iQOO Z6 Pro Review: A dashing all...WAIT! Have we seen this before?

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It was 2019 when iQOO first entered the market and grabbed the attention with its performance-heavy competitively-priced smartphones. And honestly, it had to. Breaking into the Indian market as a new brand is never easy. And what it lacked in brand value, it intended to compensate with aggressive specifications. What’s interesting is that, three years later, that compensation has become its strongest USP as the company keeps offering segment-leading specifications at a very competitive price. And that’s why when I first looked at the Vivo T1 Pro, err, the iQOO Z6 Pro, I was a little confused.

See, you will have to forgive me for my mistake because the iQOO Z6 Pro is eerily similar to the Vivo T1 Pro. The parent company Vivo’s smartphone not only resembles the iQOO Z6 Pro, but they share similarity in majority of the specifications.

However, bringing out “rebranded” smartphones has been a recent strategy which we have also seen from Xiaomi and Realme. The sub-brands claim to improvise on a blueprint of an existing model to save costs and sweat the same assets over and over. For consumers like us, however, it makes it trickier to know which smartphone offers a better value. But here’s the thing. On paper specifications are a different thing but real-life experience is when a smartphone really gives itself away.

So, with cautious optimism, I have been using this smartphone for two weeks and here is what I found.

The iQOO Z6 Pro follows its own iconic design language which we have seen since the iQOO 7, although with a unique (as long as you don’t think about the Vivo T1 Pro) camera module. The rear panel is made of plastic and has a smooth and shimmery matte finish which looks brilliant under the light. It also does not let