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With the month of Ramadan coming to an end, Waze has graciously released a few predictions as to how the “Balik Kampung” traffic will pan out for the year of 2019 as to help fellow road warriors stay safe on their ride back.

This June, Google will be rolling out Gmail confidential mode to all users starting on the 25th of June. Technically, it works just like a self-destructing email would - the email will come with an expiration date whereby the email will be wiped out then. Senders may also revoke the email. As for the receiver, they are not able to forward, copy or download the email. This mode is perfect for emailing out sensitive data.

This Hari Raya, Huawei has introduced a new smartphone for the Huawei Y family, the Huawei Y5 2019. The device comes easy on the wallet with some pretty cool features such as the triple card tray, a leather-like textured rear and more. The device hits shelves on the 31st of May for RM459.

Regarding the trade war between the USA and China, our Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has made several comments about the West and Huawei at the 25th International Conference on The Future of Asia (Nikkei Conference). It was a rather long session but overall, Dr Mahathir stated that Malaysia will still use technology from Huawei "as much as possible."

During the launch of the OPPO Reno 10x Zoom in Malaysia, OPPO Malaysia has told the media that not only the consumers will be able to enjoy the given local warranty, but as well as internationally. In other words, Malaysian consumers will be able to enjoy OPPO's International Warranty Service (IWS).

The Helio M70 has finally been unveiled over at Computex 2019. It comes with 5G capabilities on a 7nm process. In addition, it is the first platform that supports ARM’s Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU.

Joining the Samsung Galaxy M series soon will be the Samsung Galaxy M40 on June 11. As far as rumours go, this device may be highest spec in the series for now. Earlier today, renders of the device have leaked, showing off the Infinity-O display, a triple rear camera setup, a rear mounted fingerprint scanner and a pretty thin chin as well as slim bezels.

Reports went around mentioning that the Redmi K20 may be going by another name outside of China - specifically, the Xiaomi 9T. Xiaomi took to Twitter this morning to tease a brand new addition to the Xiaomi Mi 9 family and it seems like it may be named the Xiaomi 9T.

The SD card Association had recently removed Huawei from their list of partners but it seems like that has changed (perhaps due to some Huawei patents?). In the 1000 list of parties on the company’s official website, Huawei’s name is once again listed. The same goes with the WiFi Alliance sponsor list (guess all that research budget helped out).

During the Computex 2019 which is held in Taipei of Taiwan, Lenovo has unveiled the world’s very first 5G-capable laptop with a theoretical download speed from anywhere between 1Gbps to 10Gbps. This allows it to stream up to 8k media and AR/VR content, with little to no latency as well as higher stability.