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PICO Malaysia is offering special deals in conjunction with the upcoming Christmas celebration to make it #TheBestXmasGift for virtual reality (VR) enthusiasts in our country. Happening from 3 to 25 December 2022, consumers can get the company’s all-in-one VR headset PICO 4 at a discounted price and with additional free games as well as extra free gifts.

The iQOO 11 has been in the rumour mills for a while now and ahead of its launch this Friday (2 December 2022), iQOO itself has confirmed several of the smartphone’s top-of-the-line specs. In a series of teasers on its official Weibo account, the company has definitely managed to create excitement for its upcoming flagship.

Before we enter the month of December, Great Wall Motor (GWM) Malaysia announced the official launch of ORA GOOD CAT in Malaysia. The launch has been highly anticipated by Malaysians, as many had the chance to test-drive the car and place pre-booking orders over the past three weeks.

Twitter has delayed the relaunch of its Twitter Blue subscription to make various other changes to the service, as well as to avoid paying Apple’s 30 per cent App Store cut. Moreover, the revamped Blue subscription may not be available as an in-app purchase on the Twitter iOS app when it relaunches on the Apple App Store.

Today, Samsung announced that 46 of its new products and service innovations have received CES 2023 Innovation Award honours. This includes three Best of Innovation Honorees from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), alongside multiple categories.  

Apple Music has levelled up its Spotify Wrapped-like streaming summary for 2022. The platform has added a "highlight reel" feature to the Apple Music Replay 2022, making the experience similar to browsing Instagram Stories.

Communicating over satellite is a new trend in the smartphone industry. Not only Apple launched an SOS and location-sharing system with the iPhone 14 series, but T-Mobile and SpaceX are working on a more general communication system by using SpaceX's Starlink satellites. Now, it's announced that Bullitt and MediaTek will work together to launch the "first satellite-to-mobile messaging smartphone" in the first three months of 2023.

If you're receiving any suspicious calls or texts recently, it's best that you don't respond to them. The latest source claims 487 million WhatsApp users' mobile numbers are on sale on a well-known hacking community forum. Out of them, there're 11 million numbers belonging to Malaysians.

Previously, we reported that the Xiaomi 13 series is set for release this Thursday (1 December 2022) and now, alleged real-life photos of the upcoming device are circulating around social media. Shared by Sparrow News and sourced from a couple of tipsters on Weibo, the images show the Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro placed side-by-side.

vivo has recently released the vivo Y02, its latest entry-level smartphone for the global market, which is currently only available in Indonesia. The successor to the Y01 and the lower variant of the Y02s, the device features a 6.51-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 720 x 1600 pixels and a 20:9 aspect ratio.