The Vivo iQOO U3 is a budget smartphone from the iQOO series. The smartphone comes with a nice body and also features combo rear cameras and a 5000 mAh battery that has fast charging technology.
The Vivo iQOO U3 is not looking that bad on the body. The phone comes in a modern body design that features a premium plastic panel and a front glass. The panel housed the combo camera setup while the side is where the fingerprint scanner is located. It has body dimensions of 164.2 x 75.4 x 8.4 mm and weighs 185.5 g.
The waterdrop notch screen offers a display size of 6.58 inches with an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen and a screen resolution of 1080 x 2400 pixels. The screen has a 20:9 ratio, 400 PPI density, and reaches an 84.4% screen-to-body ratio.
Vivo Iqoo U3
Cameras Features
On the camera aspect, it comes with dual rear cameras of 48 MP and 2 MP depth sensor. The camera has an LED flash, HDR, panorama and it can shoot 4K@30fps, 1080p@30fps videos. The front camera is 20 MP with HDR and 1080p@30fps videos.
Hardware And Software
On the hardware, Vivo equipped the new phone with a MediaTek Dimensity 800U 5G chipset that is built on a 7nm process node while the octa-core processor is clocking at a speed of 2×2.4 GHz Cortex-A76 & 6×2.0 GHz Cortex-A55. It runs on Android 10 OS with IQOO UI on top and Mali-G57 MC3 GPU for graphics related issues.
Storage Capacity And Sensors
The inbuilt memory on the phone is 128GB with 6GB RAM and there is an 8GB RAM model as well. Sadly, there is no slot for micro SDcard expansion. Meanwhile, the sensors on the phone are Fingerprint (side-mounted), accelerometer, proximity, and compass.
Battery Power And Network Connectivity
Keeping the Vivo iQOO U3 on for a whole day is a nonremovable battery of 5000 mAh and the juicer has Fast charging technology. There is also a 5G network for fast internet connection on the dual SIMs. Other features on Vivo iQOO U3 includes wi-fi, A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, FM radio and USB Type-C 2.0, USB On-The-Go.
Vivo iQOO U3 Full Specifications
Model Name
Vivo iQOO U3
Announced
2020, December
Market Availability
Available
Network
Network Type
GSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE / 5G
2G Network
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G Network
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100
4G Network
LTE
5G Network
Yes
Network Speed
HSPA, LTE-A / 5G
Network GPRS
Yes
Network EDGE
Yes
SIM Type
Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
Body
Body Build
Glass front (Gorilla Glass), plastic back, aluminum frame
