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Today, YES is offering Malaysians a new contest called “Yes Car-oke”. What’s that? Well, as the name indicates, it’s a contest where drivers and passengers get a chance to win Yes ang paos worth over RM50,000 cash in total, just by belting out their favourite tunes together for a great in-car karaoke session with friends and family!

We have talked about leaked information on a potential HTC smartwatch codenamed “Halfbeak” before, and now we have more photos of the purported Android Wear device coming from HTC.

2017 is here, and with it the yearly refresh of devices from major manufacturers. ASUS is set to refresh their Zenfone series sometime this year, and a report states that the refresh will happen sometime in May.

Today, as the 13th annual Hurun Luxury Summit, Huawei was awarded the “Smartphone Best New Arrival” for the Mate 9 for its innovative features and outstanding user experience, which includes the Kirin 960 processor, SuperCharge technology and the new UX.

This rumour can be taken with a grain but a post online has stated that Nokia is creating what is amounting to a large tablet. The 18.4-inch tablet is said to be branded with the Nokia brand, and it may be appearing sometime during MWC.

LG has an extensive line of product that ranges from flagship devices to entry-level smartphones. Now, a new affordable smartphone from LG is about to hit the shelves, the X230. This phone sounds like a phone that will be targeted to the lower price brackets – and it is said to be heading to the world-wide market.

It seems that Huawei P10 rumours is starting to gain some momentum, as this week’s leak by Slashleaks showed us some internal components that belongs to the P10 in some factory outlet, showing us some interesting design change.

While it was poised to take over the world as Samsung's latest and greatest smartphone, the Galaxy Note 7 started exploding, resulting in a replacement, eventual global recall and more than $5 billion in losses. Samsung officially announced that the reason for the explosions were caused by the battery due to internal short circuits from deformation of the lithium ion jelly roll in the battery in the first batch of batteries and shoddy production such as poor welding and missing insulation tapes in the second batch of batteries. Basically, manufacturing and design defects in the battery.

Continuing on the Apple 10th Anniversary iPhone rumour mill, the latest research report by popular KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is back again, with some juicy speculations that the upcoming iPhone 8 (or 7s, 7s Plus) could be featuring a new biometric identification technology and a “flexible” OLED display with 3D Touch capability.

It appears that Honor's VR phone is coming soon as a the Honor DUK-TL30 has appeared at TENAA bearing a 5.7-inch display with 2K pixel resolution and 6GB RAM. Other tech specs include 128GB of storage and 12MP + 2MP dual rear cameras much like the Honor 6X.

The Huawei WAS-AL00 on the other hand, features a 5.2-inch FHD display, 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, 2900 mAh battery and a single 12MP rear camera. No Malaysia release dates or any news if Malaysia will be getting these devices at all, but stay tuned to TechNave.com to stay updated.