iQOO has introduced the Z9 Turbo+, the company’s latest smartphone in the Z9 series in China, as it had promised. It packs a 6.78-inch 1.5K TCL C8 screen with 144Hz refresh rate, 3840Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, and local peak brightness of 4500 nits. There is built-in Q1 gaming chip, which supports super-resolution and super-frame of multiple games.
It replaces the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC in the Z9 Turbo with MediaTek Dimensity 9300+ SoC and has up to 16GB LPDDR5x RAM. The phone features 6043mm² canopy VC liquid cooling design, 50MP Sony LYT-600 main camera with OIS, NICE imaging algorithm along with a 8MP Ultra-wide camera.
The phone comes with IP65 ratings for dust and splash resistance, and pack a huge, 6400mAh single-cell battery with support for 80W fast charging. iQOO says that it can maintain over 80% battery health even after 4 years of use or 1,600 charge and discharge cycles.
iQOO Z9 Turbo+ specifications
- 6.78-inch (2800×1260 pixels) 1.5K AMOLED 20:9display, 144Hz refresh rate, 480Hz touch sampling rate, up to 4500 nits peak brightness, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, 3840Hz PWM Dimming, DC Dimming
- Octa-Core Dimensity 9300+ 4nm SoC with Immortalis-G720 GPU
- 12GB / 16GB LPDDR5x RAM with 256GB / 512GB UFS 4.0 storage
- Dual SIM (nano + nano)
- Android 14 with Origin OS 4
- 50MP rear camera with 1/ 1.95″Sony LYT-600 sensor, f/1.79 aperture, OIS, LED flash, 8MP ultra-wide angle lens with GC08A3 sensor, f/2.2 aperture, 4K video recording
- 16MP front-facing camera with f/2.45 aperture
- In-display fingerprint sensor, Infrared sensor
- USB Type-C audio, Stereo speakers
- Dimensions: 163.72×75.88×7.98mm; Weight: 196g
- Dust and Splash resistant (IP65)
- 5G SA/NSA, Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 7 802.11 be, Bluetooth 5.4, GPS: L1, Beidou: B1C+B1I, GLONASS: G1, Galileo: E1, QZSS: L1, USB Type-C 2.0, NFC
- 6400mAh (Typical) battery with 80W fast charging
Pricing and availability
The iQOO Z9 Turbo+ comes in Moon Shadow Titanium, Starlight White and Midnight Black colours and is priced at 2299 yuan (USD 327 / Rs. 27,370 approx.) for the 12GB+256GB model, 2599 yuan (USD 370 / Rs. 30,940 approx.) for the 12GB+512GB version, 2499 yuan (USD 356 / Rs. 29,750 approx.) for the 16GB+256GB model and the top-end 16GB+512GB version costs 2899 yuan (USD 413 / Rs. 34,510 approx.).
The phone is already on sale in China, and the 12GB+256GB model gets a 100 yuan discount during the first sale.