BEIJING, Sept. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
September 5, 2015. Berlin, Germany.
Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA Berlin), one of the
largest CE shows in the world, just kicked off its 2015 session in
Berlin, Germany. Prestigious CE
companies from around the world have
gotten together on this leading exhibition of the CE
and home appliance industry, bringing with their latest products
and innovation achievements. Today, IDG and German Industry and
Commerce Ltd. jointly announced winners of "2015 IFA Product
Technical Innovation Award" (website: http://www.tiaward.cn/en).
Overall, there are seven companies sharing a total of nine awards,
namely Changhong, ZTE, Haier, BOE, Samsung, LG and Siemens. Awarded
companies received the corresponding trophies from Miss IFA, and
they collectively demonstrated both the unique charm of CE products
in the wave of intelligent interconnection technology and the power
of technology innovation of CE companies.
In recent years, the rapid
development of such Internet technologies as Mobile Internet,
intelligent interconnection and wearable devices, have greatly stimulated the development of CE product, which are
known to be more "individualized", "intelligent" and
"interconnected". CE brands adapt Internet
trends and intelligence and meet the market's requirement.
With the theme "From technical innovation to fascinating CE
products", this year's competition builds a stage for global CE
brands to showcase themselves against the backdrop of smart home
and smart community, in order to facilitate the CE companies to
proactively transfer and upgrade in this revolutionary wave of
intelligence and interconnection. They will then be able to kick
off the second start, to realize fast growth in the age of
intelligent interconnection and flex the new vitality of the CE
industry and CE brands on all dimensions.
IFA Product Technical Innovation Award, co-organized by IDG and
German Industry and Commerce Ltd., and held annually in parallel
with IFA, is an international, authoritative competition of global
CE brands. The accreditation aims to demonstrate the glamour of
leading CE brands to worldwide consumers and to boost the future
development of the global CE industry. This is the second
competition since it was initiated. The final results will be
generated based on online votes, evaluation and horizontal
comparison by professional assessment labs, and then rating by the
judge panel, which are composed of senior experts in the CE
industry. In a sense, the competition is an overall review and
rating of the global CE industry in 2015. After the judgment,
finally, Changhong won the Best Smart Solution Award, ZTE won the
UE Gold Award, Haier won the Smart Technology Gold Award and the
Laundry & Clothing Care Innovation Gold Award, Samsung won the
Industrial Design Gold Award, BOE won the Display Technology Gold
Award and TV Design Gold Award, LG won the Healthy Purifying
Technology Gold Award, and Siemens won the Smart Tableware Cleaning
Tech Gold Award.
As one of the largest and most influential trade show of
audio-video and CE products in today's world, IFA Berlin was
created in 1924, as a major annual platform for CE manufacturers
and merchants to get together and present new products and
technologies from different countries. In addition, for global CE
purchasers, wholesalers and retailers, IFA is the most favored
platform to know and buy goods, as well as the most important
market for information exchange and platform for consultancy on CE
industry development. In this show,
not only mature technologies and products, but many companies also
bring their avant-garde products and technologies that will go to
market in the next 3-5 years to IFA as well.
Among the prizewinners, Haier no-compressor wine cabinet breaks
the current limitation on compressor refrigeration in the fridge
home appliance industry. By using CO2 and H2O as the refrigerant
and abandoning compressors, it completely stops chemical pollution.
In the meantime, this machine was made free of motion
components, ensuring the wine
cabinet has zero vibration,
zero noise and zero temperature fluctuation, thus enabling
cellar-like conditions for red wine
storage and satisfying the needs of wine lovers. Haier Duo Washing
Machine, winner of the Laundry & Clothing Care Innovation Gold
Award, has a duo-drum design that solves the problem of washing
mixed clothes by smart identify such clothes as underwear and
outwear, clothes of adults and of infants, dark-color and
light-color, which is a significant upgrading of the washing
machine technology.
Winner of the 'User Experience Gold Award', Axon is ZTE's first
ever global flagship and most premium smartphone to date. After 18
months of user-focused development, ZTE delivered a flagship
smartphone that comes packed with all the features that global
consumers demand. Axon is the world's first smartphone that can be
unlocked with three different biometric authentication options –
fingerprint, voice control and eye-scan, and is the first handset
to feature Corning's Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass. Axon was designed
with consumers entirely in mind, combining the right hardware and
software to offer the best sound quality, camera functionality, and
all-round smooth performance. And it is precisely this
consumer-centric approach that makes Axon worthy of the 'User
Experience Gold Award'.
Changhong OTO Smart Community won the Best Smart Solution Award.
Changhong OTO Smart Community is an
Internet-based integrated solution for the Internet-of-Things in
smart communities. This people-centric solution offered by
Changhong revolutionarily breaks the boundary between family and
community by creating an all-new lifestyle for smart families in
smart communities. Starting from smart communities, this solution
integrates social resources and strengthens offline services to
enable users with a brand new lifestyle. Changhong OTO Smart
Community contains two business platforms – Smart Property
Management and Smart Health. The Smart Families in Smart
Communities, which is another key part in Changhong's smart
strategy, signal the company's transformation from providing solely
smart hardware to offering both smart hardware and premium offline
services. From the entry-point of the smart community, it integrates
diversified community services and management to provide a complete
set of smart service solution to community users. The result is
an easily accessed, efficient and
comfortable environment for household life.
BOE presents us with the world's first 82-inch 10K×4K ultra high
definition display and BOE Alta TV. Particularly, this 10K display has a resolution of up to
10240*4320, five times that of a 4K display and 21 times that of a
FHD TV display. The pixels can barely be seen even in a close look
at the screen. With a viewing angle of over 100 degrees, this 10K
UHD display can immerse viewers in an ultra-high resolution image
sphere, with a strong sense of involvement and powerful visual
impacts. BOE Alta is a minimalistic, purist and innovative TV. It
enthuses due to the application of high quality materials, which
serve an aesthetically convincing design on the one hand and due to
the new approach of integrating electronics and loud speakers in
the base component of the TV on the other hand.
Jennifer Xu, Vice President of
IDG Asia, said at the
awards ceremony, "Such trade shows
as IFA are important connectors among top CE companies, frontier
products and the international community. What's more, owing for
the better technical innovation, such brands from China are widely accepted and warmly welcomed
by consumers in Germany and other
parts of Europe. We believe that
this competition will drive the development of the CE industry, with the ultimate goal of
better satisfying global customers'
needs. Based on innovation in technology, design, interaction
features and user experience, IFA Product Technical Innovation
Award has been organized with the purpose of showcasing the power
of technology innovation in the CE industry and continuously
stimulating global CE industry
innovation."
As the world-leading CE trade show, IFA held in the most
important sales season of a year demonstrates the latest products
and innovation achievements of the CE industry to consumers around
the world. Driven by the thriving smart interconnection
technologies, global CE companies achieved remarkable achievement
in both technological innovation and product development, reflected
by the winner announcement of the 2015 IFA Product Technical
Innovation Award. Together let's witness the power of technology
innovation and the unique charm of the CE industry on the 2015 IFA
Product Technical Innovation Award, and appreciate the power of CE
brands.
Contact:
Song Ting
+86-10-65262650-121
ting_song@idg.com.cn
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