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If you're an Apple user and likes to participate in iOS beta tests, you now have an opportunity to join the public beta tests for Apple iOS 13, iPadOS as well as macOS Catalina. It went live earlier this morning and should you be interested, you can visit beta.apple.com to sign up and get more information from there.

Well, this is a great way to start off the week. Celcom Axiata Berhad has been awarded by OpenSignal for achieving the first spot for 4G Availability and Upload Speed Experience in Malaysia. This was published in OpenSignal’s ‘Mobile Network Experience: Malaysia’ report, April 2019, based on an independent analysis of mobile measurements recorded during the period of 1 December 2018 until 28 February 2019.

It seems that the rumours of the Nintendo Switch are becoming a reality. According to tech.sina.com, they claimed that the Wall Street Journal has reported Nintendo on preparing to release the Nintendo Switch Lite and Pro variant during the Christmas shopping season this year.

Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co recently revealed that their 16nm KX-6000 and KH-30000 x86 CPUs have hit 3.0GHz, which is about the same level as an Intel Core i5-7400 CPU. No actual news whether or not they could be used in Huawei’s upcoming MateBook laptops, but taking a look through the Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co site reveals that their x86 CPUs have been featured in actual Lenovo laptops and servers. So, if Huawei is looking for CPU alternatives they may not have to look very far.

Today marks the official sales of the Xiaomi Mi 9T and it has been proven to be quite popular. Since 20 June 2019, about 75,000 customers have pre-booked the latest Xiaomi mobile phone and at the time of posting this, Xiaomi Malaysia is also proud to announce that 3000 units have been sold within the first 30 minutes! In conjunction of this, our content creator and show host, Natasha Hashim will be doing a livestream on Lazada app later at 11AM for a giveaway!

Vivo recently sent out a teaser image about their upcoming developments for MWC Shanghai 2019 and it’s mostly about 5G. Considering that their previously revealed portless, buttonless Vivo APEX 2019 was their only 5G offering and since it was revealed back in January, we expect that there should be more than just that. Just for a refresher on the tech specs, the Vivo APEX 2019 featured a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset, 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage with new MagPort tech.

When HONOR unveiled the HONOR 20 globally just last month, it was quite an awkward time that the Google service issue also happened at the same time. HONOR Malaysia still proceeded the launch event after a few days revealing the price, but not the availability until 21 June 2019 which was really late. So did they manage to sell? Well, yes.

OPPO has recently released a short 15-second teaser on their Weibo account, showcasing their new upcoming under-display camera technology. The teaser video showed us a quick rundown of the various methods used by OPPO, in order to incorporate the front-facing selfie camera into the front of their smartphones.

There have been rumours floating around, hinting the possibility of smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung and Xiaomi could have their smartphones fitted with a 64MP image sensor. Surprisingly, Realme was the first to release a photo sample taken from the aforementioned image sensor, beating Samsung and Xiaomi to the punch.

If you happen to own a Huawei Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro, Mate 20 X and the Mate RS Porsche Design smartphone, Huawei Malaysia has just announced that these flagship models will be able to upgrade its OS to EMUI 9.1 with a new EROFS feature on 27 June 2019 onwards.