Vivo and their iQOO 16, opinions

In fall 2026, at September Vivo announced their new model iQOO 16

Vivo iQOO 16 features

Charging options are 100W wired, PPS, PD 40W wireless Bypass charging.

Fingerprint (under display, ultrasonic), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass sensors are supported on the smartphone.

Dimensions and screen

Vivo made their iQOO 16 model with proportion 76.9mmX163.8mmX8.3mm.

You may own the Vivo iQOO 16 in dark blue, silver and lastly chasing the light.

On this model made with technologies AMOLED, 1B colors, 165Hz, 3300Hz PWM, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR Vivid, 2800 nits (HBM), 10000 nits (peak)*, at a moment iQOO 16 had display larger size than 74% of devices in mobile market, having 6.85 inches, 114.0 cm2 (~90.5% screen-to-body ratio) display having resolution 1440 x 3168 pixels density 508 pixels in 1 inch. As an extra information about screen

• * Measured at an isolated spot during video playback only

About iQOO 16 camera

triple lenses set on iQOO 16 50 MP, f/1.7, (wide), 1/1.3", PDAF, OIS 50 MP, f/2.7, 85mm (periscope telephoto), 1/1.95", 0.8µm, PDAF, OIS, 3x optical zoom 50 MP, f/2.1, 15mm (ultrawide), 1/2.75", 0.64µm, AF. Few another extra info are LED flash, HDR, panorama. Video on main camera of the iQOO 16 is supported with 8K@30fps, 4K@24/30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120/240fps, gyro-EIS modes.

Video recording on selfie camera of Vivo iQOO 16 is supported with 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60fps options.

CPU, Graphics , RAM

Octa-core (2x5.01 GHz Prime + 3x4.03 GHz Performance + 3x3.74 GHz Performance) core is installed on iQOO 16 by Vivo, based on chip Qualcomm SM8975 Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 (2 nm), Considering Vivo iQOO 16 rank graphics on this device is Adreno 850.

Capability on iQOO 16 is 256GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 16GB RAM, 1TB 16GB RAM, no microSD supported, OS is Android 17, OriginOS 7.

Connections, connections,

iQOO 16 supporting networks 2G, 3G and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 32, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 48, 66. Speed is HSPA, LTE, 5G, GSM / HSPA / LTE / 5G.

Communication types on iQOO 16 are USB USB Type-C 3.2, OTG, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6/7, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 5.4/6.0, A2DP, LE, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless, LHDC 5, Positioning GPS (L1+L5), GLONASS (G1), BDS (B1I+B1c+B2a), GALILEO (E1+E5a), QZSS (L1+L5), NFC, Infrared port.