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iQOO 12 touted to launch with Android 14, up to 16GB of RAM and cutting-edge battery tech

iQOO touts its upcoming 12-series smartphones. (Source: iQOO)
iQOO touts its upcoming 12-series smartphones. (Source: iQOO)
iQOO is adamant that its new 12-series smartphones will be the fastest Android flagships around, and not just due to their new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 platforms. They are touted to upgrade to a new kind of battery, touted for high capacity at a reduced size and support for "high-speed" charging. Meanwhile, the vanilla 12 may have been spotted on Geekbench in a tip that confirms other top-end specs.
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The iQOO 12 and 12 Pro are currently being hyped as the world's next Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered Android smartphones. They will be the latest in a line of BMW-branded premium handsets, the full line-up of which are often quite hard to get at outside of China - although that might not be the case in 2023.

The 12 series' rumored charging tech shake-up has yet to be confirmed - however, iQOO may or may not have alluded to it in one of its recent Weibo-based previews. The brand has announced that the successors to the 11 and 11 Pro will come "equipped with super graphite batteries" that might help combine the advantages of prolonged screen-on time and a slim form-factor.

That upgrade is now touted to be available in the 12 as well as the 12 Pro, as will iQOO's new 1/1.3-inch 50MP main camera. The vanilla variant will also definitely launch with the same 8 Gen 3 as its top-end sibling, according to a new Geekbench leak. 

In an awkward twist, the 12, or "V2307A" seems to have consistently beaten its sibling (or "V2329A") in this benchmark thus far with the same specs (a new Android 14-based UI and 16GB of RAM). Therefore, any advantages of the 12 Pro moniker remain to be seen until their imminent November 2023 reveal. 

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The latest iQOO leaks suggest that the 12 will have some of the same new features as the 12 Pro... (Source: iQOO via Weibo)
The latest iQOO leaks suggest that the 12 will have some of the same new features as the 12 Pro... (Source: iQOO via Weibo)
...as well as all of the performance (at least). (Source: Geekbench)
...as well as all of the performance (at least). (Source: Geekbench)
 
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Deirdre O'Donnell, 2023-11- 4 (Update: 2023-11- 4)