iQOO 15T is now official in China, and it arrives as a feature-packed flagship aimed squarely at gamers and power users. The phone starts at 3,799 yuan before subsidies, with the lowest subsidized price dropping to 3,299 yuan, and sales have already begun.
On the outside, iQOO is using the same “future capsule” camera design language seen on the iQOO 15 Ultra, paired with a matte metal frame that is meant to stay cooler to the touch. Buyers get a new Qingyun finish alongside the brand’s familiar Legend Edition and Track Edition color options.
Performance is one of the main talking points here. The iQOO 15T runs on a custom-tuned Dimensity 9500 Monster Edition chip, and iQOO says its next-generation Monster core engine is built directly into the chip architecture. The company claims frame stability improves by 34%, while memory and storage are handled by LPDDR5X Ultra RAM and UFS 4.1 flash.
The display is another headline spec. The phone uses a 6.82-inch 2K panel with a 3186 × 1440 resolution, BOE Q10+ materials, and a 1Hz to 144Hz adaptive LTPO refresh rate. iQOO also highlights up to 4,500 nits of local peak brightness, 1,800 nits of global brightness, circular polarization technology, 2592Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, DC-like dimming behavior, and a new eye-comfort tuning package.
For input and gaming control, iQOO says the phone includes a new ultra-responsive touch system with up to a 4,000Hz instant touch sampling rate, plus software tuning across the full control pipeline to cut response delay. The gyroscope sampling rate reaches up to 400Hz, and the company says it has worked closely with the game Delta Force to reduce edge mistouches and improve wheel sensitivity at the pixel level.
There is also a dedicated Q3 gaming chip inside. According to iQOO, it is the only smartphone-side display chip in its class to combine full-scene ray tracing, super resolution, and super frame rate features in one package. The brand says 2K upscaling now covers 11 popular games, 144fps frame interpolation works in more than 140 titles, and six major FPS mobile games can run 2K graphics and 144fps at the same time.
Battery life may end up being one of the phone’s biggest selling points. The 8000mAh battery is described as the largest in iQOO’s flagship family so far, yet the company still calls it a slim design. iQOO claims that from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., typical use can still leave more than 50% battery remaining. Charging is handled by 100W fast charging, and the company says a quick five-minute top-up is enough for about three hours of short-video playback.
Camera hardware gets a notable upgrade too. The iQOO 15T is the first iQOO flagship to include a 200MP large-sensor main camera, along with CIPA 4.5-grade stabilization, 4x lossless zoom, full-focal-length portrait shooting, Live Photo support, and three image styles. A 50MP ultra-wide camera is also onboard and supports macro photography.
Software-wise, the phone ships with OriginOS 6. iQOO says the system is designed to stay smooth for five years, and it includes updated Xiao V features for search, suggestions, memory, and photo editing. The phone also supports cross-brand batch sharing of high-resolution photos and videos with a shake gesture.
The lineup comes in five memory configurations: 12GB + 256GB, 16GB + 256GB, 12GB + 512GB, 16GB + 512GB, and 16GB + 1TB. Official launch pricing starts at 3,799 yuan and goes up to 5,699 yuan before subsidies, while the subsidized range runs from 3,299 yuan to 5,199 yuan depending on the version.
