(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Vacation-goers this summer will spend up to 26 hours a week on their smartphone, smartphone e-brand, Huawei honor, has predicted
A third of UAE residents will spend upwards of an hour a day taking pictures on their phones, with more than one third spending between 20 to 40 minutes a day checking and posting on social media. Where once the camera was the most important travel accessory, nine in 10 people in the UAE now believe their smartphone is more essential, demonstrating how important a consumer's device is as part of their lifestyle. Chris Sunbaigong, VP of Huawei honor Middle East, said: "The fact that holiday-makers will spend up to half of their week on their smartphones even surprised us. What doesn't surprise us however, is how important smartphones are as an extension of people's lifestyles." Sunbaigong added: "At Huawei honor everything we do is for the benefit of the end-user, whether it is specs, camera or appearance, we take note of what they actually want and use on a daily basis. We know how important the smartphone camera is to our end-users, which is why our devices are geared towards taking great shots on the go - meaning there is literally no excuse for a bad photo." Research from Huawei honor also suggests that there is a significant difference in smartphone behaviour between UAE and KSA holiday-makers. It highlighted that people in the kingdom mostly use their smartphones for gaming and making calls when on holiday; however taking photos was still the number one in terms of usage. The recent explosion of free, public WiFi all over the world has been an enormous boon for working professionals as well as vacation-goers. Today free access points are available at restaurants, hotels, airports, bookstores, and even random retail outlets. Kaspersky Lab cautions that this freedom comes at a price, though, and few truly understand the public WiFi risks associated with these connections. "Cybercriminals often spy on public WiFi networks and intercept data that is transferred across links. In this way, the criminal can access users' banking credentials, account password and other valuable information," informed Amin Hasbini, security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. An earlier study by Kaspersky, in different markets around the world, revealed that eight in 10 people access WiFi networks in airport terminals and hotels. The study found that by the time travellers are leaving the airport, 44 per cent have already gone online. Around 69 per cent choose to connect in order to inform their family that they have arrived safely. According to research by Kaspersky, hackers have been known to use an unsecured WiFi connection to distribute malware. If you allow file-sharing across a network, the hacker can easily plant infected software on your computer. Some ingenious hackers have even managed to hack the connection point itself, causing a pop-up window to appear during the connection process offering an upgrade to a piece of popular software. Clicking the window installs the malware.
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