Hyderabad, Feb. 24 -- iQOO does not really do half measures, and the 15R makes that clear from the spec sheet alone. Launched in India on Tuesday, February 24, the phone is built around a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset and a 7,600mAh battery. This makes it hard to ignore at a price point starting from Rs 44,999.

The display runs at 144Hz, peaks at 5,000 nits of brightness and is protected by Schott Xensation Alpha glass. In daily use, that brightness ceiling means it holds up even in harsh sunlight, which mid-range displays routinely struggle with. The RAM goes up to 12GB LPDDR5X, storage up to 512GB UFS 4.1.

Out of the box, it runs Android 16-based OriginOS 6. iQOO is backing it with four years of OS updates and six years of security patch...