iQoo 12 5G Confirmed to Receive Three Years of OS Updates in India; Set to Launch With Reduced Bloatware

The iQoo 12 will be equipped with an octa-core 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC.

iQoo 12 5G is confirmed to launch in India on December 12. The iQoo 12 series was unveiled globally on November 7 and included the vanilla variant and the iQoo 12 Pro. The company has previously confirmed the processor, OS, and availability of the phone in the country. The Indian variant of the iQoo 12 has been confirmed to get the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset and run Android 14-based Funtouch OS 14. It will launch as a successor to the iQoo 11 5G. Now, iQoo India CEO has revealed some more software details of the upcoming handset.

iQoo India CEO Nipun Marya confirmed in a post on X, that the upcoming Indian variant of the iQoo 12 5G will offer three years of software updates and four years of security patches. The image shared in the post added that the phone will arrive with less bloatware. For instance, it may not have Hot Apps or Hot Games. iQoo 12 was already confirmed to come with Android 14-based Funtouch OS 14 out-of-the-box. Once launched, the phone will be available for purchase only via Amazon and the official iQoo e-store.

Earlier, the company had revealed that the Indian variant of the iQoo 12 will come with the octa-core 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC similar to its Chinese counterpart. The global variant of the phone also carries a 6.78-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1.5K (1,260×2,800 pixels), a refresh rate of up to 144Hz, and an aspect ratio of 20:9.

The base model of the iQoo 12 features a 50-megapixel 1/1.3-inch primary sensor, a 64-megapixel periscope telephoto camera with 100X digital zoom, and a 50-megapixel sensor with an ultra-wide-angle lens on the rear. The front camera is equipped with a 16-megapixel sensor. It is supported by a 5,000mAh battery with 120W wired fast charging. The phone also includes an in-display fingerprint sensor for security. The iQoo 12 is available in China in three color options: Burning Way, Legend Edition, and Track Version, starting at CNY 3,999 (approximately Rs. 45,000) for the 12GB + 256GB variant. As of now, the pricing details and storage variants for the Indian market are not known.