**A Practical Comparison: Vivo iQoo Z3 vs OnePlus Nord**

The Vivo iQoo Z3 has recently been released, and as with any new smartphone, there's always interest in comparing it to its competitors. In this article, we'll be comparing the Vivo iQoo Z3 to the OnePlus Nord, focusing on various aspects such as UI, update situation, camera, and pricing.

**UI Experience**

One of the first things to consider when choosing a smartphone is the user interface (UI) experience. The Vivo iQoo Z3 has a smooth and intuitive UI that's easy to navigate. However, it's worth noting that the OnePlus Nord also offers a great UI experience, with some similarities to the Vivo iQoo Z3. In terms of overall feel, I would say that the OxygenOS on the OnePlus Nord is slightly ahead of the Vivo iQoo Z3. The OxygenOS UI is known for its customizability and speed, making it a favorite among many Android enthusiasts.

**Update Situation**

When it comes to software updates, both devices have received mixed reviews. Both the Vivo iQoo Z3 and the OnePlus Nord promise two Android updates and three years of security updates, which is a promising start. However, some users may be concerned about the reliability of these promises. In terms of actual performance, I've noticed that the Vivo iQoo Z3 seems to be slightly ahead in this regard.

**Camera Performance**

One area where both devices excel is their camera performance. Both the Vivo iQoo Z3 and the OnePlus Nord have triple-camera setups, with a 64-megapixel primary sensor. However, there's one key difference: the Vivo iQoo Z3 uses an Omnivision sensor, while the OnePlus Nord uses a Samsung GW3 sensor. To compare their performance, I've taken some sample shots using both devices side by side.

The samples show that the Vivo iQoo Z3 produces better skin tones and portrait mode results compared to the OnePlus Nord. In terms of low-light performance, the Vivo iQoo Z3 also seems to outperform the OnePlus Nord. These results suggest that the Vivo iQoo Z3 has a slight edge in terms of camera performance.

**Front-Facing Camera**

The front-facing cameras on both devices are also worth mentioning. In natural lighting conditions, the Vivo iQoo Z3 performs better, with more accurate color representation and better skin tone tones. In low-light conditions, the Vivo iQoo Z3 still outperforms the OnePlus Nord.

**User Reviews and Ratings**

When it comes to user reviews and ratings, there's an interesting difference between the two devices. According to Amazon India's user reviews, the Vivo iQoo Z3 has a rating of 4.3 stars, while the OnePlus Nord has a rating of only 3.8 stars. This suggests that most users who have purchased the Vivo iQoo Z3 are generally more satisfied with their device.

**Pricing**

Finally, let's talk about pricing. The Vivo iQoo Z3 starts at Rs. 20,000 for its base 6GB RAM variant with 128GB storage, which is a competitive price point. However, the OnePlus Nord also starts at Rs. 23,000 for its base 6GB RAM variant with 128GB storage. It's worth noting that the OnePlus Nord may not be widely available in all colors and variants.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, both the Vivo iQoo Z3 and the OnePlus Nord are excellent smartphones that offer a range of features and performance capabilities. While they share some similarities, there are also some key differences between the two devices. In terms of UI, camera performance, and pricing, the Vivo iQoo Z3 seems to have a slight edge over the OnePlus Nord. However, ultimately the choice between these two devices will depend on individual preferences and needs.

**Additional Resources**

For those who want to see more sample shots or learn more about each device's features, we've included a zip file containing all the images used in this comparison. We hope you find this article helpful in making an informed decision about which smartphone is right for you.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys this is ranjit and in this video let's do a practical 10 point comparison with the ico z3 versus the nod ce and uh quite a few of you have asked me uh which is better so i i thought let's do a very practical 10 point comparison that makes sense so let's go over this this is the ico z3 and this is the uh nod c that i have so let's have a look at this and uh both of them were that i have are having 8 gigabytes of ram so let's start this and first let's start with the processor and the performance of the processor and here we know that the ico z3 is having the new processor that's the snapdragon 768 whereas the knot they decided to go with the slightly older 750g so what i did is and i noticed that the ico is slightly more fluid in daily operations uh and so i decided to run a few benchmarks so let's let me just show you the antutu scores that i ran on this one and as you can see we got a score of 3 lakh 65 000 on the one plus whereas it's significantly higher guys almost 90 000 more on the iq and i think so this uh shows in the real world performance also uh when uh the iko i was uh stressing also it was a little bit more fluid in operation another small thing that i noticed let me just go to the defaults course if you notice i noticed that uh the ico was heating up a little bit less compared to the oneplus for example after the benchmark just notice the plus the temperature increased by 5.2 degrees celsius whereas it increased only 4.4 degrees celsius uh with the ico so this is what i noticed after stressing the ico didn't feel that hot whereas then not it was not getting too hot but definitely was getting warmer so that's what i noticed i also ran one more benchmark uh that is geekbench ico we got a score of uh 724 for the single core and uh on the oneplus it's 634 and multicore also significantly higher uh with ico so definitely the processor that is the 768 is making a difference with the ico the draw performance is just plain better on the ico compared to the not ce uh let me do one thing now let me let's also talk about the screen quality and the screen technology again here it's very very different the ico went with the ips lcd screen whereas uh the oneplus went with this amoled screen so definitely in this area i would say the oneplus goes ahead and because it's having that amoled screen you also get this always on and the in display fingerprint scan it's not the fastest in display fingerprint scanner uh but yeah you get it whereas on the ico it says normal ips lcd screen don't get me wrong it's a good quality ips lcd screen uh and in terms of refresh rate this is slightly better this is having 120 hertz refresh rate whereas this one has a 90 hertz refresh rate but in terms of screen i would say i know many of you prefer amulet screen so definitely here the op one plus goes ahead but no way the screen quality is bad on the ico i watched quite a bit of videos also uh it was fine and it's a fluid experience good quality screen that they have put and because it's having a ips engine the fingerprint scanner is here on it and it's very very fast again as you can see this that comes down to personal preference i would say the next thing is regarding gaming and heating as i've told you uh i played call of duty on both of them for roughly about 20 minutes and both of them played fine uh with some of the games like uh what do you say the pub g and all those things you can go with slightly higher higher what you say refresh rates on the ico whereas slightly restricted on this one that's not a problem gaming experience was fine on both but one thing i noticed is that after 20-25 minutes of gaming uh this one plus definitely the back felt a little bit more warmer to touch compared to the ico and i think so that is simply due to the fact that the ico has five layers of cooling so it stays a little bit more cool in my opinion and again as the processor and the gp performance is better so i feel uh if you do game a lot then the iq might be a better pet for you now if we talk about the battery here i would say i'm neutral about the battery life that i'm getting on both the phones i'm getting pretty good battery life on both the phones uh in terms of capacity uh the iq is slightly less at 4400 mah it's 4500 mah on the one plus but the battery that i'm getting on both is almost very similar so no clear winner here i would say in terms of charging both actually uh come with pretty good fast chargers but ico is just simply faster than charging because you get that 55 watt fast charger in the box uh with the one plus you are getting a 30 watt faster but both of us but if i have to pick one in charging speed yes i could just go ahead next if we look at is the user interface that we get on this one and here i would definitely say that the oneplus gets an edge because it has that oxygen os which we all love it's clean again you notice that stutters that is something that i'm noticing quite a bit on this one plus i'm getting quite a bit of stutters on this one i don't know why uh some of our other users also have mentioned but apart from that it's that clean uh what do you say experience that you're getting uh the one what you say oxygen os ui so that way i don't have a problem and no extra bloatware or anything was installed it's clean experience that we are getting on this one so i would say in terms of user interface uh definitely the one plus goes ahead but i have to say that the ico is no slouch in this area as you can see and this is the new fun touch and this is very close to stock android now uh one for the fun touch ui has improved quite a bit and it's actually a little bit more fluid in operations because of that 120 hertz refresh rate that we are getting on this one uh what i did not like with ico is that by default if you have open the chrome browser what they had done is if i go to the settings i have disabled it if you go to the settings uh and if you go to the home page by default they had set this home page i've closed it to this vivo thing and it comes like this out of the box and if you if you don't disable this then you get the unnecessary stuff when you open the what do you say google browser but you can actually disable it easily and another thing that i did not like is i have disabled that also uh in this lock screen you are getting random wallpapers that was also enabled but you can easily disable it those things on this one in fact i had disabled it you just search for lock screen and lock screen poster wallpaper but no no no if you get this these things were enabled so just disable this and after that and that browser thing that i did in the chrome browser uh it's a clean experience that i'm getting and it's actually fluid i feel like who should have actually uh shouldn't have enabled these two settings by default or if they are doing that they should have given an option while setting it up to disable it uh so if you disable it it's clean as of now and it's a good experience but definitely in terms of ui i would say uh oxygen os goes slightly ahead okay next move to the uh update situation both are almost the same so i won't say one is better than the other uh ico is also promising two android updates and three years of security updates and oneplus is also saying the same thing so it's neutral in that area now let's move to the next thing and that is the camera on this one and both of them have a triple camera setup but let's talk about the main camera that is the 64 megapixel camera both actually have a 64 megapixel camera but the oneplus has omnivision sensor whereas it's the samsung gw3 sensor on the ico z3 and let me do one thing i have taken a lot of samples side by side so here are the sample shots so that you can judge it and what i'll do is i'll also add the zip file of these image samples so that you can check it for yourself the ico's pictures are on the left and the nod is on the right and again as you can see the skin totes are produced better on the haiku compared to the nord and this was the portrait bokeh mode i prefer the picture of the ikudu let me know which one do you feel is better in this picture i feel the ico uh boost ups the color a little bit uh and you guys let me know which one do you like this one and this was also in difficult conditions and here just notice the face how uh better the ico lit up the face compared to the nod which looks very dull now moving to artificial lighting conditions we notice the same trend the colors are better on the ico compared to the not as you can see now i'm going to the front facing camera we see the same thing just notice the colors are a lot better on the ico compared to the north the nod just loses that skin tone colors now this was in the portrait pokemon i feel the ico is simply doing a better job in background separation just notice the area around my hair on the knot it blurred the hair these were taken in dull lighting conditions again you be a judge which one do you think is better so camera definitely the ico goes ahead not only the rear facing as well as the front facing camera oneplus really needs to up their game in terms of camera not only this one even the oneplus 9r camera was simply not that good so camera definitely is if that's important the echo goes ahead now if we uh talk about another thing both of these smartphones were sold online via amazon india and i was very surprised just notice these screenshots these are user ratings and the user rating for oneplus is just 3.8 stars this is the lowest that i've seen for a one plus device in a long time whereas with ico z3 if you notice it's 4.3 so definitely uh most of the end users who are actually buying the device i feel uh they are liking the icos performance and lastly when it comes down to pricing also here is a difference the ico starts at 20 000 the base 6 gigabyte uh variant that comes with 128 gigabytes of storage uh technically the one plus also starts at six gigabytes of ram with 128 gigabytes of storage that's also for 23 000 but just today when i was looking at amazon it's not just this banner it says that it starts at 25 000. so i don't know what's going on i don't think so the base variant is available in quantities uh but yeah if you go to um uh oneplus official website uh still it showing the listing for the base uh six gigabyte uh ram variant for twenty three thousand but it's only available in one color i don't know how long the stocks will be there but yeah that's regarding the pricing so in terms of pricing also you have a difference so again as you can see this was the practical comparison i won't talk about 5g a lot because we don't have 5g as of now but yes in terms of 5g also the ico was slightly ahead the echo has two bands of 5g whereas the oneplus just has one band of 5g uh so guys that this was the practical comparison and here as you can see this is the chart for the comparison and where i showed the green in that area that device wins uh yellow means it's sort of neutral but again guys it's up to you to decide which one do you think is a better smartphone for you anyways guys that's it for now for this video if you guys are still not subscribed to the youtube channel hit that subscribe button 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 do a practical 10 point comparison with the ico z3 versus the nod ce and uh quite a few of you have asked me uh which is better so i i thought let's do a very practical 10 point comparison that makes sense so let's go over this this is the ico z3 and this is the uh nod c that i have so let's have a look at this and uh both of them were that i have are having 8 gigabytes of ram so let's start this and first let's start with the processor and the performance of the processor and here we know that the ico z3 is having the new processor that's the snapdragon 768 whereas the knot they decided to go with the slightly older 750g so what i did is and i noticed that the ico is slightly more fluid in daily operations uh and so i decided to run a few benchmarks so let's let me just show you the antutu scores that i ran on this one and as you can see we got a score of 3 lakh 65 000 on the one plus whereas it's significantly higher guys almost 90 000 more on the iq and i think so this uh shows in the real world performance also uh when uh the iko i was uh stressing also it was a little bit more fluid in operation another small thing that i noticed let me just go to the defaults course if you notice i noticed that uh the ico was heating up a little bit less compared to the oneplus for example after the benchmark just notice the plus the temperature increased by 5.2 degrees celsius whereas it increased only 4.4 degrees celsius uh with the ico so this is what i noticed after stressing the ico didn't feel that hot whereas then not it was not getting too hot but definitely was getting warmer so that's what i noticed i also ran one more benchmark uh that is geekbench ico we got a score of uh 724 for the single core and uh on the oneplus it's 634 and multicore also significantly higher uh with ico so definitely the processor that is the 768 is making a difference with the ico the draw performance is just plain better on the ico compared to the not ce uh let me do one thing now let me let's also talk about the screen quality and the screen technology again here it's very very different the ico went with the ips lcd screen whereas uh the oneplus went with this amoled screen so definitely in this area i would say the oneplus goes ahead and because it's having that amoled screen you also get this always on and the in display fingerprint scan it's not the fastest in display fingerprint scanner uh but yeah you get it whereas on the ico it says normal ips lcd screen don't get me wrong it's a good quality ips lcd screen uh and in terms of refresh rate this is slightly better this is having 120 hertz refresh rate whereas this one has a 90 hertz refresh rate but in terms of screen i would say i know many of you prefer amulet screen so definitely here the op one plus goes ahead but no way the screen quality is bad on the ico i watched quite a bit of videos also uh it was fine and it's a fluid experience good quality screen that they have put and because it's having a ips engine the fingerprint scanner is here on it and it's very very fast again as you can see this that comes down to personal preference i would say the next thing is regarding gaming and heating as i've told you uh i played call of duty on both of them for roughly about 20 minutes and both of them played fine uh with some of the games like uh what do you say the pub g and all those things you can go with slightly higher higher what you say refresh rates on the ico whereas slightly restricted on this one that's not a problem gaming experience was fine on both but one thing i noticed is that after 20-25 minutes of gaming uh this one plus definitely the back felt a little bit more warmer to touch compared to the ico and i think so that is simply due to the fact that the ico has five layers of cooling so it stays a little bit more cool in my opinion and again as the processor and the gp performance is better so i feel uh if you do game a lot then the iq might be a better pet for you now if we talk about the battery here i would say i'm neutral about the battery life that i'm getting on both the phones i'm getting pretty good battery life on both the phones uh in terms of capacity uh the iq is slightly less at 4400 mah it's 4500 mah on the one plus but the battery that i'm getting on both is almost very similar so no clear winner here i would say in terms of charging both actually uh come with pretty good fast chargers but ico is just simply faster than charging because you get that 55 watt fast charger in the box uh with the one plus you are getting a 30 watt faster but both of us but if i have to pick one in charging speed yes i could just go ahead next if we look at is the user interface that we get on this one and here i would definitely say that the oneplus gets an edge because it has that oxygen os which we all love it's clean again you notice that stutters that is something that i'm noticing quite a bit on this one plus i'm getting quite a bit of stutters on this one i don't know why uh some of our other users also have mentioned but apart from that it's that clean uh what do you say experience that you're getting uh the one what you say oxygen os ui so that way i don't have a problem and no extra bloatware or anything was installed it's clean experience that we are getting on this one so i would say in terms of user interface uh definitely the one plus goes ahead but i have to say that the ico is no slouch in this area as you can see and this is the new fun touch and this is very close to stock android now uh one for the fun touch ui has improved quite a bit and it's actually a little bit more fluid in operations because of that 120 hertz refresh rate that we are getting on this one uh what i did not like with ico is that by default if you have open the chrome browser what they had done is if i go to the settings i have disabled it if you go to the settings uh and if you go to the home page by default they had set this home page i've closed it to this vivo thing and it comes like this out of the box and if you if you don't disable this then you get the unnecessary stuff when you open the what do you say google browser but you can actually disable it easily and another thing that i did not like is i have disabled that also uh in this lock screen you are getting random wallpapers that was also enabled but you can easily disable it those things on this one in fact i had disabled it you just search for lock screen and lock screen poster wallpaper but no no no if you get this these things were enabled so just disable this and after that and that browser thing that i did in the chrome browser uh it's a clean experience that i'm getting and it's actually fluid i feel like who should have actually uh shouldn't have enabled these two settings by default or if they are doing that they should have given an option while setting it up to disable it uh so if you disable it it's clean as of now and it's a good experience but definitely in terms of ui i would say uh oxygen os goes slightly ahead okay next move to the uh update situation both are almost the same so i won't say one is better than the other uh ico is also promising two android updates and three years of security updates and oneplus is also saying the same thing so it's neutral in that area now let's move to the next thing and that is the camera on this one and both of them have a triple camera setup but let's talk about the main camera that is the 64 megapixel camera both actually have a 64 megapixel camera but the oneplus has omnivision sensor whereas it's the samsung gw3 sensor on the ico z3 and let me do one thing i have taken a lot of samples side by side so here are the sample shots so that you can judge it and what i'll do is i'll also add the zip file of these image samples so that you can check it for yourself the ico's pictures are on the left and the nod is on the right and again as you can see the skin totes are produced better on the haiku compared to the nord and this was the portrait bokeh mode i prefer the picture of the ikudu let me know which one do you feel is better in this picture i feel the ico uh boost ups the color a little bit uh and you guys let me know which one do you like this one and this was also in difficult conditions and here just notice the face how uh better the ico lit up the face compared to the nod which looks very dull now moving to artificial lighting conditions we notice the same trend the colors are better on the ico compared to the not as you can see now i'm going to the front facing camera we see the same thing just notice the colors are a lot better on the ico compared to the north the nod just loses that skin tone colors now this was in the portrait pokemon i feel the ico is simply doing a better job in background separation just notice the area around my hair on the knot it blurred the hair these were taken in dull lighting conditions again you be a judge which one do you think is better so camera definitely the ico goes ahead not only the rear facing as well as the front facing camera oneplus really needs to up their game in terms of camera not only this one even the oneplus 9r camera was simply not that good so camera definitely is if that's important the echo goes ahead now if we uh talk about another thing both of these smartphones were sold online via amazon india and i was very surprised just notice these screenshots these are user ratings and the user rating for oneplus is just 3.8 stars this is the lowest that i've seen for a one plus device in a long time whereas with ico z3 if you notice it's 4.3 so definitely uh most of the end users who are actually buying the device i feel uh they are liking the icos performance and lastly when it comes down to pricing also here is a difference the ico starts at 20 000 the base 6 gigabyte uh variant that comes with 128 gigabytes of storage uh technically the one plus also starts at six gigabytes of ram with 128 gigabytes of storage that's also for 23 000 but just today when i was looking at amazon it's not just this banner it says that it starts at 25 000. so i don't know what's going on i don't think so the base variant is available in quantities uh but yeah if you go to um uh oneplus official website uh still it showing the listing for the base uh six gigabyte uh ram variant for twenty three thousand but it's only available in one color i don't know how long the stocks will be there but yeah that's regarding the pricing so in terms of pricing also you have a difference so again as you can see this was the practical comparison i won't talk about 5g a lot because we don't have 5g as of now but yes in terms of 5g also the ico was slightly ahead the echo has two bands of 5g whereas the oneplus just has one band of 5g uh so guys that this was the practical comparison and here as you can see this is the chart for the comparison and where i showed the green in that area that device wins uh yellow means it's sort of neutral but again guys it's up to you to decide which one do you think is a better smartphone for you anyways guys that's it for now for this video if you guys are still not subscribed to the youtube channel hit that subscribe button this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guys\n"