Honor Rolls Out ‘Ride Mode’ – Safety Feature For Honor 9 Lite

·         The new feature is designed to promote responsible bike riding

Honor, Huawei’s e-brand for digital natives, today announced the rollout of ‘Ride Mode’ feature via HOTA update (Huawei Over The Air) exclusively for Honor 9 Lite smartphone in India. The new feature urges consumers to follow responsible and safe smartphone usage operating a two-wheel vehicle. According to industry reports and figures, India has one of the highest numbers of road accidents due to several factors like distracted driving and mobile phone usage while driving/riding. Ride Mode will soon be also rolled out for other Honor smartphones like Honor 7X, and Honor 9i in future.

The Ride Mode update on the Honor 9 Lite will be initiated in batches and will be completed by March end. Post the update, to enable ‘Ride-Mode’; user needs to activate the feature either from drop-down notifications menu or by going to the phone’s ‘Settings’. Once enabled, the caller will be notified that the user is currently riding, and cannot answer calls. The feature, however, allows the caller to call the rider by pressing numeric 1 in-case of urgency or emergency.

New Delhi, 16^th March 2018