If you judge a flagship by the screen you live with every day, iQOO’s newest model, IQOO 15 is built to impress. The phone pairs a Samsung LEAD™ OLED made with M14 materials and a smart LTPO controller with a set of thoughtful display refinements, then backs it up with top tier chipset, a creator friendly imaging stack and serious battery capacity.
SurveyFirst-ever Android with Samsung 2K M14 LEAD™ OLED display
iQOO’s latest flagship builds its case around the screen. The centrepiece is a Samsung M14 LEAD OLED crafted with high quality light-emitting materials, a panel jointly tuned with Samsung for clarity, colour fidelity and eye comfort. This 6.85 inch, 2K class M14 LEAD OLED display panel boasts richer primaries and longer brightness sustain, which keeps HDR films punchy in bright cabins or sunlit rooms. The panel renders at 508 ppi, so fine serif fonts in news apps and tiny subtitle edges look crisp without halos. An 8T LTPO controller adapts from 1 Hz to 144 Hz, letting action games and fast scrolling feel fluid at high refresh, then gliding to 1 Hz on static screens like tickets or maps to save power. Local peak brightness reaches 6000 nits, making specular highlights in Dolby Vision stand out. That’s right, this is IQOO’s first Dolby Vision certified smartphone. It also helps with keeping QR codes scannable on streets at noon, while a 2600 nits high brightness mode makes it India’s Brightest display. Colour accuracy around ΔE 0.26 supports product shots and colour edits on the go, and an 8,000,000:1 contrast ratio helps night photos and dark UI themes keep depth without crushing shadow detail. A no polarisation approach preserves true tones across the entire 1 to 6000 nit range, so a photo graded indoors remains consistent when you step outside.
Eye comfort is handled with up to 2160 Hz PWM dimming, which makes late night reading feel gentler at low brightness, and a one pulse DC option for those who prefer a different flicker profile during long sessions. TÜV Rheinland Full Care and circular polarisation certifications aim to reduce visual fatigue over a full day of chat, docs and video. Dolby Vision support ensures compatible shows look as intended, handy on flights where the phone doubles as a personal cinema. Wet finger touch keeps controls responsive during sweaty gym sessions or light drizzle, so recording, map panning and in game taps remain reliable. An anti-reflective film trims mirror like reflections, making it easier to frame photos at the beach or read a message on a sunny terrace. A triple ambient light sensor system, including a top sensor, improves reaction time and detection distance by more than 40 percent, which means the screen jumps to the right level faster when you leave a dim room for bright streets or walk past a window. Motion tuning reduces perceived blur, so text stays legible while you scroll long threads or skim spreadsheets. While the display certainly steals the show, the iQOO 15 packs several other solid features that make it the ultimate flagship. Here are a few of them.
India’s fastest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC
Under the hood sits India’s fastest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 platform with an Antutu score of more than 4 million. The CPU adopts a fresh big-core architecture, targeting snappier single-threaded bursts and steadier multi-core throughput. Graphics see a healthy uptick, including more capable hardware ray tracing with clocks up to 1.2 GHz. Memory and storage pairings are suitably modern, with LPDDR5X running up to 9600 Mbps and UFS 4.1 for brisk app loads. On-device AI gets a meaningful lift through a faster NPU, designed to accelerate agentic workflows, image pipelines and background optimisation.
Thermal headroom is supported by an expansive 8K vapour chamber, iQOO’s and India’s largest Single Layer Vapour Cooling chamber system to date, to keep performance sustainable during longer screen usage or multi-tasking sessions. It’s also great for ensuring that the fast charging operates at a higher threshold.
Supercharged performance with Supercomputing chip Q3
Alongside the main SoC, iQOO’s Supercomputing Chip Q3 focuses on visuals and responsiveness. Three self-developed cores share the work. The DA core handles rendering, super-resolution, high-frame interpolation and power scheduling to push smoother frames without draining the tank. The RT core enables panoramic ray tracing for more convincing lighting, reflections and shadows in supported titles. The AI core drives scene-aware enhancements that refine texture and edge detail. iQOO’s QNSS hyper engine is part of this stack, aiming to deliver consistency as well as headline effects. For creators, the phone offers live-streaming up to 2K at 60 fps and 20 Mbps, one-tap mirroring, and a stability-first pipeline, while Ultra Game Mode adds animated cues, a fixed sidebar with Q Chip zone featuring specialised supercomputing chip features like super resolution, frame interpolation and ray tracing; launch animations and a performance panel with instant toggles for brightness, network and refresh rate.
Seamless user experience with OriginOS 6
Gaming controls sit in a new Q Chip Zone that groups super resolution, frame interpolation and visual enhancements in one place, with clear badges to show what is active. A reworked performance panel gives instant control over refresh rate, brightness and network switching, so you can hold a steady 60 or 120 fps profile, dim a bright screen between rounds or move to a cleaner data connection without leaving the game.
Highlights and a built-in session timer help creators capture moments and manage time, while a simple toggle disables a non data SIM during play to reduce background activity. Outside games, the same quick controls make daily life smoother, letting you nudge refresh for silky browsing, dial it down to stretch battery on commutes, and flip networks quickly in crowded venues where one carrier performs better than another.
Flagship-tier 50 MP Sony 3x Periscope camera
The camera system is built around three 50 MP sensors, giving you a flexible range from ultra-wide through portraits to distant scenes. The main camera uses a 1/1.56 inch Sony IMX921 VCS sensor with optical stabilisation, designed to deliver clean detail and natural colour. It is joined by a 50 MP ultra-wide for expansive frames. The third unit is a 50 MP IMX882 periscope telephoto that offers 3x optical reach and a 3.7x, 85 mm lossless zoom, a focal length that sits squarely in the portrait sweet spot. This combination is intended to keep skin tones even, edges tidy and background separation pleasing without aggressive artefacts.
Low light work leans on NICE 2.0, an algorithmic pipeline described as flagship grade. It draws on computational optics and inverse operations with deblurring, taking lens characteristics into account to preserve small textures while keeping noise in check. In actual use, the 10x telephoto will shine when capturing landscapes, where the periscope can frame building details or far off silhouettes with steadier composition. In short, the system is tuned to be practical, with stabilisation, sensible focal lengths and night focused computation adding up to reliable results across common shooting scenarios.
Durable 7000 mAh Silicon Anode Battery
A 7000 mAh pack uses fourth generation silicon anode chemistry with a strengthened positive electrode and a new nano coating for better durability, especially through high temperature cycles. Energy density rises by around 15 percent generation over generation, supported by a threefold increase in silicon content. Charging is rated at 100 W FlashCharge and there’s 40 W wireless charging. A battery life extender can wake the device instantly at critically low charge and restore your previous state in supported apps such as games, notes and editors.
A True Flagship
With the LEAD™ OLED display taking centre stage, the phone marries searing brightness, adaptive LTPO smoothness and a full suite of eye-comfort measures, then layers in a modern Snapdragon platform, a purpose-built Q3 visual engine, versatile triple 50 MP cameras and a high-capacity silicon anode battery with fast charging. It is a polished blend that makes a premium screen experience the headline, while keeping performance, imaging and endurance in step.
Pre-booking for iQOO 15 opens on 20 November. Eager customers can get a ‘Priority Pass’ by paying a refundable Rs 1000 to ensure that they’re first in line. Priority Passes are limited on a first-come, first-serve basis. Early customers receive complimentary iQOO TWS worth Rs 1,899, a 12-month extended warranty, and exclusive launch day offers.
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