vivo iQOO 10 debuts with advanced 120W fast charging

The iQOO 10 was available overseas on July 25, 2022 with Qualcomm SM8475 Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 (4 nm) fueled by the V1 Plus co-processor. It also comes with some unique features, such as 120-watt (W) "ultra-flash" wired charging, improved nighttime shooting performance, BMW co-branding colors and affordable prices.

Its flagship counterpart, the iQOO 10 Pro goes further with the ground-breaking 200 W ultra-flash charging that has never been seen in other smartphones. All but, iQOO 10 still supports to charge from 0 to 50% in 7 min, and to 100% in 19 minutes.

As for the camera setup, the device is backed up by a 50MP main wide camera with OIS (inferior to IQOO 10 Pro’s gimbal stabilization), a 12MP portrait lens with 2x optical zoom, and an ultrawide lens with 120° wide-angle functions.

The 206g/7.27oz phone will start at US$ 579 for an 8GB/128GB base model with white (BMW M branding), orange and black colors.

Theoretical Test

001 Sharpness
We have used ISO 12233 charts with all the three cameras and now show you 100% crops at the center and corners to measure sharpness.

Looking at the above image, we can find that the main lens takes the lead in both center and conner parts, followed by the ultrawide lens and the portrait lens with gradually increased sense of smearing and soft image quality.

002 Latitude
IQOO 10 supports capturing RAW files with all of the three lenses in the professional mode, which will also leave JPG files at the same time. We only dialed the exposure from negative 3 to positive 3 stops with the shutter speed and ISO set by default.

As can be seen above, RAW and JPG files can be pushed back between negative 3 stop to 1 stop. At positive 3 stop, RAW files can only maintain half of details when pushed back. When it comes to JPG files, the situation goes worse with only one positive stop can be pushed back and it makes no sense to push back at positive 2 or 3 stop. Therefore, it is highly recommended to keep the RAW file when you shoot large light-ratio pictures to facilitate restoring in the post.

003 Sensitivity
You can adjust the exposure manually when the Pro mode is on. Adjusting within a sensitivity range of ISO 50 to 3200, we shoot the image and analyzed details and dark parts to see how the image quality changes as the sensitivity gradually increases.

As you can see, the phone presents a relatively pure picture in terms of details and dark parts under ISO400. At ISO800, the dark parts appear partially smeared; at ISO1600, a lot of details are missed and dark parts are further smeared.

004 Lens distortion
By shooting the equally spaced grid with three lenses respectively, we observe the distortion of the image. As tested, there is a slight pincushion distortion on the portrait lens, leaving the least impact on daily use.

RAW
main lens

portrait lens

JPG
main lens

portrait lens

ultra-wide lens
RAW

JPG

Regarding the ultra-wide lens, it will present serious barrel distortion on RAW files yet which can be compensated in the post.

Real-world Experience

001
Thanks for its triple camera setup, IQOO 10 is enough to meet daily shooting needs. When shooting strong light straight, the portrait lens excels the other two lenses in terms of the anti-glaring performance.

As for the overall image quality, the main lens is undoubtedly ranked first, followed by the ultra-wide lens and the 2x zoom portrait lens.

ultra-wide lens

portrait lens

main lens

002 post processing
Turning on HDR or high dynamic range and AI mode, we shot JPG files which features bright exposure and soft colors.

If you prefer to highly-customed color adjustment, there is a pro mode available for RAW files with higher latitude.

The difference is vividly shown below with the straight-out JPG picture characterized by bright and pure colors while the RAW-transformed JPG image featured by deep and profound colors.

straight-out JPG

RAW-transformed JPG

003 nighttime shooting
With the help of vivo’s V1 Plus chipset, IQOO 10 is allowed to access improved nighttime shooting function.

Given that the main lens is the only one equipped with optical stabilization, a tripod is recommended to use for clear images. For example, we chose the LENNON LTS-0 to achieve that.

In the night mode, there is an Automatic Environment Detection function. When the surrounding environment is almost completely dark, it will suggest that you turn on the “tripod mode”, and then the exposure time will increase significantly, basically to 6-9 seconds, or even longer.

With “tripod mode”, the overall exposure and dark details of the image improve significantly. When zooming in on the image, we can also see that the image has a slightly stronger sense of smearing even after internal noise-reduction process.

004 time-lapse shooting
As regards to this part, IQOO 10 kindly offers many customizable shooting settings which are easy to operate.

Note that if a tripod is used, the stabilization mode is suggested to turn off. You ask why? The answer is as below.

stabilization-OFF

stabilization-ON

In addition, you can use both the main and portrait lens to automatically produce time-lapse videos at 4K 30p the main lens of which performs better.

main lens

portrait lens

If you do not want that, you can choose the interval shooting in the pro mode, and obtain RAW and JPG files. After shooting, you need to make adjustments and output video in post.

005 video recording
IQOO 10 supports up to 4K 60p recording, lagged behind IQOO 10 Pro’s 8K 24p specs.

Verdict
This 120W-charging package will start at US$ 579 for an 8GB/128GB base model. Plus with vivo’s strong VI Plus, IQOO 10 can offer upper middle image performance. An attracting deal, isn’t it?

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