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Today, the Huawei Nova 4 has been revealed in China. Just as the teasers suggest, this will be Huawei's first full screen with a dot on the top left (doesn't have an official English term for it yet) which is the 25MP front camera. There are two models but isn't based on memory capacity, but rather the triple camera configuration. The starting price is 3099 Yuan (~RM1880) and 3399 Yuan (~RM2062).

In this coming Christmas, Huawei Malaysia is planning to give back to its fans with an exclusive Christmas Dinner on 20 December 2018 at Poseidon’s Reserve Caviar & Oyster Bar in Kuala Lumpur. We have mentioned this news a couple of days ago, so this will be a final call and invitation for those would like to join, as lucky fans can get to participate as long as they complete two challenges.

Today, on Xiaomi Malaysia's  Facebook page, the company has officially teased its upcoming flagship for January 2019. While they didn't say what smartphone it was, the tagline - "SLIDING IN SOON" is an obvious hint on the Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 and the price says under RM2500. For all we know, we think it's probably going to be RM2499 (more or less) and reserved for the 8GB + 256GB model that was revealed in China.

Vitaminwater, a brand under the Coca-Cola company is offering USD $100000 to one person who is willing to give up their smartphone for a whole year. They announced the “Scroll-Free” competition on Twitter.

Amidst reports of CIMB Clicks accounts being hacked, emptied and so forth on Social Media, CIMB Malaysia have come out with an official statement confirming that they have officially introduced a Captcha function at login along with longer passwords for more security. The statement says “... CIMBClicks system remains secure and all customers' transactions continue to be protected” so take a deep breath and calm down.

Do you love PUBG Mobile and eSports in general? Great news for you, Tencent, the maker of PUBG Mobile will be hosting an official PUBG Mobile tournament in Malaysia. Called as the PUBG Mobile Malaysia National Championship (PMNC) 2018, every participating team stands a chance to bring home a grand total prize pool of RM60,000, 16 units of vivo V11i smartphones and a 1-year free mobile plan by Yoodo.

It isn't a feature you're going to need unless you really need it, but water resistance turns out to be the main feature that saved a woman and her friends in an accident at sea near Japan. Reported by the TODAYShow and retweeted by Tim Cook, Rachel Neal and friends were knocked overboard near Okinawa Beach, Japan and lost their way at sea. She made an emergency SOS call with her iPhone, after which she and her friends were rescued.

Back in October 2018, it was announced that the HONOR View10, HONOR 10 and HONOR Play were entering EMUI 9.0 beta test. Users of the said devices were also invited to participate in the test and after two long months, the latest EMUI 9.0 operating system is ready to roll out in Malaysia.

How are my TechNavers doing? Welcome to another edition of NewsBytes and we got some news here and there. HONOR has confirmed the existence of the HONOR View20 and will make its debut in Paris, France on January 2019. vivo NEX Dual Display also got revealed in China with a rather intriguing dual display feature (hence the name, duh) with no front camera. Then ASUS Republic of Gamers has finally released their thinnest gaming laptop, ROG Zephyrus S in Malaysia for a hefty price but besides that, they are also rolling into the fashion segment with ROG Collection T-Shirts and Ranger Backpacks too. 

Based on a report by sammobile.com, the Samsung Galaxy S10 series is expected to come equipped “Powershare”, which has the same reverse wireless charging capabilities similar to that of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro. However, it is not known whether the speed is going to be similar to or better than the existing implementation.