iQOO 7 5G (Monster Orange, 12GB RAM, 256GB Storage) | 4GB Extended RAM

iQOO 7 Review: The Beast Still Roars!After three years, my iQOO 7 is still a performance monster. No latency, no slowdowns, just buttery-smooth usage every day.Performance & GamingThe Snapdragon 870 keeps things fast and responsive. Even today, it outperforms iPhones in gaming with zero lag and great heat management.Battery: A Small ChallengeBattery drains faster now, but super-fast charging makes up for it. Not a dealbreaker, but noticeable.VerdictStill a beast in 2025! Top-tier performance, smooth gaming, and fast charging keep it going strong. Highly recommended!

The phone is really good, concern is that as I am a heavy gamer Ithe battery gets drained so fast like after 3hours usage it will be on 38% from 100%, but on the other hand it charges up like really super fast like really fast it only takes up 28 minutes for me to get the phone to full charge sometimes 32 minutes. The camera is really good, like the lightning and bokeh effects, . Next issue is the heating that it gets heated up so fast that we can feel the backcase getting hot faster. Like if we satrt playing cod mobile or pubg or genshin impact the phone starts heating right away. Even I removses my phone case while gaming but still it's hot the whole cooling system they talk is really fraud in my case. But apart from the heating and battery life drainage the phone is good. Remind that I use the phone on heavy duty gaming like genshin impact call of duty mobile, pubg and my review on this phone is based on my day to day gaming basis but if use it in a idle way like 2 hour heavy gaming the device charge last up for 1.5 days I have personally experienced it. If you are looking for idle usage and less gaming this is a beast as it covers up all your needs. The phone is really smooth fast 120hz frame rate really works , android 11 experience is good, premium build Design, great speaker quality, less wight, but one thing as the phone runs on android 11 it does not allows us to copy paste application files using file manager as I have faced the issue there. Like when I had to copy paste my downloaded songs into other file within android>data folder it didn't allowed me, understand that it's not the issue caused by iqoo 7 it's the android 11 user restrictions. Users can use different file manager like in this case I have used a file manager application named ' total commander' it is available to download in playstore.Overall the phone is really worth the money of 35k as I have bought the 12/256gb variant and it's perfect for that. And I really can feel the difference once I had use my old phone Asus zenfone max pro M1 compared to IQOO 7 . It's really worth it.

So I came from using the OnePlus 5T which came in handy for around 3 years and after a couple of screen replacements. After doing some quick research, this device seemed good value for money around the 30k range since that was my budget.Key things that were important to me that I loved were:1) Camera: Was looking for a camera that works great in all conditions and most importantly in low light. I usually have human or food subjects and this camera does a brilliant job in low light and Bokeh as well. I've been asked once or twice which phone I use based on the pics I've clicked! Only one con is the pictures are whitewashed a bit with human subject appearing a lot fairer than they actually are. (Indians might like that) This is probably the biggest upgrade to my old phone.2) Large vibrant screen: I watch a lot of media on my phone so I wanted a large vibrant screen and the AMOLED with 120hz refresh rate and great daylight brightness does the job.Key things that were important to me that I liked were:1) Battery life: The battery is also a huge step up to my older phone as I can run YouTube with screen on for 8-10 hours easy. It easily survives a full day under normal use which is what I require. In case I run out of juice the 65W flash charge is incredibly fast and goes 0-100 in probably under an hour and 0-60 in 30mins.Things that disappointed:1) Although there are stereo speakers compared to my old phone, the sound isn't as loud as I like. It's fine in a silent room but in a lot of cases even switching on the fan reduces the audibility to some extent.2) 5G: Although the phone claims to be 5G it only comes in one band so fingers crossed over my network provider to offer 5G in the same band.Other noteworthy things are the fingerprint scanner and face scanner which are very accurate. I'm not a gamer so can't comment much about heating or performance but I believe other than 5G this phone is pretty future proof for the next 3 years.I also liked the finish of the body of the phone and the plastic case that came with the phone. Maybe one thing I really miss from my previous phone was the notification LED and alert slider.There are very few budget flagships out there which tick so many boxes in 30k but this would definitely be very high on the list!