Samsung Expands Smartwatch Portfolio with Gear S3

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today unveiled theGear S3, a striking and innovative smartwatch that further solidifies Samsung’s leadership in the wearables category. Inspired by traditional timepieces and the art of watchmaking, the Gear S3 combines timeless design with the latest in mobiletechnology, including IP68 water resistance, mobile payments*, LTE connectivity*, and built-in speaker and GPS, making it the ideal addition to any watch collection.

Samsung Gear S3 is available in two bold designs to suit different users’ lifestyles:frontier and classic. Inspired by the active explorer, the Gear S3 frontier evokes a rugged outdoor look with an enduring style that blends form and function. The frontier was designed to perform in any setting or environment – whether business or leisure. TheGear S3 classic pays homage to the minimalist, elegant style found in the most iconic timepieces. The classic was designed with meticulous attention to detail – with its size and shape chosen to attain the same consistency and balance of a well-crafted luxury watch.  

“With the Gear S3, we continue to build on our wearables heritage of offering diverse choices to enhance consumers’ unique lifestyles,” said Younghee Lee, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing and Wearable Business, Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung Gear S2 achieved meaningful progress in the smartwatch category with a personalized watch face and a versatile rotating bezel that provided an intuitive smartwatch experience. Now with the new Gear S3, we expand our Gear collection and introduce not only a great smartwatch, but a great watch. With smart capabilities and sophisticated, elegant design, the Gear S3 marks a significant addition to our smartwatch portfolio.”

In addition to its sleek look, the Gear S3 meets IP68 standards for water resistance and offers military-level durability so consumers can get through their day, regardless of weather conditions. For the first time on the Gear series, the Gear S3 features Corning® Gorilla® Glass SR+, which is specifically designed for wearable devices to provide atougher, more scratch resistant and crisp display.

he 16-megapixel full-color Always On Display (AOD) and Super AMOLED technology further differentiates the Gear S3 from other smartwatches. The AOD always shows the time rather than automatically fading to black, embodying a sophisticated watch face that mimics the look and feel of luxury analog watch.

The Gear S3’s signature rotating bezel has been enhanced with new features. Without touching the screen, users can accept or reject a call or snooze an alarm. In addition, by writing on the display, messages will automatically convert to texts. Users can also create short reminders and to-do lists to manage even the most hectic schedules with the Reminders application.

Never miss another phone call with LTE connection* making its Samsung smartwatch debut on the Gear S3 frontier. Additionally, with the built-in speaker, users can activate voice messaging and listen to their favorite tunes. With a battery that lasts up to four days on a single charge, users can enjoy their music, make calls and show off their stylish smartwatch longer.

Now Gear S3 users in select markets can use their smartwatch to make a purchase almost anywhere they can swipe or tap a card with Samsung Pay for Gear S3.* Samsung Pay, with Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) and Near Field Communication (NFC) support, means users can easily register a credit or debit card and use it to make mobile payments. Samsung Pay slims down users’ wallets and makes payments accessible on their wrist.

The Gear S3 was designed with consumers’ safety in mind. In case of an emergency, users can activate the SOS and location tracking capabilities to alert family, friends and emergency professionals about crisis situations, even when their phone isn’t in-hand.

Consumers can access a diverse range of apps, including fitness, music, news, sports and travel apps – all optimized for the Gear lineup of devices including the Gear S2 and the Gear S3. With a variety of customizable watch faces available for download, users canpersonalize the circular UI to fit their lifestyle. Select apps and watch faces will be available for download directly from the Gear S3 without the need to first download on a smartphone. Through an open collaboration with developers and partners, Samsung continues to enrich its wearables ecosystem and provide users with a unique smartwatch experience.

Thanks to a special partnership with Arik Levy, renowned artist and industrial designer, Samsung will introduce artistic watch faces and strap designs. Arik Levy is best known for his sculptures – such as his signature Rock pieces, unique installations and limited-edition designs, all of which are rooted in his belief that "the world is about people, not objects."

Arik Levy commented: “It was interesting and fun to collaborate with Samsung oncreating unique and evolving watch face concepts and watch bands for the Gear S3. Inspired by my artwork, installations and sculptures, we created features that not only technology-savvy consumers will love but also those who place a high value on art, design, freedom of the mind and aesthetics.”

Hot Sales of Huawei P9 Lite Proves Company’s Strength

Recently Huawei, the master of technology world revealed that within a short period of time Huawei P9 LITE recorded surprising such a high sales in Pakistani market that have never observed before. And yet a large number of Huawei brand followers have been approaching the outlets to purchase all new flagship smart phone P9 LITE. It might be a fabulously hot response for any company to get its best smart phone stock completely sold right after its launch. But for Huawei consumer satisfaction and consumer demand has always been a superior priority like a norm to be honored. Huawei is overwhelmed with such an incredible market results and determined to provide its loyal customers, with high technology and modern products.

General Manager, Huawei in Pakistan, -Mr. Shawn in a press release said, “We overwhelmed due to Huawei P9 LITE incredible high sales and customer response for the market. We deeply honor their trust and eagerness for our products. But we are equally feeling more determined to bring even larger variety and the ultra modern technologies for the consumers.”

Huawei Technologies has accurately estimated the response of customers for P9 LITE and subsequently prepared for P9 Plus that ultimately shifts in the momentum that leave Huawei products only the best choice for the customers. Huawei has victoriously marked its brand as a symbol of trust and best quality for the customers of Pakistan, particularly. Huawei must also need to broaden the estimations for the next smart phones it will launch in Pakistan as the consumer market is truly looking towards Huawei to fulfill its smart technology needs. This has already depicted on the London and Dubai launches of Huawei P9 where in a presentation Huawei high profile official had revealed that in Pakistan only Huawei witnessed a growth increase of 15%, making Pakistan 3^rd top market in growth for 2015.

Clearly, it is also a message for the competitors that Huawei has already done beyond their reach in terms of brand loyalty, customers’ trust and high technology. And truly Huawei left all the competitors in hot water with its gigantic leaps of success this year as well.

Exquisite; A compliment for Huawei Y6 II

After the marvelous success of Huawei Y3 II and Huawei Y5 II in Pakistan, the leading technology manufacturer has plans to unfold another exciting version of the Y series, Huawei Y6 II. Although launch dates are yet to be announced by the company, but the leaks of product specifications already attracted the young Huawei brand lovers. As per the rumors and the leaked images Huawei Y6 II has a brilliantly fashionable design and a great chemistry.

By fashionable design it is the aesthetic aspect that has been the keen focus of the company design engineer while carving out this wonderful smart phone. Also, the perfectly streamlined and slim bodied Huawei Y6 II is also charged with exciting colors and magnetizing display features, presenting the great chemistry. Huawei Y6 II is a smart phone for the youth, with high quality camera features, crystal clear video display and high speed internet browsing.

Huawei Y6 II is a compact smart device with a slim body, finely curved from the edges and smoothly lined. Huawei Y6 II only weighs for 168g and the dimensions it has as; 154.3x 77.1x 8.45 mm. This is a perfect design and dimension, making the smart phone handy and adorably attractive.

The display is always a key focus for the consumers in a smart phone whenever they evaluate the features. Similarly, Huawei always puts right emphasis on all Huawei smart phone products and offers the best display both in terms of screen size and quality of colors and pixels. Huawei Y6 II has a 5.5” large display screen with almost 70.1% screen-to-body, making it a phablet (phone Tablet). This is indeed a large screen that will enhance the entertainment for the customers and offer a whole new video watching and gaming experience. Moreover, Huawei Y6 II display screen is an IPS LCD capacitive touch screen that is further protected with a protective scratch resistant sheet. Huawei Y6 II has 720x1280 pixels resolution, 16.7M colors and 267 ppi pixel density. This makes the display of fine quality and superior than any other smart phone display in the market.

Overall, Huawei Y6 II is an elegantly designed smart phone with a lot of attractive specifications and qualities. Like its predecessors Huawei Y6 II is also expected to record huge business in the consumer market. Soon the company will announce the launch date and some more exciting features of the new device and till then Huawei brand lovers have to wait a bit more.

Samsung Electronics America to Acquire Dacor as Part of Home Appliance Portfolio Expansion into Luxury Market

                  

Samsung Electronics America today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dacor^®, a leading American brand in the luxury home appliance category.  The acquisition marks Samsung’s continued investment in the home appliance market and an expansion of its portfolio to include ultra-premium home appliances under the Dacor brand.

Founded by Stanley M. Joseph, the California-based company has been designing and manufacturing American-made luxury kitchen appliances since 1965 and has emerged as a trusted industry leader. Upon completion of the acquisition, Dacor will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics America. Dacor will maintain its corporate identity and brand, with no changes to its operations and US-based manufacturing.

“Dacor has been delivering innovative products to the luxury home appliance market for more than 50 years,” said Boo-Keun Yoon, CEO of Consumer Electronics at Samsung Electronics. “We welcome the Dacor team to the Samsung family and look forward to leveraging their expertise in the luxury home appliance market while scaling their continued success in North America.”

“Samsung is a world-renowned organization and we could not be more delighted to share our family company with them. We are thrilled to be a part of a truly great global company,” said Michael Joseph, Chairman of the Board.

“The entire Dacor family is very excited to be joining Samsung,” said Dacor President and CEO, Chuck Huebner. “We expect that, with Samsung’s global scale, financial strength and market leadership, we will be able to accelerate our growth as we better meet the needs of both our high-end consumers and our retail partners.”

As a leader in the ultra-premium kitchen appliance market, Dacor’s innovative, high-quality products have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards including GOOD DESIGN™, Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) Best in Show, Digital Trends Best of Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Home Award, and many more.    Dacor is also the first and only major appliance brand to be recommended by the Master Chefs of Le Cordon Bleu, the premier culinary institute headquartered in Paris. Dacor products include ranges, cooktops, wall ovens, refrigeration, ventilation and wine preservation. To learn more about Dacor and its selection of ultra-premium kitchen appliances, visit www.dacor.com.

Samsung is America’s fastest growing home appliance brand and continues to deliver products with premium design and exemplary performance. With a deep understanding of the consumer marketplace, Samsung is redefining the appliance category with innovations that bring convenience into the modern lifestyle of consumers for a truly connected experience in the home. 

Huawei P9 Shines out in EISA Awards

Huawei’s flagship smart phone –Huawei P9 has succeeded to draw the attentions of the European Image and Sound Association (EISA) judges as they have recently awarded the Huawei P9 with the European Consumer Smart Phone award 2016-17. Huawei P9 has been attracting the critics and technology analysts due to its perfect camera features and extraordinary specifications. Huawei P9 has exquisite design and alluring dual camera features for professional photography, yet this is the fourth consecutive year for Huawei to be honored with the award in this category.

Huawei P9 has set a new trend in the smart phone market where a smart phone is just more than the conventional gadget providing the user literally a superior quality photography option. Huawei has collaborated with the globally recognized brand for camera, -Leica to enhance the camera features in the Huawei P9. The dual lens Leica camera of Huawei P9 enables both colored as well as the mono-colored (Black & white) photographs with striking high quality. Further, both the lens works together to produce superior image clarity to the minute details. Even few professional photographers also used Huawei P9 dual-lens camera for the photography and they have endorsed the image quality produced by Huawei P9 dual lens camera.

It is pertinent to mention that beside the professional camera Huawei P9 also has other attractions as well. It has been built with 5.2” large IPS-NEO, full HD resolution display with an amazing combination of Octa-core Hisilicon Kirin 955 chipset and the large volume of internal storage. Huawei P9 has been introduced in two versions; high version comprises of 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM, whereas the standard version of Huawei P9 has 3GB RAM and 32GB ROM. However, in Pakistani market only the standard version is available.

Huawei P9 has been recognized as a product of superior quality that implies the fact that Huawei has been focusing the innovations and technology development as its core objective. Huawei has marked more than 4.5 billion global shipment record for the Huawei P9, making it among the most selling Huawei smart phones. Even in the Pakistan, Huawei P9 set new records of high sales and eventually became among the best selling smart phones in the market.

Huawei P9 success in the market raised the Huawei brand value to a great extent. For the customers, Huawei is a symbol of quality and trust. Huawei is looking forward to built even stronger position in the global market with continuing production of high technology products keep the high standard values and consumer satisfaction to its core.

Samsung Invites Unity Devs to Take on US$185,000 ‘Tizen App Challenge’

Any developer who has designed a game with Unity that has reached more than 10,000 installs in the Google Play or Apple App Store may enter the challenge. Simply port the existing app to Tizen and start selling it in the Tizen Store. The first 50 apps can get US$3,000 each, and the entrant with the most popular app (attaining the highest number of Tizen Store installations) will win the grand prize of US$20,000.

Samsung Electronics has announced that the Tizen App Challenge for Unity developers commenced on August 18th, 2016—prior to the launch of the Samsung Z2, a new smartphone running on the Tizen operating system. If you are a developer who has made a Unity-based game that has reached more than 10,000 installs, you’re eligible to enter the challenge.

The contest will run from August 18 to November 21, with a total amount of US$185,000 in prizes up for grabs. The first 50 apps can get US$3,000 each when the apps are started to be for sale in Tizen Store. Additionally, top prizes will be awarded to three participants whose games reach the highest number of downloads during the contest period, in the amount of US$20,000, $10,000 and $5,000, respectively.

The challenge consists of two steps. Contestants must complete both in order to register their app and secure a chance to win the prizes.

·                          Step 1: You’ll need to show that your game has been made with Unity and has reached at least 10,000 downloads in the Google Play or Apple App Store.

·                          Once you complete Step 1, you’ll receive a confirmation email from Samsung. Then you’ll be able to port your app to Tizen and register it in the Tizen Store.

·                          To complete Step 2, you must submit the unique Content ID you’ll receive once you’ve registered your app in the Tizen Store.

Huawei & Mobilink Launches the new Toolbar

Recently, Huawei Technologies Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd has come up with a joint-venture with the largest cellular service provider in Pakistan –Mobilink, to launch an all new service for their customers and the service is named as Mobilink Toolbar. The Mobilink Toolbar does not require any download or installation instead it is available on all the http websites where customer can buy data bundles instantly with just one click, provided that the user has a Mobilink SIM card and the Mobilink data package is being used. The concept of Mobilink Toolbar is that it facilitates the user with the easy and smooth subscription to data bundles.

The launching ceremony was held at the Marriot Hotel, Islamabad, where a large number of media representatives, Huawei and Mobilink officials and customers were present. The ceremony was started with an opening speech of VP Huawei Pakistan –Mr. Xiao Gang, saying, “The topic of the workshop is quite aligned with the Viplecom’s vision. The slogan of Viplecom is --Excelerate is centered around transformation program across whole group. I hope that this conference could help more common ground in digital service roadmap and video domain, laying a solid foundation for future cooperation.”

Huawei has always been bringing innovations to develop the ever-changing technology world. It has introduced a number of user friendly applications and provided with enormous software upgradation programs across the borders. The core value for Huawei is the customer satisfaction and catering to customer demand on the highest possible priority while focusing on the modern innovative technology simultaneously.

The new Mobilink Toolbar is another such initiative by the company in collaboration of Mobilink. This service does not levy any subscription charges, but, can readily be used if the user has a smart phone with a Mobilink SIM card. Initially the service has been provided to the users of Islamabad only, which soon will be extended to the other big cities like Karachi and Lahore.