Revealed 125W UltraDART, realme leaps for 33% charge of a 4000mAh battery in the first 3 minutes

realme, the world’s fastest growing smartphone brand, officially launched the 125W UltraDART Flash Charging solution today, making it among the first smartphone brand brings the advancing technology in the world. realme Dart Flash Charging technology keeps evolving from 30W, to 50W, to 65W, and now it reaches the surprising 125W. Its birth is of great importance in the era of 5G for being the best solution for 5G smartphone battery life.

The smartphone charging speeds are breaking new barriers every year. A super-fast charging smartphone is not only convenient for the users but, it is also a USP for the manufacturer. Realme has unveiled its 125W UltraDart charging solution in China. realme uses a new parallel three charge pump fast charging technology to achieve this speed. The SuperDart charging solution will support quick charge, power delivery, and programmable power supply protocols.

So how fast a 125W UltraDart charger can charge your phone? Well, it can charge a 4,000mAh battery up to 33% in just 3 minutes, which is probably the fastest one around. During the charge cycle, Realme claims that the temperature will be kept under 40-degree celsius all the time and there won’t be much of a heating issue.

Low battery is always annoying the global users, especially for 5G smartphone users. Since it is almost impossible to make a major breakthrough in battery energy density in the short term, and the internal space of mobile phones is limited, flash charging has become the most effective way to guarantee a long battery life. Thus the 125W UltraDART Flash Charging technology is more significant and also the leading solution among all flash charging.

3 mins for 33% charging, realme UltraDART aims to lead 5G flash charging   

How to solve problem of low battery anxiety? realme make all efforts to finally bring the 125W UltraDART Flash Charging technology. Distinguished from other flash charging solution, realme believes it is more important and meaningful to get the phone back to life in the shortest time, instead of just shortening 1 or 2 minutes of the whole charging process. Therefore, realme pays attention to optimize the technology of making smartphones back to life in 3 minutes, which helps users to fully use breaks down to get phone charged so that they can leave whenever they want and don’t need to worry about the battery life. 

With 125W UltraDART, a 5G smartphone with a battery life of 4000mAh can be charged around 33% in 3 minutes, supporting hours of daily use of 5G smartphone. The reason why it can get fully charged in just 20 minutes is about the future commercialization and safety, realme specially controls the smartphone temperature under 40°. realme wants to control the charging speed smartly and safely, instead of pursuing the extreme fast charging speed. With temperature control, it could be 13 minutes for 100% charge.

Also, the 125W UltraDART still focuses on both efficiency and safety by adopting direct charging to avoid any potential charging accidents with multi-layer protection. 125W UltraDART does not only support the phone charged while the screen is on and being played with, but also makes 5G smartphones get charged faster, more safely and also comfortable to use.

Applying 125W UltraDART in all price segment to bring leap-forward experience for everyone

Technologies that can be utilized by more people are good ones. realme illustrates that it will take more 5G smartphones shipped with the 125W UltraDART Flash Charging technology into mass production, to make the young users, who realme values the most to experience the innovative charging technology as soon as possible. Meanwhile, as “Popularizer of Tech Trendsetting Life”, realme insists on the “Dare to Leap” brand conception to gradually bring the world-advancing smartphone charging technologies to more price segments rather than only flagship products, bringing the always-on 5G fast-speed experience to more young users which breaks the constraints of the price.

As the brand focusing on the young, realme commits itself to creating products with a leap-forward experience of all aspects. The official launch of the 125W UltraDART Flash Charging technology will magnificently shorten the charging time of high capacity batteries and guarantee the battery life of 5G smartphones, to help realme 5G smartphones perform excellently and offer better trendsetting user experiences.

HUAWEI Y8p – A Kingpin of Smartphone Photography

Huawei conducts weekly photography master classes for its fans imparted by Huawei Experience Ambassadors who showcase their photography and experience with the HUAWEI Y8p

Smartphone photography is all the rage today, with smartphone manufacturers adding more complex and functional camera innovations to their smartphones with every release. However, it is not common for entry-level smartphones to get the same treatment, often resulting in the segment not having the advanced camera setups seen in its bigger brothers.

Huawei’s Y series however is known for breaking that mold, often bringing powerful features that revolutionize the entry-level segment. The latest in the series, the HUAWEI Y8p continues in this path and brings to the table a powerful 48MP AI Triple Camera setup that suits all your camera needs! Powerful features, stunning designs, long lasting solid performance, all in a midrange smartphone for PKR 37,999/-. This is what the HUAWEI Y series aims to deliver, especially by making smartphone innovations more accessible to users at all levels.

This time, Huawei also added virtual #ShotonHuawei Master Classes that are held weekly by Huawei Experience Ambassadors (HEAs). These classes have amassed more than 200 participants from all over Pakistan with people raving about the skills that they have learnt from the Masters.

One participant commented “Special thanks to HUAWEI Community for offering free training to their fans, really amazing initiative”, while another expressed how “this session means a lot to the photographers”. Given the overwhelming response from fans, Huawei will continue these master classes for another few sessions with the next one coming up on Saturday, 25 July, 2020. Keep checking the official page for more information.

Amjad Nawaz

Amjad - known for capturing street, culture and architecture photographed an old building using HUAWEI Y8p. Amjad has an eye for the right angle and light which creates drama and flattering lines.

Faisal Farooq

Faisal is one of the oldest Huawei Experience Ambassadors and nonetheless much talented. Faisal used HUAWEI Y8p’s 48MP camera to capture these mesmerizing and obscure photographs of the sea – a great escape amid lockdown.

Ali Awais

Ali Awais spends the afternoon at Old City, Lahore. He uses the art of framing and the Wide Angle Lens of HUAWEI Y8p to capture some of Lahore’s monuments from afar. 

Hashim Khan

Hashim Khan joins the #ShotonHuawei for the first time and proves his worth by demonstrating the art of lighting. He photographs the perfect portrait using HUAWEI Y8p in which he puts his creative hat on to get the right amalgamation of shadows and light. In the second image HUAWEI Y8p’s incredible AI stabilization comes to play as Hashim captures a perfect shot of the road in a moving car.

Sidra Tulnoor

Also joining the #ShotonHuawei campaign for the first time, Sidra channeled her inner bookworm and showed us how she’s been spending time during lockdown. The 48MP Quad AI Camera perfectly encapsulates the raw colours of these images, giving us a feel of both daylight and lowlight photography.

Embracing digital is key to transforming work experience for accountants

New ways of working will accelerate a move towards digitisation and promote careers that are intellectually stretching and driven by a renewed sense of purpose.

Future work for accountancy and finance professionals is set transform for the better through an increase in the adoption of digital technologies, according to Meaningful work for the digital professional, a report by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and EY based on a global survey of 4,281 respondents and 55 interviews between April and May 2020.

Respondents to the survey were benchmarked against a group of survey respondents termed ‘Leaders’, who scored highly across a range of categories including the use and adoption of technology in the workplace. These Leaders typically worked at organisations that outperformed in adjusting their delivery model during the pandemic, with 95% saying their organisations were well prepared for using technology against a global average of 74%.

Overall, the report shows that there is room to increase levels of digital adoption. Globally, community technologies (55%) such as social media and messaging saw the highest adoption rates followed by ‘Next-generation’ computing (eg Cloud, Serverless, Edge) at 36% and data technologies (eg big data, analytics, visualisation) at 30%. The largest gap in adoption rates between leaders and the rest of respondents was within the data technologies category. Looking ahead to the next decade, respondents expect engagement with digital and technology to approach 90%. 

Perhaps surprisingly, the report also found that less experienced professionals, who might be expected to be more digitally savvy, found the transition to remote working as a result of COVID-19 more difficult than experienced employees. This may reflect factors like a lack of appropriate workspace where they live, or a greater need for guidance in their work.

Report author Narayanan Vaidyanathan says: ‘While a fast-evolving and automating world presents challenges, for those willing to engage there are wins to be had.

‘The digital landscape presents significant opportunities for accountancy and finance professionals to achieve meaningful work experiences – ones that are driven by purpose and which afford the potential to stretch oneself in new and fulfilling ways.’

Two big differentiators of the Leader group were that their organisations had conducted employee skills mapping to identify gaps and had tried to understand if employees found their work fulfilling. These are both critical components for creating meaningful work experiences.

Ruchi Bhowmik, Global Vice Chair – Public Policy at EY said: ‘Embracing new technology will help ease many of the pressures on today’s accountancy and finance professionals from increasingly complex, but routine tasks, issues and bring a new sense of purpose to their roles. At EY, our professionals are already leveraging technology and analysing data in a way that helps elevate their daily work, build essential skills, and lead to rich and meaningful careers.’

Helen Brand OBE, chief executive of ACCA, said: ‘Satisfaction in work is a fundamental building block of a happy and successful life. For accountancy and finance professionals, digital tools offer new possibilities for meaningful work that will outlast the economic challenges posed by the global pandemic.’

Meaningful work for the digital professional can be found here:

https://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/professional-insights/technology/Meaningful_Work_Digital_Professional.html

With new Product Strategy realme Pakistan aims to launch more exciting products for fans

Youth’s most favorite smartphone brand realme first debuted in Pakistan in 2019 as a smartphone brand. In the short time since, the company has launched over two dozen smartphones and expanded its business in over 25 markets across the globe. Last month realme introduced the X3 SuperZoom - the brand’s first phone with a periscope camera.

realme offers great value for money smartphones across different segments, but the company is also quickly expanding its ecosystem. It launched its first true wireless earphones last December and in March its first fitness tracker, dubbed realme Band.

With Dare-to-Leap spirit, realme makes continuous efforts to bring to the youth products beyond expectation and quickly successfully manage to achieve more than 25 million global users. Focusing on AIoT, realme plans to create a complete AIoT ecosystem young brand has grouped its AIoT products into three categories — Personal, Home and Travel.

realme has announced its new product strategy, 1+4+N. It will be spinning around the company’s core smartphone business and smart AIOT product range. “1” indicates smartphones, “4” is for the sub-categories Smart TV, Smart Earphone, Smartwatch and Smart Speaker and the “N” indicates AIOT products. Smartphones will be the focus of realme’s AIOT ecosystem. All the AIOT products will be connected to and managed by their smartphones. Further, the realme Link App will allow the smartphones to be used to manage various AIoT products, enhancing your personal, home, and travel experiences.

1 Core: Smartphones will be the main center of realme’s AIOT ecosystem. All the AIOT products will be connected to and managed by realme smartphones. Plus the realme Link App, realme smartphones as the primary point will be able to manage various AIoT products, enhancing your personal, home, and travel experiences.

4 Smart Hubs: This is to help consumers manage and control more AIOT products together with smartphones. Hence, this has been divided into 4 sub-categories – Smart TV, Smart Earphone, Smart Watch and Smart Speaker.

N AIOT products: The ‘N’ here represents realme’s commitment to bring a plethora of new AIOT and lifestyle products for realme fans, including various accessories ranging from in-car chargers, backpacks, luggage cases, to smart home gadgets.

HUAWEI Y8p is the Ultimate Champion with its 48 MP AI Triple Camera

In the photography department, HUAWEI Y8p outshines in its price segment with a true 48MP camera priced at PKR 37,999/-

Huawei’s newest mid-level smartphone the HUAWEI Y8p is finally here and we have had a detailed look at it. Starting with its camera and moving to its performance, design and smart user experience the HUAWEI Y8p shines. Here are three reasons why we love it!

A camera setup that does all the tricks – Powered by AI

Let’s be honest most of us check out the camera first on every new smartphone that comes out. Well, for starters HUAWEI Y8p comes with a 48MP AI Triple Camera, which consists of a 48MP main camera that takes all-day high quality photos. Also, an 8MP ultra wide-angle camera is perfect for capturing landscapes, city skylines and group photos without leaving anyone out of the frame, up to a staggering 120-degrees (that’s quite a lot of view!). Lastly, there is the 2MP Bokeh camera, which adds professional and beautiful Bokeh effects to all your photos. This combined setup helps you take excellent photos as you go about your day and night as well. Yes, night! HUAWEI Y8p’s camera setup comes with an AIS Super Night Photography that lets you take stunning night photos from the comfort of your palms with clear and vivid results because it can effectively stabilise images. HUAWEI Y8p comes with Master AI photography, allowing you to effortlessly take beautiful photos within your reach. Master AI can recognise objects in an image and provide you with dedicated optimisation (Yes, it can fix your photos on your behalf!) It can also identify object size, positioning, and its centre point on the screen and then adjust accordingly through AI algorithms. Master AI can recognise more than 500 scenes across 21 categories including blue skies, snow, plants, cats, dogs, food, fireworks, stage performances and more!

Do you think we would forget about selfies? I mean we all want our profile pictures on social media to standout out, or when sharing selfies with friends on an instant messaging platform. HUAWEI Y8p comes with a 16MP front-facing camera that supports HDR selfies. Not only clear selfies, but it also gives nice backlighting effects. Under lighting from different directions such as front-on lighting, backlighting, or from the side, the camera uses AI algorithms to compensate the interference brought by different lightings. Do you know what is even better? This phone supports selfie Night Mode, so that you can take selfies even in low-light settings – like how cool is that!?

Store all your photos and videos and see them at anytime

You want a phone with enough storage space for all your photos, videos and files. A phone with a large and powerful battery that will live with you during your hectic long days and nights! A smartphone with an intelligent processor for smooth and efficient processing be it for video streaming or gaming. HUAWEI Y8p comes with a large 6GB RAM for slick and smooth processing of all your videos and games, in addition to 128GB of internal storage, which is adequate space for storing all your audio, and video. Moreover, HUAWEI Y8p comes with a large battery of 4000mAh (typical value). It also supports AI Power Saving 7.0 that prolongs battery life, with this battery all the files you download plus the video calls you make won’t be a problem whatsoever! The phone also comes with Kirin 710F which provides smooth and high performance at all times with low power consumptions. Therefore, whether you are watching your favourite show, listening to your most loved podcast, or even playing that highly intense game, with this processor in hand all experiences will be smooth. HUAWEI Y8p comes running on EMUI 10.1, which comes with a brand new UI (User Interface) design, which focuses on every detail to create a premium sense.

Stylish and elegant design

Of course, a smartphone with amazing camera, outstanding performance is even better with an exquisite design. HUAWEI Y8p comes with a 6.3-inch HUAWEI Dewdrop OLED Display. Together with a resolution of 2400x1080, the smartphone can display vibrant colours and crisp details. Whether you are gaming, watching videos or browsing images, HUAWEI Y8p will bring you unbeatable visual immersion and enjoyment. For your security, this beautiful display incorporates an In-screen fingerprint sensor for quick unlocking. The smartphone adopts a 3D Arc design for a compact body, while its back panel with vivid colours is fascinating and eye-catching. HUAWEI Y8p comes in two colourways, the novel Breathing Crystal and classic Midnight Black.

HUAWEI Y8p provides you with an immersive gaming experience. GPU Turbo in EMUI 10.1 comes with enhanced touch responsiveness, which allows the user to stay a step ahead of the other players in the game. The improved GPU Turbo provides for immersive visuals with a consistently high frame rate, and buttery smooth gameplay.

The HUAWEI Y8p comes with HUAWEI Mobile Services and its own app platform, the HUAWEI AppGallery, which boasts a wide range of global and local apps making it the third largest app marketplace in the world.

So yeah, if you’re looking for a smartphone with an astonishing camera, powerful performance, chic look and one that can also provide you with a smart user experience then look no further. Go on and grab the HUAWEI Y8p retailing at PKR 37,999/-.

SCHOOL OF TOMORROW - WORLD'S PREMIER SCHOOLS & SOCIETIES CONFERENCE FINALE

Global leaders emphasize need for conversations on reimagining the future of education and safer, more balanced futures

Day three of the first, fully virtual Beaconhouse School of Tomorrow Conference: A World of Tomorrow: Negotiating a Better Future concluded the conference with all 22 sessions resonating with global audiences over the weekend. A key highlight of day one of the conference was the recognition of the Pakistan government’s comprehensive response to COVID-19 by Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. On day two, Mr Andreas Schleicher, Head of the OECD Directorate of Education & Skills joined for a discussion with Mr Kasim Kasuri, CEO of Beaconhouse on PISA assessment and the future of Education and Learning.

The third day of the conference continued with an insightful discussion on the hope that emerging learning could offer to the world’s 258 million out-of-school children. This panel discussion featured Stephanie Dobrowolski, co-founder, Rising Academy Network, Africa, Mosharraf Zaidi, leading public policy analyst, Professor Tahir Andrabi, economist & educational leader, and Henry Warren, a specialist in disruptive digital businesses as the moderator.

A highlight of the day was the conversation on reimagining the future of learning, moderated by Nassir Kasuri, Executive Director, Beaconhouse, with the featured speakers Dr Roger Schank, AI Researcher & CEO, Socratic Arts, Suzie Boss, iconic US learning advocate & PBLWorks Faculty, Dr Siva Kumari, Director General, International Baccalaureate, and Professor Dr Ger Graus OBE, Global Director of Education, KidZania.

Sessions ran concurrently on topics such as supporting vulnerable & SEN learners during school closures with Professor Maggie Atkinson, former Children's Commissioner for England, award-winning novelist, Mohsin Hamid, inclusion expert, LaCheyna Sparrow-Adebiyi, and founder ‘Cities for Children’ Madeeha Ansari amongst others, along with a seminar on the International Baccalaureate’s ATL philosophy with Lance King. Transformative values and competencies were explored with Dr Tristian Stobie, Director Curriculum CAIE, Cynthia Guyer, Executive Director, Global Dignity, Dr Umar Saif, technology advisor, and Vikas Pota, education leader & creator of Global Teacher Prize.

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, cognitive scientist, Munizae Jahangir, journalist, and Lara Rathod, creator/host, Red Sofa Conversations, discussed the ‘Info-demic’ in an attempt to sift fact from fiction, along with Oscar-winning film producer & member, House of Lords, UK, Lord David Puttnam CBE.

The School of Tomorrow conference seeks to understand how Covid-19 is shaping important global conversations about safer and more balanced futures, as well as pushing educators to reimagine the future of education at both school and university levels.

The conference updates are made available on its website (www.sotevents.com) and the social media platforms Facebook and YouTube (Sot Events).

SOT Events are made possible by the generous support of corporate sponsors. The organisers acknowledge the support of United Bank Limited as the Lead Sponsor for SOT Edition XI.

The non-profit School of Tomorrow Event Series was launched in 2000 and is organised by Beaconhouse as part of its ongoing commitment to its social responsibility

Pandemic hurts domestic demand and recession hits exports

Economic analysis reveals the impact on Pakistan’s employment and confidence

ACCA’s Q2 Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS) published today, reflects the scale of the global recession now under way. Globally, employment indices plummeted to record lows in the latest survey, consistent with the most severe recession in decades.

Pakistan is heading for economic contraction this year as pandemic mitigation measures hurt domestic demand and global recession hits exports. There is also a massive hike in unemployment – the Employment Index stands at -86.95 compared to 57.14 in Q1 and confidence is at an all-time low in Q2 at -78.26 compared with -28.57 in Q1. But the inflation-prone region has seen a dramatic fall in inflationary pressures – inflation concerns index fell by 25 points to just 20 in the Q2 survey – the long run average is 51. It also transpires that public spending expenditure has lowered from -33.33 in Q2 from 20 in Q1.

Michael Taylor, ACCA’s Chief Economist said: ‘Confidence in South Asia fell further in Q2, possibly reflecting that the region was late to see the spread of COVID-19. Also, activity indicators also remain weak, despite a slight improvement in the orders balance and it is worth noting that it is the only region to do so.’

He added: ‘The change in the GECS global index of measured concern about customers and suppliers going out of business underlines the current extremely poor global economic situation.  Both these series had trended sideways at relatively low levels in recent years but shot up to record highs in Q2 – to 23% for suppliers and 47% for customers.’

Special Covid-19 related questions in this GECS show an approximate 50-50 split between those expecting economic recovery in the second half of this year and those expecting it sometime in 2021.

Sajjeed Aslam, Head of ACCA Pakistan, said: ‘ACCA members have played a crucial role in the first phase of the pandemic – supporting businesses and organisations to keep trading. At this time of economic turbulence, accountants are both value creators and value protectors, helping their clients and the businesses they work in to make informed economic decisions. They will now undoubtedly play a crucial role in the recovery phase.’

The latest edition of GECS is here: https://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/professional-insights/global-economics/GECS_Q2_2020.html