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Ah, MediaTek. Our last reported news about them wasn't so pleasant due to manipulating benchmark scores with a few selected chipsets. Despite that, the company is still planning to unveil a new 5G chipset on 7 May 2020. The poster's tagline translates as "5G all-inclusive" and it's said to be made for mid-range smartphones.

With another launch for Honor set to sometime in May 2020, news of its next smartphone has been popping up the last few days. And the next bit of rumour of the Honor X10 is literally about a pop-up camera. Specifically, photos of the device's transparent case have appeared and they seem to indicate that it will sport a pop-up camera.

Do you remember the rumoured Samsung Galaxy "Beans" image renders that appeared in early April? Looks like the news is back again with some interesting changes. According to @_the_tech_guy, he found a new trademark application by Samsung filing for the name Galaxy BudsX.

The CEO of realme India Madhav Sheth has teased on the realme Watch last month and it was spot on SIRIM certification a few days ago. Today, images and details about the company’s second smart wearable after the realme Band has been leaked by an XDA contributor.

Astro has officially announced that the complementary viewing of channels such as Learning, New, Stay Home Concert, Asian Movie channels, HITS Movies, HITS HD, and more has been extended to 12 May 2020. Not only that, but those who subscribed to NJOI will get additional channels such as KIX, Nat Geo WILD, Cartoon Network, and Celestial Movies until the end of the aforementioned date.

It seems that local newspaper companies are requesting Google and Facebook to share their ad revenue, due to the fact that most of the aggregated news derived from sources such as News Straits Times, The Sun, Borneo Post, and The Edge. Not only that but based on a statement by Mustapha Kamil Mohd Janor, Facebook and Google were re-using content by traditional media companies for the past 15 years.

Based on a statement by gizmochina, it seems that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 20 series is expected to come equipped with a new chipset which is the Exynos 992. Not only that, but the aforementioned chipset will most likely outperform the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset by up to 3%.

The Bantuan Prihatin Nasional (BPN) was announced earlier this month and it served as a way for the government to ease the financial burden of Malaysians during the movement control order (MCO). Today, Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz announced that the second phase for Bantuan Prihatin funds will be given out starting from 4 May 2020.

Recently, OPPO Malaysia has recently revealed that the OPPO A92 is expected to come with a 48MP AI Quad Camera in a C-shape camera layout in the rear. Other than the 48MP, the device also comes with an 8MP ultra wide-angle lens + 2MP Mono lens + 2MP portrait camera sensors while the front has a 16MP selfie camera.

Short videos have become familiar popular with the younger crowd in recent times, something that can be attributed to the existence of TikTok. Which is why it's not surprising to see that companies wanting to compete in that space. Just earlier this month, YouTube that it was releasing a new feature called Shorts and now Kuaishou Technology has launched Snack Video to compete.