Latest News

The annual Chinese New Year festival is an occasion where family members, no matter near or far, would come together to celebrate. Maxis aims to bring together friends and family using mobile phones, thanks to a recent partnership with Dooit Live. Maxis will be hosting 16 live game sessions starting from 4 February 2019 until 19 February 2019 featuring 11 Chinese New Year themed questions, in which players have to answer within 10 seconds to be given a chance to win real prize money of up to RM188,000.

We already know that Samsung has joined the dark side (hello, Notchville!) with their Samsung Galaxy M series. The device will be launched today at 6PM in India exclusively on Amazon India.

Despite the fact that WhatsApp, Instagram and FB Messenger all belong under Facebook, the social media platform has seen a huge decline in its user engagement on their platform compared to the rest. This probably has led to the reason why Facebook is looking to unifi Facebook with WhatsApp, FB Messenger and Instagram.

Huawei conducted a pre-MWC 2019 briefing, introducing everyone to their latest 5G supported modem, the Balong 5000. To make things more interesting, the Balong 5000 5G modem will not only be the company’s first 5G device but it will also be implemented into the company’s first foldable smartphone.

The Samsung Galaxy Fold will be Samsung’s first foldable 5G smartphone which may be set to be unveiled on the 21st of February. It is speculated to have a hefty price tag of USD$1700 (~RM6983) and may be powered by the Exynos 5100 modem.

Yoodo recently revealed that if you switch your mobile phone number to Yoodoo, you will be able to play PUBG Mobile while on the go without being charged for the data you use playing. Be advised though, that while it is free, you have to have the base data plan active first. Once its active, you can activate the PUBG Mobile Add-on, and you'll get 20GB of free data for this. This promo is valid until 30 April 2019.

Good news for all future TM UniFi customer, as Telekom Malaysia will be offering an expedited installation service to have the UniFi service and equipment installed within 24 hours. While the expedited service is free for now, customers who register after 31 March 2019 will need to pay an RM200 fee for it. This is due to a recent update on UniFi’s FAQ document, which is found on their official website.

While the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 is not officially available in Malaysia, the device can be bought from Lazada or Shopee with the cheapest starting RM869 for the 3GB RAM and 32GB internal storage while the 4GB + 64GB and 6GB + 64GB variants are going for RM999 and RM1129 respectively. Do take note that these devices are international units, so don’t be surprised that there are differences such as the lack of Google Play support, limited warranty as well as a different charging adapter.

Apple recently updated their rules on the “Shot on iPhone” contest stating that “winners will receive a licensing fee for use on billboards and other Apple marketing channels”. The changes in the competition rules were a reaction to a previous complaint made on Twitter, in regards to the unfair usage of the picture submissions.

Today, Huawei is proud to announce two new products that will usher in the new age of Internet connectivity. The first one is the 5G multi-mode chipset Balong 5000 and the other, the Huawei 5G CPE Pro as the first commercial 5G device. With this in hand, wireless connections between our smartphones, home appliances, office, vehicles and others at one-go will be made possible in the future.