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If you have been surfing on your 11street app today, you probably have been notified about the new Tech Madness promotion. It's part of the Shopping Madness 11.11 day and 11street are offering a ton of exciting deals, promotions and product discount up to 90% and more!

As of yesterday (29 October 2018), Lazada Malaysia has officially announced its biggest shopping event of the year (yet). Simply called as the Lazada 11.11 Shopping Festival and as the name suggests, the event will begin exactly at 12AM midnight after the end of 10 November 2018. Besides that, shoppers can also tune in to the one-night-only Lazada 11.11 Super Show where they can take part in some live game sessions to win prizes and check out performances from local and international celebrities.

Finally, vivo is giving us yet another update on its 5G progress. We have reported a few news about this and in this latest update, the company just participated in Qualcomm’s 4G/5G Summit held in Hong Kong on 22 – 24 October 2018, with Zhou Wei, the Vice President of Vivo, Head of Vivo Artificial Intelligence Global Research Institute has presented a keynote titled “Intelligent Phone being the key to 5G development success”.

So the OnePlus 6T is out, there were some rumours here and there but it didn't get enough steamrolling since it has only been around six months that the OnePlus 6 was released in Malaysia in June 2018. According to some sources, it seems that the only colour available is Mirror and Midnight Black but its official online store in Lazada has already put the pre-order live and scheduled to arrive on 8 November 2018 starting from RM2588 (6GB + 128GB).

Did you know that the Xiaomi Photography Challenge is the second time that the company is doing this? The first one was held just last year with more than 13,000 participants from around the world, with the eventual winner awarded US$30,000 (RM125,370) as the grand prize. In this second round, the social global contest is open to everyone who has a Xiaomi smartphone will stand a chance to win prizes that total up to US$50,000 (RM208,950)!

The Huawei Watch GT that was announced in London alongside the Huawei Mate 20 series is now available in Malaysia for the price of RM999 for the classic variant which is available now and RM899 for the sport variant available starting 6 November 2018. The smartwatch comes equipped with battery life of up to 14 days before needing to recharge again thanks to the dual chipset that intelligently switch between a high power and low power mode in order to increase the longevity of the smartwatch.

After the weekend Huawei Mate 20 series launch here in Malaysia, it appears that reception of the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro has been exceptional globally as well as massive crowds converged in both Shanghai, China and Singapore. Reported by GizGuide and CNA Lifestyle, long lines and massive crowds weren’t just a thing here in Malaysia apparently, as crowds lined up from 6am (Malaysians started queuing from 1am) to pick up their pre-ordered devices or get a brand new Mate 20 or Mate 20 Pro smartphone. As for the rest of the world, the Philippines has started pre-orders for the Mate 20 series.

What's up, TechNavers? Welcome back to another edition of NewsBytes and over the past few days, we got some news on some companies doing some community activity together online and offline, new products ranging to phones to storage devices, and some news on 5G by vivo. Without further ado, head on below to check out what has been happening around the world of technology!

The sales launch roadshows for the Huawei Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro, MateBook X Pro and MateBook D have gone off with a bang. With huge crowds gathering at Pavilion KL, the Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro came to Malaysia at RM2799 and RM3599 respectively.

Mi Han Sdn Bhd (sole distributor of OnePlus in Malaysia) recently reached out to us with some official OnePlus news. Turns out, the OnePlus 6T will be launched globally on 29 October 2018 at 11 am (11pm GMT) in New York City.