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Over the past few days, there were quite a few smartphone launches. First, the OPPO Reno was announced for RM1999 in Malaysia (a bit expensive, tbh), then came along the ASUS ZenFone 6 with a rather odd Flipping Camera in Valencia starting from ~RM2328, the OnePlus 7 Pro was also launched in Malaysia from RM2999 (no longer the flagship killer, I suppose) and finally, the HONOR 20 series was revealed in London with an affordable price of RM1699 for us. Sweet. 

Things are seemingly grim for Huawei. Ever since Google announced that it will stop its services for Huawei, Qualcomm and Intel will also cut ties with them. But all is not lost, as of recent news, not everyone is on the same page with the US Government. This includes TSMC, Panasonic, Aptoide, and an official statement by Huawei CEO, Ren Zhengfei on the future of Huawei.

Instead of just balik kampung this Raya, why not go on holiday? From the 25th of May to the 9th of June, any customer who purchases a vivo smartphone is eligible to be in the running to win a 6 day and 5 night holiday to one of these countries of their choosing which are Japan, China, Korea, Turkey, India, Mecca, Croatia, Greece, Egypt, France, Germany, Australia or Italy.

We’re not even close to Samsung Galaxy Note10’s launch yet more leaks have been surfacing about the device. This time, leaks hint at UFS 3.0, 50W fast charging and a 5x optical zoom thanks to Samsung’s brand new ultra-slim camera module.

As the popularity of Battle Royale modes grow on mobile, it’s not surprising that Activision has hopped on the bandwagon. Similar to the popular Call of Duty 4 on PC, the mobile version of the game, Call of Duty: Mobile has been announced to have a battle royale mode. Call of Duty: Mobile beta has only started a few days ago in some countries and has shown a lot of promise. The Battle Royale mode has been hyped up and for good reason - Call of Duty 4’s Battle Royale mode,  Blackout was a huge hit at release and we may be seeing many features from the PC version of the game ported into mobile.

WhatsApp has announced that starting next year, users will begin to see ads in the messaging app on both Android and iOS. The first ads will be implemented into WhatsApp status, a feature similar to Instagram stories on the app.

The Samsung Galaxy A70 was recently launched and now it is about to get a reboot on the Samsung Galaxy A70S. No word of what new features and upgrades have been heard of but we what we have heard is that the mid-range phone may be Samsung’s first device to utilize their 64MP sensor.

The Honor 20 has been officially announced in Malaysia starting from RM1699 for the 6GB RAM + 128GB of internal storage variant, and it will be available at all Honor authorised dealers and distributors across Malaysia very soon. Not only that, there are also special promotion with free gifts and up to RM500 in voucher which we will provide more information as soon as the information is available.

Adding some spice into the mix is ASUS who has just unveiled 2 new ROG gaming laptops and an ASUS laptop. The spice that I’m mentioning here is the fact that all 3 of these laptops is powered by AMD Ryzen CPUs which is a breath of fresh air after seeing so many models with Intel Core chips. The ROG Zephyrus G GA502 price is at RM4999, the ASUS TUF Gaming FX505 price starts at RM2899 whereas the ASUS VivoBook Ultra A412 price starts at RM2199.

I’m sure by now everyone knows the popular Massive Online Battle Arena (MOBA) called League of Legends. The game requires 5 players to go against another 5 players of different champions and destroy the opposing team’s base. The first one to do so, wins. After much pressure from China company, Tencent, we’re finally able to enjoy the game on mobile soon.