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If you can recall, there are some smartphone manufacturers that launched a special edition under a car brand theme. For example, you have Huawei and its Porsche (Design) on the flagships, the OPPO Find X has the Lamborghini edition, and OnePlus is with McLaren. Should the latest rumour be true, Samsung might actually partner up with Tesla.

Looking to #TerminatetheRivals and nearly every other budget smartphone maker, Lazada Malaysia recently revealed the Xiaomi Mi 9T 6GB RAM + 64GB storage variant for a shocking early bird offer of RM1099 on 25 June 2019. Does this disrupt the Malaysian market? YES! Is it official? Not just yet, because while it may have appeared on Lazada, we haven’t seen it appear on the Mi Malaysia Facebook page or their official site.

We are halfway through 2019 and there's still no sign of the Samsung Galaxy Fold which was supposed to make its debut in early May in Malaysia. Understandably, Samsung recalled most of the devices back in order to have another round of test to ensure the display are working with the ambiguity of the release date, but according to one Samsung executive, it's "ready to hit the market."

A local company in Malaysia by the name of Average Drone aims to revolutionize the delivery process, by utilizing drones to deliver food across Cyberjaya from the end of June 2019 onwards. As it is still just a trial, the results of this test run will further dictate whether this system will be deployed in other regions of Malaysia.

Head of Huawei’s smartphone division He Gang, has confirmed on Weibo that the Huawei Nova 5 will come equipped with a 7nm chip. This could mean that the Huawei Nova 5 could either come fitted with the familiar HiSilicon Kirin 980 chipset or even a newer Kirin 810 which was originally planned to be released alongside the Nova 5.

So we mentioned that the ROG Phone 2 is set to be released in China during the third quarter of 2019, but we now have an official date from ASUS which is on 23 July 2019. That's just a month away but that's not all, we also got some rumours on the price tag as well.

In a recent study called “Understanding Consumer Trust in Digital Services in Asia Pacific”, both Microsoft and IDC Asia/Pacific have revealed that a small number of Malaysian consumers trust organizations' digital services on their personal data. How small, you ask? Well, turns out it is just only 24%.

A few days ago on Twitter, OPPO themselves showcased what they have been working on back in China by recording a short clip of an under-display selfie camera. That's truly exciting and it gets better, the company has announced that they will at the MWC 2019 Shanghai and very likely to show off this new technology.

If you're not a smartphone geek, you should know that Vivo was actually the first smartphone manufacturer to showcase and implement the In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology. So in conjunction with this, the company was awarded one of the Best Innovations for Android phone for 2018 by one of the top tier international tech media, Android Authority.

So here a piece of short but exciting news, according to CNET.com, they were told that the next Unpacked event by Samsung will be returning to Barclays Center on 7 August 2019 which will probably showcase the upcoming Galaxy Note 10. It happens to be the same launching venue as the Galaxy Note 9 last year when we were there in Brooklyn.