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The OnePlus 5 has scored an impressive 87 on DxOMark, the same score alongside Huawei P10 and higher than the iPhone 7, despite multiple critique and complaints from users.

Samsung Electronics has just announced their earning guidance for the second quarter of 2017 with an approximate 60 trillion Korean won in consolidated sales and 14.0 trillion Korean won in their consolidated operating profit.

Come one come all! Huawei’s latest big battery bad boy, the Huawei Y7 Prime is now available for us Malaysians at DirectD for an affordable price of RM999 only!

HMD global, the home of Nokia phones has jointly announced the signing of an exclusive partnership with ZEISS, an internationally leading expert in optics and optoelectronics, to set a new imaging standard within the smartphone industry.

With last year’s success of the original 6.4-inched Xiaomi Mi MIX, Xiaomi is looking to emulate the success with their upcoming MIX device, the Xiaomi Mi MIX 2. The Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 has appeared earlier this week on the benchmarking platform, GeekBench. Along with its listing, some specs were revealed or confirmed by the benchmarking platform.

So from the looks of it, it seems that Samsung Malaysia Electronics is getting ready to roll out the Galaxy J5 Pro sooner than we think. From these unboxing and hands-on pictures online, we are quite surprised that the new J Pro series have made a huge makeover design looking sleek and premium. We are assuming the J3 Pro and J7 Pro will look the same as well. Anyway, check out the unboxing and hands-on pictures below!

Now that the reveal date has passed, vivo has showcased the new vivo X9S and X9S Plus in Beijing, China. These phones are probably China-exclusive, slated for 2698 Yuan (~RM1704) and 2998 Yuan (~RM1894) respectively, but you still can pre-order them through their official website. Anyway, let’s take a look at the official tech-specs:

At the end of July 2017, both Huawei P10 and  P10 Plus will be getting a new software update which should be available in your settings by then. One of the updates will include a new Moving Picture feature which works like a gif image, below are more details about the update:

Did you know that from March 2016 until February 2017, we have spend around RM6.8 billion worth of smartphones? That’s awfully a high amount of money, and this is an increase from RM5.4 billion during 2015, with mid-range phones are the main driving force behind the spike.