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The Huawei announcements made at IFA 2016 is coming our way! Specifically, the Huawei Nova Plus and the Huawei MediaPad M3. These two devices were spotted on SIRIM, which means its impending launch is near.

Washing clothes in a washing machine is fairly easy, as it automatically cleans your clothes by mixing water with detergent to remove dirt and stains, but have you ever heard of 'Ecobubble' technology? Samsung's 'Ecobubble' technology, which is available in the Samsung AddWash Washing Machine, does what every washing machine do, but reduces the surface tension of water, allowing it to mix more easily detergent into a powerful yet gentle foam that better penetrates fabrics. Here's how the technology works:

Yesterday in Singapore, Microsoft launched its first combined Transparency Center and Cybersecurity Center (Asia-Pacific region). The purpose of the joint facility is to bring together Microsoft capabilities in a single location in Asia-Pacific to deliver a holistic approach to serving the security needs of both the public and private sector and building a trusted and secure computing environment, a critical enabler for digital transformation.

The Nokia D1C is the company’s latest strategy to attract the mode budget-conscious customers – what about those who wants high-end devices? A new news suggest that Nokia has a device planned for this market as well, with features including 2K screens and a full-metal housing – named the Nokia P1.

As the new Google Pixel series was just announced a few hours ago, Google also showcased other products namely Google Home, Chromecast Ultra, and Google WiFi. Let's check out what the products offer below!

With the Google Pixel, the company also announced several new accessories for the phone, which includes a new VR headset. The new Google Daydream View headset will work with the Daydream-compatible phone, and will only cost USD 79 (~RM 327).

In a move largely expected by mostly everybody, Google have announced their Pixel phones by Google, consisting of the 5-inch FHD display Google Pixel and 5.5-inch 2K display Google Pixel XL. No Malaysia release dates or pricing details yet, but the Pixel will be priced from $649 (RM2697) with pre-orders starting from 4 October 2016 and a release date on 20 October 2016. They will be powered by Google Assistant.

Companies are slowly moving away from including the humble 3.5mm jack on their smartphones. We have a few companies already coming out with devices sans the jack - LeEco, Motorola and the most famous of all, Apple. Now the organization behind the USB standard has come up with a new guideline for a spec called USB Audio Class 3.0, which eliminates the need of having an audio jack in the smartphone altogether.  

According to Japanese blog Mac Otakara, Apple is planning to ship three new iPad Pro variants in the Spring of 2017, the three variants will be based on their size which is 7.9-inch, 9.7-inch and 10.1-inch models.

Just a few hours ago, a U.K. Consumers' Association magazine called Which? made a survey about smartphones battery life and has concluded that the Apple iPhone 7 scores the lowest battery life, it was put against other popular smartphones such as the HTC 10, Samsung Galaxy S7 and LG G5.