Here’s how the HUAWEI AppGallery can help you stay sane, entertained and informed at home

Working from home can be a daunting task, but with the right apps at your disposal, everything ranging from productivity to fitness can all be made a whole lot easier. This is one of the best reasons why you need to check out the HUAWEI AppGallery and its wide range of apps that can help you with your day to day tasks.

To get you started, it is worth checking out HUAWEI Health – the ideal App all your self-care and health needs at home. What’s even cooler is that it connects all your smart devices, such as the HUAWEI FreeBuds 3 and even the HUAWEI Watch GT 2 for a comprehensive health analysis. The Application allows you to keep a track of your fitness data, training plans, and workout data plus it allows you to add your personal information. After all, at a time like this it is necessary to keep your mental and physical health in check and stay positive.

What is HUAWEI AppGallery?

Huawei’s official app marketplace and one of the top 3 app platforms in the world, the HUAWEI AppGallery consists of a wide range of global and local apps, each suited for consumer needs. Apps that are downloaded from the HUAWEI AppGallery are also optimized for Huawei devices, while also bringing to users a full-cycle security and protection system. This system includes developer real-name verification, four-step review process, download and installation protection as well as a prevention mechanism for secure app operation. The HUAWEI AppGallery also has an age rating system globally that intelligently blocks non-age-appropriate content according to user settings to provide a safe and healthy application environment.

As of now, AppGallery is available in more than 170 countries/ regions with 400 million monthly active users globally and comes installed in all Huawei smartphones and tablets ranging from entry-level smartphones like the HUAWEI Y series to the mid-range HUAWEI nova series and even the flagship HUAWEI Mate and HUAWEI P series.

How do I look for apps?

The HUAWEI AppGallery has a wide range of apps that are neatly sorted into a list of categories to make searching easier. Opening the HUAWEI AppGallery will give you a screen with recommended and new apps along with a search bar on top where you can type out the name of the app you are looking for. Alternatively, you can go to the “Categories” section to browse through the categories. A total of 18 categories, these include games, Sports and Health, Business, Communication, Education and more. Once you pick a category, you can download the most relevant apps.

You also have a Quick Apps feature which is a new category where you don’t have to actually download and install apps, instead just use them directly. Quick Apps are written with only 1/5 amount of codes as compared to that of Android apps, which means they take up less space. You can also load them into the Quick App Centre for faster access.

What if I don’t find the app I’m looking for?

On the other hand, if you are not able to find the app you are looking for, then you can add the app name into a ‘Wishlist’ and submit it. When the app goes on-shelf in the AppGallery, you will be notified.

We know how there is an app for everything today and how much we are dependent on them. The HUAWEI AppGallery has all the apps you need and can be easily found and downloaded to enjoy. What app are you downloading first?

Uber Supports Healthcare Workers with the Launch of Uber Medics

Initiative is part of Uber’s Global Commitment to Move What Matters

Uber, the global ride-hailing platform that connects riders with drivers, has pledged free rides and deliveries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan (MENAP) region, specifically for frontline workers including the medical staff of hospitals and local NGOs, in an effort to move what matters during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Uber Medics is designed to ensure that healthcare workers, who need to be mobile, have a reliable and efficient way of getting around. With this effort, the company hopes that this 24/7 dedicated service gives hospitals and their workers the flexibility to provide optimal healthcare.

In partnership with hospitals including Shifa International, Benazir Bhutto, and PIMS, Uber Medics will provide free rides for their medical workers and essential staff, who will easily be able to book a ride to their respective homes or healthcare locations with the tap of a button from the Uber app. This service has been designed to ensure the health and safety of both riders and drivers, and also extends to NGO programs which support the marginalized sector of the society.

Uber Pakistan’s GM, Saad Naveed Pall commented, “We understand the necessity of social-distancing in current times and encourage our riders to stay at home. It is, however, imperative to support the healthcare staff of our country, a majority of whom depend on ride-sharing as a primary means of transport. Our partner drivers are equally assisting our communities through this crisis and with the necessary alterations in our services, we intend to offer them some degree of relief, and added convenience to the riders.”

Uber has also taken the necessary steps to ensure the safety of its partner drivers and is reimbursing them for the appropriate protective gear required in their vehicles to help minimize the risk of transmission.

COVID-19 has so far affected more than 13,000 lives in Pakistan, with a significant hit to the global economy. In these circumstances, Uber seeks to venture out in innovative ways to bring economic opportunities for its partner drivers, and cater to the needs of current times. Uber Delivery, for instance, was recently launched in Lahore, Islamabad and now Karachi, enabling customers to request for essential items to be dropped off at their doorstep. Uber is committed to responsibly use its technology to support the public in these altering times and also work together with the local authorities along with other entities to soldier through this pandemic.

realme Pakistan has launched 6 series with World's First Helio G80 powered realme 6i

realme Pakistan has unveiled the latest “realme 6i” the new member of realme 6 series quad camera family in an online launch event. realme is known for its vibrant and trendsetting smartphones designed especially for the younger audience upon the trifecta of strong performance, build quality, and affordable pricing. The young brand’s latest offering promises outstanding performance in a young and stylish manner and can be true allies for the users in a real sense. Renowned for their power and style, competing pricing, realme phones are known for their flagship imaging experiences that cater to the growing and dynamic needs of the youth.

The Launch event live on realme’s facebook page features live unboxing by KOL from tech industry, a Post Launch Media Meet-up via Zoom was also conducted to interact with media & address queries, the attendees from the media & tech industry praised the idea of live meet-up following the social distancing.

realme 6i smartphone will be available in Pakistan on sale by April 29, 2020. This quad-camera device holds the distinction of being the world’s first smartphone to feature the MediaTek Helio G80, a 12 nm gaming-focused chipset meant for the mid-range market. The octa-core CPU has a main frequency, up to 2.0GHz, offering 35% better single-core performance and 17% better multi-core performance than the previous generation. All of these combine to an Antutu Benchmark result of 201,278.

realme 6i as the successor of realme 5i, upgrades to 48MP AI Quad Camera – 48MP main camera, 119° ultra wide-angle lens (8MP), portrait lens (2MP) and 4cm ultra macro lens (2MP). Each camera of which is carried out its respective function and collaborated closely with others, resulting in a striking photo experience and fun. Particularly, the ultimately clear 48MP main camera helps produce clear and beautiful photos

 “The realme 6i will stand out among others in its price segment as it features the latest performance and trendy design. The realme 6i also offers gamers an enjoyable gaming experience as well as beautiful pictures with its 48MP AI Quad Camera for photography lovers,” says realme Pakistan brand manager Ahsan Chohan.

Where the realme 6i wins out, though, is in battery capacity. The device sports a massive 5,000mAh battery, much more than the realme 6’s 4,300mAh pack. It also supports 18W quick charge. The phone makers claim that the realme 6i can last 39 days with the screen turned off, and 40.07 hours with the screen on based on their tests.

realme 6i adopts classic design from Naoto Fukasawa, maintains masterpiece design style. It has adopted the rare spray coating process, and the phone has been polished hundreds of times. As a result, the back of the phone shows an advanced matte visual effect, with a delicate and comfortable finish. realme 6i comes in two young colors – Green Tea and White Milk at PKR 31,999. The first sale starts on 29 April 2020.

Want to Spend Quality Time with Your Loved Ones? Huawei’s got You Covered

Under normal circumstances, most of us do not get to spend sufficient quality-time with our families, due to our professional engagements and busy schedules. We have always longed for more time to spend with our loved ones. Due to the current lock down in Pakistan, our wish has been granted in a way, as we are able to enjoy our family’s affection for several weeks, or probably months.

With a work-from-home routine, many professionals are having more interaction with their families. So, we must not waste this unique opportunity to engage in healthy activities and inspire our whole household to join in some exciting and memorable moments together. Even the elderly can have great fun with the young children, whose schools have also been shut down. We must improve our health & fitness, while reflecting on our lives with a positive mindset for better wellbeing.

During this confined lifestyle, our smart-devices are acting as windows to a fascinating world of infotainment. Especially, the global technology leader – HUAWEI has introduced the widest range of smartphones in Pakistan, that feature countless activities and apps, designed for interactive family fun and learning. Some of these features that can brighten up these days at home include;

Board Games

Besides offering great fun for all ages, Board Games can stimulate and nurture intelligence. In HUAWEI AppGallery - the official app-distribution platform of Huawei, you will find all your favourite apps and video-games to download and play, with your family and loved ones. It becomes an even more immersive experience, if you play it on the HUAWEI Ultra Full View Display, featured on the HUAWEI Y7p, which is essentially 6.39 inches with maximized viewing area. To top it off, the 82.4% screen-to-body ratio is perfect for extended gaming sessions. It is certified by TUV Rheinland, for its Eye Comfort Mode, to ensure more fun & safety in your prolonged gaming-sessions.

Keep in Touch with your Extended Family

Another great way of spending quality time with your loved ones at home, is to engage through social-media or video-calling, with your relatives, friends or extended family, those you cannot meet because of social-distancing. What better way to stay connected than taking photos and recording videos of yourself and loved ones. You can also share your creative expressions or reminisce your memorable moments together with them.

The HUAWEI Y7p smartphone offers specialized features and unmatched camera prowess to enrich your digital interactions with your family. It boasts a 48 MP AI Triple Camera. A digital photo-studio with 3 intelligent rear cameras to capture vivid images, and details, even in the dark. It comprises of a 48 MP main camera, an 8 MP Ultra Wide-Angle camera and a 2 MP depth-camera that make anyone a brilliant photographer.

Cooking or Working-out with the Whole Family

Think of a challenge that will get the whole household involved. It should be simple, requiring cohesive efforts, so everyone can work together on something positive, while having great fun. Perhaps a family cooking exercise? Showcase your dishes in a presentable manner and capture them with the HUAWEI Y7p AI Camera and share them on your social media accounts, to let everyone out there judge the creative skills of each family member!

Active Lifestyle & Fitness for Families

Family workout sessions on a daily basis can be another refreshing and enjoyable activity. Perform simple physical exercises encouraging every family member to gradually improve their personal flexibility & stamina. The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 can monitor your fitness with its comprehensive smart-fitness tracking of 100 sports, including 15 professional workout modes, seven of which are for indoor sports and eight are for outdoor activities. These include; walking, running, cycling, pool swimming, free training, elliptical machine and rowing machine.

Moreover, the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 also tracks your health, by keeping tabs on the calories you burn, your stress-levels, heart rate and even sleep monitoring, providing you with a detailed report for your reference. You can also get 9 Body Compositions, in 1 Detection with HUAWEI Smart Scale including: weight, body fat, BMI, protein, visceral fat, muscle mass, body water percentage, Bone Mass, BMR.

Online Education and Training

There is a diverse range of online education and training programmes that you can complete without stepping out of the house. The whole family can easily enrich their intellectual capacity, by engaging in digital academic activities suited to your individual interests and aptitude. These also include vocational training, technical courses and handicraft skills that can improve a person’s employability. Families can also train & work together to generate some income in future, by creating some home-based small-businesses, with online promotion of their products & services, using their smart-devices for communicating with their target customers. 

All these ideas can encourage Pakistani citizens to stay home for the sake of protecting the health and saving lives of our fellow citizens, while remaining productive and avoiding boredom.

realme 6 series is here! Kicking off with World’s First Helio G80 powered device next week

realme Pakistan has confirmed pointing to a Helio G80-powered phone realme 6i. realme 6i is a deal breaker with MediaTek Helip G80 chipset which will be launched at realme’s online launch event. Tune in to watch the live unboxing on realme Pakistan’s facebook https://web.facebook.com/Pakistanrealme/ on 27th March 3 PM.

Officials have also confirmed the launch of two more 6 series models i.e realme 6 4GB and 8GB variant & realme Pro paired with 8GB & 128 GB Storage will be launched in Pakistan next month.

The realme 6i is a dual-SIM phone that runs Android 10 with Realme UI. It has a 6.5-inch HD+ MiniDrop display with a notch at the top, with an aspect ratio of 20:9 and shielded by Corning Gorilla Glass. The smartphone is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio G80 processor under the hood, paired with 3GB and 4GB RAM options. The internal storage options on the realme 6i include 64GB and 128GB, with expandability via microSD card slot. The smartphone has a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor.

realme 6i Key Specifications

Chipset: MediaTek Helio G80 (12 nm)
Rear Camera: Quad-camera;
48MP, f/1.8, (wide), 1/2.25″, 0.8µm, PDAF
8MP, f/2.3, 13mm (ultrawide)
2MP, f/2.4, (macro), 1/5.0″, 1.75µm
2MP, f/2.4, (depth)
Front Camera: 16 MP, f/2.0
Battery: 5000 mAh; 18W Quick Charging

New report reveals the ideal accounting practices for governments to deliver transparency for their citizens

Pensioners without pensions. Schools without students. Wells without water.

A report issued jointly by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and IFAC (the International Federation of Accountants), Is cash still king? Maximising the benefits of accrual information in the public sector not only confirms that a complete public sector transition to accrual accounting will serve the public interest, but also contains 30 specific recommendations to improve accrual implementation. 

Good decision-making requires the right information. Given that most government decisions have financial implications, understanding the economic reality of a government’s activities improves the quality of decisions made. The report predicts that by 2023, the number of countries reporting their financial position on an accruals basis is expected to increase from 37 to 98, jumping from 25% to 65% among 150 countries surveyed.

These are human consequences that can result – and do result – when governments don’t have the financial information necessary to make the best long-term decisions for their citizens. Cash accounting, which 75 per cent of governments around the world use in some form, does not present the most accurate picture of a government’s financial health, nor does it enable adequately planning for the development, delivery, and maintenance of the services, programmes, and infrastructure on which people rely.  And that, in turn, leads to a breakdown of trust in governments.

The report’s author, ACCA’s Head of Public Sector Policy, Alex Metcalfe, said: ‘Moving to accruals needs to be more than a compliance exercise, it should be about making the best use of financial information.  The range of benefits highlight in this report demonstrates the clear upside to implementing accruals in the public sector.  We need to ask whether cash is still king, when it comes to financial reporting and budgeting.’

‘The accounting profession’s public interest mandate is nowhere more apparent than in the public sector, where high-quality reporting and budgeting is a prerequisite for government transparency and effective delivery of public services,’ said Kevin Dancey, CEO of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). ‘To the finance professionals and public sector decision makers who are leading the transition from cash to accrual accounting, we commend you and support you.’

The benefits and complexity arising from accruals varies by types of adoption. The report notes that:

·       Cash accounting and budgeting is the simplest basis but provides the least decision-useful information.

·       Accrual accounting combined with cash budgeting is the most complex basis, but it generates information that helps achieve value for money, facilitates public scrutiny, and supports sustainable decision-making.

·       Accrual accounting and accrual budgeting creates a ‘medium level of complexity’ and creates consistency. In addition to realising the benefits from implementing accrual accounting, this environment also puts finance right at the heart of decision making and allows governments to embed effective performance management.

·       New, decision-useful information generated by accrual implementation promotes the achievement of value for money and facilitates effective public scrutiny.

·       To produce decision-useful information, governments must set objectives; plan; engage stakeholders; create effective systems; and develop the right skills, including internal training beyond preparers.

This report recommends that governments implementing accruals should be:

·       Directing independent fiscal policy institutions to assess contingent liabilities and produce recurring fiscal risk reports.

·       Implementing accrual budgeting to put finance at the heart of decision-making, while embedding performance management across government.

·       Planning to produce a fully consolidated balance sheet that provides a full financial picture of the resources and risks for the public sector. This must include State-owned Enterprises at the whole-of-government level.

·       Building political challenges into the implementation roadmap from the beginning (e.g., through a sunset clause requiring the eventual recognition of employee pension liabilities).

·       Including groups that provide a constructive challenge function to the reform, such as auditors and legislative committees (e.g. the UK’s Public Accounts Committee).

·       Deploying experts centrally to control consulting costs and support implementation across government.

Kevin Dancey, CEO IFAC, concluded: ‘IFAC and ACCA are committed to supporting the adoption and implementation of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), which underpin public sector accrual accounting, and to developing a robust profession that implements and manages such systems. With 65 per cent of governments globally set to implement accrual accounting by 2023, we’re encouraged by the positive trend, and strongly support further adoption of accruals and IPSAS.’

Here are few things you definitely want to know about realme

realme Pakistan continues its strategy of further making inroads into the heart of young , tech and fashion enthusiast by teasing upcoming realme 6 series on live Instagram session company aims to target the younger audience with flagship-level devices at affordable price points.

To engage with its fan base realme is spending the time to make customers aware doing IG live sessions with popular tech KOL’s. Interactive sessions are moderated by Product Manager realme Pakistan – Hamza khan who is giving a comprehensive product information to the real fans. In a recent session  Hamza khan shared benchmark reviews of realme 5i & C3 where he teased fans that realme Pakistan is soon gearing up to launch the most awaited 6 series & more IOT products in coming days.

IG live session is a real treat for fans as they get a chance to win exciting giveaways by during live Q/A. After incredible fan feedback realme is going to hold another IG live on 23^rd April 5pm on realme Pakistan official Instagram page where fans can join and win more exciting giveaways.

Pakistani youth’s favored smartphone brand realme has quickly snatched market share from existing players and is fast becoming one of the most sought after brands. Since its entry into the Pakistani market from past one year, realme, has already launched 11 products across different price segments from premium flagships to trendy mid-rangers, all designed particularly for the youth. They are also gearing up for the launch of their latest additions in the classic realme series in the coming month. realme is proving it has planned an even steeper growth trajectory than its parent company through a targeted focus on the youth.

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