Beijing: OPPO, a global leader in smartphone innovation, has forecast a significant surge in next-gen AI smartphone sales. In its "Oppo AI Smartphone White Paper," OPPO delves into the drivers and characteristics of AI smartphones, providing an insightful industry outlook. According to International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts, the AI smartphone market is set for exponential growth, with 170 million next-gen AI smartphones projected to ship in 2024, constituting nearly 15% of the total smartphone market. Notably, in the Chinese market alone, the share of next-gen AI smartphones is expected to surpass 50% by 2027, totalling 150 million units. The era of AI smartphones is fuelled by various factors, including the widespread integration of AI across industries and the growing demand for simplified user experiences on mobile devices. As user expectations evolve and technological advancements continue to accelerate, the mobile-device industry is presented with unprecedented growth opportunities. Source: Oman News Agency Geneva, Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Haydar Ali Ahmad, said that the so-called 'The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria' continues its role as a tool for states sponsoring terrorism that fabricates lies and presents reports that have nothing to do with reality, stressing that it has become a tool to polish the image of terrorist groups and promote illegal structures which constitute direct support for these groups and direct involvement in threatening Syria's territorial integrity. 'The so-called Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria continues, as usual, performing its assigned political function as its reports affirm the goal that lies behind its foundation and reveals the poor and contradictory methodology that featured its reports since a decade,' Ali Ahmad said in a statement on Monday during the fifty-fifth session of the UN Human Rights Council. Ambassador Ahmad wondered whether that was the role expected from huma n rights mechanisms, saying 'do not the crimes committed against Syria by the sponsoring states for that mandate deserve even a word of condemnation, is it not supposed to discuss responsibility about the acts of direct aggression by the Israeli occupation entity against residential neighborhoods and civil facilities, and the illegal Turkish-American military presence, supporting terrorism, plundering natural resources, threatening territorial integrity.' The Syrian diplomat added that Syria continues to work to ensure the voluntary return of all Syrian refugees to their homeland and calls for support and consideration of these efforts and to the immediate and unconditional end of the coercive measures imposed by the West that badly affect the lives of the Syrians. Source: Syrian Arab News Agency