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How realme smartphones are certified by international standards

April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Louie Diangson

You might have already read or heard about the TÜV Rheinland certification, especially if you’re looking at electronics like displays or smartphones. You’ll often see it referring to its Eye Comfort Certification, which indicates that the device’s screen has been tested and certified to meet the market’s current safety and quality standards. But what is a TÜV Rheinland Certification, and is it important for us consumers? Find out below.

What is TÜV Rheinland?

TÜV stands for Technischer Überwachungsverein in German, or Technical Inspection Association, in English. These are a group of independent service companies from Germany and Austria that test, inspect, and certify technical systems, facilities, and objects of all kinds to minimize hazards and prevent damages. TÜV companies are organized in three holdings — TÜV Nord, TÜV Rheinland and TÜV SÜD.

TÜV Rheinland AG is based in Cologne, Germany. It inspects technical equipment, products & services, oversees projects, and helps shape companies’ processes and information security. It also employs a global network of approved labs, testing and education centers.

It also established TÜV Rheinland Philippines Inc. in 1991. In 2006, it ventured into electrical product safety testing to assist the Philippine government in its testing needs and support local industries in accessing the world market. It achieved its ISO/ IEC 17025 accreditation to test various household appliances, audio-video products and luminaires from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) – Philippine Accreditation Office (PAO).

What certifications does it offer?

TÜV Rheinland offers multiple certifications depending on what it is testing and auditing. It includes vehicles, commodities & consumer goods, infrastructure, systems & processes, occupational health & safety, and information security & telecommunications. One of the most common you’ll see is the TÜV Rheinland Eye Comfort Certification for displays, but it also has a certification for smartphones, which we’ll discuss later in this article.

If an organization wants to show the market and its consumers that its products or systems meet the global standard for quality, it will work with TÜV Rheinland to have it tested and audited. A product certificate will be issued if it passes, which confirms that the product meets defined criteria and defined safety-relevant aspects. The certificate also specifies the basic principles according to which a product was tested. Test marks are also provided which manufacturers can integrate into their corporate communications like packaging, websites, and advertising.

According to an end consumer survey, almost 90% of respondents prefer manufacturer advertising statements to be neutrally reviewed and confirmed.

TÜV Rheinland Smartphone High-Reliability Certification

When it comes to smartphones, TÜV Rheinland has the Smartphone High-Reliability Certification, which was created in collaboration with realme. The two companies created standard procedures that will be used for quality control and testing across all realme smartphones. Also, the certification serves as the new quality standard for smartphones in major markets worldwide.

The TÜV Rheinland Smartphone High-Reliability Certification process encompasses 23 major tests, including 10 daily use test scenarios, such as drop, wear, and tear; seven extreme environment test scenarios, including super extreme temperature, extreme humidity, voltage fluctuation, button life, static electricity, air pressure; and six component reliability test scenarios.

The first smartphones to get certified are the new realme C25 and realme C21.

realme’s Quality Control

realme says that there is a 6-stage smartphone design process on how smartphones are designed, developed, and tested in realme’s facility. The Quality Control team is 100% involved in every step of quality checking. If the product fails to meet the set standards, the Quality Control team has the prerogative to redesign the product from scratch.

realme also takes steps to understand how digital natives use smartphones by reaching out to customers and fans to conduct product experience surveys and getting feedback during the mid-product life cycle. This provides realme with data to help it design high-quality smartphones that fit into its consumers’ lifestyles.

For example, since young users prefer traveling and sports, it designed its devices to withstand accident drops in popular outdoor sports such as skateboarding and parkour, the products go through more aggressive drop tests at a height up to 1.8 meters at multiple sides on different surface materials. realme also simulates extreme temperature from negative 40 degrees Celsius to 75 degrees Celsius in an outdoor environmental setting to make sure all realme products can remain to function well.

realme’s fully automated future

realme said that it has been investing in a smart factory that aims to be fully automated in the future. Through it, the company can improve the efficiency and precision of its complex manufacturing processes. One such automation example is the SMT production line, responsible for putting components onto the PCB motherboard. The smart factory’s current automation rate is 87.5%, which is already way above industry standard. With the AI automation capability, the current realme AI smart factory can produce 60 million devices every year.

In essence, realme and TÜV Rheinland collaboration will benefit the smartphone market as it aims to improve the standards currently used in the industry and raise the quality of entry-level models to flagship standards. Both companies also hope to improve the smartphone experience during its initial 3-year life cycle.

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5 Reasons People Quit Playing Pokemon Go!

September 3, 2016September 3, 2016 Abe Olandres

Last week, reports were circulating than Pokemon Go! is slowly losing steam and lost about 15 million active users in a span of one month. The news is a bit surprising since the game has only been out for a couple of months, with some countries having access ahead of others by just a few weeks.

As one of the active players of Pokemon Go!, weunderstood the charms and pitfalls of the game. We also talked to dozens of people and getting insights from them. Here’s what we learned.

It gets boring.

If you’re just new to Pokemon Go!, more likely than not, most of the monsters you’ll encounter are the pretty common ones. While it can be exciting to catch your first Pidgey or Rattata, the feelings will defintiely not be there on your 100th catch.

Sure you can earn more candies and later evolve them to Raticate or Pidgeotto/Pidgeot and use the remianing candoes to upgrade their Combat Power, you can only go so far as catching the same old rat and piegon every single day.

So yes it is repetitive and, after a while, becomes really boring.

Location, location, location.

One of the reasons why it can get boring and you end up catching the same pocket monsters is location. Pokemon Go’s inherent advantage to play the game is you need to scout around or even take a day long trip around the city just to catch different kinds of monsters.

However, if you live in an area that’s scarce both in monsters and Pokestops, you’s have much fewer chances to play catch and just end up staring at an empty map most of the time.

After a few days to a couple of weeks, you’ll be frustrated of the same empty space until the day you completely forgot to open the Pokemon Go app.

Battery hog.

Since the game requires you to run it even as a background task, it will still eat up a lot of battery. Combine that with the need for an active mobile internet connection and consistent access to GPS, Pokemon Go! can as much as burden to your smarpthone as Waze or Google Maps.

It’s no wonder we’ve seen several smartphone vendors sending out firmware updates to their phones to optimize it for Pokemon Go! (we’ve seen the updates from OPPO and HTC devices last week).

The, if you’re mostly outdoors catching Pokemon, then you’d also be forced to increase the screen brightness of your mobile phone making it real a juice guzzler.

So if you want to stretch the battery life of your phone to last the entire day, you’d more likely quit or limit your play time with Pokemon Go.

Cheaters.

Almost every game has their fair share of cheaters and we can’t really avoid them. With Pokemon Go, there was more than the usual number of cheaters and they can actually affect your gaming experience with Pokemon Go!

These are the ones who have been using GPS spoofing apps to play the game ahead of everyone else and virtually catch every single Pokemon out there.

With outrageously high player levels and Pokemon combat powers manning the Gyms, there’s no way a non-cheating player can beat them. Spoils the fun, right?

Niantic, makers of Pokemon Go!, have actively banned cheaters but they still abound and having one in your area controlling a gym is a complete bummer.

Mobile internet is expensive.

Let’s face it, mobile internet is not cheap in the Philippines, moreso that local telcos have already switched to volume based charging (i.e., the more you play, the more you pay).

Players may be tempted to spend for mobile internet access at the beginning but after a month or two, they’d start to worry how much their monthly postpaid bill would be and cut back on usage in favor of the more important apps or tasks.

This is more evident for prepaid users who’ll need spend Php30 every couple of days just to gain access to mobile internet. And if you’re really saving up on bandwidth, Pokemon Go might not be on top of the priority list. Of course, telcos are hoping that the game is so addicting, you’d still be willing to shell out more than what you usually spend for internet access.

Mobile games come and go.

Like any other mobile game, Pokemon Go! is not immune to player fatigue. We saw that in Plants vs. Zombies, Angry Birds, Clash of Clans and even the overnight phenomenon that was Flappy Bird. Like any other game, the Pokemon Go excitement is bound to decline — it’s not a matter of IF but WHEN. For Pokemon Go, it just seemed too soon.

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