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To celebrate the global official launch of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End on 10 May 2016, PLAY Interactive Asia are organizing a midnight launch and roadshow at Sunway Pyramid on 9 May for the Uncharted fans and all PlayStation 4 gamers across the country. Uncharted 4 is regarded as one of the most anticipated games of the year, and the popular game series follows a continuation of Nathan Drake's adventure in all new graphics potentials of the PlayStation 4 console.

Samsung recently demoed their brand new TouchWiz launcher at the Samsung Developer Conference, and it will be using the new Vulkan API. This has resulted in a 6% decrease in battery consumption, on basic tasks such as opening the app drawer or scrolling pages. Using this new launcher on a device with a battery of 3600mAh (like the Galaxy S7 Edge) will show an improvement of around 40 minutes extra for battery life.

Computers can be either cheap or expensive, as well as being simple or complicated. The new HP Chromebook 13 is more of a high-priced but simple to use computer. It uses the Intel Core M processor – the same processor in the new Apple Macbook, and starts from USD 450 (~RM 1700).

After in-line formatting in chat, rumours are abound on the internet that the second biggest social network chat app will soon get more features that will give more value to the users. They can expect Whatsapp to support both voice mail and zip file transfers in the next big update

The current generation of the Olympus OMD E-M1 is a great photography tool, with images created with the camera going on to win awards in multiple contests around the world. However, the big drawback for the camera is that it is not design fully for sports photography, in particular fast action sports such as motorsports. However according to reports, the update to the Olympus mirrorless flagship will have features that will turn the tide for mirrorless sports photography.

Rumours of yet another Apple iPhone have appeared, this time it is about the Apple iPhone 7 Pro, according to the design drawings on a Japanese magazine called Mac Fan. The report shared a detailed schematics design of the rumoured iPhone 7 Pro featuring the same overall size to the iPhone 6S Plus. The design showed that the headphone jack is no longer there too, and the device will also feature a dual iSight camera on its back.

We might be able to see a new Huawei Mate 9 at the end of this year, according to analyst Pan Jiutang. According to him, the Huawei Mate 9 will be using a newly designed chipset by Huawei, the Kirin 960. The chipset is produced using the 16nm process, and the CPU will include the next generation Artemis cores along with an octa-core GPU. It will also support 4G LTE Cat.12 connectivity and CDMA networks.

Huawei seems to be on a roll here, as they just revealed a new mid-range smartphone, the Huawei honor 5C in China with a price tag of $138 (around RM537) and stands as a true successor to the honor 4C. Below are the official tech-specs:

Huawei could be aabout to announce the Honor 5C as their new member of the Honor Series but recently, an Antutu benchmark result was found showing us the performance of the Kirin 650 SoC. By looking at the benchmarking app, we can see the model code of the device is “NEM-T00L" and is powered by a Kirin 650 octa-core SoC with eight Cortex-A53, four cores with 2.0Ghz and another four with 1.7Ghz.

The GPU is Mali-T380 as shown and it is probably manufactured by TSMC using the 16m, process. As for tech specs, the Honor 5C could come with a 5.2-inch FHD display, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, 13MP primary camera and an 8MP secondary camera. It will be running Android 6.0.

Previously, we mentioned about two possible upcoming Nexus device from HTC, but apparently an unreleased version of the Huawei Nexus 6P  was also spotted on GeekBench earlier, revealed new tech specs which include a Snapdragon 820 processor clocked at 1.59GHz and 4GB of RAM. The device is running the latest Android N version too.