iQOO 16 launches with Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, 8,400 mAh battery

Today the iQOO 16 has become official in China as the brand’s latest flagship smartphone. It comes with a 6.85-inch Samsung-made M16 AMOLED display with 1440×3168 resolution, a 19.8:9 aspect ratio, and a 165Hz refresh rate. The panel goes up to a mind-boggling 10,000 nits of very localized peak brightness. Full-screen peak brightness is also very impressive at 2,800 nits.

iQOO 16 in all three colors

The iQOO 16 is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset, paired with LPDDR5X Ultra RAM and UFS 4.1 storage. On the rear there’s a triple camera setup with a 50MP main…