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Most trainers will ask their students to not use their mobile phones during training. Not for us at Asia Trainers. Our Chief Trainer Coach Andy Ng does the opposite: we require all our students to continue using their smartphones as follows: Use our free wifi and put their phones to silent mode All can check updates on their mobile phones every hour. People that need extra time may request for it, with the condition to stay back a little to make up for lost training time All are given free links to further learn on their smartphones via Udemy, Youtube and blogs (eg www.AndyNgTrainer.blogspot.sg) and sites like www.changingminds.org  We incorporate hands-on exercises using smartphones (eg colour personality analysis, handwriting and numerology) FOC We provide free training on how to use WeChat effectively (15 minutes demo session) Optional: students may take another 15 minutes to learn FOC on how to create and create professional videos with only their smartphones and nothi...

If you are like most people, you probably used Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson phones 10 years ago. Some five years ago, you started to use smartphones and your brands have shifted to Apple, Samsung, LG, HTC and Sony. But your next phone could be a China brand starting with these letters: O, V, H, X and 1. Time for you to get familiar with these names: Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Huawei or Xiaomi. Of course, iPhone users don't care and will continue to use iPhones. But Android guys are starting to switch away from Samsung, LG and Sony. Just look at the declining sales of these top 3 companies in 2016 and you'll know what I'm talking about. (Samsung Galaxy S7 is an exception, but Samsung's market share has declined from 33% in 2013 to 22% now). Essentially, Chinese manufactures like OnePlus, Oppo, Xiaomi, Huawei, Vivo are now making some of the best phones on the market. They are seeing high growth rates unseen by other players. For example, Oppo saw 79% growth in sales in first...

Despite their meteoric rise in the mobile phone industry, few people have ever really heard of Oppo. This 2016, the fastest growing sales in the smartphone industry is not Samsung or Xiaomi but Oppo.  Here are some things you might want to know 1. Oppo's CEO is Tony Chen Tony founded this company in 2004 in Dongguan, southern China.  Little is know about Tony Chen, except that he is young and energetic.  2. Oppo used to make a lot of high quality MP3 Players Before they ventured into mobile phones, Oppo made portable media players (PMPs) that were released only in China and very few other Asian markets. These MP3 players were very well received and highly acclaimed in China.  3. Oppo started smartphones in 2008 Oppo is actually older than Xiaomi in this industry. The year 2008 was also the year when Samsung and LG were small players in the smartphone market.  4.  Oppo innovates Oppo’s first mobile phone didn’t really impress a lot of...

Whether you are an employee , manager , salesperson or professional, we can all adopt the winning ways of the world's biggest computing platform: Android.  A company started by Andy Rubin in 2003 and launched to the world in 2008, Android is now the world's largest operating system for computers, especially smartphones. As at December 2013, Android has captured 82% of all smartphones and tablets , overtaking Apple since 2012.  Today there are more than one million applications (or apps) written using the Android's open-source operating system, with over 1.2 billion mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) installed.  The 5 Winning Ways of Android are: Focus on Product, not Marketing .  Android focused on creating apps that are useful, e.g. Play Books, Color Note and Panoroma Camera.  In fact, many of the Android's apps are more innovative than Apple's iOS, and this is also the reason that makes Android's platform more popular than Apple. Leverage on Parte...

With people using their smartphones (and tablets) on average over 3 hours a day, that's even more than the amount of time people spend on their home computers and TVs.  But only 9% of the time (16 minutes) is on talking, the bulk of the time (72% or 2 hours) is on instant communications, especially group and private messaging on Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook , Line and WeChat).  Many people wonder if we have become slaves or addicted to our smartphones as many people carry them even inside the water closets.  However to us, the smartphone is just a tool, it is neither good or bad.  We can make ourselves smarter with our smartphones in the following 7 ways: Learn something new every day by reading blogs , seminar write-ups , news analysis, commentaries and TED videos;  Become a Guru instantly by broadcasting to others our unique thoughts on current events .  For example, I posted on my facebook the biggest disappointment of the year: the Samsung Galaxy S5...