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Courtesy of Evan Blass, images of the Huawei Y3, Y5 Prime and Y6 has been leaked showcasing how the devices would look like. Although there's barely any tech-specs rumours, we have a real good look at the designs of each phone. So let's get to it. 

Launched on 12 April 2018, Huawei Consumer Business Group announced that the Huawei P20 and P20 Pro has racked up more than RMB100 million (~RM61.8 million) in sales within 10 seconds through Huawei's very own VMall.

That's right, folks. Motorola has revealed the much teased Moto G6 series lineup that was held at an event in Brazil, South America. Introducing the Moto G6, Moto G6 Plus and the Moto G6 Play. Most of the tech-specs that we reported before matches the speculations, so we will recap them just to refresh your memory.

Although honor will unveil the honor 10 in England on 15 May, they decided to launch it first in China (because reasons) and it matches most of the tech-specs rumours online. In other words, it's a clone of the cousin, the Huawei P20, featuring not three but four colour models in Phantom Blue, Phantom Purple, Midnight Black and Seagull Gray, minus the Leica lens.

While vivo Malaysia continues to sell the V9 smartphone, they have just posted a new teaser with the caption "The X series is coming". What is the X series? Well, we think there are two possibilities - either the Xplay 7 or the X20 that they could be importing into our local shore.

So it's finally here, OPPO Malaysia has once again come back with another selfie smartphone device called the OPPO F7. With the price tag as RM1398, customers can still pre-order it until tomorrow (20 April) and receive extra goodies which include a gift box (a headphone, a smartphone hardcover and a ring holder) worth RM299, as well as getting the phone for FREE if you happen to be the 7th, 77th, 777th and the 7777th customer.

Teasers of their upcoming budget phone, the Xiaomi Redmi S2 have appeared showing what appears to be a glass covered smartphone with metal frame. Tech specs are expected to include an 18:9 aspect ratio display, screen resolution of 720 x 1440 pixels and a dual 12MP + 5MP camera in the rear, and a single 5MP selfie camera on the front which will also be used for the facial unlocking feature that the device will be capable of.

During their recent global analyst summit in Shenzhen, Huawei showed a slide teasing their first Huawei 5G mobile hotspot set for Q2 of 2019. They also revealed what could be their first 5G smartphone, which is presumed to be the Huawei Mate 30 in the second half of 2019 which also indicates when Malaysia and other countries could start seeing the full implementation of 5G networks.

This year could be a unique one for Apple fans out there as Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, hinted in his investor's note that there might be a dual-SIM 6.1-inch LCD model iPhone with a price starting at USD650 (~RM2528) and USD550 (~RM2139) for their single SIM models.