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Of all the smartphone manufacturers, LG is probably the only one who’s not shying away about their upcoming device for MWC 2017. For the past few weeks, they have been feeding us bits of information about the LG G6, with the latest blog post talking about the cameras.

How many Nokia phones will debut at MWC 2017? Rumours have it that it will be four which includes Nokia 3, 5, P1, and the legendary 3310 that will get a new makeup, however there seems to be a newer entry which is the Nokia 8, well, according to Jingdong at least.

News of Xiaomi developing its own system-on-a-chips first broke in mid-2015 when the vice president of the processor manufacturer, Leadcore announced a partnership with Xiaomi. It looks like the partnership is finally starting to show results, as Xiaomi has officially announced that they’ll be unveiling its first in-house SoC, dubbed, “Pinecore” on 28th February.

Samsung sure had a rough couple of months but that doesn’t mean they will back down, now reports have it that Samsung is set to appear at Barcelona next week, but it’s likely that we won’t see the Galaxy S8 revealing itself, however, the Galaxy Tab S3 could surprise us and here’s what we know so far.

Last week, we reported that Honor could release an international variant of the Honor V9 as the Honor V8 Pro, but now we got some new rumours that instead of being called the V8 Pro, it will be called as the V8 Lite.

Surprise, surprise. It seems that OPPO won’t be missing their party too at Barcelona this month. The company is set to unveil a new unknown smartphone that specialized in “5x smartphone photography technology that with give users unprecedented ability to capture highly detailed images.”

According to International Data Corporation (IDC)’s latest report, despite the whole Galaxy Note 7 fiasco last year, Samsung remains as the top smartphone brand in Malaysia. OPPO and Huawei takes second and third spot respectively, to make up the top 3 brands that took up more than 50% of the Malaysian market share in 2016. Compared to 2015, smartphone shipments in Malaysia had dropped by 5.9% in 2016. This could be due to various negative economic factors, amongst, which included the weakening Malaysian Ringgit against US Dollar, as well as the rising costs of living in Malaysia.

We are almost at the end of February, which signals the coming MWC 2017 event that will be held on 26 February 2017. Many smartphone manufacturers will be making their appearance there, such as Huawei and Motorola, seems like the HTC will be there too with a rumoured One X10.

If you had never heard of the name Coolpad before this, you’ll be forgiven as they weren’t so well known until recently. After LeEco acquired a controlling stake in Coolpad, they had been making waves with smartphones such as the Cool1 Dual, as well as Cool Changer S1.

Well, it turns out, they seemed to be setting up shop in Malaysia soon! Spotted on their Facebook page, is a recruitment notice for various positions. Does that mean that we’ll be seeing a Malaysian launch of the value for money Coolpad smartphones soon?

Samsung Pay, which was previewed in partnership with Maybank roughly a month ago, will soon be officially launched in Malaysia on 24th February 2017.

What is Samsung Pay? It is a wallet-less mobile payment system, that allows payments to be made at card terminals using compatible Galaxy smartphones (Samsung Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge, Galaxy Note5, Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Galaxy A Series (2016) and Galaxy A Series (2017)). While it was initially available only to Maybank VISA card holders, with the official launch, Samsung Pay will finally be able to accept both Mastercard and VISA cards issued by CIMB, Citi, and Standard Chartered too!