HUAWEI Y9a - the Midrange King Goes on Sale across Pakistan Today

With a sleek design, powerful performance, smooth app experience, reliable quality and good value for money – HUAWEI Y9a is now available to purchase at PKR 43,999/-

The HUAWEI Y series continues to exceed expectations of young consumers all over Pakistan. It is touted as a worthy digital companion that flouts the norms of a thriving technology market. HUAWEI Y9a is a revolutionary smartphone that is now available for purchase - online and in stores, all over Pakistan. With its powerful performance and fascinating camera, this device promises great value for money, attracting an overwhelming response from consumers nationwide. Featuring many flagship specs like a 40W HUAWEI SuperCharge, 64MP Quad AI Camera, 6.63" HUAWEI Ultra FullView Display, 8GB RAM and 128GB storage - all amid an eye catching design, it is surely the perfect choice for consumers of every age.

Huawei’s goal is to bring the latest and greatest technologies for everyone to enjoy.  With insights into the latest trends, Huawei has launched Y9a to meet the younger generations’ needs for a smartphone prioritising design and entertainment.

Through constant improvements being made to camera capabilities, Huawei always brings new surprises to users when it comes to innovative breakthroughs. The HUAWEI Y9a continues this tradition in terms of smartphone photography by including a high-resolution main camera, Super Night Mode and more to make up the all-scenario quad camera. Housing a 64MP Quad Camera with hi-resolution technology, within its Halo Ring Design, it enables you to capture key moments with exceptionally vivid clarity and beauty. The camera set-up is also enriched with 120° Wide Angle Photo-lens, AI beautification and EIS anti-shake technology, to take social media-worthy photos.

Super narrow bezels facilitate an unobstructed, immersive viewing experience. Every inch on HUAWEI Y9a’s 6.63" Ultra FullView Display is used to deliver an immersive viewing experience. The new Huawei smartphone completely eliminates the notch area with a 16MP pop-up camera – a design that is well-regarded as the best implementation of the front camera so far. Its enhanced auto selfie pop-up camera is another novel solution, while the 6.63” HUAWEI Ultra FullView Display enables you to enjoy your stunning selfies and videos without any distractions.

The latest EMUI 10.1 promises unmatched ease and seamless experiences while users can indulge in a wide range of mobile apps, as the HUAWEI Y9a is pre-installed with HUAWEI AppGallery – Huawei’s official app marketplace. With Petal Search, Huawei brings more than 1.8 million apps straight to your phone. The users can simply browse and download all the apps they need, alongwith the most advanced and globally famous apps. This device is revolutionizing the way people connect and access the latest info-tainment, all across the globe.

This solution offering a vast range of applications that can truly empower the consumers, especially the users in Pakistan. Some of these notable apps are: Standard Chartered, Habib Bank, Jazz Cash, Askari Bank, Telenor, Bank Al-Falah, Meezan Bank, Pakistan Railways, Daraz.com, ARY News, GeoTV, Hum TV, Zameen.com, Pak-Wheels, Citizens Portal Pakistan, PTA DIRBS, English Dictionary, PTV Sports and other leading apps for Social-Media, Quranic knowledge, technology-updates, traveling, Music and so much more.

The Y9a also shows unmatched performance while multi-tasking, browsing or watching videos for long periods, while the 4200mAh (typical value) large battery provides extended support. Its 40W HUAWEI SuperCharge technology provides 70% charge-up with only a 30-minutes charging session, so the users enjoy uninterrupted performance.

This amazing device is attractively priced at PKR 43,999/- and is available in three futuristic colors that exude mystery like; Midnight Black, Space Silver and Sakura Pink.

For more information, please visit: https://consumer.huawei.com/

ACCA to train teachers for the ‘New Normal’

ACCA is organising a free of cost teacher training workshop to support country’s educators to be better prepared to teach more effectively in a post-pandemic ‘New Normal’ as they return to in-person teaching in a highly transformed world.

 

Themed 'Getting ready to teach in the ‘New Normal’ – Mastering the post-pandemic pedagogy', the workshop will include exclusive insights into how teachers can prepare themselves for a blended future of education, learn new skills and tools to enhance learning experience of the students, devise comprehensive assessment techniques, and disseminate learning and advice that prepares students for the future workplace.

 

In a statement, ACCA’s Marketing Communications Manager, Rashid Khan said,

 

“The pandemic is a wake-up call of monumental proportions to educators around the world, who must radically rethink a strategy of constantly evolving according to the needs and ever-changing behaviours of learners and keep imagining the ‘next normal’.”

 

“As part of ACCA's commitment to promoting future-thinking and supporting our partners with shaping a sustainable, inclusive future for all, we continue to hold capacity building sessions to help organisations with their future-readiness and resilience against the uncertainties of future.”

 

Featuring contributions from internationally renowned trainers joining from the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and Pakistan, the workshop is particularly designed for individuals involved in the profession of teaching, curriculum design, and career counselling.

 

Paul Kirkwood, Sarah Corcoran, Fazeela Gopalani, Sajjeed Aslam, Hammad Azim and Mehwish Kareem are among the learned trainers. The training will be delivered online on 29 September between 2PM and 06:30PM.

 

The training is open for all educators in Pakistan and registrations are currently open: https://bit.ly/TeachinginNewNormal

HUAWEI Y9a - A Complete Midrange Killer with HUAWEI AppGallery & Petal Search

This midrange powerhouse is up for pre-orders till Sunday, 20 September, 2020 offering more than 1.8 million apps to users after which it shall debut for PKR 43,999/-.

 

As the technology industry continues to create fascinating experiences for consumers around the world, one of the leading enterprises in this sector – Huawei is also innovating and revolutionizing the way people connect and access the latest info-tainment, all across the globe. With the recent launch of its latest smartphone – HUAWEI Y9a, this truly global company has once again proved its technology leadership. Users can indulge in a wide range of mobile apps, as the Y9a device is pre-installed with the HUAWEI AppGallery – Huawei’s official app marketplace, with a constantly growing list of apps, where users can simply browse and download all the apps they need. Moreover, the ‘Petal Search’ feature brings more than 1.8 million apps straight to your phone.

 

This solution offers a vast range of applications that can truly empower consumers, especially the users in Pakistan. Some of the notable apps among these are: Easypaisa, JazzCash, Standard Chartered, Habib Bank, Askari Bank, Telenor, Bank Al-Falah, Meezan Bank, Pakistan Railways, Daraz.com, ARY News, GeoTV, Hum TV, Zameen.com, Pak-Wheels, Citizens Portal Pakistan, PTA DIRBS, English Dictionary, PTV Sports and other leading apps for social networking, Quranic knowledge, technology-updates, traveling, music and much more.

 

Promising great value-for-money, along with blazing performance and a sleek Halo Ring design - the Y9a device fulfills the evolving needs of every consumer-segment. This midrange device is a masterpiece with Huawei's trendsetting flagship specs like; 64MP AI Quad-Camera, 8GB RAM and 128GB storage and a 40W HUAWEI SuperCharge.

 

The 64MP Quad-Camera enables the users to capture their most memorable moments, with vivid clarity and vibrancy in video and still pictures. Featuring a Night Mode, a 120° Wide Angle Photo-lens, AI beautification and EIS anti-shake technology, it ensures perfect photography, worthy of social media sharing. The Selfie pop-up camera on the front has an enhanced 16MP lens, while the 6.63 inch HUAWEI Ultra FullView Display, with 92% screen-to-body ratio that enables you to enjoy your visuals without distractions. HUAWEI Y9a comes with the latest EMUI 10.1 software update as standard, allowing seamless and convenient usage and delightful experiences.

 For the young customers, the HUAWEI Y9a delivers an immersive gaming experience that they have always craved for. It also shows unmatched performance while multi-tasking, browsing or watching videos for long periods, while the 4200mAh (typical value) large battery provides extended support. Its 40W HUAWEI SuperCharge technology provides a 70% charge with only 30-minutes of charging, so the users enjoy uninterrupted performance.

 

This amazing device is attractively priced at PKR 43,999/- and is available in beautiful colors like; Midnight Black, Space Silver and Sakura Pink. For more information, please visit: https://consumer.huawei.com/

Pakistani professional accountant mum wins gold in Australia

Madeeha Usman FCCA, an ACCA qualified professional accountant from Pakistan, who’s currently running a business ‘The Kalculators’ in Australia has won four awards at a recently held Ausmumpreneur awards.

 

The AusMumpreneur Awards are presented by ‘The Women’s Business School’ and were created to inspire, celebrate and provide a community for Australian entrepreneurs, like Madeeha.

 

After receiving this news, Madeeha said she was excited to win in all the four categories in the 2020 AusMumpreneur Awards in such a challenging time. She was declared winner in following four categories:

 

1.         People Choice Customer Service Award

2.         Rising Star Award

3.         Business Excellence Award, WA and SA

4.         Multicultural Business Award

 

Madeeha says: “Special thanks to AusMumpreneur for recognising and honouring women in business. Keeping our accounting firm offices open during the COVID outbreak was challenging as it posed such a high risk of bringing an infection at my home with my two little children. However, when you step into the world of business with big dreams, you have to take a leap of faith and continue to do what you are doing.”

 

Recognising the role ACCA played in her career, she adds: “Choosing ACCA was truly a life-changing decision for me. My ACCA credentials helped me greatly in reaching where I’m today - from landing my first job immediately in Australia after emigrating from Pakistan to founding my own business, my qualification has given me the international recognition and global support that’s simply amazing.”

 

Congratulating Madeeha, ACCA’s head of Pakistan, Sajjeed Aslam, said: “ACCA is extremely proud of its Pakistan students and members. Sharing their experiences, challenges and triumphs continues to inspire others towards even greater achievement. ACCA’s women in finance are true role models for the young girls in the country and their career stories prove that anyone with ability and ambition can succeed under all circumstances if they’re provided with quality education and necessary support by the professional community.”

 

The Women’s Business School co-founder Katy Garner adds: “The awards show the passion of women who want to fulfil their entrepreneurial dreams as well as be great mums. We are delighted that Madeeha Usman FCCA won this award, she has created an outstanding business and is an inspirational role model and ambassador for mums in business everywhere.”

An Unmatched Design and Blazing Performance - Midrange King HUAWEI Y9a Opens for Pre-orders in Pakistan

       

 

The smartphone captures the best of both worlds with its aesthetics and performance, and can be pre-ordered from Monday, 14 September till Sunday, 20 September, 2020 after which the Midrange King shall retail for PKR 43,999/-.

 

A phone made for power, performance and photography - HUAWEI Y9a opens for pre-orders today in Pakistan. Offering a sleek design, powerful performance and good value for money, the HUAWEI Y9a promises to be a perfect choice for consumers of every age. The smartphone brings Huawei's trendsetting flagship specs like 40W HUAWEI SuperCharge, 64MP Quad Camera, 8GB and 128GB storage encapsulated in a design derived from the HUAWEI Mate 30 Series. HUAWEI Y9a can be pre-ordered from Monday, 14 September till Sunday, 20 September nationwide following which it shall be made available for PKR 43,999/-.

 

Housing a 64MP Quad Camera which packs-in Huawei’s market-leading smartphone camera technology, the Halo Ring Design makes sure you stand out in more ways than one. Not only does the design itself turn heads, but it ensures you capture key moments anytime, anywhere with outstanding clarity and beauty. Featuring a 64MP High-Resolution Camera, Night Mode, a 120° Wide Angle Photo lens, AI beautification and EIS anti-shake technology, you can be sure of perfectly social media-worthy photos. The enhanced 16MP auto selfie pop-up camera is a novel solution which allows you to enjoy the 6.63” HUAWEI Ultra FullView Display without distractions, as well as producing stunning selfies every time.

Young consumers demand a smartphone that excels at mobile gaming, and the HUAWEI Y9a certainly delivers on that front. Super narrow bezels and the enhanced auto selfie pop-up camera facilitate an unobstructed, immersive viewing experience, allowing you to enjoy a 6.63” HUAWEI Ultra FullView Display whether you are gaming, browsing or watching videos. This stylish and immersive design with 92% screen-to-body ratio is perfect for gamers, ensuring you can play without obstruction.

Mobile gamers need to have the confidence they can play for long periods without worrying about battery life. This is another area where the HUAWEI Y9a excels thanks to its 4200mAh (typical value) large battery. HUAWEI Y9a features the industry-leading 40W HUAWEI SuperCharge technology. Using this solution, users can charge the device up by nearly 70% in a 30-minute charging session.

The smartphone category has evolved in recent years, and consumers now quite rightly expect flagship-level performance for an affordable price. Pushing the limits of what consumers can expect at its price point, the HUAWEI Y9a packs in 8GB RAM + 128GB ROM for massive internal storage and background multi-tasking. This means you can play, browse and watch for hours at a time, experiencing an easy and smooth multitasking performance.

HUAWEI Y9a comes with the latest EMUI 10.1 software update as standard, allowing users to enjoy seamless, intelligent experiences that let them stay connected with consummate ease.

To indulge users with a wide range of mobile apps, the HUAWEI Y9a is pre-installed with HUAWEI AppGallery – Huawei’s official app marketplace with a constantly growing list of apps, where users can simply browse and download the apps they need. And with Petal Search, Huawei brings more than a million apps straight to your phone.

The HUAWEI Y9a is available in Midnight Black, Space Silver and Sakura Pink, while it can be pre-booked from Monday, 14 September till Sunday, 20 September, 2020. For more information, please visit: https://consumer.huawei.com/

PSDF represents Pakistan as skills expert at the GSG Global Impact Summit 2020

CEO Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF), Jawad Khan, spoke at the GSG Global Impact Summit 2020 in the session on ‘Upskilling the Unemployed’ to discuss the importance of impact investment in training and an outcome-based approach to re-skilling and up-skilling programmes targeting the vulnerable and unemployed.

The GSG Summit attracts changemakers from across the world, to work on a just and impact-led recovery that benefits all people and the planet. This year’s virtual summit focused on how to place impact at the heart of COVID-19 response and recovery and bring forward solutions that can help rally and re-build. The 3 day summit, spanning 9th to 11th September, brought forward influential speakers from 32 countries across the world, from the public and private sector, such as Achim Steiner, The Administrator of the UNDP, Emmanuel Faber, CEO at Danone, Jessica Alba, founder at The Honest Company and Ibukun Awosika, Chair at the First Bank of Nigeria.

The 2^nd day of the Summit included the session on ‘Upskilling the Unemployed’ which looked at the adverse economic impact of Covid-19, and ideated on impact investment and outcome-based vehicles that could be promising to achieve scale and maximum social outcomes.

At the session, CEO PSDF, Jawad Khan joined as one of the prime speakers on global labour market trends and the challenges and opportunities brought forward by the Covid-19 pandemic, and focused on how ‘pay for success’ financing and schemes can help ensure a rapid and fair recovery. He further expanded on PSDF’s involvement in leading a number of cross-sector partnerships in the skilling space, such as the National Accelerator on closing the skills gap (Parwaaz), that identifies high-growth sectors and declining and emerging job roles, to skill, re-skill and upskill the current and future workforce.

Other speakers at the session included Annie Plancher, Vice President of Staff and Strategy at Social Finance US, Maha Keramane, Head of Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship from BNP Paribas, and Dr. Swapan Bala, Professor at University of Dhaka.

 

Huawei Announces New Developer Technologies Capable of Smarter All-Scenario Experiences

Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (Together) was held today at Songshan Lake. In the keynote speech, Huawei announced major upcoming updates for HarmonyOS 2.0, EMUI 11, HMS (Huawei Mobile Services), HUAWEI HiLink, and HUAWEI Research. These improvements will empower global developers and ecosystem partners to provide enhanced and innovative user experiences for users. At the event, Huawei also unveiled six new products that will contribute to Huawei’s all-scenario experience – HUAWEI MateBook X, HUAWEI MateBook 14, HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 Pro, HUAWEI FreeBuds Pro, HUAWEI WATCH FIT and HUAWEI FreeLace Pro.

During the three days, Huawei will bring together developers from around the world through various exciting activities, including Lakeside Talks, Tech. Sessions, Tech. Hour, Codelabs and more. The itinerary will provide opportunities for developers to network, collaborate, and explore ways to bring smart all-scenario experiences to every user.

“Huawei’s breakthrough in ecosystem development is a result of the strong support from global developers and partners. Huawei will fully open core technologies as well as software and hardware capabilities to developers, collaborating with them to drive further innovation of an all-scenario smart ecosystem,” said Richard Yu, Executive Director and CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group. “Stars shine through even the darkest night. Each of our developers is a star. Together they form a brilliant array. That will light the way. ”

HarmonyOS 2.0: Officially Open Source with Mobile HarmonyOS Beta Available to Developers by Year End

Huawei announced its all-scenario experience operating system, HarmonyOS, back in 2019. Since then, a robust line-up of devices has been developed for the system, facilitating quick device discovery, instant connection, hardware collaboration, and resource sharing between multiple smart devices. HarmonyOS 2.0 is announced today, bringing a comprehensive upgrade to its existing distributed capabilities, including software bus, data management, and security. Huawei also introduced an adaptive UX framework that allows developers to quickly reach tens of millions of new devices and users.

With the latest update, HarmonyOS will officially be open-source and developers will be able to gain access to emulators, SDK packages, and IDE tools. The open source project, which is donated to Open Atom Foundation, will be launched in stages with a mobile HarmonyOS beta release planned firstly for Chinese developers at the end of 2020. Richard Yu announced the roadmap for HarmonyOS in his keynote speech. “Starting on 10 September, HarmonyOS is open to 128KB-128MB IoT devices, such as smart TVs, wearables, cars and more. In April 2021, we will open it to 128MB-4GB devices and in October 2021, HarmonyOS will be opened for devices above 4GB,” he said.

Based on the distributed technology in HarmonyOS, the newly released EMUI 11 enables interaction beyond smartphones. The new operating system allows devices interact with HarmonyOS-based IoT devices, bringing a unique all-scenario experience to users, including using the camera of a bigger-screen device for video calling. The process is powered by the touchless connection between smartphones and HarmonyOS-based home devices, enabling screen projection and more.

Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Ecosystem: Breaking Ground as The World’s Third Largest Mobile App Ecosystem

With the support of more 1.8 million registered developers worldwide, AppGallery and the HMS ecosystem has continued to show progress this year. AppGallery currently has over 96,000 apps integrated with HMS Core and more than 490 million global active users. In addition, it also achieved a record 261 billion app downloads and distributions between January and August 2020.

In a single year, HMS Core 5.0’s open capabilities have increased from 14 Kits to 56 Kits, while the number of APIs has jumped from 885 to 12,981 covering seven major areas, helping developers achieve innovation and simplify the development process.

For instance, the CG Kit in the Graphics field improves graphics, image quality and experience, as well as improving game screen rendering efficiency. Location kit in the App Services category meets the positioning requirements, providing centimetre to millimetre accuracy location tracking depending on the scenario.

Huawei is committed to fully opening its core software and hardware capabilities. It has opened up core software services, such as browsing, search, map, payment, advertising kits, to accelerate innovation in app development. Huawei has also open up hardware capabilities such as its world-class camera capabilities, AR map capabilities, communication and transmission tools, as well as its leading privacy and security protection capabilities. Through these, Huawei seeks to empower developers to create a new generation of well-loved innovative apps across different categories.

Huawei also has extensive support to assist developers explore business opportunities in China and other global markets, by providing relevant consulting service, localization and integration, marketing and campaign services.

Going forward, Huawei continues to expand developer services. Huawei is building three global ecosystem cooperation labs in Russia, Poland, and Germany to serve global developers and provide enablement, testing, and certification services. Five global developer service centres will also be established in Romania, Malaysia, Egypt, Mexico, and Russia, providing local services and platforms to help developers better grow and innovate.

HUAWEI HiLink: Enabling Billions of IoT Devices to Connect, Manage and Exchange

As the standardised language of IoT Devices, HiLink breaks down barriers between IoT devices from different brands and manufacturers, providing a unified platform where devices can connect easily, and interact seamlessly.

This year, upgrades to HUAWEI HiLink will be made in five key areas: connection, interaction, operation, solution provider, and authentication. The goal is to make billions of IoT devices connect easily, more convenient to manage and control, and interact seamlessly to enable an all-scenario hardware ecosystem. At present, there are 50 million active users contributing more than 1 billion all-scenario device interaction requests every day, with a cumulative 400 million downloads of the Smart Life App

Automobile is also a key tenet of the IoT industry. The HiCar platform will continue to empower automobile industry. HiCar is currently collaborating with over 150 car models with more planned so that more car owners will enjoy the new smart travel experience in the near future.

Huawei is committed to the growth of the IoT hardware ecosystem. By providing more devices with access to HiLink platform, it strives to make IoT development easier and more efficient, enabling Huawei to simultaneously support partners in establishing industry leadership in the IoT sector.

HUAWEI Research: The innovative research platform

HUAWEI Research, which focuses on front-end research, opens two key platform capabilities HUAWEI Research Kit and HUAWEI Research Cloud. These capabilities facilitate efficient innovative research processes, accelerate technological breakthroughs, incubate apps innovations as well as quickly achieve result transformation. As a result, scientific research institutions, innovation institutions, industry organisations, medical institutions and other industry partners are empowered, allowing industries from all sectors to prosper.

In the Active Health Field, Huawei assisted in heart health research by ensuring that health research data collected is accurate and diverse. In the Travel Safety Field, mobile and wearable devices intelligently collaborate with automobiles to bring new safe-driving technologies such as the collision avoidance system and driver fatigue care. In the Home Life Field, Huawei harness multi-device wireless sensing capabilities to provide features, such as fall detection, non-inductive breathing monitoring and spatial positioning.

Huawei will continue to drive its software and hardware ecosystem moving forward. It is committed to opening up core technologies and capabilities further and empowering global developers and partners to create new possibilities together.