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This week on Weekly TechNave, Samsung Malaysia went entry-level in a big way with the official announcement of their Galaxy J 2016 series. Of note was the Samsung Galaxy J1 2016 priced at below RM450 but packing a free Yes 4G LTE SIM with 30GB of data preloaded for 2 months. Honor Malaysia officially revealed the more powerful and beautiful honor 5C for RM799 while the Xiaomi Mi 5 finally landed in Malaysia for RM1549 at non-online shops.

Samsung Malaysia Electronics recently took a night time cruise at Putrajaya lake showing off the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge's low-light camera capabilities. Yaman Ibrahim, a famous Malaysian photographer also took the Galaxy S7 edge for a spin, showing off his works with it while everyone else was given a chance to do the same as well. 

Take a look at what we got on a shaky moving boat in the dark. Coincidentally, Jeff Sandhu also managed to catch the road running ostrich Chickaboo on his Galaxy S7 edge as well, showcasing the phone's ability to clearly capture objects in motion from a moving platform.

A big fan of Pokemon? Want to be the very best, like no one ever was? Mark your calendar for July, as the augmented reality game Pokemon Go will be going live in the month of July.

The mid-range market is now booming with models left and right, with manufacturers trying to tap into the market as more people adopt mid-range smartphones as their first smart device. LG is no stranger, and now they just announced four new mid-range devices – the X power, X mach, X style and X max.

Logitech Malaysia, the world's innovation and design leader of products announced a partnership with game distributor Garena to seal their commitment to the Malaysia gaming industry.

If you think the recently 6GB in the OnePlus 3 is not enough, LeEco is set to rock your world. Reports are saying that they are readying a new version of the recently launched Le Max 2 that will boast up to 8GB of RAM! 

Samsung may just turn phone design on its head soon, if this feature concept becomes true. The Smart Glow is the company’s attempt to turn the standard notification LED into something more interactive.

Starting at the end of July, Dell will be releasing its first purpose-built industrial PC (IPC) products, Embedded Box PC 3000 Series and 5000 Series, aimed at taking the embedded PC market mainstream. Dell’s Embedded Box PCs are fanless and can be used “headless” or with keyboard, mouse and monitor. Flexible and powerful, with extensive wired and wireless input/output (I/O) options, they run on Intel processors.

So great news for Acer fans, from 15 June until 17 July 2016, Acer customers are entitled to buy selected devices at a special price when they subscribe to Astro Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)! The two selected devices are Acer Liquid Z330 smartphone and Iconia Talk 7 tablet which can be bought via Acer Online Store on Lazada at a lower price and be rewarded with a gift with purchase at the same time.

With the recent announcement of the iOS 10, someone has started imagining how the Apple iPhone 7 would look like with the latest operating system, designer Mathijs Schrauwen (via iPhoned) has put all together the rumours of a physical-less home button, Smart Connector, dual camera sensor, redesigned antennae bands and a missing 3.5mm headphone jack hole. Check out his sweet render concepts below: