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So here's another round of EMUI 9.0 beta invite, this time around it's now available on the Huawei Nova 3 and Nova 3i smartphones and Huawei Malaysia is inviting all users of the Nova 3 series to join the test and give their feedback.

As the OPPO R17 Pro will be making its official launch sales tomorrow (1 December 2018), OPPO Malaysia is also having an exclusive "Seize the Night" bus tour event but it's only limited to 25 customers on a first-come-first-serve basis. If you're one of the customers who can't make it, no worries, the company will also be giving away a free wireless Bluetooth headset!

2019 is looking like the year of the foldable smartphones and OPPO has just confirmed that they too will join in on the bandwagon. They’ll be launching their foldable smartphone at MWC 2019 which will be happening at the end of February.

MediaTek took to Twitter to confirm that the Helio P90 SoC would be out soon with claims that it will have “Groundbreaking AI”. They also claimed that the SoC is the most efficient and powerful to date. So far, no release dates have been mentioned but according to the tweet, we can expect to see the chip very soon.

In this extremely short news, vivo is proud to announce another market share result in the Q3 of 2018. This time around, a new research on the 2018 Q3 Asia market share shows that vivo is once again one of the top 5 smartphone brands, scoring a 15% market share. Although they are 1% behind OPPO, vivo is tied together with Huawei and stands above Xiaomi and Samsung.

Based on the reports from gizchina.com, the upcoming OPPO R19 might be the first to be powered by a Mediatek Helio P80 Chipset. Other than the R19, the Mediatek Helio P80 will be expected to be available on majority of the mid-range phones in the coming year of 2019.

Xiaomi and IKEA officially announced their strategic partnership recently at the annual MIDC conference. This means that IKEA's full range of smart lighting products will be connected to Xiaomi's IoT (Internet of Things) platform starting from December 2018 in China. No news when these will be available in Malaysia or for how much.

Today, DJI has announced a new product called Osmo Pocket. Possibly the most compact camera device ever, it's similar to the standard Osmo handheld gimbal for smartphones but tinier. At the moment, it's not available in Malaysia yet but you can pre-order it overseas for $349 (~RM1463) at store.dji.com.

Youtuber ‘Mrwhosetheboss’ received a ‘mystery smartphone’ to unbox on his channel. He was not allowed to show the full device as it was just a teaser but a few main features of the phone was hinted which led many to believe that it may be the vivo NEX S2.

Watch out gamers, as a new gaming phone has come to town with impressive tech specs and features that every mobile gamer wants. The Nubia Red Magic Mars’ price starts at an affordable CNY 2700 (~RM1630) for the 6GB RAM and 64GB  model, CNY 3200 (~RM1932) for the 8GB RAM and 128 GB storage model and finally, CNY 4000 (~RM2415) for the 10GB and 256GB internal storage model.