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Huawei Malaysia have officially held their product briefing for their recent flagships, the Huawei P10, P10 Plus and surprise, surprise the P10 Lite. As expected, the briefing was for the media and dealers with a consumer pre-order set for 23 March 2017. All of which will be available in prestige gold and graphite black with the following pricing:

• Huawei P10 (4GB RAM, 64GB storage) ~ RM2499
• Huawei P10 Plus (6GB RAM, 128GB storage) ~ RM3099
• Huawei P10 Lite (4GB RAM, 32GB storage) ~ RM1299

In case you missed it, the Xiaomi Mi Box has been available in Malaysia for quite some time now. Available for RM349 through offline dealers and Lazada since 3 March, it comes with a compact design and Android TV 6.0, allowing access to thousands of movies and shows from popular streaming apps including Netflix, HBO and VUDU, as well as games from Google Play. Below is the official tech-specs:

In conjunction with the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards, the judges have spoken and shortlisted five Malaysian photographers into the world’s top ten in the awards ‘Open and Student Focus’ competition. The five photographers are Nursyafiqah Azlan, Ann Ric, Foley Hits, Jian Seng Soh, and Yong Lin Tan. Below is the list of categories and image title the participants took:

Today, as iflix has been steadily increasing their expansion and success over a number of markets, the company announced it has closed a new round of funding in excess of US$90 million to support its further international expansion.

Just as teased earlier, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 just got its offical marching orders for Malaysia for RM799. Tech specs include a metal body complete with rear fingerprint sensor, and features a 5.5-inch Full HD (1080p) display that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 chipset, paired with up to 3GB of RAM and up to 32GB of expandable internal storage. It also has a 13MP PDAF rear camera and 5MP front camera. Keeping the lights on, is a 4100mAh battery charged by a 5V2A charger. The Redmi Note 4 phones pre-order starts on 12AM, 10th March.  It will officially open for sale on 16th March at Online Mi Store @ Lazada & retail outlets nationwide.

Today, Celcom Axiata Berhad presented their quarterly business report which saw a stabilization in the fourth quarter with a positive growth in the mobile service revenue by 1.4%, this is an increase of RM1.50 billion to RM1.52 billion, with data revenue being the main driver (increase of 10% YoY to RM2.26 billion in FY16). So to speak, mobile internet revenue growth (19% YoY to RM2.08 billion) was the main contribution for the data revenue.

5 years ago, on 6th March 2012, Google opened its doors to their digital one stop shop for apps, games, movies, music and books across all devices running on the Android operating system, the Play Store. In five years, it had grown to more than 1 billion active users in 190 countries, whom had downloaded countless apps and movies, along with 40 millions songs and 5 millions books.

Check out the latest TechNave Techbytes with HD iflix, future Goodyear, MOLPay Cash, Trend Micro and Kaspersky Lab. More details here.

We reported earlier that live images of the black Samsung Galaxy C5 Pro was shown at Samsung Forum 2017 that was held in China.

Looks like the pre-orders for the mid-range device is now live on Samsung China’s online shop! The device costs 2499 Yuan (about RM1611) with a choice of pink, blue, and gold.

Samsung Malaysia Electronics recently revealed their new March More campaign for selected Smart TV models. Running until 30 April 2017 the campaign offers discounts for certain Smart TVs along with a free HW-K950 Atmos soundbar worth RM5999 for every purchase of a 78-inch KS9000 SUHD TV. Check them out if you're in the market for a Samsung SUHD TV.