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Recently, an image of the Huawei Mate 20 Dual Active SIM has been leaked courtesy of slashleaks.com showcasing the Huawei Mate 20 series capability to have 2 active fully featured SIM cards at the same device. As compared to existing implementations, which only one SIM card can remain active at a time especially during calls as the other SIM card will be set on standby throughout the duration of the call.

We’ve managed to get our hands on the Huawei Nova 3 Primrose Gold color edition which has a very nice pale gold finish. As of now there is no confirmed launch date on when the device will be available in Malaysia. However, we expect some form of information by early next week.

Based on leaked renders of the OnePlus 6T courtesy of winfuture.de. The upcoming OnePlus 6T will not come equipped with a triple camera setup as we previously thought. The device will come equipped with a large 6.4-inch display with max resolution of up to 1080 x 2340 pixels as well as in-display fingerprint sensor technology.

Huawei Malaysia recently held a briefing regarding the Kirin 980 chipset featuring dual NPU (Neural Network Processing Unit) and a 1.4Gbps LTE Cat 21 modem over a more energy efficient 7nm fabrication process. Set to appear first in the Huawei Mate 20 series in London on 16 October 2018, key highlights of the chipset includes 75% improvement in single core performance and a faster yet 178% more energy efficient Mali-G76 GPU for an overall energy efficiency increase of 58%.

Today, Xiaomi Malaysia announced that they will officially bring in the much-awaited Mi Max 3 and the latest wearable, the Mi Band 3 into the Malaysia market. Both scheduled for 27 September 2018 release, the Mi Max 3 (4GB+64GB) retails at RM1099 in black, while the wearable is priced RM129 and will be sold at all Authorised Mi Stores, as well as on the company's online store in Lazada and Shopee.

Exclusively on 22 September 2018, with every purchase of the Vivo V11 or V11i at the Vivo concept stores nationwide, customers are entitled to claim 3 types of free gifts such as an alarm clock, a fan or even the Vivo V11 premium gift box. However, do take note that all gifts are subjected to availability.

HMD Global has recently released a short 10 second teaser video on their Twitter account. From what we can spot in the teaser, it appears to be heavily focused on gaming due to the “Are you ready to #GameOn” tag line at the end of the teaser.

Apple has released the new and improved iOS 12 which brings several improvements such as performance as well as stability to new as well as older iOS devices starting from the iPhone 5s and iPad mini 2 onwards. Based on the changelogs, the new iOS 12 is expected be able to open up apps up to 70% faster while text input is up by up to 50%.

Do you love price drops on older smartphones? So do we. ASUS Malaysia has just sent an official statement that the ZenFone Max Plus M1 (ZB570TL) and ZenFone 4 Max (ZC520KL) have a new price tag now. Previously selling for RM649 and RM499, the two devices are now RM499 and RM399 respectively!

HMD Global recently announced that prices for most of their Nokia devices currently available in the Malaysian market will not be impacted by the SST (Sales and Services Tax). However, three of the recently launched models may see a slight increase (the Nokia 6.1 = RM1100 + RM69, Nokia 2.1 = RM415 + RM20 and Nokia 8110 = RM285 + RM14).