VietNamNet Bridge - When asked recently about the position to display Vietnamese-made smartphones at The Gioi Di Dong, an official pointed to a corner of the showroom, behind shelves for accessories. 

VietNamNet Bridge - BPhone 2, a high-end product of BKAV and the first made-in-Vietnam high-end smart phone, is expected to be marketed in August. 

While Vietnamese smartphone brands such as Hi-Mobile, BlueFone, F-Mobile, Avio and Zik 3G have left the market, others are thriving despite analysts' predictions.

VietNamNet Bridge - The news about BPhone 2, or the second version of the first high-end made-in-Vietnam smartphone, has emerged on technology forums.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese enterprises often work in an atmosphere of suspicion as many local consumers believe that domestic firms are not capable of making industrial products.

Though BKAV (Bach Khoa  Anti-virus Center) did not succeed with its BPhone, Viettel plans to develop a ‘made-in-Vietnam’ smartphone, targeting the high-end market with a selling price of over $1,000, according to Tinhte.vn, a leading hi-tech forum.

VietNamNet Bridge - In 2016, Samsung launched 31 mobile phone models into the market, while Lenovo launched 26, ZTE 24 and Huawei 22.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese are now tending to choose high-end smartphone models instead of cheaper Chinese phones Huawei, Vivo and Xiaomi.

VietNamNet Bridge - In 2016, the global smartphone market witnessed the strong rise of brands from China.

VietNamNet Bridge - Mobile phones with QWERTY keyboards have gradually disappeared from the Vietnamese market as manufacturers have stopped making the products and customers are no longer interested in them.

“We now can hope the production of iPhone products will occur in Vietnam in the future, now that Vietnam makes Samsung phones,” said Vu Duc Quyet, director of the Bac Ninh provincial Industry and Trade Department.

VietNamNet Bridge - BPhone was brought into life in an impressive way, but the smartphone which was hoped to be ‘Vietnamese technological pride’ did not have an impressive performance in the last year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Will smartphones from India be able to find a position in the Vietnamese market?

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Chinese smartphone brands have entered Vietnam in the last three years but have not sold that well. 

  With sales down on expectations, BKAV introduces program where owners can trade-in their old smartphone and pay the difference on a new Bphone.

Nguyen Tu Quang and BPhone were the the two names most often mentioned in the Vietnamese technology community in 2015. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Since its launch in mid-2015, BPhone, the first high-end smartphone model, has faced problems. Vietnamese have lost interest in the product.

BKAV, the manufacturer of BPhone, a 100 percent Vietnam-made smartphone, is moving ahead with its plan to export BPhones, ignoring doubts that a Vietnam-made high-tech product can be sold in the world market.

VietNamNet Bridge - The vice president of the Bach Khoa Antivirus Center (BKAV), the inventor of the first made-in-Vietnam smartphone BPhone, said he plans to sell BPhone on the world market.

VietNamNet Bridge - The smart device sales boom in Vietnam, especially smartphones, has prompted many Vietnamese businesses to join the playing field, where the majority of players are foreign companies.