A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Jan 2019 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay #PhotoYatra

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January 2019 was the time when my blog completed 6 years and I made some resolutions at the start of the year. I followed them sincerely and completed many of them. This year January was the time to meet my family and friends in India as I traveled after a gap of 3 years. My MBA friends made it a point to book an Airbnb in New Delhi and relive the moments with each other. It was one of the most relaxing meets of the decade when all of us met after 13 long years under a single roof. Really grateful to all of them. 

1. #TheLifesWayReviews @iFrogz Coda #Wireless #Headphones with Mic #Music #Calls - http://www.thelifesway.com/2019/01/thelifeswayreviews-ifrogz-coda-wireless.html - iFrogz makes a lot of great audio products and I got this Coda Wireless on-ear headphones and totally loved them. I am a big fan of earphones and headphones and I am attracted to them a lot. Whenever a new one is launched in the market, my first reaction is to have them or at least try them out. I am hooked to the new Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus but I have not even seen the first version of the same. 

2. #TheLifesWayReviews S-Pen Is it a #GameChanger? 11 Features I loved @SamsungMobileSA #GalaxyNote9 - I really loved S-Pen in my Note 8 and when I got the chance to check out the features in Note 9 S Pen, I totally loved the same. Now they have Note 10 also in the market which I have also reviewed and will share the new features on my blog posts soon. S Pen is something that can make your bullet journaling fun on the smartphone. 

Aashish Rai in Miracle Garden, Dubai

3. A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Jan 2018 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay - It's been a regular series and remembering the last year and the posts you did nostalgic. I don't want to discontinue this series and may introduce some new series this year. I am focussed on the same and I am also doing what I was not doing earlier - reading books and listening to audiobooks in 2020. 

4. 6 Years of www.TheLifesWay.com #TheLifesWay #Birthday #Blogpost #6YearsofTheLifesWay #1675thPost - I have completed 7 years now and I am on my way to learn new things and fall in love with The Life's Way again and work towards making it to the top. I am going to do it slowly and steadily and you will see the same. 

5. #Technology and #Children - Can They Go Hand in Hand? #Parenting #6YearsofTheLifesWay - Kids are glued to the mobile and TV screens all the time and I have a lot of old devices that are available to them. Though I don't share my current devices with them at all and my family tries to only use the screen time to see the necessary shows and movies and nothing else. Reyansh sees the nursery poems whenever he is eating food.

I hope 2020 to be a year that will bring me a lot of execution of ideas rather than waiting and procrastinating them for the next years. I plan to start working on my Youtube channel and did some initial study on my holidays in India. I am ready and I can't wait anymore to learn new things in life. Also this year I will turn 40 and the time to research ends and now it's time to implement and discover new strengths.

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@SamsungMobileSA Studio #GalaxyS10Studio #GalaxyS10 @GatewayUmhlanga @SandtonCity @Canal_walk @TheMallOfAfrica

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Samsung Mobiles in South Africa has been an activation powerhouse after the launch of its latest smartphones in various shopping malls around the country. It's getting bigger and better every year as their smartphones are growing better and bigger too. I have always been a participant of these activations as a general public since Samsung Galaxy S5 where I got a steel water bottle printed with my name way back in 2014 or so at Sandton City. 

For Galaxy S6/S7/S8, I didn't get a chance to attend these activations and deprived myself of awesome goodies given away. 

Keisha with DJ Fresh at Sandton City

Last year when they launched Samsung Galaxy S9, I was there and again got myself a cool plastic water bottle by participating in their activations and activities. They also give away a lot of earphones, speakers and even the latest smartphones. Later, at S9 event I won myself by taking a guided tour and answering the questions asked by putting my hand first to win myself Samsung Uflex wireless earphones. 

Aashish Rai Jain with Grant Hinds

This year, with the launch of S10, they made it even bigger with the prize being R10000 cash but unfortunately, I was not able to find time to participate in the guided tours. The list was always full for the whole day as the stakes were very high. I have seen people celebrating their wins and R10000 is not a small amount at all. It's like a full month's salary for many. Kudos to Samsung for bringing those smiles on many lucky ones. 

These were the experience zones this time for Samsung Galaxy S10, S10e and S10Plus. 

• Experience 1: See the Difference - The difference between the 3 phones and camera features, OIS stabilization in Videos
• Experience 2: Power Share Experience - You can charge your devices using reverse wireless charging
• Experience 3: Gaming Experience - Fortnight championship to win S10
• Experience 4: Dance Experience - AR Emoji takes a new level to follow your dance steps
• Experience 5: Ultra-Wide Angle Experience - More than 172 degrees of the area captured

Samsung Scoop Speakers

This year my only satisfaction was to get a Samsung Scoop Speakers by getting myself enrolled in Samsung Pay with FNB Credit/Cheque Card and paying R10 for the same. It's a great speaker and I will review the same too later. I really loved the design of the speaker and shared some photos on my Instagram channel too. 

Aashish Rai Jain with Samsung Uflex Earphones 

This year Samsung's New brand ambassador Cassper Nyovest also performed on one of the days in Sandton City Mall. The activation in gaming has all the top gamers around the country working on all the 2 weekends full days at all the malls. I am sure activation this year is one of the biggest ever in the history of Samsung South Africa.  Heartiest Congratulations to the Samsung for spending so much for the benefit of end consumers like myself and others in this Rainbow Nation! 

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The Evolution of The Mobile Camera @SamsungMobileSA #MobilePhotography #DoWhatYouCant

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Whilst Samsung cannot claim to have inspired the first duck face (pout), or the wagging tongue we see so often on social media today, it can lay claim to having spurred the mania when it introduced its first camera phone as far back as the year 2000. Back then even the names of the phones were unimaginative but being able to capture pictures with a mobile phone, using an image sensor of 0.35MP, is pretty cool even with a name like SCH-V200.

Two years later Samsung innovated the flip phone with its SCH-X590, which boasted an image sensor of 0.11MP, by pioneering a rotating camera, allowing users to capture pictures from the front and rear of the phone - sound familiar? Yes, this was the phone that birthed selfies on a grand scale [#Iconic].

Leading the pack, Samsung decided to up the ante on the flip phone and introduced a phone with a swing-style screen in 2003, allowing users to capture images from new angles. The SCH-V420 came with an image sensor of 0.3MP, granting it bigger pixels to accompany those creative photographs.

Leaping from one milestone to greatness, in 2005 Samsung gave the world a mobile camera phone for all aspiring pocket photographers. The SCH-V770 had a first of its kind 7MP camera, that supported manual functions and wide-angle & tele-conversion lenses. It also featured 3x optical zoom, 5x digital zoom and autofocus. Ground ‘shuttering’ stuff.

The year 2010 gave us the best soccer world cup to date and Samsung’s first smartphone. Even the names started getting cooler. The Galaxy S had a 5MP camera with a wide range of modes like panorama, stop motion and cartoon shot. The touchscreen changed how people interacted with their phones and viewed their pictures.

Good isn’t good enough if it can be better and in 2014 Samsung gave us better in the form of the Galaxy S5. Coupling the fastest auto-focus (0.3seconds) and Real-Time High Dynamic Range (HDR), the Galaxy S5’s 16 MP CMOS camera made pictures more vivid, brighter and instantly ready to be shared.

The more records you smash, the more driven to outdo yourself you become. In 2017 Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note 8, its first smartphone with dual 12MP rear cameras with optical image stabilisation on both the telephoto and wide-angle lenses. The Live Focus feature allowed users to add a bokeh effect for more professional-looking portraits.

Craige Fleischer, Vice President of Integrated Mobility for Samsung South Africa, says, “Capturing images to remember special occasions has been part of the human story since the beginning of time – from rock paintings to the latest art portraiture. Samsung’s innovative development grew from the SCH-V200’s camera to what we have today. Even though this now feels light-years away, Samsung continues leading the way when it comes to superlative photographic ability. The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphone cameras are simply the best on the market today.”

Having ticked all the boxes and surpassed its own imaginings, Samsung decided to reimagine the camera. From these alchemic efforts came the Galaxy S9’s camera. It is called a camera because the English language has not evolved enough to come up with the correct name. The-super-speed-dual pixel-12MP-with-960 frames per second-sensitive even to low light-reads-like-a-human-eye-camera allows users to capture the world as they see it in both bright and dark lights. It also enables you to express yourself using an emoji that looks just like you through its Augmented Reality Emoji feature. Users are able to create captivating Super Slow-mo videos to share with their friends and also make GIFs with three styles of looping: reverse, forward, or swing.

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Equipping Gen Z For The 4th Industrial Revolution @SamsungMobileSA #GalaxyJPro #5YearsofTheLifesWay

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Generation Z – those born between 1996 and the present – are watching less television than their predecessors. Instead they are spending all that free time on their phones. In fact, they are spending over 15 hours a week on their smartphones, which are a mode of introduction into global technology. To better usher Gen Z’ers into this era of hyper connectivity, Samsung introduced the next level of sophistication to its Galaxy J series range.

“The new and exciting Galaxy J Pro series consists of the Galaxy J5 Pro and Galaxy J7 Pro models and is poised to enable Gen Z’ers to enjoy a smarter life with a phone that has premium Samsung Galaxy range features, a stylish body design and enhanced camera technology at an affordable price,” says Rui Brits Senior Manager of Product Marketing, Samsung South Africa.

Those Gen Z’ers old enough to enter the workplace are already jacked into the connected era of the internet, memes and social media. They are an always-on generation and demand quick access to the information they need. Which is why the J7 Pro’s Always-On Display, which enables consumers to check information at a glance without waking up the screen, is the perfect feature for these users.

Not only is this device practical, but it is also beautiful and comfortable to hold. The J Pro series models introduce a sleek design with a body made of metal and 2.5D glass. The curved back accentuates its fluid lines and provides a perfect grip for watching movies or playing games. It comes in a range of colours to suit everyone’s style.

But what would any smartphone be without the ever-evolving camera? The Galaxy J5 and J7 Pro series helps consumers take clear, bright photos. With its bright (rear: F1.7; front: F1.9), high-resolution, 13 MP cameras, it’s especially perfect for taking selfies in low light conditions. The Selfie Flash complements the front LED flash by turning the entire screen into a second flash to brighten your face, while a great selfie with friends can be taken by show of palm - without touching the shutter button.

“Samsung wanted to bring our customers a new and exciting smartphone that meets their lifestyles, tastes and budgets. We are confident that the Galaxy J Series Pro (2017) will appeal to existing and new customers seeking a beautifully designed, powerful smartphone from a premium brand, all at an affordable price point,” Brits said.

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