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With Huawei’s continuous efforts to make their users’ lives better and efficient, their team of talented developers has come up with helpful kits. Those kits are apps that are explicitly designed for Huawei device users to improve their way of living. There’s a lot of kits included in every Huawei device.

One of which we’re going to discuss is the Huawei Site Kit. Let’s talk about how users can get an advantage when using the site kit straight from their device.

130 Million Plus Places Listed

Every day, the Huawei team has simultaneously updated the site kit to whatever places or new establishments that are opened worldwide. Rest assured, no area or spot is not listed to help you navigate your way. Whether it’s a restaurant, cafe, bar, theme park, or shopping mall, you’re sure to find it here in the site kit.

With one search, a lot of results will lead you to your next destination. All places are accurately listed around the world to give you the best recommendations on where to dine, hang out, and even do some important errands. It’s perfect to use if you’re new in the area or traveling in a new country.

Impressive Coverage Globally

Wherever you are in the world, you’re sure to be able to use your Huawei Site Kit. It has partnered with various countries, cities, and establishments worldwide to make your navigation secure and convenient as possible. Even hidden places or tucked away attractions are available in the site kit.

There are no limitations. No matter how remote the place is, you can access the tiniest streets and find your exact location. It is very helpful in case of emergency when you lose your way during a drive or hiking in the woods. The site kit, together with the location kit, can help you locate your way back to a safer zone.

Provides Over 13 Languages 

When translating a location to English or a different language, no need to seek another app to do the work. The Huawei Site Kit can automatically translate the location according to your preferred language. Impressive, isn’t it? It saves you from the hassle of copy-pasting the location to your translation app to get the exact address.

It’s also easier to find help this way with any local, especially if they don’t speak good English. You can have it either in Mandarin, Korean, German, or Italian. There’s a lot of possibilities that you can do with the kit with just a simple change from your settings. You can easily update the language settings in whichever country you are.

Important Note: The Site Kit is not supported in the Chinese Mainland. When making an attempt to use the Site Kit, it will not work around these areas.

For more information about Huawei’s Site Kit and other kits available, please visit their official website to learn more and get new updates. You may also send your inquiry to their 24/7 Customer Service. 

Making a good decision is usually easier said than done, especially when choosing which type of smartphone is the best for you. In most cases, folks only consider the available budget or technical requirements. The truth is that choosing the best is usually harder than you may think, given the available options. Huawei is one of the leading brands that keep suprising its customers. Recently, it leased huawei hms core 5.0 that is set to change mobile services. Therefore, that’s why to ensure that you make the right, here are the main points that you need to consider;

Huawei Smartphone Features

The Price

It goes without saying that price is probably the most significant point of consideration when buying a smartphone. After all, who wants to pay waste money on a problematic and useless device?

However, you need to be extra careful when you take the price as your consideration factor. First, the device’s price can be at times as a result of the popularity of that given brand, and therefore, it doesn’t always guarantee the best quality; the opposite can also be true. In this case here, the price of Huawei could be slightly lower than that of Apple and Samsung, but with the highest quality.

Amount of Light Captured

For picture enthusiasts, the first thing they’ll look for when buying a smartphone is the camera’s quality. A good camera is the one that captures lots of light. The quality of the camera and its capability make Huawei smartphones the best in the market above everyone else as their cameras capture more light.

The Design

Undoubtedly, the design of a device makes it easily noticeable, and with most smartphone manufacturers being aware of that factor, they’re making everything they can to stand out. People are no longer interested in the old design; instead, they’re looking for new exciting designs constantly produced.

For instance, Huawei is always in contact with leading designers across the globe as well as following the global fashion trends. As much as the other manufacturers are also paying attention to the emerging trends, it’s easier to see that Huawei has reached another level already with their design strategy.

How Thin is the Device?

For instance, Huawei P9 is about 7 mm of width, making it thinner than most smartphones from Apple and Samsung. However, whether thinness does matter or not is a matter of choice with different individuals. Some think that it’s very crucial, while others may rather prefer a substantial weight.

It’s the same scenario when it comes to the screen of the device. Some would prefer a wide wider screen (which is the case with Huawei), while others may not.

Durability

Who doesn’t want a durable device? Before you select a smartphone, it’s always significant to understand how durable that device is and how to fix it in case it malfunctions. Some will require that you replace them with new ones once they malfunction, but with Huawei, you only need to seek a professional for help and not a total replacement.

Therefore, there’re several reasons to smile all the way to choosing Huawei over Apple and Samsung from standing out to the best design.

Are you a tech lover? Then you surely always have an eye for the best of the best. Despite the problems we face today, there are still valid reasons to get some really cool tech items right now. Besides, the world is leaning towards virtual learning more than ever before.

In this article, we are going to be looking at some of the best tech items you can get this 2020. They offer more excitement and are relevant to the year we are in.

If you are ready, let’s begin!

Best Tech Items to Get Right Now

Smart Phones

So here’s the thing. The smart phone market has stayed alive despite the fall in the economy in general. Smart phones are important and really appealing too. Getting a new smart phone of your choice will give you super new features as well as allow you connect to the world at a better level.

Unless you are already using the flagship phone of a brand, this is always something you can do. Do you the best part? It’s truly exciting and fun.

Headphones

You are going to be using headphones a lot. From virtual meeting to just hanging out with friends, headphones have taken on a renewed sense of importance today. Headphones are preferred to buds and pods as it’s really just better.

The best part of this deal is that getting a headphone is not that difficult. All you have to do is to make sure that you have the right manufacturer. We talk about that later in this article.

Laptops

Laptops are also one of the top tech items to get before this year runs out. Everyone will be using laptops from the fall. It’s going to be used by teachers, entrepreneurs, students and a host of other people.

Getting a high quality laptop is going to impact on your connectivity issues as well as the amount of storage available to you. Therefore, if there’s any tech item worth investing in this summer, it just has to be headphones.

So How Do I Get These Tech Items?

Excited like I am? Well, these are items we all get everything but the thought of getting new items is really thrilling. Do you the best part? You can get all these tech items on Honor back to school special promotions.

You’d find that most tech items are on a discount and can be purchased at very reasonable prices. Also, the sellers are quite trustworthy. Those are the two qualities that ensures that you make the right decision.

So What Should I Do Now?

The first thing is to identify the tech items that you’ll want to get for you and your family. Then, make plans to get it under the budget. Also ensure that you get it from the right sellers.

Also make sure your tech items is of superior quality. That emphasize why you need to get yours from the right person.

Once you have this all sorted out, you might just be able to enjoy the end of the year despite all the troubles.

The pandemic is prompting Apple to make a change to the company’s Face ID technology: If the system detects you wearing a mask, your iPhone will ask for your passcode rather than needlessly scan your face a few more times.

The tweak, spotted in the iOS 13.5 beta 3 release, will help users avoid unnecessary hassle when unlocking an iPhone while wearing a mask.

Currently, the Face ID technology will stop and stutter when it can’t fully see your face, which can produce an annoying delay. The system will then give up and ask you for the six-digit passcode.

However, on Wednesday, app developers began noticing a change in the iOS 13.5 beta release that promises to fix the problem.

If the system detects you wearing a mask, it’ll skip the Face ID system, and instead send you directly to the six-digit passcode screen.

Apple is adding the Face ID tweak as many cities in the U.S. have been requiring residents to wear a mask when venturing outside their homes.

Although the change is small, it’ll help users keep their masks on, limiting potential exposure to COVID-19.

This can be especially important if you need to access your iPhone in a grocery store or pharmacy, where people are more prevalent.

The iOS 13.5 beta release is currently only available through Apple’s developer portal, so it may take a few weeks before it arrives publicly
to mainstream iPhone users.

If you can’t wait, iPhone users in China say Face ID can actually be configured to recognize your mask-wearing face.

The trick involves registering your face again with a new profile on Face ID, except this time partially covering parts of your cheek and mouth during the configuration process.

However, the solution comes at the cost of security; it’ll enable a person with the same face shape as yours to potentially unlock your iPhone.

We are amidst the 4th Industrial Revolution, and technology is evolving faster than ever. Companies and individuals that don’t keep up with some of the major tech trends run the risk of being left behind.

Understanding the key trends will allow people and businesses to prepare and grasp the opportunities.

As a business and technology futurist, it is my job to look ahead and identify the most important trends. In this article, I share with you the seven most imminent trends everyone should get ready for in 2020.

AI-as-a-service

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative tech evolutions of our times.

As I highlighted in my book ‘Artificial Intelligence in Practice’, most companies have started to explore how they can use AI to improve the customer experience and to streamline their business operations.

This will continue in 2020, and while people will increasingly become used to working alongside AIs, designing and deploying our own AI-based systems will remain an expensive proposition for most businesses.

For this reason, much of the AI applications will continue to be done through providers of as-a-service platforms, which allow us to simply feed in our own data and pay for the algorithms or compute resources as we use them.

Currently, these platforms, provided by the likes of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, tend to be somewhat broad in scope, with (often expensive) custom-engineering required to apply them to the specific tasks an organization may require.

During 2020, we will see wider adoption and a growing pool of providers that are likely to start offering more tailored applications and services for specific or specialized tasks. This will mean no company will have any excuses left not to use AI.

5G data networks

The 5th generation of mobile internet connectivity is going to give us super-fast download and upload speeds as well as more stable connections.

While 5G mobile data networks became available for the first time in 2019, they were mostly still expensive and limited to functioning in confined areas or major cities.

2020 is likely to be the year when 5G really starts to fly, with more affordable data plans as well as greatly improved coverage, meaning that everyone can join in the fun.

Super-fast data networks will not only give us the ability to stream movies and music at higher quality when we’re on the move.

The greatly increased speeds mean that mobile networks will become more usable even than the wired networks running into our homes and businesses. Companies must consider the business implications of having super-fast and stable internet access anywhere.

The increased bandwidth will enable machines, robots, and autonomous vehicles to collect and transfer more data than ever, leading to advances in the area of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart machinery.

Autonomous Driving

While we still aren’t at the stage where we can expect to routinely travel in, or even see, autonomous vehicles in 2020, they will undoubtedly continue to generate a significant amount of excitement.

Tesla chief Elon Musk has said he expects his company to create a truly “complete” autonomous vehicle by this year, and the number of vehicles capable of operating with a lesser degree of autonomy – such as automated braking and lane-changing – will become an increasingly common sight.

In addition to this, other in-car systems not directly connected to driving, such as security and entertainment functions – will become increasingly automated and reliant on data capture and analytics.

Google’s sister-company Waymo has just completed a trial of autonomous taxis in California, where it transported more than 6200 people in the first month.

It won’t just be cars, of course – trucking and shipping are becoming more autonomous, and breakthroughs in this space are likely to continue to hit the headlines throughout 2020.

With the maturing of autonomous driving

technology, we will also increasingly hear about the measures that will be taken by regulators, legislators, and authorities.

Changes to laws, existing infrastructure, and social attitudes are all likely to be required before autonomous driving becomes a practical reality for most of us.

During 2020, it’s likely we will start to see the debate around autonomous driving spread outside of the tech world, as more and more people come round to the idea that the question is not “if,” but “when,” it will become a reality.

Personalized and predictive medicine

Technology is currently transforming healthcare at an unprecedented rate. Our ability to capture data from wearable devices such as smartwatches will give us the ability to increasingly predict and treat health issues in people even before they experience any symptoms.

When it comes to treatment, we will see much more personalized approaches.

This is also referred to as precision medicine which allows doctors to more precisely prescribe medicines and apply treatments, thanks to a data-driven understanding of how effective they are likely to be for a specific patient.

Although not a new idea, thanks to recent breakthroughs in technology, especially in the fields of genomics and AI, it is giving us a greater understanding of how different people’s bodies are better or worse equipped to fight off specific diseases, as well as how they are likely to react to different types of medication or treatment.

Throughout 2020 we will see new applications of predictive healthcare and the introduction of more personalized and effective treatments to ensure better outcomes for individual patients.

Computer Vision

In computer terms, “vision” involves systems that are able to identify items, places, objects or people from visual images – those collected by a camera or sensor.

It’s this technology that allows your smartphone camera to recognize which part of the image it’s capturing is a face, and powers technology such as Google Image Search.

As we move through 2020, we’re going to see computer vision equipped tools and technology rolled out for an ever-increasing number of uses. It’s fundamental to the way autonomous cars will “see” and navigate their way around danger.

Production lines will employ computer vision cameras to watch for defective products or equipment failures, and security cameras will be able to alert us to anything out of the ordinary, without requiring 24/7 monitoring.

Computer vision is also enabling face recognition, which we will hear a lot about in 2020. We have already seen how useful the technology is in controlling access to our smartphones in the case of Apple’s FaceID and how Dubai airport uses it to provide a smoother customer journey.

However, as the use cases will grow in 2020, we will also have more debates about limiting the use of this technology because of its potential to erode privacy and enable ‘Big Brother’-like state control.

Extended Reality

Extended Reality (XR) is a catch-all term that covers several new and emerging technologies being used to create more immersive digital experiences. More specifically, it refers to virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.

Virtual reality (VR) provides a fully digitally immersive experience where you enter a computer-generated world using headsets that blend out the real world. Augmented reality (AR) overlays digital objects onto the real world via smartphone screens or displays (think Snapchat filters).

Mixed reality (MR) is an extension of AR, that means users can interact with digital objects placed in the real world (think playing a holographic piano that you have placed into your room via an AR headset).

These technologies have been around for a few years now but have largely been confined to the world of entertainment – with Oculus Rift and Vive headsets providing the current state-of-the-art in videogames, and smartphone features such as camera filters and Pokemon Go-style games providing the most visible examples of AR.

From 2020 expect all of that to change, as businesses get to grips with the wealth of exciting possibilities offered by both current forms of XR.

Virtual and augmented reality will become increasingly prevalent for training and simulation, as well as offering new ways to interact with customers.

Blockchain Technology

Blockchain is a technology trend that I have covered extensively this year, and yet you’re still likely to get blank looks if you mention it in non-tech-savvy company.

2020 could finally be the year when that changes, though. Blockchain is essentially a digital ledger used to record transactions but secured due to its encrypted and decentralized nature.

During 2019 some commentators began to argue that the technology was over-hyped and perhaps not as useful as first thought.

However, continued investment by the likes of FedEx, IBM, Walmart and Mastercard during 2019 is likely to start to show real-world results, and if they manage to prove its case, could quickly lead to an increase in adoption by smaller players.

And if things are going to plan, 2020 will also see the launch of Facebook’s own blockchain-based crypto currently Libra, which is going to create quite a stir.

If you would like to keep track of these technologies, simply follow me on YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram, or head to my website for many more in-depth articles on these topics.

NOVID, a contact tracing app that anonymously traces users’ exposure to COVID-19, is the first such app in the world to demonstrate the distance accuracy required to perform contact tracing without significant false positives.

In a newly released systematic experiment, the app correctly classified 99.8% of the faraway interactions as such.

NOVID is developed by a team led by Carnegie Mellon University mathematician Po-Shen Loh.

Contact tracing has the potential to be a helpful tool for easing social distancing restrictions and bringing people back to work safely.

However, it is important to limit false positives to avoid unnecessary quarantining of uninfected individuals.

Most of the other contact tracing apps in various stages of development and deployment use Bluetooth radio waves to measure the distance between two devices or collect GPS location data from users.

However, it is widely known that Bluetooth is unable to accurately calculate distances, and both Bluetooth and GPS can incorrectly register interactions between people in different rooms when signals pass through walls or ceilings.

In addition to Bluetooth, NOVID leverages ultrasonic technology. By accurately measuring the time sound takes to travel, ultrasound can more accurately measure the distance between devices.

To address general skepticism about the accuracy of contact tracing apps, NOVID was the first (and still the only) app to openly display its distance estimates to the user.

The team behind NOVID verified its distance measuring accuracy through several experimental tests. The report provides sufficient detail for others to independently perform the experiments because the publicly downloadable version of the app already openly displays distance estimates.

NOVID is now the first contact tracing app in the world to provide experimental evidence of distance accuracy in this way.

Loh set up two five-year-old smartphones in an office environment. The phones were then tested against several obstacles meant to interfere with ultrasound transmission, including measuring through bags, pants pockets, a wireless mouse, an ear bud charger and a foam core board—all against a background of 1990s pop hits.

Many of the tests also included facing the phones’ speakers directly toward or away from each other to further challenge NOVID’s ability to classify the other device as “near” or “far.”

The Centers for Disease Control advises six feet as the threshold for a close interaction, and so Loh investigated the question of whether NOVID could tell apart 6-feet-or-under situations from 12-feet-or-over situations, with a focus on reducing false positive detections among the 12-feet-or-over category.

Motivated by the prospect of creating protective, social-distancing “bubbles” around members of the public, researchers in the UC San Diego Wireless Communications Sensing and Networking Laboratory are developing BluBLE, a new app for contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

BluBLE employs ubiquitous Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology and personalized algorithms to ensure intelligent and accurate contact tracing.

The app aims to provide each user with a personalized risk score by considering their various social and physical interactions.

Risk scores update in real time, offering a faster, more efficient means of alerting individuals to exposure than current methods.

“BluBLE would enable core algorithms to provide accurate contact determination by leveraging my team’s expertise in determining robust locations indoors with WiFi and Bluetooth,” said Dinesh Bharadia, an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the project’s Principal Investigator.

“Our vision is to not only create accurate contact tracing, but to enable real-time feedback to warn users about potential physical spaces to avoid (germ-zones), which would be necessary to re-open our economy.”

BluBLE builds on existing contact tracing apps by addressing a key challenge posed by BLE technology.

BLE’s range of 150 feet creates a contact tracing radius much larger than the six-feet standard, raising the chances that an app will register contact between two people when no such contact occurred.

An app might consider neighbors separated by a wall, for example, as “in contact” with one another if they are within 150 feet.

Furthermore, most COVID-19 contact tracing apps identify a person’s exposure to the novel coronavirus as a binary “yes” or “no.” With more context, Bharadia’s team says, BluBLE can better estimate the user’s likelihood of contracting a virus from social interactions.

Engaging in an extended conversation in a poorly ventilated room, for instance, would carry a higher probability of transmission as compared to briefly passing by on the street.

By considering input from various common sensors available on the phone (chiefly Bluetooth, infrared and motion sensors), BluBLE can provide more accurate estimates of each contact’s potential risk.

BluBLE also plans to encourage effective quarantine while respecting the user’s privacy. The application would provide polite notifications to quarantined users tempted to venture outside.

Furthermore, should an individual break quarantine, BluBLE would advise them to avoid nearby smartphone users unafflicted by COVID-19, thereby respecting the quarantined person’s privacy.

The team released BluBLE through android and iOS widely to the UC San Diego community in April. A second release is around the corner.

Members of the community can support the team by visiting the BluBLE website and performing a few short experiments to make the platform even more robust.

Ecommerce websites and mobile commerce, or m-commerce, options aren’t an either/or situation. Both play different roles in the customer journey and cater to different audiences. What is essential is that you don’t overlook mobile experiences while designing the ecommerce strategy for your business.

According to Pew research, 8 out of 10 Americans are online shoppers, and 51 percent of them use mobile devices for shopping. If you aren’t leveraging mobile traffic, your business is likely missing out vital conversions even as you are reading this.

While a responsive website is an excellent starting point in your m-commerce journey, having a mobile app has distinct advantages over mobile websites. Here is a list of compelling reasons why your ecommerce business needs to go for mobile-app development in addition to having a mobile-responsive website.

1. Ease of use and better user experience

Even if you have a responsive website, every time the user logs onto it, the browser would prompt the user to sign into the account to continue with the shopping. In the case of mobile apps, the user details are stored in the app and the users only have to sign in once, when they download the app.

Since the users don’t need to sign in every time they shop, the ease of use is higher and the resultant user satisfaction is also high. Mobile applications also allow the users to switch between the different tabs, making navigation and overall user experience simpler as compared to that of the website.

2. Access to phone-native features

The phone’s native capabilities can be leveraged using mobile apps, which isn’t a possibility in the case of mobile websites. The integration of built-in smartphone components like GPS and cameras provides the user with enhanced user experience. Interactive shopping using augmented and virtual reality is an app-only feature.

Another advantage is the fact that native apps are available for offline use. While the apps do take up space on the user’s device, they can be used even when the phone is not connected to the internet, resulting in an on-the-go shopping experience for the users.

3. Using mobile apps as a marketing channel

Mobile apps give you a chance to deliver a unified omnichannel experience to the customers. Apps can allow social media integration that combines the different channels of customer engagement. The customer preferences are saved within the app, leading to tailored content being displayed to the relevant customers.

Using geofencing and push notifications sent out to the user’s device when they are in proximity of the physical stores or in case of any special offer can also result in a more engaged customer base.

4. Seamless checkout with multiple payment options

Shopping-cart abandonment is the biggest issue that retail businesses face. Whether in-store or on an ecommerce platform, customers are more likely to give up on completing shopping if the checkout process seems cumbersome.

Mobile apps remove friction from the checkout process by making it interactive. The widespread popularity of mobile wallets exists only because they allow fast processing of transactions.

Features such as fingerprint scanning and facial recognition help remove friction from the checkout and payment process by enabling faster authentication.

5. Incorporation of advanced tech for interactive customer experience

Mobile apps and technology go hand-in-hand. Incorporation of augmented reality in smartphone apps is already taking place, with brands such as IKEA and Sephora spearheading the transformation. The incorporation of AR/VR in apps makes them more interactive and results in engaging customer experiences.

Apps also allow for the integration of artificial intelligence in the form of chatbots in order to facilitate the customer in searching for their preferred items and getting them through the checkout. Personalized shopping assistants that are powered by machine-learning algorithms would soon become the norm, making shopping easy and fun — as it should be.

Did not have enough time to take a look at the technology headlines over the weekend?

Apple’s enormous iPhone launch event is and the gossip mill is in overdrive in what the company might unveil. The most recent rumors tip vibrant iPhones, but what else is on tap for tomorrow? Check out our latest iPhone rumor roundup, along with 11 Things We need from 5C. And the iPhone 5S

In other news, a new report in the German newspaper Der Spiegel indicates that the National Security Agency has uncovered systems for tapping into smartphone users’ data. That report comes after files released by NSA leaker Edward Snowden disclosed that its British counterpart, GCHQ and the NSA, have deciphered Web encryptions designed to protect users’ privacy. The bureaus’ tactics date back to 2000, when billions were invested by the NSA in custom computers built to break codes all part of an attempt to ramp up public eavesdropping.

Meanwhile, if you’re thinking about checking out the new Xbox One dashboard might seem like, we’ve the right news.

Apple is prudently instituting a trade in policy to keep those iPhones moving. It is a good idea and will achieve two things: enable newbies to be introduced with versions that are refurbished and keep sales high.

What’s inquisitive about that policy is it harkens back to the heydays. Trade-ins were milked by the car companies by radically altering car designs each year. A 1956 Chevy didn’t look like a 1957 Chevy, which seemed nothing like a 1958 Chevy. Obviously, most of the intestines were the same, but paint colors and the interior styling were different.

But this happening was short lived. My guess is the drop stemmed from a classic Detroit quality control problem: so you kept your older car the autos became less dependable and junkier.

By the 1970s the autos were miserable. The styling was boring; the quality crummier, and the entire trade in notion was disappearing quickly. Folks were turning to imports.

This very same thing will occur with the iPhone. It cannot continue eternally, although since the trade in idea is just beginning, I’d expect it would last at least a decade.

The operations which will decimate the iPhone company will undoubtedly come from India or China. By making high-quality, low-cost products in the beginning, these businesses will be given a foothold. Things will worsen and we’ll observe an onslaught of crummy phones that will make the whole landscape lose its luster, as the company blows away the competition.

At that point things should stabilize.

So just like the 1950s car business, a cycle happens and quality returns after a period that is down. And though the reasons for this particular cycle will change from that you may make certain it’ll happen.

Note this in the case of the auto industry the year-to-year trade-in’s entire notion was lost in the shuffle. To put it differently, take advantage of that while you are able to. That will not be long, although it’s great while it continues.