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Recently Facebook Malaysia revealed a bit more about their Community Standards, which are basically their rules on what can and can’t be shared on Facebook. Designed with Safety, Voice and Equity in mind, these Community Standards were published in a more detailed version to avoid harmful content such as hate speech, bullying and extremist content from being published on Facebook in all of the local languages including Bahasa Melayu.

Rounding up the entry-level for their new Galaxy A series, Samsung have officially announced their Galaxy A10s for the entry-level. Stand-out features are a large 4000 mAh battery and 13MP + 2MP dual rear cameras but there’s still plenty of value for the other tech specs. This includes a 6.2-inch HD+ (720 x 1520 pixel) Infinity-V display (the one with the V notch) and an Octa core processor.

It can be hard to remember every single password for every single account you’ve created online. Google has taken note of this and decided to make life (a little) easier for everyone. Android users (starting from the Google Pixel phones) can now verify their identities for Google services by using their fingerprints or screen lock instead of a password (hurray!).

As per tradition, Samsung would release a new Note phablet in August, followed by Apple in September then finally, Huawei in October with a new Mate series. However, there is a rumour floating around that Huawei could be jumping the on gun early by revealing the new Mate series in September!

Initially, we speculated that Realme’s upcoming 64MP camera smartphone may be the Realme 5. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The Realme 5’s camera specs has been released and has been confirmed to feature a quad camera setup with a 48MP Sony IMX586 sensor as the main sensor. 

After teasing what is arguably the largest megapixel mobile camera sensor yet, Samsung have officially unveiled their 108MP ISOCELL Bright HMX 0.8μm mobile image sensor. The image sensor is a super large 1/1.33-inch in size (great for low light) but also sports Tetracell technology for brighter 27MP images and Smart-ISO which intelligently selects ISO to improve pixel saturation (more vivid images). Coming later in August 2019, it is expected to be available first in a Xiaomi smartphone, perhaps the upcoming Mi Mix 4?

DxOMark has recently done a review of the main camera, as well as the selfie camera of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G. Their verdict is that the device is currently the highest scoring smartphone on DxOMark, with a main camera and selfie camera overall score of 113 points and 99 points respectively.

If you've been looking for an instant camera that is compact, produces really cool retro looking photos and can save your photos, you're in luck! Canon Malaysia recently launched the Canon Inspic series which are the Canon Inspic [S] and Canon Inspic [C] and they're super awesome!

In this week's tech news recap, Samsung stole the show by unpacking the latest Samsung Galaxy Note10 and Note10+! Compared with the predecessor, it has several new features such as the S Pen Air Action, AR Doodle, PlayGalaxy Link, 3D Scanner and many more. Samsung Malaysia quickly soon announced the official local price starting from RM3699 and the series are now on pre-order which sold out quickly. Dayum son! We can't wait to get our hands on it for the review!!

Besides that, HONOR Malaysia shortly announced the HONOR 20 Pro price for RM2299 (not too shabby). If you're thinking of getting one, we just released our review so do check out the camera capabilities (#satisfied). Also, Huawei revealed its own HarmonyOS which can potentially replace Android and they should just do it anyway as a competition. Lastly, some #khabarbaik announcement by TM on new price slash for all Streamyx users at RM69/month and Unifi Air for RM79/month. Pretty cool, now onto the NewsBytes below.

Samsung has announced that they will be unveiling their 108MP ISOCELL image sensor, on the 12 August 2019. The new image sensor is capable of producing images up to 12032 x 9024 in resolution, which is substantially more compared to the current industry standard of 64MP sensor.