December continues to be an exciting for the smartphone scene, as iQOO Malaysia has dropped the bomb that its Snapdragon 8 Elite powered iQOO 13 is coming to the nation, it has even started an early bird preorder page, where customers will only need to pay for a RM1 deposit to reserve the phone and enjoy a RM100 off voucher, iQOO TWS 1e earbuds, iQOO Gaming Finger Sleeves and a 3-year iQOO Shield Plus.
The iQOO 13 is one of the more exciting Snapdragon 8 Elite smartphones to look forward to, despite being positioned as a gaming phone, it has several aspects that beats the competition, such as having a class leading 6.82-inch 144Hz AMOLED display that pushes a 6500 nits peak brightness, IP68/IP69 water and dust resistance, a 6000mAh BlueVolt battery with support for 120W wired fast charging, an ultrasonic fingerprint reader, and triple 50MP cameras on the back.
We expect the iQOO 13 to come in one single 512GB storage variant like before, however we do hope that iQOO continues to maintain its competitive price tag as before. At this time of writing, the most affordable Snapdragon 8 Elite phone would be the recently launched realme GT 7 Pro at RM3,699, can the iQOO 13 retain its predecessor’s value of RM3,399? We shall see soon enough.