iQOO has confirmed the India launch date for its next flagship. The iQOO 15 will be unveiled in India on November 26, 2026, the company announced on October 27, with iQOO India chief executive Nipun Marya sharing the date on X. The phone arrives as the successor to the iQOO 13, and it will be the brand's first smartphone in India to run Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset.
The announcement came a week after the phone's debut in China on October 20, where it went on sale in four colourways. A dedicated microsite for the handset is already live on Amazon India, confirming the chipset and the software: OriginOS 6, based on Android 16, which replaces Funtouch OS 15 on iQOO phones in India. It is a significant software change for the brand in the country, bringing its Indian phones in line with the interface used in China.
A display built for gaming
The iQOO 15 is a performance phone first, and its display shows it. The Chinese variant carries a 6.85-inch 2K Samsung M14 AMOLED screen with a 1440 x 3168 resolution, a refresh rate of up to 144Hz and a pixel density of 508 pixels per inch. It supports Dolby Vision, and iQOO claims it will be the brightest smartphone display in India, with up to 2,600 nits of peak brightness in high-brightness mode.
Underneath sits the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, built on TSMC's 3nm process, paired with an Adreno 840 GPU and iQOO's own Q3 Supercomputing chip, which the company says helps stabilise gaming performance and maintain consistent frame rates. The Chinese model offers 16GB of LPDDR5X Ultra RAM and up to 1TB of UFS 4.1 storage. Keeping all of that cool is what iQOO describes as India's largest single-layer vapour chamber cooling system, covering an area of 8,000 square millimetres.
Triple 50MP cameras and a 7,000mAh battery
For photography, the iQOO 15 uses a triple rear camera setup with three 50-megapixel sensors: a 50-megapixel main camera, a 50-megapixel periscope telephoto with 3x optical zoom using a Sony sensor, and a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera with a dual-axis motor. The main camera uses a Sony VCS true colour sensor, and the phone also includes a 100x Tele X lens for long-range zoom. On the front is a 32-megapixel selfie camera.
Battery capacity is 7,000mAh, using a fourth-generation silicon anode cell, with 100W wired fast charging and 40W wireless charging support. The phone carries IP68 and IP69 ratings for dust and water resistance, and connectivity includes Bluetooth 6 and dual-band Wi-Fi 7 alongside GPS, Beidou, GLONASS, Galileo and QZSS positioning.
Pre-booking and offers
According to The Economic Times, iQOO has confirmed the India launch details on its official website. Pre-bookings will begin on November 20, and customers who reserve the device will receive exclusive offers including a 12-month extended warranty and iQOO TWS earbuds.
The November 26 date puts the iQOO 15 in direct competition with a crowded field of Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 flagships arriving in India in the same window, including the OnePlus 15 and the realme GT 8 Pro, both of which launched in the country earlier in the month. iQOO's pitch is familiar: maximum performance per rupee, with gaming hardware and a large battery as the headline attractions. Whether the OriginOS 6 switch and the higher price change that equation will become clearer once the phone reaches buyers, but the company says pre-bookings have already set a record for the brand in India, with the highest first-day reservation numbers it has seen ahead of a launch.