After months of speculation and leaks, Vietnamese tech firm Bkav finally unveiled its flagship Bphone on Tuesday, with its CEO proudly telling a 2,000-attendee event in Ha Noi they have succeeded in making the world’s best smartphone.

Nguyen Tu Quang, who founded Ha Noi-based Bkav in 2001, took the stage to deliver a presentation on his brainchild in what obviously reminded viewers of the way late Apple CEO Steve Jobs or his successor Tim Cook told the world about their iPhones.

Bkav CEO Nguyen Tu Quang talks at the unveiling ceremony for the Bphone

The Bphone is 7.5mm wide with a Sharp 5.0 inch full HD screen, protected with Corning Gorilla Glass, which Samsung and Apple also use for their devices.

The full aluminum body handset is equipped with Toshiba’s 3GB RAM, and the Qualcomm CPU Snapdragon 801 quad-core 2.5GHz. Quang said Bkav is the first firm in Southeast Asia to contract Qualcomm to supply the latest CPU.

The Bphone’s 3,000mAh battery is facilitated with a fast-charging technology called Quick Charge 2.0.
It has a 13MP primary camera and a 5MP secondary one, both covered with sapphire glass.

The Bphone apparently aims to attract shutterbugs as it offers such technologies as UbiFocus, allowing users to select their focus after they have taken a picture, and Fast Tracking Auto Focus, also available on the Samsung Galaxy S6, which enables users to capture fast-moving objects.

Bkav uses its own operating system, called BOS, for the Bphone. The BOS is in fact based on Android Lollipop.

The Bphone has a built-in Bkav, the company’s flagship antivirus software, which makes the smartphone “the safest of its kind on earth,” according to the CEO.

The Bphone uses the Transfer Jet technology for data transfer, which boasts 200Mbps speed, 500 times the popular NFC technology, according to Quang.

“A 16GB Bphone sells at VND9.9 million (US$455), whereas the 64GB and 24k gold plated 128GB editions fetch VND12.96 million ($595) and VND20.19 million ($927), respectively.

All prices are exclusive of taxes.

The 16GB version is only available in black, while there are three colors – black, white and champagne – for the 64GB gadget.

The devices will not be on sale via retail chains but will only be available online at vala.vn, starting June 2. Users are allowed to return the product within 14 days from purchase.

(Source: tuoitrenews)