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Defying the Global Trends? Growing Print Media in Pakistan 10

Robot makes its way to Pakistani Restaurant 18

Anusha Rahman receives GSMA Government Leadership Award at MWC 2017 13

In the name of Private Security 20

For the love of cricket 30

5G Technology; Sign of the Coming Revolution 14

Huawei P10, a blend of speed and art 24

Technology

Replica PhDs, Ersatz ResearchQualitative Challenge for Pakistan’s Knowledge Economy 06

Education

Opinion

Technology

Event

Business News 27-29

Digitization

Review Sports

Here’s how to differentiate fake mobiles and accessories from the original ones 46

MWC 2017- Highlights of the Event 32-45

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Education

by: Waqas A. Khan

Qualitative Challenge for Pakistan’s Knowledge EconomyReplica PhDs, Ersatz Research Even the top rated Pakistani University, The

Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad’s Assistant Professor in the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, “Dr.” M. Nasrullah Mirza was found having no Ph.D. degree although has been

receiving the hefty stipend, promotions and fringe benefits from the university. Similarly, the Ph.D. thesis of Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) and CEO of National Testing Service (NTS) was found to be 72% plagiarized. Not only the MSC degree of the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore’s “Prof. Dr.” Ghulam Abbas, who was also serving as dean of the Architecture and Planning Department has been declared fake by the HEC but also the Ph.D. degree of FBISE Chairperson, Shaheen Khan was declared fake. Ironically the woman has been working in the HEC and was later appointed as FBISE Chairperson in 2008.

Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Psychology in the Punjab University (PU), “Dr.” Shazia Khalid has recently dropped the title when her colleagues staged a protest against her and the university management. She was awarded a grant of Rs. 50 lac to earn her Ph.D. from an online fraudulent university. While an ordinary student strives hard to get a single fee scholarship for a Pakistani university at the Ph.D. level, Ms. Shazia was graciously allowed to “adopt” her own colleague as the main supervisor for “quality research.” For your amusement, the “professor” completed her Ph.D. degree from the “Taxila American University” which is present nowhere on this planet.

According to Higher Education Commission (HEC) data, Javed Ahmed Phulpoto, Shafi Mohammad, Zulfiqar Ali Bhatti, Abrar Shaikh and Kouro Mal Gurbakhshani from Shaheed Mohatarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University, Larkana; Mir Sajjad Hussain Talpur, Hina Shafi Chandio, Sher Mohammad Chandio and Hira Sajjad Talpur from Sindh Agriculture University, Tando Jam; Muhammad Rashid and Uzma Elahi from Preston University, Islamabad; Habib Ullah Shaikh, Yasmin Shaikh, Ghulam Sarwar Shaikh and Rasool Bux Shaikh from Peoples University of Medical and Health Sciences for Women, Benazirabad (Nawabshah); Muhammad Nadeem from Faculty of Computer Science and Software Engineering, SZABIST, Karachi; G.A Sahito and K.H Lashari from Department of Fresh Water Biology and Fisheries, University of Sindh, Jamshoro; Jahanzeb Haider and Akbar Ali from BZU, Multan; Hamid Waqas, Nasir Hussain and Umair Anees from Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad are among those professors, assistant professors and faculty members who have been blacklisted for copy-pasting someone’s else research work as their own.

Earlier, a bogus degree scam came into the limelight when it was found that the AJK University has issued numerous fake degrees to politicians for their political needs. Quite recently the HEC

detected plagiarism in the research papers and Ph.D. thesis of “Dr.” Suleman D. Muhammad who was the vice-chancellor of the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology in Islamabad. However, all is not well in HEC even; out of above mentioned blacklisted faculty members, until September 2016, it had 4 of them still on the approved panel of Ph.D. supervisors. Babar Awan, A PPP senator is still using the title “Dr” with his name although before the Election Commission of Pakistan he categorically stated in reply to a question that he is neither a Ph.D. doctor not had acquired any such education from any university of the world. In his other statements, he used to claim that he has a dual Ph.D. degree from Saudi Arabia University and also from the fraudulent Monticello-University of United States. His current Twitter handle @DrBabarAwan is a question mark to ethical practices in our politics that are perhaps no more present.

The current official spokesperson of PTI on science and technology “Dr.” Farid A. Malik has a fake Ph.D. degree as well. Although he claims that in 1988, he received a Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering from the Union Institute Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, but ironically this “institute” does not offer a doctorate in engineering at all. Election Commission of Pakistan had already declared degrees of our 37 parliamentarians fake when their universities did not verify the “degrees” they had.

The number of fake universities working in Pakistan mentioned in the HEC blacklist are now 185, were 24 in 2013. This shows our “progress” in this crucial sector as well. However, we have produced more than 5,536 PhDs in last five years. 180,000 students are currently studying at MS/Ph.D. level. The number of degree holders may rise, but our footprint in the international research development is totally absent. We have invented nothing in any sector included Medical Sciences, Medicine, Economic or Educational Assessment designs. Examples of Pakistani PhDs employed in any International University of good repute are scarce, and the uniqueness in our research output is bleak.

Although the Higher Education Commission closed 31 Ph.D.

The number of fake universities working in Pakistan mentioned in the HEC blacklist are now

185, were 24 in 2013 though. This shows our “progress” in this crucial sector as well.

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“The time of “faking” or “tempering” a degree in

Pakistan has gone now. With a number of substandard private

universities and a few public universities, the sale of degrees

has been legalized


and 26 MPhil programs in the different universities of Pakistan, but because of the prevailing practices in the public and private universities, it is very difficult that it would be successful to slow down the wholesale of Ph.D. degrees. Universities are autonomous bodies and only strive to meet the minimum requirements of the HEC necessary to keep their degrees and institutes approved. Out of 179 charted universities in Pakistan, there are few which actually listen to the reservations and recommendations of HEC. Otherwise regulating these is nothing less than “mulgere hircum.”

Because of the HEC’s and universities inability to put a stopcock, students at the higher level have learned the art to deceive all plagiarism detection software that has been put in place to check the copy-paste material. The business of ready-made thesis and research papers is on the rise, and one can purchase a thesis or research paper on the required topic very easily. Some of our very bright minds have found this as an important area to earn. They write research papers and thesis from fake data while sitting at home so expertly that their work passes all security checks laid in the professor’s office and the university.

The time of “faking” or “tempering” a degree in Pakistan has gone now. With a number of substandard private universities and a few public universities, the sale of degrees has been legalized. There are a number of illegal sub-campuses in different cities and even villages offering required degrees to the students from these HEC recognized universities without attending any class but paying the required “fee” of the university, sub-campus and the host institute that bargains with them. Do you want a regular degree in BSc Physics, Chemistry, Biology, LLB, MSc Physical Education, B.Ed, M.Ed or Masters and MPhil? In Pakistan, it is possible that you can have any of these without visiting the university campus even once. Degrees by and large are now the receipts of fee payment in Pakistan and nothing else.

To save more money, these universities are appointing incompetent “researchers” as research supervisors. In Pakistan, apart from the real and experienced professors who are leading the remaining quality research output in our varsities, there is a whole lot of old but useless professors who somehow managed to enter in the field at a time when there was a lot of space available. Now they have passed a full professional life without doing any material research except using the good times to earn a Ph.D. degree

from abroad. So all they can do is to teach their students an art of faking research. If you object, they will burn your scores, no? Moreover, then you learn nothing. A student who is eager to learn something seriously has to submit in this wicked cycle for his/her own benefit.

The research supervisors in our universities are overburdened as well. Universities are not willing to keep them as supervisors alone. In fact, in our universities supervising a research scholar is taken as a secondary responsibility. In addition to this, these appointed supervisors have to take multiple classes, check papers, submit results, attend meetings and take special tasks; assigned time to time by the university management. After doing all this, there is no time left and no mind present with a supervisor to meet his/her supervisee, take a keen interest in the work done, recheck or edit the mistakes and point corrective actions in the research direction. Due to this, the supervisees are found wandering in the corridors and supervisors working on something else which is, of course, more important to save their job.

For these reasons, a supervisee finds it appropriate and so does the supervisor to temper the research itself. Because quality demands time and in no time, quality cannot be produced. However, if the supervisee does the tempering alone; without the consent of the supervisor, he/she can face serious consequences. For example, it is no wonder that after completing a thesis, at the submission stage, it is told that the topic of your research is irrelevant and there is an urgent need to change the topic or even the area of research. But not all reach there; a majority finds it more difficult to write a research proposal than a research thesis.

In our setting, when a Ph.D. scholar passes the comprehensive examination or the course work, he/she is asked to submit a list of 3 topics of interest in which the scholar wished to do the Ph.D. research. When submitted, the overburdened faculty finds no time to look and take a keen interest in checking these topics for a Ph.D. fit. Without any homework, the topic of choice is allowed, supervisor is assigned and when the supervisee completes the research proposal after a comprehensive literature review, the student comes to know by the same faculty that the topic of research is too ordinary, not fit for Ph.D. or that a lot of research has already been done on this topic, and it must be revised, and proposal shall be rewritten for proceeding any further.

Our students are not angels as well. They are overburdened too. Percentage of students taking Ph.D. as a full-time assignment is very small. Student themselves take this as a part time task. They are not willing to leave their jobs and tasks to focus on research; instead, they want the supervisor to cut the cake for them. If not, the whole blame of time elapse falls on the supervisor who can do nothing but guide them at the time of difficulty.Cake, if not baked is fake; and research is not a cake !!

Percentage of students taking Ph.D. as a full-time assignment is very small. They

are not willing to leave their jobs and tasks to focus on research; instead, they want the supervisor to cut the cake for

them


Last quarter of 2016 did and first of 2017 is creating much drama in the United States of America. There can be nothing so compelling than Donald Trump for people around the globe to read The New York Times, a 166 years old credible source of news

in America. Although due to this, the newspaper got 275,000 new subscriptions, however, the share of the print version of the newspaper in these was less than a quarter. A time that should have been ideal for the Times, its print advertising dropped by 20%, and print version failed to collect any profits instead a 9%

loss was reported by the New York Time Company’s Annual Report-2016. This gives an important signal, the death of print and the transformation towards digital media.

This transformation touched the USA Today in 2015 when it announced a buyout package for it veteran employees to trim staffing. The newspaper presented cutting costs and investing in digital products as the main reason for the offer. Until now it has shuttered it weekly magazine “USA Weekend” and many other publications to remove the employed staff in these departments. A

Pew Research Centre report “State of News Media” states that in ninth straight yearly decline the newspaper revenue has dropped to $ 16.4 billion; one-third to 10 years before, staffing at 34-year low, magazine circulation at 2.2 percent low and all the major news magazines have seen ad pages drop to half since 2001.

It was a great journey, though, but it seems as if after 560 years of success, the print is going to die. Today the print media in the US has shrunk itself to only three national newspapers. According to the Columbia School of Journalism, in the last five years, 2000 percent increase in the digital transformation has been witnessed, and news data of these is amounting to 4 trillion gigabytes.

In the UK, the strongest “Daily Mail” issued a warning to the investors in 2016; when its newspaper division reported a 29 percent decline in profits. Except for newspapers, there is no industry in the US and the UK that has faced such steep decline due to the intervention of digitization. Since the first Intrepid web 1.0 bloggers started writing the news content with SEO headlines, people around the globe have been discussing and forecasting this development. Although papers like The Independent have stopped printing any tangible product, papers somehow are still on the newsstands. Although it looks like a spider is clinging to the web inside a tidal sea but those still surviving are learning the art of nullifying and resisting to the digital revolution.

As per World Press Trends Data, newspapers around the globe generated US$ 168 billion from circulation and advertising in 2015. Out of this 53% (90 billion) was generated from print/digital circulation and the remaining 78 billion from advertising. Newspapers and magazines are the third largest cultural and creative industry of the world by creating 2.9 million jobs. WAN-IFRA has estimated the industry’s revenue at 8 billion US dollars. 2.7 billion adults are reading the print newspapers globally, but

this ratio is decreasing as according to the same data, 40 percent of the world internet users are reading newspapers online and in many countries digital readers are surpassing the numbers of print readers. The big questions for today are;

Will it stop somewhere? Will the print be able to find equilibrium with the digital media? If so, at what point – half of the present circulations, a quarter?Alternatively, will the digital media guzzle up the print utterly?

Although, it is too early to predict, but the signs of hope are coming from Pakistan, India, China and a part of Europe. According to “Statista,” which provides statistical data on print newspapers’ circulation worldwide, daily print newspaper circulation has increased from 589 million (2010) to 800 million (2016). In Pakistan, it shows that the revenue from print newspaper circulation will rise from the US $ 301 million (2015) to $ 333 million until 2020.

Pakistan is the 10th largest country in the world in terms of print newspaper and magazines circulation. China – 96, 704,000, India – 79,243,139, Japan – 70,446,000, USA – 57,357,000, Germany – 22,100,000, UK – 17,375,000, Russia – 13,280,000, France – 9,890,365, Italy – 8,017,000 and Pakistan – 7,817,958 are the world top countries by print newspaper circulation. However, newspaper circulation is not the only determinant of newspaper readers in a country. For example, in a household, a family of 8-10 people buys a single newspaper or magazine only. All of them share this newspaper to read. So in this way, the number of newspaper readers in a country will be many times more than the number of newspaper circulation.

Registrar of the newspapers in India has released a list of 16,000 active newspapers and 94,700 periodicals. 5,400 new publications were added to the list in 2015-16. A total of 610 million copies of print newspapers and magazines were distributed in the country. Bengali language newspaper – Anand Bazar Patrika emerged as the largest circulated single edition daily with 1.15 million copies distributed. In the multi-edition category, Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar topped the list by distributing 6.6 million copies. The largest circulated single edition English daily in India is Hindustan Times with a circulation of 992,000 and in the multi-edition category, The Times of India is at the top with 4.4 million copies distributed.

Now the question here is that why print media in the sub-continent is growing when it is declining in many other parts of the world? The answer is multi-dimensional.

According to Shahab Jafry, Associate Editor, Pakistan Today, the first and foremost reason to this is the growing population of youth in our region. “63% of Pakistan’s population is below the

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“To meet the demands of future and tackle the possible threat

print newspapers like Jang, Nawa-i-Waqt, Express, Dawn, Pakistan and magazines like

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age of 25 years. India has the world’s largest youth population as 356 million of its population is 10-24 years old despite having a smaller population as compared to China. Compared to China, both Pakistan and India are suffering from corruption, unemployment, terrorism, uncertainty and economic challenges. The enmity between the nations, the war in Afghanistan and other regional factors are compelling the youth to read newspapers as a source of information. The youth in these countries is highly charged, motivated, vibrant and vigilant regularly following the news stories that affect their future aspirations and goals.”

Saleem Khan Jadoon, Editor Local Desk in The Nation thinks that another reason for this growth is very low internet penetration in Pakistan. “We are the 6th largest country in the world by population. Internet penetration in the country is at 17.8% which is just 1% of the total 3,424,971,237 internet users in the world. In India, the situation is quite better but still, internet penetration in the country is at 26%. The countries where the print media is facing troubles like the US, UK, Japan and Australia, internet penetrations are quite high; 74%, 92%, 93% and 84% respectively. Because of this low internet penetration, digital media has not posed a serious threat to print media in Pakistan and India. However, it is expected that with the rise of penetration level, a similar threat may arise in these countries too.”

The third important reason is the advertising revenue. While it has fallen for print in the US, UK, Japan and Australia because of continuous decline in print circulation, an exact opposite is present in countries like Pakistan and India. Growing print means more readers; this attracts more advertisements and revenues as well. For this very reason, many online websites are now trying to have a print product as well.

To meet the demands of future and tackle the possible threat print newspapers like Jang, Nawa-i-Waqt, Express, Dawn, Pakistan

and magazines like MORE have launched and activated their digital versions and social media platforms. On the other hand, the digital only websites are now trying to copy the print model. In Pakistan, “Pakwheels” and automobile sale/purchase website and “Zameen.com” have launched their magazine followed by “CNet” with a quarterly magazine and Net-o-Porter’s bi-monthly magazine. This web to print conversion is because of the advertising revenue generation capacity in the print media that is very strong and relevant in the countries like Pakistan and India. Digital advertising rates and demand is quite poor and ordinary due to low internet penetration in the country.

While media of the developed world is going digital, we have many reasons to rely on print for the ease it offers in reading and navigation, better information retention, fostered skimming habit, tactility, credibility, health friendly and sustainability. Moreover, in our offices, these DPOs, DCOS, EDOs, Clerks and Headmasters all love the print. Because the old-fashioned bureaucracy has not digitized itself and district information offices have no reliable digital repository to save the digital clippings of the published content, our Press Information Department (PID) and Director General Public Relations (DGPR) still rely on print newspaper cuttings. This print clipping culture in our offices is among the largest hindrances in the progress of digital media in Pakistan. A local newspaper with a circulation of 1000 copies is more respected than a blog having 10,000 visitors per day. Heap of files filled with the newspaper cutting of the day is forewarning,

Digital alone is orphanage here, so we are defying, print is rising in Pakistan.

“Newspapers and magazines are the third largest cultural and creative industry of the world

by creating 2.9 million jobs. WAN-IFRA has estimated the

industry’s revenue at 8 billion US dollars

A Pew Research Centre report “State of News Media” states that

in ninth straight yearly decline the newspaper revenue has dropped to $ 16.4 billion; one-third to 10 years before, staffing at 34-year low, magazine circulation at 2.2

percent low and all the major news magazines have seen ad pages drop to half since 2001

In the most significant development for the Telecom sector of Pakistan during the past decade, the Government of Pakistan has been declared the winner of the “GSMA Government Leadership Award 2017” at the biggest annual telecom industry gathering at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain.

The Award was received by the Minister of State for IT &T and Telecom Ms. Anusha Rahman during the Global Mobile awards and goes on to confirm the worldwide acclaim and global recognition of the Government’s Telecommunication Policy 2015.

While accepting the award on behalf of Government of Pakistan, Ms. Anusha Rahman thanked the global telecom community and the GSM Association for reiterating its confidence and trust in the telecom sector policies of the Government of Pakistan.

Attributing the success to the hard work of professionals at MoIT&T, PTA and FAB she further added that “This award is recognition of the Pakistan’s policy soundness and the vision of the government under the leadership of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for the telecommunication sector in Pakistan by the international community”.

Ms. Anusha Rahman congratulated the Prime Minister of Pakistan and the Pakistani people on winning the Second Global GSMA award in a short span of two years. It is pertinent to mention that Pakistan was awarded the Leadership award for transparent and market building Spectrum Auction in 2015.

Grant of two major Global Mobile awards for within a short span of three years of the current government is historical and the 2017 award is significant as it carries the highest significance globally for Government’s policy initiatives and development of digital markets.

The Minister highlighted that the “Telecommunication Policy 2015” has been recognized by the international community for its sound provisions catering for the availability of universal, affordable and quality telecommunication services provided through open, competitive and well-managed markets which can be used by people to the benefit of the economy and society.

She added that the award also recognizes the measures laid down in the policy that is expected to make telecom market more efficient in terms of quality of service and choice of services available to the consumers; and the Policy is expected to boost the Telecommunications as well as ancillary ICT sector markets, spur socio-economic development and will act as a catalyst towards achieving knowledge based society with digital inclusion of all segments of our society.

On the sidelines of the Barcelona event The Minister of State for Information Technology & Telecommunication also held a meeting with the Chairman of the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) Mr. Goran Morby as well as host of other global telecom industry leaders including top leadership of the Etisalat, Telenor and Vimplecom groups and invited them to partner with the government to take the benefits of the digital revolution to all segments of Pakistani society.

The global technology leaders congratulated the Minister of receiving the Leadership Award and expressed full industry commitment to her initiatives for achieving an inclusive digital economy in Pakistan for the benefit of both the masses and the industry.

Anusha Rahman receives GSMA Government Leadership Award at MWC 2017

Anusha Rahman, Minister of IT receiving GSMA award at MWC 2017

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5G TECHNOLOGY Sign of the Coming Revolution

Technology

by: Samana Ali

While watching a sci-Fi movie, have you ever wondered what it would be like if the glorious futuristic city on the screen was actually real? This year at Mobile World Congress (MWC) it felt like we need to put our thinking caps back on to prepare ourselves for the new reality and a new world under the 5G technology.

The world’s largest mobile electronics trade show, MWC, this year looked less like a place to gawk at the new handsets by various tech companies rather it presented the picture similar to a cult initiation where 5G was the religion and everyone else was a devout follower. Evolution doesn’t wait for anyone, as many parts of the world still doesn’t have access to 4G LTE technology, the telecom and other tech companies are jumping at the opportunity to introduce the next segment in the technological revolution whose applications doesn’t just stick to mobile phones, but can revolve around a complete lifestyle of a person.

This year at MWC every major product relayed the basic unspoken theme, a connected world. Everywhere you looked, you couldn’t escape the companies talking about the transformative power of 5G, booths attracting people with futuristic products and industry representatives preaching about the glorious days ahead under the reign of 5G technology. To better understand the excitement around the 5G, think about the time when smartphones didn’t exist and now fast forward to today, realize a difference? It is just the same with 5G technology where today for us is a smartphone free era, but after a few years, it will be integrated not just in gadgets, but in our overall lives.

The tech companies know that the key to their survival is always to bring something new to the table and they certainly didn’t disappoint us this time. Here’s a quick round off of all things 5G at MWC 2017:

SamsungWe all anticipated the launch of a tablet or two by Samsung on the mega event, but it certainly surprised many of us as it announced its pre-commercial 5G Network, where we can expect a 5G radio and a 5G home router in the near future. Though the company’s 5G products are currently in testing phase, we are not sure as to how early Samsung will kick things off.

Cisco TechnologiesCisco, a well-renowned name in high-technology services and products, announced its partnership with Verizon, an American communications company to bring 5G’s innovative technology to the enterprise market. The various services in the pilot phase include; a cloud-based, virtualized, cloud-based, 5G packet core that uses Cisco’s Ultra Service Platform.

LG and QualcommThe two companies came together at MWC to announce their joint effort to bring the 5G technology into automobiles. LG and Qualcomm through their coordinated work would facilitate testing and adoption of 5G and Cellular-V2X (C-V2X)

communications into vehicles. LG is currently developing advanced automotive connectivity solutions based on Qualcomm’s connected car platform, where the trials could be expected in the first half of 2018.

Ericsson and QualcommAt MWC this year Ericsson launched its 5G products and services that are coming to market in 2017 and also announced teaming up with Qualcomm to conduct 5G New Radio trials. The two in partnership with various telecom companies including Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo’s mobile networks will conduct the trials in the first half of 2018, whereas they plan to conduct 5G trials over Telstra Australia network in the second half of 2017.

Nokia and Spirent Nokia and Spirent Communications, a telecommunications testing provider, announced a successful deployment of the first 5G Lab as a service for Nokia’s Oulu-based network infrastructure testing labs which will enable automation of 5G testing. It will also help Nokia to accelerate the development of virtual network functions and physical infrastructure for 5G technology.

NokiaAt MWC, the company also unveiled 5G First, an end-to-end solution that can allow telecom operators to address the huge demands of connected people and industries. It comprises of radio access network (RAN) including Nokia AirScale massive MIMO Adaptive Antennas, packet core and mobile transport solutions as well as a full service offer using Intel® architecture and the Intel® 5G modem and would be available for initial deployments starting in 2017.

Intel and NokiaIntel may have backed out of its smartphone chip craziness but is still going strong when it comes to 5G technology. Following Qualcomm, Intel revealed its 5G modem chip earlier this year and is viewing home internet as its earliest potential application. Realizing that 5G is much more than just smartphones, the company in partnership with Nokia is opening two 5G solutions labs in US and Finland, to test and accelerate the commercial readiness of the new 5G wireless technology.

ZTE Gigabit Phone Before you get all amped up like us let me make this clear that this is just a concept phone where the demonstration of the gigabit phone has been given through phone sized display with working speed test app that is using a connection based carrier aggression i.e. the bundling together of 4G signals in order to increase the bandwidth. (So not an actual phone and not an actual 5G technology either, but it sure did feel good).


Now I’ll admit that it’s a very tiring list to read but looking at what these companies are trying to achieve, it would be foolish to dismiss the new wave of 5G technology that is opening up the world of possibilities. The 5G technology right now is in a preliminary phase where nothing is set or done but 2017 will be remembered as the year the telecommunications industry stopped talking about the next generation service but have actually started acting out on their pledges of research to make 5G a reality. In other words, no the revolution is not at hand or in very near future but the distant future (3-4 years) looks good.

The industry right now lacks the infrastructure for 5G and still needs to work out tons of technical issues to overcome the future roadblocks. In the ongoing process of technical developments, some technologies will be used in the 5G era while many will be replaced with something better along the way. Earlier this March, 3GPP signed off on 5G work plan for the first 5G New Radio (NR) specification that top mobile operators and network vendors came out in favor of. The international body crafting the 5G standard has approved the accelerated roadmap that could ultimately witness large scale trial deployments in 2019 instead of 2020.

5G platform is not just about the speed of mobile data but it sketches a digital transformation in a networked society and thus, creating a complete ecosystem. The evolution of technology will not just affect the telecom companies and their users but would also enable new uses in various other fields including:

Internet of Things (IoT)According to analysts, the major impact of 5G technology would be seen in the proliferation of Internet of Things or IoT as we like to call it, which is the interconnection of various computing and physical devices that can collect, transmit and exchange data amongst each other. Surely in future the world would see billions of connected devices and 5G can guarantee the lower latency and reliability of many services.

AutomationThe fifth generation wireless communication will surely change the industry leading to mass market automation with smart and efficient robots having the maximum mobility that can eventually change the rules of the game, as the machines could themselves initiate and complete an entire process whether it is in a workshop or inside someone’s home.

New Business Models and Revenue StreamsTo stay afloat in the changing dynamics of the industry, the businesses would need to develop new models and revenue streams, thus evolving the business practices and policies.

Smart and Connected Homes5G won’t only make our homes connected but would also make them smarter. We have already seen the integration of AI into various software and hardware that have enabled us to speak to our house. Its applications could be seen through Amazon’s Alexa or the AI assistant JARVIS created by the Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg. The future of fifth generation technology will enable us to effectively utilize our time using the latest sensors where the machine learns your living pattern to give you a customized luxury experience every day and the multi-gigabit broadband, broader in-home coverage and trusted connections will ultimately make it possible to deliver new personalized home experiences.

Communication between VehiclesThe concept of connected cars is not really alien to us all as for quite some time we have seen working prototypes of vehicles communicating with each other and exchanging information like the distance between the two cars to avoid the collision, to keep track of the driver’s vital health signs, etc. Also, 5G can bring about the era autonomous vehicles on the roads whereas the connected cars can help transmit real life data to enable a smart traffic system on the roads. Not just limited to cars, it would not be wrong to say that unmanned drones in the sky would also be a reality soon.

Smart CitiesWell, if you combine everything said above, you’ve got yourself a functioning smart city where everything is connected. The right application of AI and 5G technology can create sensors adding intelligence to the city’s infrastructure and thus can create a communicative city where everything talks, including devices, gadgets, etc. So curious about how the future cities will look like? Think about all the cool futuristic movies that you have seen so far and imagine them being real, except for Terminator of course because being ruled by machines, Not Cool.

When can we witness the 5G Technology in action?According to the Samsung’s Vice President of Networks Strategy, Alok Shah, 2019 is a realistic time period to see the expanded use

of 5G. GSMA predicts that by 2019/20 we can see various devices supporting the fifth generation technology where according to Mats Granyard, Director general GSMA around 1 billion users will have 5G connections by 2025.

It would be quite alright to be skeptical of these numbers as 4G technology introduced in 2003/04 reached 1 billion users last year where currently 34% of the global population use 4G LTE where only 23% of the mobile connections go over 4G speed. It took us more than a decade to reach the 1 billion mark on 4G so maybe the technological revolution is not as close as we are all being told.

Investment in the 5G TechnologyThe 5G technology sure does sound cool and hip but the estimated investment into 5G technology will run into trillions of dollars in the next decade. Delivering the latest in telecom infrastructure is both expensive and tricky where development in 5G can, on the one hand, accelerate development of digital services but would require a very large sum of investments from various sectors of the industry.

This relation between the fifth generation technology and a large amount of investment was quite accurately explained by Nokia’s CEO Rajeev Suri in his keynote address at the MWC, where he said: “Many of you are wondering, ‘Why do we need 5G? Is it worth the billions that will be spent on it?’ Yes.” Though he was careful not to build unrealistic expectations, he then added: “It will not happen overnight. We believe that most carriers will want an evolutionary process that maximizes their current investment.”

According to Qualcomm, by 2035 5G enabled industries could produce up to $1.23 trillion in goods and services while at the same time 5G value chain can create /generate up to $3.5 trillion and 22 million jobs. Meaning, the future rewards do add up with the current expenses on the development of new technology.

Future Challenges of 5G The whole concept of having a futuristic smart city and living our science fiction fantasy does sound amazing but sadly in the realistic world, we have to look at the situation holistically, and it seems like it could face some of the following problems in future, whose solutions we have to figure out before diving eyes closed into the 5G ocean:

• The telecom and technology companies have to figure out how to actually use the bandwidth effectively to avoid any future embarrassments

• The companies need to simultaneously create the devices that can support 5G technology alongside the development of the fifth generation service

• Special consideration should be given to the human workforce as smart cities would also require evolution of skills needed by labors, so we need a strategy as to when robots and automation does replace some human tasks, we don’t end up in another industrial revolution crises

• The standards of 5G have not been seen or experienced by any telecommunication company yet which can be quite challenging, but this could also be seen as an advantage as customers are not so sure right now about what they want or expect, giving companies more room to experiment with their ideas

Pakistan and 5G TechnologyIn 2014 Pakistan finally stepped into the 21st century after 3G and 4G licenses were finally auctioned off to telecom operators in the country and since then we’ve been hearing that we are moving towards a Digital Pakistan. Let’s hold on a minute and review this stance, we don’t really have a reliable mobile internet connection which puts the original 4G technology to shame, our broadband services tend to go awry without any warning, leaving a voicemail or video calling through telecom operator’s SIM is still an alien concept for many, we don’t really have any premium plans or services by telecom operators, so all in all, we are not quite that digital.

Just displaying that more people are now using mobile broadband is not enough to ensure a digital future rather we have to work on the quality of the experience. It is not worthwhile for the consumer to actually remain oblivious to the fact why he/she cannot connect to the internet. While the world is moving towards 5G, we still cannot get a decent signal for our 3G/4G phones. Pakistan still has multimode 3G and 4G devices where smartphones can fall back on mature 3G infrastructure when our 4G connection is acting out and can even go lower to 2g internet connection. So in other words, to welcome 5G technology in Pakistan, we have a lot of work and development to do on our 4G technology that can enable us to move towards creating a smart city of our own.

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“The 5G technology right now is in a preliminary phase but 2017 will be remembered as the year

the telecom industry started acting out on their pledges of research to make 5G a reality

While the world is moving towards 5G technology, we still cannot get a decent signal for our 3G/4G phones in Pakistan

The estimated investment into 5G technology will run into trillions of

dollars in the next decade


Visitors at a restaurant in Multan were astonished when they faced a human-like machine, coming to their tables, greeting them and then navigating back while excusing any bypassers in its way to avoid a collision. They were out for a dining

experience but what they witnessed was a day when Pakistan had stepped into an era of technology powered by robotics and automation.

Our youth is keeping pace with the skyrocketing rate of technological innovations around the globe. The fact is evident that after making a mark in freelancing by occupying top slots in the world ranking, contributing to software development and apps through tech-powered startups, we are finally experimenting with robotics technology.

Usama Aziz, a NUST graduate from Multan, decided to introduce this idea into the country after taking inspiration from the China that leads the world in robotics and automation technology. He preferred to work on the project of introducing robots rather than pursuing higher education abroad and presented the automation technology to the public in a restaurant in the form a robot, exclusively designed and produced by him.

His robotics project is in research and development phase and has not reached completion yet. Still, he has managed to introduce a robot who is ready to serve the visitors at a restaurant with its three key features; It goes to the particular table for which it is given an input number, greets the people over there and finally makes his way back while communicating with any obstacles through phrases like “Get Aside.”

The concept of robotics might be new here, but on the international level, it has come out of the confinement of research laboratories to the public sphere where people are taking help from robots to

carry on their daily chores. In China, robots are taking over the human work in every field from assembling products in factories to serving at restaurants and even helping in household work.

Usama even though took the inspiration and idea from Chinese robots but came up with his own design and code to incorporate instructions. While talking to MORE, he said, “Robot’s body which is made up of fiberglass was produced in Multan, but certain parts like electrical circuits and other such equipment were imported from China due to local unavailability. Otherwise, designing, programming, and assembling took place within the country.” The first robot cost him up to Rs. 400000 that he drew from the funds of the restaurant owned by his father.

Experimenting with a technological product that is alien to his people was not an easy task. Usama had to face particular challenges, and issues like finding the right needed electrical and mechanical components that he had to outsource for. Another challenge was to give people awareness about the robotics, as their familiarity level was limited to the science fiction movies only.

Further, the fact that there were no existing players in the market who already set a precedent concerning robots which could’ve been an issue but he Usama took it as a relief because he had no competitors. It was easy for him to put his time into research to bring out a product that was new in its nature for a particular audience. There existed a void to fill, and the man took it as an opportunity.

Although, many youngsters are coming up with unique tech powered ideas presenting solutions while contributing to growth but still a supportive environment inevitably lacks in a country where educational institutes are devoid of necessary facilities. Many new ideas are barred from execution because they are not assisted by catalysts and necessary support that only comes from practical knowledge.

Contrary to this Usama was blessed enough to study from a university that provided him enough practical knowledge to pursue his goals. “Labs of microprocessor, microcontroller and programming labs, helped me to boost my skills enough to pursue projects in the challenging field of robotics,” he told while commenting on how his education helped him to carry out this project.

Talking with particular reference to robotics and automation technology, the inventor laments the fact that there is not even a single institute in the country that offers a specialized degree in robotics automation, even NUST doesn’t offer any such program.

Robots that are a prototype for building tech-powered human beings are used to experiment with Artificial Intelligence (AI); a phenomenon that is said to be a threat to this planet and human race even in the view of famous scientist Stephen Hawking; the presenter of Black Hole Theory thinks that one of the major reasons for the possible destruction of Earth would be AI.

There is no such threat from this robot as it utilizes a very basic level of AI, every task performed by it is programmed. It uses AI for reaching the right table according to instructed number. Otherwise, it is far away from posing any serious threat at this level.

Apart from AI, another major threat that this technology is presenting to the world is unemployment. Once, the concept of robotics becomes entirely developed; the world must be ready for an economic shift, like one experienced after the industrial revolution. At the present stage, the technology is in the beginning stage but think tanks are debating about the impact it would make on employment and relative poverty after robots completely take over the man power.

Usama who wants to carry out further research on the same project by opting it in his Masters degree thinks unemployment to be a critical issue in the country but doesn’t favor the notion that technology would create more jobless people due to massive employees layoffs. He opines that automation would diminish the work rather it would only change the direction of work.

Robotics technology has entered Pakistan late as compared to the other countries. The late arrival of internet technology corroborates this fact. Not so many years have passed, 3G and 4G were launched while the world is moving ahead 5G.

Usama told that at the moment his robot doesn’t require internet technology, but later on the commercial level, the need of more powerful communication network would emerge for effective control and collaboration of devices.

He further informed that a company in Karachi that took orders from customers through tablets had offered him to enter a joint venture

where it can utilize robots for speeding up the process of ordering and serving the products. Robotics can take automation to a whole new level after powered by instant connectivity.

Technology

Robot makes its way to Pakistani Restaurant

by: Madiha Khatoon

It goes to the particular table for which it is given an input number, greets the people over there and finally

makes his way back while communicating with any obstacles through phrases like “Get Aside”

“ “Usama Aziz, Creator of Food Serving Robot


On March, 5th, Sunday, our national chatter began with news that PSL, the professional franchise Twenty20 men’s cricket league of Pakistan’s final has successfully been played in

Pakistan. The jam pack stadium, foreign players and extraordinary security provided by the police, army, and other law enforcement agencies made it a historical success. League’s headquartered is placed in Lahore but except this final, the previous season and the current were played in UAE due to the fragile security situation in the country.

Such actions, reactions, and upheaval signaled business as usual in Pakistan.

Soon before, though, our attention was swept back all-too-close to home when heard the sickening reports about the tragedy that unfolded in the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar. Dozens of women and children were killed, and at least 300 were wounded in a despicable and ruthless suicide blast.

Terrorists had correctly identified the family destination as a soft target. Metal detectors, security alarms, security guards and other safety measures to protect the masses were conspicuous by their absence.

Shamefully, such barbarism is no longer a surprise. While angry, we also were numb.

Our anger persists because the mostly women and children who perished were unable to lay claim to their legitimate share of $7.6 billion in tax money, which the state supposedly spent on national security in 2016. Instead, these mothers, daughters, sisters and brothers put their faith in numbers – the ones that show Pakistan among the top 25 countries of the world when it comes to spending that much on national security.

However, none of our military personnel, snipers, handguns, assault rifles, machine guns, drones, F-16s, missiles or atomic weapons could save a single life this miserable Friday on 17th February. Instead, blood flowed in that holy place. Sirens pierced the still air. There were plaintive wails from mourners and a sense of despair.

Terrorism has reared its ugly head again. Where were our leaders?

Once again Pakistan withstands, but

when will it learn to endure?

In the name of Private Security

Opinion

by: Qandeel Khan

In December 2014, seven foreign-national Jihadists massacred 141 people, including 132 innocent school children, at Army Public School Peshawar. In the face of such carnage, our government finally awakened from an irresponsible slumber when it comes to the security of its citizens. It mandated a vast array of entities to install the CCTV cameras, metal detectors, security alarms and ordered them to hire security guards and take other steps to assure public safety. Among the places receiving mandated protection orders were educational institutions, private clinics, private parks, wedding halls, hospitals, banks, financial institutions, non-governmental organizations, foreign projects, religious gathering places, companies, firms, Petrol & CNG stations, jewelry shops, amusement or entertainment centers, public transport terminals and businesses to make security arrangements by themselves.

However, on that Friday, these safety features, precautions, installations, and personnel were inexcusably absent from the famous holy place.

So what’s really going on? We must be brave enough to seek answers. Is something happening under the table? Yes, indeed.

As such, the time has come to shine bright light – most likely for the first time – where the details have been isolated for far too long. Sorting through the cobwebs that have collected – also known as available data – I want to bring to light the number of private security guards operating within our country, compare the number of institutions and the average number of security guards, and take a look at the average monthly pay those guards receive.

Put together; we should have a much clearer picture when it comes to our national efforts, and, perhaps, the root of a festering problem.

Here goes:• Forty private entertainment parks have 320 security guards. • Pakistan Medical & Dental Council data shows there are 240

renowned private hospitals in Pakistan, and there are about 3,000 private clinics at which doctors practice privately. On

average, 10 security guards have been employed at each of the hospitals, with another one at each of clinics. So the total number of security guards in this sector is 5,400.

• There are about 40,000 CNG and pumping stations with 8,000 security guards,

• Seven-thousand jewelry shops have 10,000.• Four-thousand wedding halls are patrolled by 12,000.• Eight-thousand non-governmental organizations and foreign

projects employ 16,000.• National Highway transport buses boast 20,000 security

guards.• Forty-six banks with 12,000 branches have 36,000.• It is estimated that other firms and businesses employ about

50,000.• Each of 100,000 mosques, shrines, churches and other places

of worship have a full-time or occasional security guard. To be fair, it should be pointed out that security often is handled by volunteers.

• And just like the other entities that have followed the instructions of the government, 225,711 schools in Pakistan employ security guards to assure the safety of their students. Within this number, about 100,000 private schools employ two guards each, bringing the total number of security guards in our schools to nearly 325,711.

Hence the total private security guards employed in the country are estimated to reach a number of 583,431.

Nationwide, near a half-million armed private guard supposedly are watching out for our well-being. However, none were to be found this Friday in Qalandar’s shrine as security there was a mandate of the government.

As the total private security guards employed in the country are estimated to reach a number of 583,431. The average budget allotted for private security is estimated at Rs.10,000-per-month per security guard. This figure, when aggregated yearly, is equivalent to about PKR 70 billion, a substantial cost that – through sleight-of-hand – is being passed right along to unassuming citizens.

Remember when authorities suddenly made it mandatory for motorcycle riders to wear helmets? They began arresting those who snubbed the law. The price of helmets rose within a week from Rs 300 to Rs 2,000. Naturally, the public had to absorb the heightened expense of mandated protection, as well as the fines now being levied. In a similar vein, the state has passed along through its mandate to purchase and install (CCTV) cameras, metal detectors, security alarms, barbed wire, boundary walls and others safety features for business and educational facilities. Billions of dollars in costs have successfully been plucked from the vulnerable pockets of its citizens. State itself has spent billions

“Nationwide, near a half-million armed private guard supposedly

are watching out for our well-being. However, none were to be

found in Qalandar’s shrine


on safe city project of Islamabad and Lahore, and more cities are in the pipeline.

Moreover, when in 2014, we imposed a private security emergency, the tools, gadgets and security equipment were washed away from our markets. Our “honest” businessmen imported heaps of substandard and hasty manufactured equipment from China. No one has ever checked the quality of the equipment to verify if it would work in the time of need? In the previous two years, the government has made no efforts to make a control room or web interface that could communicate with the public for checking the quality, functionality, and location of this privately installed equipment in different parts of the country. Impossible? Eh! A SIM can do the trick.

This is a black-hole security budget if ever there was one. Even with so many security guards in place, robberies, killings, and attacks on private installations have risen.

In 2015-16, bank heists grew exponentially. Since 2009, 845 educational institutions in Pakistan were targeted by militants, according to a report by the global coalition to protect education. Ill-equipped security guards were unable to fend off trained militants when it mattered the most.

According to South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), the total number of civilian deaths from terror attacks last year totaled 940. 339 security personnel lost their lives as well.

Pakistan’s crime statistics present an even more disturbing picture. Despite such a wealth of private security, 13, 276 people lost their lives in assassination attempts in 2015, and 81,520 individuals were relieved of their valuables and movable property in robberies. There were 33, 243 vehicles stolen. Moreover, 3,285 women were raped, and 329 others were gang-raped.

Is this really who we are?

While we dream of a day when women and children – of all faiths and affiliations – can come together without fear of one another or the unknown, we need to know that our local safety is paramount – and not based on the latest technologies within submarines and fighter jets.

While we dream of a glorious land in which the people are more important than the powerful, too often the latter are the corrupt hands that incite the feeble minds that believed there is something to be gained through holy terror.

Terrorists of today are technologically literate. They plan thousands of miles away using the online maps and data. Their bombs are digital and wireless, bombers too. However, to counter we have only one in Punjab, the PITB. The technological war is being fought by this only institution bravely. “Hotel Eye” is a recent example. The Punjab police have traced 1,179 criminals, including 11 fourth schedulers, from all over the province through this newly introduced software installed in the hotels across the province. The criminals of the recent Mall Road attack in which DIG Traffic Capt.® Ahmed Mubin and SSP Investigation Zahid Gondal laid their lives were traced through the Lahore Safe City CCTV footage in just one day. Such examples are absent in other provinces of the country. Like Punjab did, can we hold a PSL final in KPK, Balochistan, and Sindh with the similar state of the art security?

Through this PSL Final, once again, we proved that we are not humans simply drawn by the boundaries of provinces, party affiliation or religion. Lives on Friday were forever intertwined with so many caring individuals coming together in the name of one final reason – defeat the terror.

This is who we are. We are proud Pakistanis!

On a day inhumanity, distrust and carnage were at the top of the news chain, a few days later, it was comforting to realize that the blood cells of each and every individual are amazing, wondrous and life-affirming. Despite the ruthless inhumanity, we are even more resolute that our exceedingly fair and justified dreams must be nurtured to come true.

Terrorism cannot – no, it will not – cause us to plot a path of retreat.

Now, what says your heart?

Nationwide, near a half-million armed private guard supposedly

are watching out for our well-being. However, none were to be found in

Qalandar’s shrine

“No one has ever checked the quality of the equipment to verify if it would work in the

time of need?

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Review

a blend of speed and artby: More Team

DesignHad it not been for the presence of a USB Type C, two Leica lenses on the back coupled with the logo, one could have easily mistaken P10 for an iPhone.

The design part is where Huawei has been asked too many questions for copying Apple phones? One of the executives at MWC was not reluctant in admitting that Huawei was getting inspiration from the brands like Samsung and Apple, but unlike them, they were doing it the right way. "Huawei wants to show the rivals the real meaning of technology," we were told.

A significant jump in P10 is the moving of fingerprint scanner to the front; something a hallmark of Apple phones. While it feels more convenient to use it with our index finger which naturally interacts with it at the back of the phone and we have a similar convenience with Mate 9 but putting it in the front this time looks a little Applish and not much friendly feature for Huawei fans. However, the company has made up for this by putting some extra controls inside.

A slight touch in the middle of the scanner takes you back to the previous screen (similar to the back button). Touch and hold for a while, and you land on the home screen. Swiping left or right exposes the app review screen. It does not take much of the practice to get used to it. We did use it for some time during our testing period, but Android on-screen inputs could be friendlier for most of us.

Anyhow, Huawei is getting efficient with scanning feature, and it takes a blink of an eye to unlock the phone. The credit goes to the new home made chipset and the sophisticated algorithm which runs the finger scanning. The scanner is very much sensitive to touch as it is the case with Mate 9 and we must acknowledge the fast processing of its newer chipset.

P10 has landed with nearly eight colors this time, and their availability is varying in different regions. It can accommodate two nano- SIMs with a limitation of putting either a second SIM or a micro-SD card of up to 256 GB. Maybe the future phones will have room for both. Back of

The P10 is the successor to Huawei P9, a premium series from the company that runs side by side with Mate series. The phone has some really nice upgrades from its predecessor and terming it a potential

competitor to the Galaxy S8 would not be wrong.

Although the price for Pakistan is not confirmed yet and so is the launch date but in Europe, it is available for Euro 599, and with Euro 50 more, you can get a premium version P10 Plus.

the phone is all metallic and smudges free boasting two Leica lenses and LED Flash. It is industry’s first phone with hyper diamond-cut finishing on the smartphone. Overall the phone is much handy and comfortable to hold even for the people with smaller hands.

I do not know why they are after putting

more than required RAM

in a device and raising

the price bar. Even, Huawei’s

own bosses term anything above 4GB as

useless

CameraMillions of pictures and videos are being taken and uploaded on the social media every day; therefore, Huawei believes that a good camera must be put inside a phone today if it has to be a success story. P10 is the second phone, after P9, which boasts a partnership with Leica to prove its camera efficiency.

It has a 20-megapixel monochrome sensor along with a 12-megapixel RGB sensor on its back. The front also houses a Leica camera which is 8 MP.

Huawei believes that this arrangement can produce excellent black and white photography, better pictures under low light conditions and more realistic bokeh effect with control over blurry backgrounds.

The faith of the company is right in many ways, but there is still a long way to go before we start relying solely on our smartphones for every sort of situation. Although, the camera is not much different than what Mate 9 offers but there is some interesting addition of features that somehow distinguish the two phones. Portrait feature that is meant to put for enhancing the experience of selfie lovers helps you adjust the focus on your subject. It enhances the natural light and features of the person in focus and

couple with the artistic feature you can create some beautiful bokeh effect on your selfies. However, the newly added feature is far from perfection as it tends to add some heavily out of focus areas on the screen.

The camera has got some cool facial recognition technology. If you take a selfie, it will adjust automatically to give you wide or narrow lens. Maybe we have yet to wait for the iris technology to come on board as an essential feature but P10 does eye tracking in portrait mode where it tracks your eyes and light them up while making them brighter. Huawei calls it like a studio effect, but it is far from a Photoshop on your phone.

Holding a smartphone camera firm is near to impossible in low light situation and flash is not always the desired option when you want to capture the ambiance. Inside cafes and restaurants where light is mostly dull, P10 struggled and this could be due to f 2.2 aperture size. However, we are pretty hopeful that P10 Plus with f 1.8 aperture should play at par with the likes of iPhone 7 and Galaxy S7.

However, the 8-megapixel front camera is better in results for selfie lovers. With its f 1.9, it produces better results than its sibling on the back under low light.

PerformanceP10 houses the similar Kirin 960 chipset which Huawei has also used in Mate 9. It is paired with Mali G71 MP8 GPU and 4GM of RAM. However, the elder brother P10 Plus comes with even more RAM which is 6GB. I do not know why they are after putting more than required RAM in a device and raising the price bar. Even, Huawei's own bosses term anything above 4GB as useless.

With 4GB RAM, we did not face a lag while opening and closing the apps and the gaming experience was also seamless with the heaviest of the apps on the market. The phone, however, got hotter during a prolonged gaming session but it was never unbearable.

Overall, the P10 is surely included in our list of charming phones, and one can definitely give it a try for being a reliable speedy and artistic partner.

Huawei P10 Camera Result


Business News

EcoStar has recently launched a large-screen 65 inches 4K UHD LED TV with fascinating picture-quality and highly advanced functions. The price of this 4K UHD LED TV is Rs. 122,900/-.

The VERO 4K UHD resolution (3840×2160) gives a picture with 4 times more detail than Full HD with a large 65-inch screen size. The viewers can now enjoy the ultimate 4K experience of the sharp contrast with deep black richness and bright white which makes picture livelier.

Smartest Artful Design, More than a TVElegant Design and whole slimmed smart Television is completely suitable for any place at your home and makes a beautiful addition to the interior.

EcoStar 65UD915 is an ultimate zone of pure entertainment with smart android and there is no borderline between live TV, video games, and social networking. You can now enjoy web browsing, Facebook, Skype calling, YouTube and many other applications on your TVStylish Features that makes your life easier

Offering a wide range of exciting features and spectacular picture quality the prices of EcoStar LED Televisions are also very competitive, so the consumers get the greatest ‘Value-for-Money’

Through a recent media campaign, EcoStar advised the buyers to actually measure the LED screen before purchasing any Television, whereby the consumers are assured that never compromises on the screen size or display quality. Thus, the company has boldly highlighted the deceptive screen-sizes being sold by several generic brands of LED televisions

EcoStar Aims Never Compromise on QualityTheir 4K UHD LED Televisions are a perfect blend of entertainment, finest technology and aesthetical attraction of designs.

EcoStar introduces 65 inch 4K UHD LED TV with highly advanced features

Bank Alfalah bring online payment solutions to large network of studentsBank Alfalah has struck a historic deal with Beaconhouse Schools to extend its leading-edge digital products and services to facilitate the countrywide school’s network.

Under the agreement, Bank Alfalah will have access to a large network of students, parents and staff members to provide exclusive offers of Consumer Finance Products, digital wallets, investment services and top-of-the-line Online Payment Solutions.

Sharing his thoughts on this, CEO, Bank Alfalah, said,“We are launching bundled offer of Consumer Finance Products for Beaconhouse which features a host of products and services to cater to their various financial needs. We will work relentlessly to ensure that the partnership garners maximum benefits right away.”

Commenting on the development, CEO, Beaconhouse School System, said,“We are looking forward to availing the host of cutting-edge digital products and services Bank Alfalah is offering under the agreement. I hope that it will ease up our day-to-day transactions and allow us peace of mind to focus on our professional responsibilities.”

Bank Alfalah has introduced an innovative digital banking ecosystem in Pakistan which aims at expediting banking operations and services. The new digital swift banking will transform the overall banking experience for all customers by allowing added access and convenience.


Dr. Umar Saif signs MOU to establish Lahore and Austin as

Science Cities

Lahore and Austin both have come together to establish the two cities “science cities.” Dr. Umar Saif Chairman Punjab Information and Technology Board (PITB) and Mr. Steve Adler, Mayor of Austin yesterday signed MOU, giving way to multiple joint initiatives.

Under this agreement, the two cities, Lahore and Austin, will come together for establishment and promotion of joint resources to strengthen entrepreneurs, and small and mid-sized companies to export or import to/from the partner community.

It will also facilitate trade by establishing business-to-business meetings or connections, including video conferencing, exchanges of knowledge and best practices in business incubation, acceleration.

Dr. Umar Saif said that under the MOU it is agreed to cooperate in the initiatives like organizing bilateral trade, economic development, and exchange missions to each city.

He also revealed that promotion of capital exchange and investment, development of joint educational programs and exchange opportunities between Austin universities and ITU would enable both sides to prepare students for the future.

The other salient features of the MOU include the development of business-focused cultural exchange projects between the creative industry sub-sectors of both cities.

It also includes brokering international relationships between individuals and organizations within the areas of; innovative high-technology, advanced manufacturing, creative industries, professional services, as well as other industry sectors identified for economic development.

Dual selfie camera phone Oppo F3 Plus to land soon in

PakistanOppo has announced that it will launch its new dual selfie camera F3 Plus which is a member of F3 series. The company will launch the phone in five markets including Pakistan. For Oppo, Pakistan is becoming a major country as the brand is becoming popular day by day and giving other mobile brands a tough time.

Oppo is consistently focusing on selfie feature, and since the day one, it has kept the camera feature foremost. At the heart of the F3 Series is OPPO’s first-ever dual selfie camera for the “Selfie Expert” which can capture high-quality images with a 16MP primary camera and 8MP sub-camera.

The company just announced that it would simultaneously launch F3 Plus in five key markets including Pakistan. Large advertisements were also displayed on landmark buildings in Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam and the Philippines with the highlight being in Times Square, New York.

LUMS stands amongst top 300 Business schools in the World

According to the latest rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject 2017, the Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB) at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) now proudly stands amongst top 300 business schools in the world.

This particular ranking covers a total of 46 disciplines, highlighting the world’s top-performing universities in each academic area.

The rankings are compiled annually to help prospective students identify the leading universities in a particular subject. Research citations, along with the results of major global surveys of employers and academics are used to rank universities.

Prior to this, LUMS has also ranked the number 1 university in Pakistan and 111th in Asia, according to the QS University Rankings Asia 2016.

The school boasts 85% foreign qualified faculty from the world’s top institutions, 6 research centers generating cutting-edge management research with a global impact and 16 international student exchange programs with some of the best international universities.

JazzCash wins GSMA Glomo awards 2017 for empowering women

As reported earlier JazzCash Mobile Account was nominated for GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2017 in the category of ‘Best Mobile Product, Application or Service for Women in Emerging Markets.’

JazzCash is now a proud winner of the GSMA Glomo Awards 2017. The announcement was made during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with Aamir Ibrahim, President, and CEO – Jazz receiving the award.

Speaking at the occasion, Aamir Ibrahim, stated, “It is a proud moment for all of us at Jazz. We are proud that our efforts have been recognized at this international forum. This further reinforces our resolve to ensure that each and every customer benefits from the digital revolution spearheaded by Jazz.”

JazzCash Mobile Account with its millions of customers is enabling the underbanked segment, especially women, with its modern, quick and efficient mobile-based financial services. The service is increasing their economic participation by facilitating greater control over finances, allowing them to conveniently manage their money even at the most remote areas of Pakistan.

Huawei certifies Airlink the most valuable partner of 2016Huawei has recently awarded Airlink the most valuable partner of 2016. The award was in recognition of Airlink’s continuous efforts to promote the Chinese technology brand across Pakistan through its huge network.

The award was in recognition of Airlink’s continuous efforts to promote the Chinese technology brand across Pakistan through its huge network.Team Airlink dedicated the prestigious award to late Moazzam Hayyat Piracha and recognized his due efforts for establishing Huawei’s business in Pakistan. Upon receiving the award from Mr. Fanhong Bruce, Vice President of Huawei’s MEA and Mr. Blue King GM Huawei Pakistan commended the efforts and unmatched services of his team and Airlink in making Huawei Pakistan one of the best mobile brands in the country.

Mr. Fraz Malik Khan, Deputy GM Huawei Pakistan has also praised the services of Airlink and expressed to get more efficient and strong collaboration in future too.

SkyElectric unveils Smart Energy Systems, operated by Internet, in Pakistan

SkyElectric has unveiled the first environmental friendly Smart Energy System in Pakistan, which will be operated by the Internet.The Smart Energy Console is a touch screen interface, which gives insight into system operations. It has a built-in 3G chip and Wi-Fi connectivity, which allows the software to relay system information to the SkyElectric Cloud.

Technical support personnel in a Network Operations Centre have access to the cloud and can remotely monitor and diagnose faults on the system. Additionally, there is an accompanying SkyElectric App, which provides the same level of visibility as the Smart Energy Console.

Ashar Aziz, CEO of SkyElectric gave a demonstration of the Smart Energy System, in which the audience was treated to a live interaction with the Smart Energy Console, the heart of the system.The CEO shared his views on the energy crisis in the developing world, and why the system was the right building block for a new form of clean power infrastructure. He endorsed how the Smart Energy System has multiple features which allow it to be the most advanced solar and storage energy system in the global market.This presentation and demo were followed by a live experience zone, where the audience interacted directly with the systems and met with the SkyElectric technical team and management. SkyElectric plans to begin deploying systems by end March 2017.

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Sports

Pakistanis’ love for drama and cricket is unprecedented, whether it is our entertainment channels or country’s politics, we sure do find a bit of both flavor and the second season of Pakistan Super League (PSL) didn’t disappoint us in that regard. With all its ups

and downs, the country got its much-needed relief through cricket, which brought together the whole country despite their sorrows to cheer for their favorite team and to look positively towards the revival of international cricket in Pakistan.

PSL wasn’t just a hyped-up cricket event, but it meant much more to the people of this country. Almost eight years ago, Pakistan saw the end of international cricket in the wake of a militant attack on the Sri Lankan team, and since then Pakistanis have dreamt of bringing cricket back home to relive the excitement that was once strongly embedded in our culture. In the end, people stopped obsessing over who won and lost the match and were more excited about how the final would be played in Lahore.

Looking at the PSL fever many companies jumped to sponsor the teams that they thought best represented their brand and vision and amid this battle, QMobile partnered up with Islamabad United, which according to them represented not just a city but Pakistan as a whole. Moreover, the company was the official handset partner of PSL.

In the marketing game of mobile phones in Pakistan, there is QMobile at one end and other companies on the other. The reason, they always bring something different to the table in the handset industry, in particular through their partnerships. Their extravagant marketing activities make them bolder in the handset industry, where no national or international brand dare to spend their money this way.

Throughout the Islamabad United’s time in the PSL, we could see a big Q representing the QMobile’s emblem in the mega cricket event. The champions of the first season of PSL this time emerged with a new team and the legendary Misbah ul Haq as captain and the iconic former Australian cricketer Dean Jones as their coach. In every nail-biting match, Misbah could be seen cool, calm and collected. The team though went through quite a phase after the spot-fixing scandal broke out leading to the removal of Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif from the Islamabad United, but the team came out stronger than ever.

With all its twists and turns the second season of PSL didn’t just turn out to be a major sports event but a festival that helped people to cope with the tragic terrorist activities that took away the loved ones of many people. Amid all the security threats and saddening environment, cricket became the refuge of the people, and QMobile with Islamabad United gave the message of unity in the face of national crises. Either through crazy selfie (or grand-fie) moments or appreciating the players through cash rewards, the mobile phone brand took the front and center stage in making itself the part of the Pakistani citizens’ life. The company through its unique approach towards cell phone market knows how to make their brand visible among the other international smartphone brands.

QMobile is one of the leading brands in the mobile phones industry in Pakistan and enjoys quite a large market share among the other brands besides being the leader in the industry for last five years. From feature to the higher versions of smartphones, QMobile has got people covered by offering variety and affordable smartphones without compromising on the latest features.

The brand doesn’t shy away from declaring its identity through fashion and glamor. Through its marketing activities and its star-studded brand ambassadors list, one could see the amalgamation of trends and style everywhere. QMobile has previously partnered with major fashion events namely QMOBILE HUM BRIDAL COUTURE WEEK 2016 and Q mobile HUM Style Awards 2016 where celebrities could be seen with a handset as an accessory to their style statement.

The hosts of these events could be seen taking pictures with other celebrities who personify their own class of style and glamor to the smartphones. Not just in the fashion events, at PSL we could also see the cricket players making QMobile seem cool with taking the Player of the Match Selfie with their mobile phones that obviously made us rush to social media to view how itlooked like.

For the love of

CRICKET


Robots - Rise of the Machines, a Few Centuries AgoWhen we look at robots today many of us think this is so 21st-century thing where metal android can communicate with humans, but did you know the concept of robots is actually a pretty old one?

The actual history of robots can be traced back to the ancient world where the idea could be found in many of the world’s mythologies. In Greek mythology, we can see the relics of robotics in the creation of three-legged tables by Hephaestus, an ancient Greek God that could move about under their own power and a bronze man, Talos that defended Crete, the largest and most populous of the Greek islands.

Apart from Greek mythology many other early legends including Chinese, Indian and Christian talks about mechanical robots that could do the task of many of the robots today. At MWC 2017, we saw many new tech developments and among them a robot by China Mobile that could greet and amuse the guests but apparently it is nothing new.

The ancestry of many of the advanced

cybernetics and robotics science could be credited to a 13th-century Muslim scholar, Abu 'l-'Izz al-Jazari whose mechanical achievements established the basic principles of Cybernetics. Clearly through the earlier days of the civilization, robots have been part of our lives, but apparently, the knowledge has been lost in the generations or many scholars like Al-Jazari or Leonardo da Vinci gave us the mechanics of many of the devices that we take for granted today.

The robots for us came into play after the industrial revolution, when the mechanical machinery was introduced replacing many laborers. Now, the concept of robots is so mainstream that it won’t be farfetched to say that we may soon see them in our houses. Many countries are even talkin g about taxing these robots as with robots replacing workers; the taxes for governments are diminished, leading to the lack of funds and a sense of inequality. So apparently they will stand tall with the humans, so maybe the world domination by robots is something we should look out for.

Samsung VR Gear with ControllerFollowing the Google Daydream VR headset, Samsung has introduced its Samsung Gear VR with a controller at the MWC 2017. The headset packs 42mm lenses with a wide-angle 101-degree field of view.

The controller provided with the VR headset is supposed to assist the user decreasing head movement to a minimum. The shaft attached to the controller is an improved thinner handle with the circular touchpad at the top which has a home button, volume changer and a back button installed, whereas the handle has a wrist strap, so the controller does not fall off during intense gameplay. Also, there is a head strap to hold the controller when not in use.

The touchpad enables various virtual motion forms such as drag, drop, tilt and shoot options to increase gameplay efficiency. Samsung’s VR Gear is compatible with the Galaxy S7, S7 Edge, Note 5, S6 Edge +, S6 and S6 Edge and supports both the USB and USB Type-C.

Waverly’s Pilot: Real Time Language Translating Earphones

Whether you are traveling abroad or in between a business meeting where you are bound to meet foreigners, the biggest barrier you face is the language one. Waverly Labs have introduced a fantastic fully wireless set of earphones to translate several languages in moments.

The process is a fairly simple one as you need to download the Waverly app which is free on both iOS and Android. After downloading the app, the users have to have the earphones connected and speak into the microphone which then processes the language through the dedicated app so the next person can hear a translated version of what you said in any preferred language. The app requires a working internet connection to work and will be offering translation to and from French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and English. Waverly plans to introduce more languages such as Turkish and Hindi in the second phase.

The earphones are chargeable by putting them in a plastic case that includes an integrated battery for charging and can last up to 3-4 hours when fully charged. The earphones are available in Red, White, and Black and you can change the tip to adjust the earphones according to your ear size.

It is important to note that Waverly introduced the Pilot at the MWC 2017 and changes may be made in the final product which becomes available in summer.

ZTE’s Budget Blade V8 Mini and V8 LiteThe Chinese smartphone manufacturer announced two mid ranges phones, the Blade V8 Mini and Blade V8 lite at the MWC 2017.

The Blade V8 Mini comes with 13 MP + 2 MP rear camera that lets you take pictures by blurring backgrounds and packs a 5 MP selfie camera. It has an octa-core processor, sufficient 2GB RAM, and 16GB of internal storage expandable by an SD card accompanied by a 2800 mAh non-removable battery. The V8 mini runs on the latest 7.0 Nougat and has a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner.

Another addition to the Blade series, the Blade V8 Lite comes with a 5 inch full HD display screen similar to the V8 Mini, houses an octa-core processor, a 8 MP rear camera and a 5 MP front camera. It has the same 16 GB internal storage expandable to 128GB supported by a 2 GB RAM. The battery is a 2500 mAh non-removable one which is expected to provide ample battery time for normal use. V8 Lite has a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner as well and runs on the same Android 7.0 Nougat.

These phones will be budget priced and while they cannot be compared to the flagship phones of major companies, but offer reasonable value for money and the latest Android OS.

Lenovo C200 AR Supported Smart-glasses

Lenovo has entered the Augmented reality segment by introducing its new C200 smart glasses to its portfolio. The glasses are run on Linux OS and include features based on artificial intelligence and augmented reality. The glasses come with LTE connectivity capability and can be attached to a pocket unit for enhanced performance.

Lenovo has plans to provide accessories to carry the 60-gram weighing unit on a belt or in a pocket.

MWC 2017- HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EVENT


Although we did not see the Galaxy S8 in action at the MWC 2017, Samsung did launch its Galaxy Book which comes in two sizes. The Galaxy Book is a 2-in-1 tablet with an improved keyboard.

The sizes at offer are 10.6 inches, and 12 inches and both include slightly different specifications apart from the obvious difference in size. The Galaxy Book also includes a refined S Pen which lets the user write and draw in apps running on the Windows 10 OS.

The 12-inch model comes with Full HD AMOLED screen with a crystal clear 2160 X 1220 pixel resolution packed in a full metal body. The processor power is impressive too with a 7th generation Intel Core i5 CPU at the heart of action supported by an 8GB

RAM and 256GB of onboard SSD storage. The 12-inch model has a 12-megapixel camera and a 5-megapixel front camera.

The 10.6-inch variant of the Galaxy Book has a TFT Full HD display with a resolution of 1920 X 1280 pixels and runs on 7th generation Intel Core M3 Dual Core processor supported by a 4GB RAM and 64 or 128GB eMMC storage options. It has a 5-megapixels front camera which can record full HD videos at 30fps.

Both the 12 and 10-inch models support 4K video viewing and have 2 USB Type-C ports for connectivity. According to Samsung Galaxy Book can run for up to 10.5 hours after a full charge.

Samsung brings some nice Galaxy Books

SAP Cloud Platform; toolset to create enterprise apps for iOSThe Mobile World Congress sure does bring out the best in tech and gives a platform for these companies not just to showcase their products but also to display their unique partnerships. One such fact was revealed at MWC 2017 where SAP announced its partnership with Apple to release the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS, a toolset that will enable developers to create enterprise applications for iOS.

Apple’s partnerships with software and technology solutions firm will enable developers and designers within a business to build enterprise-grade iPhone and iPad apps on SAP Cloud Platform and integrate Apple's Swift programming language. Simply put, business applications can now be made for iPhone and iPad.

Apple in the recent years has started to partner up with the big players in the enterprise technology space. Previously it joined hands with IBM to enter into the enterprise solutions arena. SAP demonstrated a few early adopter iOS apps at MWC, built with the SDK, which included applications ranging from architecture and design, workflows and productivity, manufacturing, and an asset management application for surgery equipment in hospitals.

We’ve been hearing about autonomous cars and connected cars revolutionizing the transport needs of the individuals but what if a car can be more than that? What if your car can reserve your parking spot, guide you to it, record your lunch and fuel expenses and give you a detailed expense report later? Sounds intriguing right but at MWC 2017 it seemed more like a reality of rental cars.

Many times we have to go to a different city and instead of calling a taxi many of us prefer to rent a car in that city to move around freely. SAP, Concur, Hertz and Nokia have come together under the same banner to showcase their connected car technology which promises to do much more than any ordinary automobile.

The idea behind this connected rental car is that people more often have to adjust to the car that they take instead of the other way around. When functional, people can just log into the Hertz mobile application order their car, select their vehicle and now when a person get that car their preferences are already downloaded into the car’s system, for instance, the seat moves to your liking, your radio has all your favorite tunes, etc.

So after booking the rental car, a person knows where they’re going for their meeting so they can reserve their parking spot in advance (contrary to the LDA chit system in Pakistan) and the directions of that place will automatically be downloaded into the navigation system which can be your guide. Once you pull up at the right spot/parking system, it identifies you through your car and the gate opens automatically for you to park your car.

The connected car showcased at MWC is simply a prototype where they soon hope to conduct a market trial. The car needs to be connected to the internet and would run on 3G, 4G, and 5G. It is not yet known when the car would be available for consumers but sure does create high hopes for the future ahead for connected car technology.

Artificial Intelligence- Reshaping the Future of Rental Cars


Samsung’s New Water Resistant

Speaker and Portable Printer

Level Box SlimThe Level Box Slim is the water resistant speaker which measures almost equal to your regular smartphone except it is a bit on the bulkier side because of the 8W output speakers and a notable 2600 mAh battery. According to Samsung, the battery provides a music playback of up to 30 hours, and if the user’s smartphone battery is running low, the phone can be connected to the speakers to charge.

Although many companies such as Sony and Beats are offering portable speakers, Samsung deems its IPX7 rating as a differentiating factor. The IPX 7 rating means the speakers can survive 30 minutes in water at a maximum depth of one meter. So no worries if you are playing it on the poolside while you dive into the water.

The Level Box Slim is priced at $100 and will available for purchase worldwide.

A host of companies introduced different accessories at the Mobile World Congress, and Samsung was no different. The company introduced two accessories, a portable speaker, and printer. Samsung is calling its newly unveiled Level Box Slim Bluetooth Speaker and the Image Stamp Mobile Printer as “new ways to enjoy music and memories.”

Image StampThe Image Stamp is basically a portable printer which can be connected to your phone via NFC or WiFi connectivity. It prints images directly from your smartphone at an aspect ratio of 16:9 and is capable of printing image results exactly as they appear on the user’s smartphone screen. Moreover, a QR code can be added to each photograph that lets you save info such as the location or time at which the image was captured.

The Image Stamp will be available for purchase worldwide, and the price of the printing unit is $150, and the cost of 30 papers is $20.

Sony XZ Premium Super Slow-Mo Camera

Sony’s latest flagship XZ Premium was launched at the MWC 2017 with its camera capabilities setting it apart from rivals. XZ Premium’s camera is capable of capturing slow motion videos at 960 frames per second rate which is up to 4 times faster than its rivals such as Apple and Samsung.

Furthermore, it is for the first time that a smartphone has included an image sensor with a memory of its own which helps to scan the image at a 5x faster rate. The 19 MP rear camera lets you capture 4K resolution videos and front facing 13MP camera allows you to take pictures at a far superior resolution than its competitors. In addition to this, the selfie camera is capable of taking recording 1080p videos which is a major upgrade from its previous phones.

As compared to Samsung, Sony has lesser smartphones in the market and a reported share of 1% in the smartphone industry. Market research individuals have predicted that although Sony has incorporated the best technology possible in its cameras, it is tough that Sony will be challenging other smartphone brands’ share anytime soon, but obviously, we will have to wait and see.

Line Messenger joins the AI race with Virtual Assistant ClovaArtificial Intelligence the key to getting our planet invaded by a bunch of aliens and robots, just kidding, it is actually the intelligence exhibited by machines which is creating smarter devices. Now joining the AI game is the Japanese instant messaging service Line which is partnering up with the parent company, South Korean search giant Naver, to create an AI platform called Clova.

The company announced at MWC 2017 its aggressive strategy where the company is launching its AI software tools capable of powering up an online digital assistance that can converse in Japanese and Korean. The company took a chapter out of other major tech companies’ book and will soon be offering a Cloud Virtual Assistant or in short Clova.

With this move, Line is all in to take the battle to the big guys including Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana and Google Assistant. The company not just plans to create an assistance living inside the mobile chat app but also like other companies plan to build hardware that will support Clova. The company revealed that through its latest development, users would be able to talk to the assistant, they can receive the latest weather and news through using either a dedicated smartphone application or a tabletop speaker called Wave, similar to Amazon’s Echo, both of will be available in early summer this year.

Tech companies at Silicon Valley are moving beyond smartphones and are extending their research into the applications of AI. Line is already much stronger at its home turf where people can use the messaging app to read news, hail taxis and even find part-time jobs. Reportedly, the company is set to join forces with others and is in talks with Sony and the toy maker Tomy to form partnerships aligning its AI strategy.

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Panasonic’s Detachable Toughbook CF-33 Tailor-Made for Rough UseOur laptops go through a lot on a daily basis, and sometimes we end up asking for more durability from a sleek, metal-bodied laptop which is not made of rugged use. Panasonic, on the other hand, has been introducing Toughbook laptops since 1966.

The new Toughbook CF-33 was introduced at the recently concluded MWC 2017. The latest made-for-heavy-use laptop has a 3:2 aspect ratio screen with an impressive 2160 X 1440 pixel touchscreen. The laptop can work both as a tablet and laptop and weighs a hefty 6.1 pounds. The CF-33 is made for rough use, and the screen is touchable with gloves on or even in the rain and two swappable battery means you can run it for as long as you want.

Windows 10 comes installed with the laptop but a downgrade option to Windows 7 is available, and while the ports are disappearing on the laptops, the Toughbook CF-33 features a USB 3.0, an HDMI port and an audio port. The solidly built waterproof laptop is expected to be up for sale in the second quarter of 2017.

OPPO just like last year hasn’t introduced any new smartphone at MWC 2017 but announced a new camera technology called 5X Dual Camera Zoom. Smartphones tend to go all blurry when the camera is zoomed in leading to not so great pictures, but OPPO is here to finally change the game.

The Chinese smartphone company last month introduced a new camera tech called “5x Dual Camera Zoom,” that offers 5x lossless zoom. Meaning the user can zoom in five times closer to their subject without losing any visible image quality whatsoever.

A bit of the technical aspect of this new development is that its uses a periscope style module, meaning it has a built-in structure to divert light through a prism and onto a telephoto camera sensor that has been pivoted at a 90 degrees angle. Currently, the most current smartphone cameras provide 2x lossless zoom that fails to capture highly detailed images, so OPPO’s new camera technology is quite a welcome change.

OPPO’s 5X Dual Camera Zoom-The new future for Phone Photography

When we think about a connected world, many of us automatically imagine talking machines, and smarter devices and Internet of Things (IoT) to us is some quirky way of saying we’ve got home automation now but in reality it way more complex and with a wide array of options. A connected home wouldn’t just make our household things talk to us and other devices but would also enable us to protect our home and remotely communicate with both, our office and our humble abode.

At MWC this year we could see the latter application in play (sort of) as various prototypes of the home security models that integrated IoT to make our house safe and smart. We could see the far right utilization of all the home devices under one roof with ThinkPlug, an open IoT platform of SK Telecom that provides easy to use eco-system where anyone can develop and provide IoT services.

It is true that we all want to protect the things that matter the most to us that include our home and family and through IoT, this task can be completed without worrying about wiring your whole house. Home security through IoT is not a new concept introduced to the world this year as we can previously see many applications that helped us remotely accessing our homes (that is if you’re not in Pakistan because we are way too far behind in being a digital country).

We have already witnessed gadgets that can help set your thermostat remotely so you can have a warm or cool house when

upon your arrival, the motion sensors triggering flood lights and sounding alarms, etc. but this year we have seen new gadgets that can provide you an integrated customizable experience so you can secure your own house at your own terms.

So the new concept this year is to forget the fancy schmancy equipment and get to work with your own household devices, with a little modification of course. Now using IoT your home will know that the sun is down so the occupants would need lights in the house, or if someone is too close to your home take a picture to ensure that no one creepy is lurking around in the shadows.

The advantage of IoT is that with the interconnected devices we can create our own network effect and as more people would see the advantages and benefits of IoT-driven home security systems in future, they would surely be interested in other IoT platforms, like home automation and media centers, enabling efficient communication between users and devices.

Home Security- IoT shows us How it’s Done


Huawei, the Chinese smartphone company with the changing years, has successfully placed itself in the league of one of the world’s leading smartphone brands. From years we have only known the likes of Apple and Samsung to bring us the latest tech that smartphone industry had to offer, well not anymore. This year at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 we have witnessed two new smartphones in Huawei’s P series, P10 and P10 Plus which yet again have taken the battle of improving the features to another level.

In both new smartphones, we can see what partnership between Leica and a smartphone brand looks like. Huawei P9 made quite some waves last year and could easily be categorized as one of the best smartphones of 2016. Its successor didn’t disappoint us as capturing the DSLR-like pictures from phones is a thing of the past. Huawei now offers professional photography experience that can fit the palm of your hand. It is safe to say that as the company’s Mate series focuses on providing the latest chipset and fast processing while the P series aims to become a lifestyle and fashion statement.

Huawei’s strategy is to follow the latest consumer trends, where looking at the changed dynamics about how people use their phones, Huawei has provided us with dual Leica cameras,

including one monochrome camera and a general color camera. This time we could also see the company moving in the accessory business as it has launched phone cases complementing various colors of their handsets.

According to Mr. Jiao Jian, President Middle East and Africa Huawei’s Consumer Business Group, the company will be introducing more variety in accessories as it creates a proper channel for reaching the customers better with them. In a press event at MWC 2017, he said that Moto Z is a not success in consumers and joked about the use of Moto Mods to provide an additional lens to a smartphone.

The company is moving towards a future where they aim to combine cutting edge technology, user-friendly features and at the same time bring something new in the industry. In a rather quick span of time, it stands toe to toe to the like of Apple and Samsung in the flagship smartphones category and tweaking their own innovative features a bit further to provide a better-refined product just like they did with the camera.

With the launch of P10 and P10 Plus, Huawei believes to garner a much higher market share. Huawei doesn’t feel threatened by the rise in OPPO’s market share and as it relatively doesn’t consider it as a challenge in the Pakistani market. Apparently, Huawei believes that the only thing slowing them down is the lack of understanding about what the Pakistani consumers weren’t and the company wants to explore what the Pakistanis want from their smartphones.

Huaweiforms Battleplan for New Mobile Phone World Order

Mr. Richard Yu global CEO Huawei consumer business group shaking hands with Mr. Faraz Khan, Deputy GM Huawei Pakistan while holding P10 after launch

Left: Mr. Chris Sun, Vice President Online Sales & Right: Mr. Jiao Jian, President Middle East and Africa

Have you ever wondered why our smartphone batteries always die out when we need them the most, like before receiving an important text or making a vital phone call? Well at MWC this year we saw the solution in the name of a new gadget, Energizer.

The Energizer SOS power card is a highly reliable and easy-to-use mobile battery that can boost your smartphone’s life when you need it the most. The card is designed

with utmost care, providing the user with a piece of mind and keeping them worry-free from suddenly running out of power. The Energizer card is ultra-thin, compact and only a few grams in weight and can easily fit in a person’s wallet right next to their membership and credit cards. With up to 10-years shelf life, it’s always ready for use; all one has to do is to connect the card with their smartphone through its charging jack.

By simply being attached to your smartphone for more than 10 minutes, it can charge around 20% of a phone’s battery. Using a universal micro USB the energizer SOS power card is compatible with the leading Android-based smartphones brands. It can be used in an emergency, but it is not the replacement of wall charger and is not rechargeable once consumed.

Energizer SOS Power Card- Last Hope of Dying Smartphone

Battery

Remember the days when we had to put gigantic locks to protect our belongings, like those annoying locks for the bike, etc. but it seems that in the near future all we’ll need is our intact fingers (for fingerprints of course). At MWC 2017, we saw an amazing application of fingerprint technology where a lock can only be opened by the owner’s fingerprint.

In a demo at MWC, we saw a bicycle lock using the same fingerprint technology, where a person doesn’t have to worry about his/her bike getting stolen. The scanner is placed at the back of the cycle where the right fingerprint can enable the owner to access the vehicle. For a working prototype, the scanner was supported by a rechargeable battery, and when it detects the right fingerprint, the green color is displayed whereas the red color denotes a wrong print.

The applications of fingerprint scanner and locks could be countless in the future where many of our household items can utilize this technology to provide an extra layer of security. Many of the smartphones now support fingerprint scanner making the gadget secure from prying friends who don't get the meaning of privacy. But on the serious note, the technological tide is changing, and with the coming trend of connected devices, the fingerprint locks and scanners could present a wide array of security options.

Fingerprint Locks for Bicycles- Dawn of the Modern Security Applications


ALL THE BIGGEST MOBILE PHONES LAUNCHED AT MWC 2017

Huawei P10 Huawei P10 Plus

Nokia 5Nokia 3

Network: 2G/3G/4G LTEDisplay: 5.1-inchesProcessor: Octacore, 2400 MHzRAM: 4 GBInternal Storage: 64 GB +MicroSDOS: Android OS, v7.0 (Nougat)Camera: 20/8 MPBattery: 3200 mAhExpected Price: €649 (around 72,000 PKR)

Network: 2G/3G/4G LTEDisplay: 5.5-inchesProcessor: Octacore, 2300 MHzRAM: 6 GBInternal Storage: 128 GB +MicroSDOS: Android OS, v7.0 (Nougat)Camera: 20/8 MPBattery: 3750 mAhExpected Price: €699 (around 78,000 PKR)

Network: 2G/3G/4G LTEDisplay: 5-inchesProcessor: Quad-core, 1300 MHzRAM: 2 GBInternal Storage: 16 GB +MicroSDOS: Android OS, v7.0 (Nougat)Camera: 8/8 MPBattery: 2650 mAhExpected Price: €139 (around 15,400 PKR)

Network: 2G/3G/4G LTEDisplay: 5.2-inchesProcessor: Octa-core, 1400 MHzRAM: 2 GBInternal Storage: 16 GB +MicroSDOS: Android OS, v7.1.1 (Nougat)Camera: 13/8 MPBattery: 3000 mAhExpected Price: €189 (around 21,000 PKR)

Nokia 6 Nokia 3310

Sony Xperia XZ Premium

Network: 2G/3G/4G LTEDisplay: 5.5-inchesProcessor: Octa-core, 1400 MHzRAM: 3 GBInternal Storage: 32 GB +MicroSDOS: Android OS, v7.1 (Nougat)Camera: 16/8 MPBattery: 3000 mAhExpected Price: €229 (around 26,000 PKR)

Network: 2GDisplay: 2.4-inchesProcessor: N/ARAM: N/AInternal Storage: 16 MB +MicroSDOS: N/ACamera: 2 MPBattery: 1200 mAh

Sony Xperia XZs

Network: 2G/3G/4G LTEDisplay: 5.2-inchesProcessor: Quad-core, 2200 MHzRAM: 4 GBInternal Storage: 32 GB +MicroSDOS: Android OS, v7.1 (Nougat)Camera: 19/13 MPBattery: 2900 mAhExpected Price: €649 (around 73,000 PKR)


Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra Sony Xperia XA1

Alcatel U5Alcatel A5 LED



Network: 2G/3G/4G LTEDisplay: 5.2-inchesProcessor: Octa-core, 1500 MHzRAM: 2 GBInternal Storage: 16 GB +MicroSDOS: Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow)Camera: 8/5 MPBattery: 2800 mAhExpected Price: €200 (around 22,500 PKR)

Network: 2G/3G/4G LTEDisplay: 5-inchesProcessor: Quad-core, 1100 MHzRAM: 1 GBInternal Storage: 8 GB +MicroSDOS: Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow)Camera: 5/2 MPBattery: 2050 mAhExpected Price: €85 (around 9,500 PKR)

Alcatel A3 XL Motorola G5

LG G6Motorola G5 Plus

Network: 2G/3G/4G LTEDisplay: 6.0-inchesProcessor: Quad-core, 1100 MHzRAM: 2 GBInternal Storage: 16GB +MicroSDOS: Android OS, v7.0 (Nougat)Camera: 8/5 MPBattery: 3000 mAhExpected Price: €188 (around 21,000 PKR)

Network: 2G/3G/4G LTEDisplay: 5-inchesProcessor: Octa-core, 1400 MHzRAM: 3 GBInternal Storage: 16 GB +MicroSDOS: Android OS, v7.0 (Nougat)Camera: 13/5 MPBattery: 2800 mAhExpected Price: €279 (around 31,000 PKR)


Network: 2G/3G/4G LTEDisplay: 5.7-inchesProcessor: Quad-core, 2350 MHzRAM: 4 GBInternal Storage: 32 GB +MicroSDOS: Android OS, v7.0 (Nougat)Camera: 13/5 MPBattery: 3300 mAhExpected Price: €688 (around 76,000 PKR)


How To

by: More Teamfrom the original ones

Here's how to differentiateFAKE MOBILES AND ACCESSORIES

For a person who is not very well versed in technology, it becomes very difficult to differentiate between the original or fake mobiles and accessories. Listed down are eleven important spots to let you easily identify fake mobiles and other products.

PackingCheck the packaging quality and the fonts printed over the packing and pay close attention to the thickness or boldness of fonts as the manufacturers of fake mobiles don’t emphasize on their packing that much.

User ManualTake a look at the user manual, which is a small booklet provided with the device. The user manual is often referred to as the passport of your device hence if the manual is in the same language as the product’s country of purchase, its original, but if it’s in some other language such as Japanese and the phone has not been actually manufactured in Japan, then its a fake or smuggled product.

QualityTake the build quality into account. It is quite obvious that the cheap products do not focus on a higher build quality.

LogoThe company’s logo is patented and cannot be replicated by bogus products. Check the company logo on your product and compare it to the original logo which can be easily found on the internet.

Charger SocketsThe socket pins of the original charger are different from that of a duplicate one. The original charger pins have a plastic ring near to the body of the charger.

Charger PinThe charging pin at the end of the charging wire is also a differing point between the original and fake chargers. The original one has a charger pin that is slimmer, less thick or less lengthy than the fake charger.

Earphone RingsOriginal earphone/earpods pins have white rings on them whereas the fake ones have black rings.

AppearanceIf you get a chance to use the phones first hand, ask for alternate models and try to compare their weight, button positioning, display size, paint finish, missing functions or an overall lack of quality.

IMEI NumberAll original phones have IMEI number written under the battery, on the packing or by pressing *06 on the phone. Ask the retailer or the device’s IMEI number or check it yourself. You can always check the legitimacy of a phone’s IMEI number on websites such as imei.gsma.

BatterySpotting a fake battery is tricky and hard to tell unless you use it and see how much of a battery backup it provides. However, if you get a chance to look closely check for writing errors and general errors in manufacturing on the battery.

PriceLast but not the least, if the price feels to get to be real there is a big possibility the product in your hand is not an original one. Smartphones made keeping a budget in mind do not use high-quality parts and retail at even half the price of the original model.

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