iQOO vivo Z5 5G (Arctic Dawn, 8GB RAM, 128GB Storage) | Snapdragon 778G 5G Processor | 5000mAh Battery | 44W FlashCharge

Update : Received Android 12 at the end of December as promised. No issues, it runs cool and stable.I bought this phone at around 14k after exchanging an almost 4 year old phone for 7k and an additional 2k coupon on top of it. So my review is based on this pricing. For 14-16k range, hands down the best phone you can get.I bought this for my parent, first thing I noticed is the weight, it's not heavy and still manages to have a 5000mAh battery and an headphone jack. Boy, the battery life is insane for the light user, it easily lasts 3-4 days with 1-2 hrs of SOT with light browsing, youtube and WhatsApp. Charges under an hour, so if you are looking for a well optimized phone with long battery this one does an excellent job at it.Call quality and signal reception is excellent, the previous phone was not even getting signal inside the house, this one shows 3-4 bars! That's a life saver. Carrier aggregation also works fine with Jio. The loudspeaker could be a little louder but the earpiece is good and loud. It has 2 5G bands, honestly not going to worry for at least at 2 years about 5G. 4G is excellent and no compromises on that with this phone.Software experience is decent, I like how improved this version of Funtouch OS compared to what it used to be, the notification panel and the overall layout is close to stock and the phone got updated to Nov patch in Dec with a lot of bug fixes for performance and camera. There is bloatware, most can be uninstalled and it's better to not agree to the terms of some iQoo apps. So good to see iQoo taking the time to improve their existing devices, let's hope they keep up with the 2 OS upgrades and 3 years security updates.Display is sharp and good, enough brightness and 120Hz has no stutters thanks to 778G, LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. It also has an option to switch to 90Hz. This phone will not lag at all! It hands down offers one of the best performance under 25k, at 14-16k, nothing comes close to it. No overheating issues and PUBG runs fine at 60fps.Camera is not a primary use case for my purchase however it delivers detailed images from both rear and front camera under good lighting, low light is decent with night mode. The portrait mode looks good and allows you to adjust the depth of field. 2x zoom shots look fine, thanks to 64MP sensor, however zooming more than that gives the pictures an oil painting look. Dynamic range and exposures are handled rather good. Overall it's good, there may be better phones out there but it's always a tossup these days with phone cameras have improved a lot. Bonus, GCam ports work well too.Phone also has stereo speakers which aren't very loud but hey it is more than serviceable and the headphone jack is a god send for my parent's use case. Fingerprint scanner is fast and accurate.So overall, the phone covers all the major areas, great battery life, quick charging, unbeatable performance, good software experience, good camera and relatively light weight phone. iQoo has a winner, hope they deliver the software updates part as promised. Happy with purchase and would recommend to wait for additional exchange offers for your current phone or card offers. Best value would be 16k with exchange or 20k without exchange.

The overall performance n looks are great for the blue versiongot around 550,000 in antutu score on first day will update score after a month usage later* 3d benchmark 15 fps stable 99% scorestrutural:first of all if ur buying this phone for regular basic usage its good a bit large for small hands 6'67'' but the weight distribution and in hand feel is niceit comes with panda glass dunno how much it could protect the phone but who cares everyone gonna use a cheap screen protector on it...build quality is good n some reviews are complaining about plastic back n body .. it really doesn't matters tge matt finish is superb n fells good on hand . again no one uses their device without covers so who cares again ..Softwere n stuff:android 12 fills it up with many amazing features which helps a lot and the funtouch os is good enough after removing everything Haven't experienced any ad except from iqoo app in the phone u could turn off the notification n it will nvr bug u again(caution) : the theme store in the phone is literal trash .. nothing is for free like mi theme store only comes with 1 extra font n thats all u couldn't change its theme at all without payingapart from that the heptic response feature is smooth n nice also instant facial recognition n fingerprint scan it even fells like u don't have a password at all gr8 for thatCAMERA :rear : the 3 cameras in the rear are good images are sharp in 64 mp ... but the wide angle camera losses a lot details not as good as the main camera but still good enough... macro lens : why do they even add that?? i personally dont find any use for it n nvr used it rec vids in 1080p 60fps 4k 30 fps ( the rear vid camera have some lind of stability it works great even when ur running ig it doesn't have any physical stabilization feature in cams but the softwere one is smooth removes a lot of jitter from the clip)front : front camera is kinda basic works fine in better lighting not gonna say it works in low lightning the pics get too blurry n pixelated.camera UI : if I've ever experienced any vivo camera ui its the same ... makes ur skin glow can't even say partially it clicks natural photos .. over exposed but smoothother than that the pano feature works fine portrait blurr could be adjusted a lil more blurs the background real smooth""THE NIGHT MODE"" i dunno what they feed their engineerers to design such modes but it works great !!! abosultely great depending upon the darkness in the environment it tell u to stabilize ur phone for 3-5 sec byt it changes the phoyo completely.. its like turning lights on in a dark room n all looks naturalOVERVIEW : If u need. a performance centri. phone go for it its best in the price range (21000k) tge price i bought it for suits it ... u could go for poco x3 pro just for 2k less for performing scores but u'll lose a lot pf features ... if u want a phone with kuch better features u have to spend atleast 5-6 k more [ Some reviews were blabbing about it being unusable for 5g network in the future but the bands are perfect they'll workPROS:°ufs 3.1 storage everything loads up fast n smooth Haven't experienced a loading screen for downloaded content in the phone°ram management is gr8 works abosultely great° the night mode is great(rear)°vid stabilization in rear cam (clips look like butter without even a lil bit of shake n anything)°facescan n fingerprint works flawlessly (couldn't even realise it has a lock on when I'm using it)°5g network not useful now but will be helpful in the future° fast charging takes about 45 min to 30-100CONS:° dont have a exapandable memory card slot (128 gigs is enough but still it would've been better to have some extra)° heats up a bit while charging it doesn't take much to charge but temp inc from the back to a noticeable point while charging°cam ui from vivo it brighten up the pics. i do prefer natural pics over that°led display amoled would be better at this price point but it compensates for the performance only blacks are noticeable while watching content on it otherwise worls fine .. even in high sunlight everything is visible at full brightness