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“IP68 + waterproof”?
Water resistance is a feature emphasized by BKAV in Bphone B86. However, instead of using the waterproof IP standard, BKAV has established the “IP68 +” standard, because it believes that Bphone B86 has the ability to survive 2m below water level, higher than the IP68 standard (1.5m)
In today’s market, there are completely smartphones that exceed IP68 standards, as the iPhone 11 Pro can “dive” to a depth of up to 4m. However, the IP certificate of the iPhone 11 Pro is still only IP68, because Apple must follow the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) standards. Apple, Samsung or any other manufacturer cannot create a standard by themselves, because if so, it can no longer be called “standard”.
IP68 + waterproof standard created by BKAV.
Hearing the BKAV “IP68 +” standard, many users will mistakenly believe that the Bphone B86 waterproof standard is superior to all other smartphones on the market today, and that is incorrect.
In fact, we can’t even know if Bphone B86 will be IP68 or even IP67, because all the tests that BKAV performed were performed by the company “self-sufficiency”. Not through a third unit.
So why is BKAV entitled to set such a standard by itself?
Are the camera parameters misleading?
The following is a literal excerpt from the Bphone B86 camera specs on the BKAV home page (https://www.bkav.com.vn/bphone/thong-so-ky-thuat):
PDAF main camera Dual pixel sensor 2 in 1 lens (12Mp for photos + 12Mp for focus), F / 1.8 aperture for ultra fast focus and auxiliary camera for professional source removal. AI AI brings sharp and realistic photo. Great selfie camera angular, natural beauty mode. “
By writing like this, many people will think that the Bphone B86 will have a 12MP dual camera. However, based on the information we learn, the Bphone B86 secondary camera only has a resolution of 5MP with the ability to measure distance to serve the function of taking photos to eliminate sources. This second Bphone B86 camera is nothing special – most cheap / mid-range smartphones now have a similar camera.
The second camera of the Bphone B86 has a resolution of 5MP with distance measurement capability.
So why doesn’t BKAV specifically reveal camera parameters for users to query but instead use deceptive expressions for them?
Is the camera design easy to fool?
Join me in a simple trivia game.
Below are the official representations of the Bphone B60 and Bphone B40. The question is: how many cameras do you think Bphone B60 / B40 has?
Looking at this picture, suppose how many cameras have Bphone B60 and Bphone B40.
If you answered “2”, then my condolences. Bphone B60 / B40 actually only has a single camera. What you think is the second camera is actually the “AI” logo, but there is a ring around it that looks a lot like the camera. If users don’t learn carefully but just look at the picture, it will certainly be easy to get confused.
Or, as shown in the Bphone B86 announcement below, BKAV also creates a lens effect on the AI camera logo and flash, giving the feeling that this machine has a lot of cameras, but in fact it is the opposite.
So why should BKAV draw a useless AI logo there? Why does a company that emphasizes minimalism in design (to the point of eliminating physical buttons) leave such extra detail in the product?
2 cameras “like 5 cameras”?
BKAV CEO Nguyen Tu Quang is very proud of the Bphone camera. Proud to the point, he said “2 Bphone cameras are equivalent to 5 cameras from other brands”.
Yes, many cameras are not always good. We have seen many smartphones with 3, even 4 cameras, but for poorer image quality and much worse than single camera or dual camera smartphones.
Why is that? In addition to the quality of the hardware, the software is also a very important factor. Good software not only helps you get the most out of your hardware, but in some cases it can make the end result far beyond what the hardware can accomplish. We have seen this in some functions such as Night mode (portrait photography) or Portrait mode (portrait photography).
The Pixel 3 XL is proof that “not many cameras are good”.
But not everything can be solved by software. This is the moment when we talk about the history of the Bphone B86 dual camera that can be shown “Like 5 other camera brands.”
When it comes to a 5-camera smartphone, users expect the smartphone to have dedicated cameras for different tasks, like ultra wide cameras for super wide angle photography or cameras with focus lenses. Long distance to zoom. As mentioned above, the Bphone B86 secondary camera is only responsible for distance measurement, not optical zoom or super wide-angle photography.
In particular, the absence of an ultra wide-angle camera is extremely unfortunate, because this is a relatively popular feature that all smartphones in the past have. And no AI will be able to help Bphone B86 to get this feature. This is the drawback of Bphone B86 that all other 3, 4 or 5 cameras dominate.
The absence of an ultra wide / telephoto camera makes it impossible for Bphone B86 to take super wide-angle or optical zoom images like many other models.
So what is the basis for Mr. Nguyen Tu Quang to declare that the Bphone B86 camera is equivalent to other 5 camera smartphones on the market?
BOS … 8.6 on Android 9.0?
Personally, I don’t really like the name Bphone B86, because it breaks the BKAV relatively easy to understand naming rule. But hey, that is the choice of BKAV that we must respect.
However, one thing I find confusing is that the BOS version of Bphone B86 is BOS 8.6. It is very “feng shui”, but it is a nightmare for users and programmers to monitor later versions of BOS. What will be the next BOS update version? BOS 9.6?
BOS 8.6: The version name is very “feng shui” but it causes a lot of confusion for users and developers.
Speaking of updates, BKAV disappointed me a lot by using Android 9 on Bphone B86. This is an Android version released almost 2 years ago. In addition to not experiencing the latest features, Bphone B86 users also face security and privacy risks (Android 10 is heavily focused on the ability to control people’s privacy). use).
Android 10 privacy management feature. Bphone B86 users will not have the opportunity to use this feature, because “the most secure smartphone currently” (in BKAV’s words) is still running the Android version from 2 years ago. Past year.
So why would a leading software and security corporation like BKAV use an outdated operating system on their “super secure” smartphone?
Are the sample images Photoshop?
On the official website, BKAV has published a small collection, which includes a series of impressive images taken by Bphone B86.
… until I downloaded an image and realized it was edited in Photoshop. Not just 1 photo or 2 photos, but all of them.
So what is the reason for BKAV to use Photoshop for these photos?
“Dao” iPhone 11 wallpaper?
Perhaps just by looking at the image below, you can already imagine my question.
AirB?
My question about “AirB”, the next true BKAV wireless headset, is similar to the question about the wallpaper above.
