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Despite the on-going trade war between the US government and Huawei, Huawei is still planning to release their smartphones and this includes the Nova 5 series which has been picking up some steam recently. Previously, we saw the concept renders and it looked really nice. Turns out that it's not much different from the latest hands-on photo of the Nova 5 Pro.

So how is the smartphone industry doing so far in 2019? Well, Canalys, an independent data analyst company from Singapore with branches worldwide, has released a new Smartphone Market Pulse report on the Indian smartphone shipments and annual growth, including smartphone brand players such as Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo, OPPO and Realme.

Samsung tweeted a video on their Twitter account, recommending owners of Samsung Smart TVs to perform scans for viruses and malware especially for those that are connected to the internet via WiFi or even LAN cable. Unfortunately, we could not provide the video source due to the fact that has removed the tweet shortly after it was posted up.

In case you missed it, the Huawei notebook lineup previously disappeared on Microsoft's online store last month due to the on-going trade war. Microsoft didn't give any comment on their actions, but it seems that they have put Huawei back again this week.

Today, there's a new change to 11street. It has been announced that the e-commerce platform will be now known as PrestoMall. The rebranded company will still be the same online marketplace for Malaysians, but more than that to cater to users' entertainment, payment, credit, travel and "makan" needs.

Just last evening yesterday, Lazada Malaysia leaked an alleged price tag of the Xiaomi Mi 9T for RM1299 but of course, the page has since then been removed. Coming soon on this Thursday (20 June 2019), Xiaomi is heavily promoting the latest smartphone with three new short advertisements.

Three years ago, Apple acquired the rights from Nintendo to publish Super Mario Run on its Apple Store and nothing really happened after that. However, that all changed from an announcement from Nintendo of America's Twitter page, saying Dr. Mario World will be the latest mobile game for both Apple and Android devices starting from 10 July 2019.

We don't do a lot of Oukitel news here. In fact, the last time that we did was two years ago when Oukitel tried to expand in Malaysia showing off their devices carrying those big battery packs up to 6080mAh. In this news, the Oukitel K12 isn't likely coming to Malaysia but we just want to tell you that it has a 10,000mAh battery.

As smartphones continue to expand in terms of screen size, we got some news that Apple is preparing to go beyond what they have done, or any smartphone brands for that matter. Thanks to Apple for popularizing the method of putting the notch that increases the screen ratio, which Android brands picked up afterwards.

Germany plans on taking full advantage of the iOS 13 by allowing users to store their ID cards(IC cards for Malaysian), on their iOS device which allows the user to perform various authentication process without the need to pull out their wallets. This is similar to how debit/credit cards can be stored on a smartphone, which then can be used to perform various transactions.