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The recently launched Huawei Mate 8 and Huawei Mate 8 Premium offer premium full metal looks and design with top-notch features from RM2099 to RM2399 inclusive of GST. In addition, Huawei Mobile Malaysia are also including a number of promotions which includes a personalized free engraving service if you buy the smartphones off of VMALL.my with delivery starting today.

If you'd rather go in person, there will be an exclusive launch promotion at their KLCC Huawei Flagship store tomorrow on 11 March 2016 at 1.08pm. The first 88 buyers will get the Huawei Talkband B2 Elite worth RM668 for free. All prices are already inclusive of 6% GST so what you see is what you get.

It's not so long ago that the Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro's benchmark score from AnTuTu appeared on Weibo last week, we got some idea on the specifications too and just recently FCC just certified the device (so did TENAA) so we can expect to see the device coming soon perhaps before mid-year or so.

Huawei seems to be working hard this year, as just yesterday they have unveiled the latest Huawei Mate 8 model in Malaysia, along with the MediaPad M2 10.0, two new Huawei Watch Elegant and Jewel variants for the ladies, and a Nexus 6P Gold Edition giving us a 'New Style' and a 'New Choice' in the current market. And they're not slowing down just yet, because Huawei still has the P9 model up their sleeves and it seems they have a release date saved on 6 April in London. 

Not only the Huawei Mate 8 has finally arrived in Malaysia (8 March), but the MediaPad M2 10.0,Huawei Watch Elegant and Jewel version, and a Nexus 6P Gold Edition made their appearance at the event as well. We got some hands-on videos so check them out below!

Huawei Malaysia have just announced that they have brought in both variants of the Huawei Mate 8 with the 3GB RAM Huawei Mate 8 and 4GB RAM Huawei Mate 8 Premium for value busting prices of RM2099 and RM2399 respectively. They also announced the Huawei Nexus 6P Gold Edition, Huawei MediaPad M2 10.0 and Huawei Watch Jewel and Elegant for Malaysia. The Mate 8 smartphones will be available from 11 March 2016 at VMALL.my and Lazada, but sales will start today on 8 March 2016. Telco partners for the Mate 8 include Celcom, Digi, Maxis and RedOne for now.

• Huawei Mate 8 Standard (available in Moonlight Silver and Space Grey) ~ RM2099
• Huawei Mate 8 Premium (available in Champagne Gold and Mocha Brown) ~ RM2399
• Huawei Nexus 6P Gold Edition ~ RM2698
• Huawei MediaPad M2 10.0 ~ RM1299 to RM1999
• Huawei Watch Jewel and Elegant ~ RM2299 / RM1999

Samsung Mobile Malaysia extended their Samsung Galaxy S7 edge pre-order recently at 15% discount for RM2634 and a free 64GB microSD but with 2000 units. This time around the site was a lot more stable, and according to their Facebook page, many managed to get through and successfully do the pre-order. We found the site to be a lot more stable, so kudos to the Samsung Mobile Malaysia team for that.

So it's been for some time that we've been hearing about the iPhone 7 could have a dual-lens camera, we don't know if that's true but one thing for sure that it's quite consistent coming up in speculation news. And according to MacRumors.com, Apple has recently submitted a patent application back in January and this gives us some ideas on what Apple could do with the technology.

During the end of February, it was reported that Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus is expecting theOnePlus 3 to be launched this coming June, and he hopes the new device will feature a “new design” to surprise us. This also means OnePlus is planning to move on from its traditional design from its predecessor, the OnePlus 2. 

In a recent MWC 2016 briefing, Aicha Evans, the Corporate Vice President of Platform Engineering Group and General Manager of the Intel Communication and Devices Group revealed Intel's plans regarding 5G devices, networks and technologies with the major highlight being that we should see such devices and networks in the next 6 to 12 months. According to her, Intel are working on clients, networks and the cloud to support these new 5G technologies particularly due to the Internet of Things or IoT. These always connected IoT devices may include wearables, vehicles, video security, smart buildings and energy management. Sumner Lemon, Country Manager, Malaysia and Singapore subsequently followed up with info relating to this regarding Malaysia's involvement in Intel's 5G plans.