.

I had the opportunity to test out the Iku Gamepad, and I must say that it was an excellent addition to my gaming experience. The controller offered precise control and a comfortable design, making it perfect for extended gaming sessions. I played Call of Duty on this device, and the results were impressive - the game ran smoothly, with no noticeable lag or slowdown.

Regarding 5G bands, the iQoo 9 Pro supports an impressive 14 5G bands, while its sibling model, the regular iQoo 9, only supports eight. While the price difference between these two devices may seem minor, the added support for more 5G bands makes a significant difference in terms of connectivity and performance.

In terms of display, the iQoo 9 Pro features a stunning 2K screen resolution with a refresh rate of up to 120Hz. The device also offers an option to set the screen to "smart switch," which dynamically adjusts the refresh rate based on the content being displayed. This feature is particularly useful for those who want optimal battery life and performance.

As I delved deeper into the camera features, I was impressed by the quality of the images captured by this smartphone. The device boasts an impressive set of lenses, including a 108MP primary sensor, a 48MP ultra-wide-angle lens, and a 2MP macro lens. The front-facing camera also performed admirably, even in low-light conditions.

The camera samples I took with the iQoo 9 Pro were consistently good, with excellent color reproduction and minimal noise. I was particularly impressed by its performance in portrait mode, which offered stunning results with precise background blur. While there's always room for improvement, I'd say that the camera performance of this smartphone is exceptional.

Finally, I took a moment to compare the iQoo 9 Pro to the iPhone 9 Pro, and while both devices are impressive in their own right, they have some key differences. The iQoo 9 Pro features a more powerful processor, better cameras, and a longer-lasting battery. However, it's worth noting that these devices come with different price tags, so users should consider their budget when making a decision.

In conclusion, the iQoo 9 Pro is an impressive device that offers exceptional performance, camera quality, and features like quick toggles and a gaming accessory. While there are some trade-offs in terms of design and build quality, I believe that this smartphone is well worth considering for those in the market for a new device.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys this is ranjit and in this video let's have a look at some of the smartphones that were launched by ico and as you can see uh they did launch the icon 9 the ico sc and even the ico 9 pro in fact i've already opened the iphone 9 pro because i feel uh this is pretty exciting this is the smartphone itself we'll have a look at this one i didn't unbox the regular icon 9. i will open it up right now and the ico sc was also launched i don't have it again guys these are real units and they also had launched the gaming pad so we'll also have a look at this one uh by the way guys i don't know the pricing of these one as of now and in fact uh with this iku 9 pro ico claims uh this as india's most advanced flagship as you can see from this screenshot and i don't know the pricing and if they can get the pricing right yes i feel for what it is the specs on this one are incredible uh this has a 2k amoled screen with this this is if you notice this is ultrasonic fingerprint scanner on this one and a bunch of very interesting i've been actually using this smartphone uh for the last couple of days in fact i feel in terms of camera also this is very very good uh this also has the gimbal camera and stuff i have taken actually a lot of camera samples and stuff we'll look at that later on uh so this is the ico uh and the big highlight about again with these smartphone both the icon 9 and even the iphone 9 pro is these actually support 120 watts of for charging and uh this is the charger that is this 120 watt charger that comes inside the box type c1 and i was also very curious what about the heat management other safety things and i who claims that as you can see from this uh screenshot this is tuv certified they have done extensive testing regarding the charging so it won't be a problem in fact for the iq9 pro i believe they claim 50 of the charge uh in just about eight minutes and full charge in just about 20 minutes so that's interesting i'll just keep this to the side it's becoming a mess too many devices over here let's open this up quickly and then we'll come back to the icon 9 pro which i feel is the more exciting device again i don't know the exact pricing guys so i will add it in the description and let's open this up and uh i mean box is very very similar if you know look at it only difference is this is the pro this is the nine so let's open this up now and uh this is the iq nine regular one uh guys and this is having a slightly smaller screen again this is also having an amulet screen uh so let's just take this out so here it is it comes out like this and the back is also glass guys on this one and this is having a slightly smaller screen at 6.56 inch this is also a super amoled screen with 120 hertz uh refrigerator in fact we did the elder brother go uh this one is having ltpo screen so dynamic refresh rate and all these things and this one has ultrasonic fingerprint scanner i'll talk about some of the difference later on in fact uh there's a chart in the review skype i'll add it later on so anyways this is the device guys and this is also having a triple camera and in both the phones the pro and the regular ico all the three cameras are functional no gimmicks this time so i'm really happy about that one and if you open this so what so some paperwork and all these things so yeah awesome paperwork so nice presentation and uh we get a transparent uh case uh with this one and again even in the regular iq uh right you're getting that massive 120 watt charger in the box it's type c and guys use this cable just don't use any other cable with these very high uh wattage ones so you're getting a transparent case but i noticed that this is a small thing that i noticed in the ico 9 pro if you notice this case is a lot more premium this is what we get with this one and if i put the ico pro in this one looks like this the quality of the case is very very good just feels a lot more premium so that's what we get in the box i'll just keep this to the side for now and let me give you a physical overview so guys on the top we have a secondary noise cancellation microphone uh power on off button power uh button over here it's in the different accents so stereo speakers on both the pro and this uh you have what do you say some ejector let's just eject i don't think so it'll have a micro sd card slot these are flagship flagships don't generally have that yeah no micro sd card slot but the rubber gasket was there and on this end nothing as you can see let me bring the elder brother this is the elder brother the pro which i feel if they can get the pricing right can be very very exciting uh this comes in actually two colors this is the white one we also have the dark color grayish one uh again uh we also have uh it looks like a iyer blaster that's interesting i have to check that uh secondary noise cancellation microphone uh feels very very premium of course and a volume rocker power on off button in the blue accent in this right color stereo speakers and the stereo speakers are pretty loud on this one and again again this would also not have uh what do you say micro sd card but let me quickly just show you yeah again rubber gasket even on this one so that's what it does and in terms of in hand feel guys uh pretty good uh smartphones uh this is also an amoled screen so let me do one thing let me just quickly uh set this up and then we will continue so guys i've set up uh both the phones and as you can see here is the iqr9 and this is the iphone 9 pro the 9 pro is certainly having a slightly bigger screen at 6.78 in screen whereas on this one this is a 6.56 both are amoled but this one is actually a 2k screen guy generally uh in this budget we get a normal full hd screen uh both of them but the good thing is 120 hertz i'll just place this one pro to the side we'll look at it later on and here as you can see uh here i noticed that some bloatware is there cred app i haven't uninstalled anything netflix some josh and all this thing so there is a little bit of bloatware as you can see josh i accidentally switched it on i wanted to uninstall it but let's see can we uninstall it okay here it came in for uninstall app yeah so there is a little bit of credits there let's see if we can uninstall that also yes there is some bloatware but you can uninstall it so that's what it is and the touch response looks to be good guys and by the way i completely forgot people keep asking me what about haiku and if you guys don't know ico is actually a sub brand of fifo and in fact for service and all those things you can directly go to vivo's service sentence and that's where iq will also be serviced because this is actually a sub brand of actually vivo and uh this comes i like this both of those these smartphones actually if i'll go under the hood and if you go over your quick toggles and all these things it's just setting up uh as you can see if i go over here and go about the phone front touch os 12 but this comes out of the box with android 12 which is the latest version of android so you're getting latest version of android that is android well not android 11 and i asked the ico team what about updates and they said that uh these smartphones both both of them will actually get the next two years of what you say android update so android 13 and 14 and three years of security update so that's what it is and guys as i've told you this is the higher end variant that comes with 12 gigabytes of ram so this has 256 gigabytes of storage and let me actually list all the specs of for this iphone 9 here here so that you have a better info regarding uh what this device is all about and i like even the rear facing camera even on the regular icool uh nine is uh very functional the main camera is a 48 megapixel with gimbal stabilization uh then the next camera that we have is a 13 megapixel ultra wide and lastly uh we have again a 13 megapixel which is actually a 2x optical zoom 50 mm focal length that's good for portrait so very functional device in fact front facing camera is similar on all the three models that will run 16 megapixel now let's let's just talk about this one because i feel this is an important okay this one a big difference is this this one comes with a regular in display fingerprint scanner and as you can see very very functional in fact it gives a slight haptic feedback when you're unlocking it this one comes with a more superior ultrasonic fingerprint scanner and whenever you pick up the phone it gives you an idea it's here and very very responsive i would say really impressed with this one and this is slightly curved edges but and this slightly bigger device but feels a lot more premium in the hand i would say uh if you talk about the specs of uh this one as i've told you guys some the storage will be 256 gigabytes if you go for the 8 gigabyte ram variant or the 12 gigabyte ram variant so that's nice and in fact here are all the specs for the 9 pro and again a camera is a big highlight i feel on this smartphone again it has a 50 megapixel main camera with again gimbal five axis gimbal stabilization and then the next camera is also a 50 megapixel uh actually this is an ultra wide which is 50 megapixel and the third camera is again very functional this is actually 2.5 x optical zoom camera which is again a 60 mm focal length great for portrait so in fact i've taken actually a lot of camera samples with this one and the pictures come out really good on this one and apart from that again similar ui that you're getting this also comes out of the box with android 12 out of the box uh both of them are having ufs 3.1 storage so that way in terms of hardware i would say uh it's not compromised or anything no i didn't find anything that was compromising in fact let me give you an idea about the speakers i was just checking out the speakers this is the max volume this is comfortable listening like but let me just go to the max very good very good separation also studio separation so the stereo speakers are also loud i like the ultrasonic fingerprint scanner i was a little bit skeptical how the implementation will be but works superb as you can see any angle even if i go reverse how it works so that way it's nice and again again little bit of bloatware just like this one it was but you can uninstall let's see again let me just show you josh yeah you can uninstall so that's what it is and here again you have the quick toggles and again guys this is flagship you have nfc everything that you expect and also i completely forgot as these are very powerful phone this comes with the new snapdragon 8gen one and this comes with the snapdragon 888 plus again for gaming also these will be very very good in fact uh they also launched this gaming accessory called as iku gamepad and i've taken it out actually this is how it is and i played call of duty also with this one uh it pairs uh here's a button over here you just switch it on basically it's using bluetooth to connect and once it's connected you can play games uh with this one in fact in the ui also it'll work it's pairing now uh it pairs uh it's using bluetooth uh to do that let me just switch on bluetooth and it should actually detect this yes it detected this and even the ui camera so now i can do gaming i actually played call of duty with this one and definitely it makes sense so this is a nice accessory that they have added you have triggers over here multi button so if you are sort of that competitive gamer or something then this can be a useful accessory if you play games a lot again i don't know what is the pricing of this one but this is a bluetooth accessory and a nice addition i would say for gamers this is known as the aiku gamepad so let me put this back uh but let's talk let me just put these too many boxes over here let's come back to this device and regarding 5g bands i completely forgot uh this pro version has support for 14 5g bands whereas the the regular iq has support for eight five cheap pants that you are getting and um i don't know the pricing definitely this will come out a little bit of premium and i like the fact that they are giving a 2k screen resolution as you can see you can set it to quad hd uh so that option is there and refresh rate is right now i've set it to auto but you can force it to what do you say 120 hertz on this one screen refresh rate as you can see smart switch but you can force it to 120 hertz uh but i would suggest that you just leave it to what you say smart switch because the pro version is having a ltpo screen that means dynamically based on what content is there it adjusts the refresh rate to get the best battery life this is generally found on the most premium samsung smartphones and ultra high end what do you say flagship smartphone glad to see they have implemented that panel on this smartphone but now let's look at the camera because i feel that's the big trump card of this smartphone i've taken quite a bit of samples i'll show you that and the samples come out good this was a regular shot this was that ultra white and as you can see generally the camera samples come out good the color reproduction is good this is a regular shot and this was ultra white ultrawide is also good now moving to human subjects also it's very good this is the portrait mode where it zooms in this is the regular shot and this is the portrait mode with one x and this portrait mode with 2.5 x zoom picture of my vive this is regular mode and this is in the portrait mode and this is the portrait mode at 2.5 x and if you notice the background blur is a little bit more in the default mode but you can tone it down here i set to medium and it looks a lot better the front-facing camera performance was a good regular shot this was in portrait mode and again this is a regular shot and this was in the portrait mode now i took these samples in a pretty low lighting and i was happy with the result in fact i didn't expect that will do this good in low lighting so generally i would say the camera performance is actually pretty good on this smartphone so guys that's it for now for the unboxing and first look at this icoo 9 and the iphone 9 pro and in fact guys here is a chart as i've told you they launched three devices so here is a chart that gives you an idea about main difference between these three smartphones uh anyways guys that's it for now for the unboxing and first look at these smartphones so what do you guys feel about the iq 9 pro and the iphone 9 do let me know in the comment section below anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guyshi guys this is ranjit and in this video let's have a look at some of the smartphones that were launched by ico and as you can see uh they did launch the icon 9 the ico sc and even the ico 9 pro in fact i've already opened the iphone 9 pro because i feel uh this is pretty exciting this is the smartphone itself we'll have a look at this one i didn't unbox the regular icon 9. i will open it up right now and the ico sc was also launched i don't have it again guys these are real units and they also had launched the gaming pad so we'll also have a look at this one uh by the way guys i don't know the pricing of these one as of now and in fact uh with this iku 9 pro ico claims uh this as india's most advanced flagship as you can see from this screenshot and i don't know the pricing and if they can get the pricing right yes i feel for what it is the specs on this one are incredible uh this has a 2k amoled screen with this this is if you notice this is ultrasonic fingerprint scanner on this one and a bunch of very interesting i've been actually using this smartphone uh for the last couple of days in fact i feel in terms of camera also this is very very good uh this also has the gimbal camera and stuff i have taken actually a lot of camera samples and stuff we'll look at that later on uh so this is the ico uh and the big highlight about again with these smartphone both the icon 9 and even the iphone 9 pro is these actually support 120 watts of for charging and uh this is the charger that is this 120 watt charger that comes inside the box type c1 and i was also very curious what about the heat management other safety things and i who claims that as you can see from this uh screenshot this is tuv certified they have done extensive testing regarding the charging so it won't be a problem in fact for the iq9 pro i believe they claim 50 of the charge uh in just about eight minutes and full charge in just about 20 minutes so that's interesting i'll just keep this to the side it's becoming a mess too many devices over here let's open this up quickly and then we'll come back to the icon 9 pro which i feel is the more exciting device again i don't know the exact pricing guys so i will add it in the description and let's open this up and uh i mean box is very very similar if you know look at it only difference is this is the pro this is the nine so let's open this up now and uh this is the iq nine regular one uh guys and this is having a slightly smaller screen again this is also having an amulet screen uh so let's just take this out so here it is it comes out like this and the back is also glass guys on this one and this is having a slightly smaller screen at 6.56 inch this is also a super amoled screen with 120 hertz uh refrigerator in fact we did the elder brother go uh this one is having ltpo screen so dynamic refresh rate and all these things and this one has ultrasonic fingerprint scanner i'll talk about some of the difference later on in fact uh there's a chart in the review skype i'll add it later on so anyways this is the device guys and this is also having a triple camera and in both the phones the pro and the regular ico all the three cameras are functional no gimmicks this time so i'm really happy about that one and if you open this so what so some paperwork and all these things so yeah awesome paperwork so nice presentation and uh we get a transparent uh case uh with this one and again even in the regular iq uh right you're getting that massive 120 watt charger in the box it's type c and guys use this cable just don't use any other cable with these very high uh wattage ones so you're getting a transparent case but i noticed that this is a small thing that i noticed in the ico 9 pro if you notice this case is a lot more premium this is what we get with this one and if i put the ico pro in this one looks like this the quality of the case is very very good just feels a lot more premium so that's what we get in the box i'll just keep this to the side for now and let me give you a physical overview so guys on the top we have a secondary noise cancellation microphone uh power on off button power uh button over here it's in the different accents so stereo speakers on both the pro and this uh you have what do you say some ejector let's just eject i don't think so it'll have a micro sd card slot these are flagship flagships don't generally have that yeah no micro sd card slot but the rubber gasket was there and on this end nothing as you can see let me bring the elder brother this is the elder brother the pro which i feel if they can get the pricing right can be very very exciting uh this comes in actually two colors this is the white one we also have the dark color grayish one uh again uh we also have uh it looks like a iyer blaster that's interesting i have to check that uh secondary noise cancellation microphone uh feels very very premium of course and a volume rocker power on off button in the blue accent in this right color stereo speakers and the stereo speakers are pretty loud on this one and again again this would also not have uh what do you say micro sd card but let me quickly just show you yeah again rubber gasket even on this one so that's what it does and in terms of in hand feel guys uh pretty good uh smartphones uh this is also an amoled screen so let me do one thing let me just quickly uh set this up and then we will continue so guys i've set up uh both the phones and as you can see here is the iqr9 and this is the iphone 9 pro the 9 pro is certainly having a slightly bigger screen at 6.78 in screen whereas on this one this is a 6.56 both are amoled but this one is actually a 2k screen guy generally uh in this budget we get a normal full hd screen uh both of them but the good thing is 120 hertz i'll just place this one pro to the side we'll look at it later on and here as you can see uh here i noticed that some bloatware is there cred app i haven't uninstalled anything netflix some josh and all this thing so there is a little bit of bloatware as you can see josh i accidentally switched it on i wanted to uninstall it but let's see can we uninstall it okay here it came in for uninstall app yeah so there is a little bit of credits there let's see if we can uninstall that also yes there is some bloatware but you can uninstall it so that's what it is and the touch response looks to be good guys and by the way i completely forgot people keep asking me what about haiku and if you guys don't know ico is actually a sub brand of fifo and in fact for service and all those things you can directly go to vivo's service sentence and that's where iq will also be serviced because this is actually a sub brand of actually vivo and uh this comes i like this both of those these smartphones actually if i'll go under the hood and if you go over your quick toggles and all these things it's just setting up uh as you can see if i go over here and go about the phone front touch os 12 but this comes out of the box with android 12 which is the latest version of android so you're getting latest version of android that is android well not android 11 and i asked the ico team what about updates and they said that uh these smartphones both both of them will actually get the next two years of what you say android update so android 13 and 14 and three years of security update so that's what it is and guys as i've told you this is the higher end variant that comes with 12 gigabytes of ram so this has 256 gigabytes of storage and let me actually list all the specs of for this iphone 9 here here so that you have a better info regarding uh what this device is all about and i like even the rear facing camera even on the regular icool uh nine is uh very functional the main camera is a 48 megapixel with gimbal stabilization uh then the next camera that we have is a 13 megapixel ultra wide and lastly uh we have again a 13 megapixel which is actually a 2x optical zoom 50 mm focal length that's good for portrait so very functional device in fact front facing camera is similar on all the three models that will run 16 megapixel now let's let's just talk about this one because i feel this is an important okay this one a big difference is this this one comes with a regular in display fingerprint scanner and as you can see very very functional in fact it gives a slight haptic feedback when you're unlocking it this one comes with a more superior ultrasonic fingerprint scanner and whenever you pick up the phone it gives you an idea it's here and very very responsive i would say really impressed with this one and this is slightly curved edges but and this slightly bigger device but feels a lot more premium in the hand i would say uh if you talk about the specs of uh this one as i've told you guys some the storage will be 256 gigabytes if you go for the 8 gigabyte ram variant or the 12 gigabyte ram variant so that's nice and in fact here are all the specs for the 9 pro and again a camera is a big highlight i feel on this smartphone again it has a 50 megapixel main camera with again gimbal five axis gimbal stabilization and then the next camera is also a 50 megapixel uh actually this is an ultra wide which is 50 megapixel and the third camera is again very functional this is actually 2.5 x optical zoom camera which is again a 60 mm focal length great for portrait so in fact i've taken actually a lot of camera samples with this one and the pictures come out really good on this one and apart from that again similar ui that you're getting this also comes out of the box with android 12 out of the box uh both of them are having ufs 3.1 storage so that way in terms of hardware i would say uh it's not compromised or anything no i didn't find anything that was compromising in fact let me give you an idea about the speakers i was just checking out the speakers this is the max volume this is comfortable listening like but let me just go to the max very good very good separation also studio separation so the stereo speakers are also loud i like the ultrasonic fingerprint scanner i was a little bit skeptical how the implementation will be but works superb as you can see any angle even if i go reverse how it works so that way it's nice and again again little bit of bloatware just like this one it was but you can uninstall let's see again let me just show you josh yeah you can uninstall so that's what it is and here again you have the quick toggles and again guys this is flagship you have nfc everything that you expect and also i completely forgot as these are very powerful phone this comes with the new snapdragon 8gen one and this comes with the snapdragon 888 plus again for gaming also these will be very very good in fact uh they also launched this gaming accessory called as iku gamepad and i've taken it out actually this is how it is and i played call of duty also with this one uh it pairs uh here's a button over here you just switch it on basically it's using bluetooth to connect and once it's connected you can play games uh with this one in fact in the ui also it'll work it's pairing now uh it pairs uh it's using bluetooth uh to do that let me just switch on bluetooth and it should actually detect this yes it detected this and even the ui camera so now i can do gaming i actually played call of duty with this one and definitely it makes sense so this is a nice accessory that they have added you have triggers over here multi button so if you are sort of that competitive gamer or something then this can be a useful accessory if you play games a lot again i don't know what is the pricing of this one but this is a bluetooth accessory and a nice addition i would say for gamers this is known as the aiku gamepad so let me put this back uh but let's talk let me just put these too many boxes over here let's come back to this device and regarding 5g bands i completely forgot uh this pro version has support for 14 5g bands whereas the the regular iq has support for eight five cheap pants that you are getting and um i don't know the pricing definitely this will come out a little bit of premium and i like the fact that they are giving a 2k screen resolution as you can see you can set it to quad hd uh so that option is there and refresh rate is right now i've set it to auto but you can force it to what do you say 120 hertz on this one screen refresh rate as you can see smart switch but you can force it to 120 hertz uh but i would suggest that you just leave it to what you say smart switch because the pro version is having a ltpo screen that means dynamically based on what content is there it adjusts the refresh rate to get the best battery life this is generally found on the most premium samsung smartphones and ultra high end what do you say flagship smartphone glad to see they have implemented that panel on this smartphone but now let's look at the camera because i feel that's the big trump card of this smartphone i've taken quite a bit of samples i'll show you that and the samples come out good this was a regular shot this was that ultra white and as you can see generally the camera samples come out good the color reproduction is good this is a regular shot and this was ultra white ultrawide is also good now moving to human subjects also it's very good this is the portrait mode where it zooms in this is the regular shot and this is the portrait mode with one x and this portrait mode with 2.5 x zoom picture of my vive this is regular mode and this is in the portrait mode and this is the portrait mode at 2.5 x and if you notice the background blur is a little bit more in the default mode but you can tone it down here i set to medium and it looks a lot better the front-facing camera performance was a good regular shot this was in portrait mode and again this is a regular shot and this was in the portrait mode now i took these samples in a pretty low lighting and i was happy with the result in fact i didn't expect that will do this good in low lighting so generally i would say the camera performance is actually pretty good on this smartphone so guys that's it for now for the unboxing and first look at this icoo 9 and the iphone 9 pro and in fact guys here is a chart as i've told you they launched three devices so here is a chart that gives you an idea about main difference between these three smartphones uh anyways guys that's it for now for the unboxing and first look at these smartphones so what do you guys feel about the iq 9 pro and the iphone 9 do let me know in the comment section below anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guys\n"