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Recently Samsung filed a trademark for a software named the “Neuro Game Booster”, which we presume is their very own implementation of a game optimizer, similar to that of Huawei’s GPU Turbo Technology. Based on the list of goods and services section, there is a mention of an “Artificial Intelligence Software”, which means that this technology by Samsung could be using the Neural Processing Unit that is embedded in the upcoming Exynos 9820 chipset to increase performance while gaming.

DxOMark has recently announced that from 22 January 2019 onwards, they will start benchmarking the front-facing selfie cameras which are found on modern day smartphones using similar testing procedures and methodologies that were used to test the rear primary cameras.

Samsung India recently announced the new Galaxy M series (the Galaxy M10, Galaxy M20 and Galaxy M30) and almost too coincidentally, Samsung have announced the Exynos 7904 for India's midrange. While it doesn't exactly confirm that the Galaxy M series will actually utilize this new octa-core chipset, the fact that both are set for India seems a bit too much of a coincidence.

Today, YES Mobile is proud to announce that it has a brand new postpaid plan called 4G KONFEM UNLIMITED POSTPAID plan with the starting price as low as RM46 per month only. For real? Yes, for real so read below on more details!

In this short news, vivo Malaysia's official Facebook page has hinted us that the company's previous ambassador, Dato Sri Siti Nurhaliza will return as the brand ambassador once again. But we think there's actually more than that.

As part of the first quarter of the year, the Mobile World Congress is held in Barcelona, Spain annually and most of the smartphone brands will definitely be there to show off what they have in store for us, such as OPPO's upcoming flagship for the first time in MWC 2019. We don't exactly know what is the phone's name, but we do have some key takeaways on the new unknown flagship from OPPO Malaysia so here's what we know so far. 

In the recent Oxford Union interview, Tun Dr Mahathir, Prime Minister of Malaysia (Dr M) revealed that Malaysia has no plans to ban Huawei from rolling out “5G communication towers” here in Malaysia. Referring to the actions of countries like the US, Germany, Japan and Canada banning Huawei from rolling out networks over security concerns, Malaysia has no intentions of following these sentiments without any proof.  

If you've been looking to get the Huawei Mate 20 or Huawei nova 3i, then this Chinese New Year (CNY) 2019 would probably be the best time to do so as Huawei Malaysia announced generous bargains via their Huawei Prosperity Deals. This would see savings up to RM500, cutting the price of the nova 3i to RM999 and the Mate 20 to RM2399 starting 21 January 2019 at the Huawei Online Store.

What's uppppp TechNaversss! NewBytes is back and it's gonna be our first 2019 edition! It's a bit late but we had a slow startup and now we are picking up some steam. There were plenty of things happening over the past three weeks, the most notable one would be the #10YearsChallenge "conspiracy theory", CES 2019 also happened over the week before, and many many smartphones were released such as Huawei's first Punch Fullview phone - Nova 4, the budget-friendly HONOR 10 Lite and HONOR Band 4 series, the magnetic slider Xiaomi Mi MIX 3, the rather late  Razer Phone 2 and finally, Samsung also announced the upcoming Galaxy S10 launching date in San Francisco, California. 

What do you get when you cross an MMO like Ragnarok Online and a racing game like Asphalt 9 together? You get Speed Drifters. Developed by Tencent, the game is free to play on the Google Playstore and the Apple App Store.