iQOO Z3 5G comes as the company’s latest offering in the Indian market. At a starting price of Rs 19,990, we try to find out if the smartphone has what it takes to take out the competition in the segment.
Having launched their premium devices earlier this year, almost all the smartphone OEMs are now targeting the affordable price segment with their new offerings in India. iQOO is a recent one in the race, with its iQOO Z3 5G launch in the country. Launched at a starting price of Rs 19,990, the iQOO Z3 5G attempts to bring its premium features and technologies in an affordable package. Thanks to this, the smartphone claims several impressive specifications on paper, even boasting of the title of being India’s first Snapdragon 768G powered smartphone. The device ticks other essential boxes as well. It comes with memory offerings ranging from 6GB to 8GB RAM and 128GB to 256GB storage. It features a triple camera setup at the back with a 64-megapixel selfie shooter. It even claims a long battery life and fast charging time through its 4400mAh battery. The question that remains to be answered is if these claims translate to a fine user experience with a smartphone carrying a Rs 20,000 price tag. We had a chance to experience the iQOO Z3 5G for the past week, and here are our thoughts on the smartphone. If you had a chance to check out the iQOO 7 Legend launched last month, you would know that iQOO has done a great deal of work on branding and presenting its products with this year’s lineup. The same holds true for the iQOO Z3 5G. You can see that right on the box of the smartphone. It comes in a neatly designed sharp coloured package to catch your eye. Inside is a smartphone that lives up to the resulting anticipation. iQOO Z3 5G is straight-up attractive to have as a smartphone. There is a display with neat and slim borders along the four sides. Then there are chiselled top and bottom edges, trimmed sides, and a very impressive and easy to use cutout for the power button and volume keys on the right. The back adorns a colour-changing reflective 3D curved surface made of high polymer plastic. We had the Cyber Blue colour variant, which doesn’t really look much of a Blue but an assortment of colours, mostly shedding the rainbow spectrum at one point or the other. It is good to look at.
