Many modern smartphones are similar to each other in almost everything, including characteristics. But there is one
When writing this article, I installed suchcriteria for the selection of smartphones: firstly, we are only interested in IP68 certification. All IP54 there, and even IP67 we do not consider - not sports. Either you (the manufacturer) make a normally protected smartphone, or you don’t soar people's brains.
Secondly, I selected the last two generationsfrom each manufacturer. It’s just that “the last two years” would not be fair: say, Samsung’s flagships of 2020 have already been released, but Apple hasn’t. Therefore, I counted iPhones since 2018, and Galaxy - since 2019. Adherents of some brand often consider not only the current generation, but also the previous one - as still worthy models, but already cheaper.
Thirdly, models like “Pro”, “Max”, “XL” andI considered the others as separate. There is a difference not only in price, but also in size - that is, there is a choice for different categories of buyers and you can’t name them clones. Each of these models must still be designed separately, but it happens that the hardware (at least the set of cameras) is different. But I did not count versions with different amounts of memory - the project is the same there, and the difference is only in price.
So what do we get?
Outsiders
First of all, I did not find a single smartphone withIP68 among the products of Oppo, Realme, Vivo, Xiaomi, Honor. This should be borne in mind when comparing (in any situation, not only within the framework of this article) the prices of models of these brands with others, which will be mentioned below. Given that Oppo and Xiaomi are no longer shy to ask for the flagship for 70 thousand rubles, and the “flagship” protection was not delivered.