On January 8, Vinsmart Research and Manufacture Joint Stock Company (Vingroup) was honoured to be the Best Vietnamese Phone Brand at Tech Awards 2020. Vsmart Aris Pro and Vsmart Live 4 phone products won a "hat trick" when they were recognized in 3 categories: Technology Trend Leading Phone; Best Popular Phone and Innovative Technology Product 2020.

Vsmart was honoured as the Best Vietnamese Phone Brand at Tech Awards 2020

Tech Awards 2020 is the leading prestigious technology award in Việt Nam, held annually since 2012 with the participation of more than 30 million VnExpress newspaper’s readers and the evaluation of experts through 2 rounds during 2 months, the Tech Awards event honours the best products and technologies of 2020 and the technology trends of 2021.

Excellently overcoming a series of “competitors” with long history of development, Vsmart phone brand with only more than 2 years of age in their first participation has made a rare "poker" in the technology circle with 4 awards. Specifically, the Vsmart brand was awarded "Best Vietnamese Phone"; Vsmart Aris Pro product was honoured to receive the "double" award of "Technology trend leading phone" and "Innovative Technology Product in 2020"; and the "Best popular phone" award was awarded to Vsmart Live 4.

These achievements were the results of VinSmart's impressive 2020 development year when it continuously researched and applied breakthrough technologies into its products.

Vsmart Aris Pro, in particular, is a high-end phone model featuring modern technologies such as Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) chip and FIDO2 soft key for data security. The model owns the pioneering technology of Camera Under Display (CUD) and VCam Kristal photography technology developed by the VinAI Research Institute (a member of Vingroup). This is a photography technology using artificial intelligence that allows taking photos with the best quality without displaying the camera on the interface, bringing maximum edge-to-edge screen and perfect beauty for the product. CUD has only been applied and commercialised successfully in a few smartphone series in the world.

Vsmart Live 4 with the title "Best Popular Phone" is a product that marks 100 per cent autonomy in research and production, with all hardware design, operating system and production are done by VinSmart team of engineers. Being recognized as "Excellent Vietnamese Phone Brand" is clear evidence that Vsmart phone lines have been trusted by consumers with their product quality and competitive prices in the market.

Mrs. Le Thi Thu Thuy, Vice Chairwoman of Vingroup cum General Director of VinSmart shared: “These impressive achievements not only show the love of consumers but also the recognition of experts for the results that VinSmart Company has gained with its efforts in the last two years. In its development strategy for the upcoming period, VinSmart will build a comprehensive technology ecosystem with 3 core product segments, including Smart city, Smart home, and Smart Service (Digital service). 2021 will be the year that VinSmart gradually completes the products and applies technology to bring a comfortable and modern life to serve customers in Việt Nam and the world market.

Only after 2 years of launch, the Vsmart phone lines are well received by consumers with their product quality and competitive prices.

Since its launch in December 2018 up to now, VinSmart has introduced 18 smartphone models and 5 smart TV models to the market. According to data from GfK, sales of Vsmart phones have grown strongly since the beginning of 2020, reaching the Top 3 mobile phone market share in Việt Nam. In 2020, VinSmart is the first Vietnamese company to successfully produce terminals supporting 5G technology, making Việt Nam the 5th country in the world to master this technology. During the peak period of Covid-19 epidemic in Việt Nam, VinSmart also successfully researched and manufactured respirators, thermometers as well as manufactured respirator components for Medtronic firms to export to the US and Ireland. In addition, in the fourth quarter of 2020, VinSmart also successfully deployed a comprehensive SmartCity solution for 3 major urban areas of Vinhomes including Vinhomes Grand Park (Ho Chi Minh City), Vinhomes Ocean Park and Vinhomes Smart City (Hanoi).

The successes recorded in 2020 not only demonstrate its strong effort in mastering the most advanced core technology but also are a solid step for VinSmart to accelerate development in the new year 2021 with a new strategy and plan to expand its coverage to the world.