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With the recent upgraded MaxisONE plan revealed last week, Hotlink is now offering Hotlink FAST prepaid plan for FREE 2GB of 4G Internet every week for LIFE (yes, forever). To sum it up, that's 8GB per month of non-stop weekend streaming, surfing and sharing!

While the flagship HTC 10 is the current hot topic from HTC, they are also hard at work in creating something for the mid-range market as well. The Desire range is the company’s mid-range model, and their upcoming Desire 830 certainly fits the bill.

The next OnePlus device, the OnePlus 3, should be announced sometime soon - and according to scores from GFXBench and Geekbench the upcoming OnePlus 3 will be sporting 6GB of RAM, putting it slightly above the current crop of flagship smartphones.

Some of the new tech specs and features for the upcoming model includes the use of the Snapdragon 820. Depending on models it could come with either 4GB or 6GB of RAM, possible storage of up to 64GB, an 8 megapixel front camera and rear 16 megapixel camera, and a 5.5 inch display panel.

Allwinner Technology is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company that creates their own system on a chip (SOC) for OEM smartphones that are both low cost and feature acceptable performance. What they recently created is not a phone however – it is a laptop, running RemixOS which they have named the Allwinner Octa A83T priced at just $79 (RM310). Check out the folks at ARMDevices giving it a hands-on below.

If you surf mainly European website or content, Telekom Malaysia just announced that the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) submarine cable system is now live. This new cable promises better data transmission towards Europe.

Today, in a new article by Wall Street Journal (WSJ) there's a report going on about Apple is already working on a cellular network connectivity and a faster processor for the rumoured Apple Watch 2, which is speculated to be released this year.

In conjunction with the upcoming Xiaomi Max and Mi Band 2, Xiaomi has decided to throw in another surprise to the 10 May event schedule which is the long-awaited MIUI 8. It was confirmed by the company's Weibo account saying "MIUI 8 will be released on May 10, along with Mi Max, you always wanted new features, there are a whole lot of new designs, new experiences." Xiaomi Global also did the same update, along with MIUI forum as well.

Today, Celcom Axiata Berhad (Celcom) has announced their collaboration with Ericsson Malaysia Sdn Bhd and Huawei Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd as the company's main network infrastructure partners to integrate, deploy and manage its 4G LTE network developments. From now onwards, both Ericsson and Huawei will be responsible for the Full Turnkey supply and delivery of product, equipment, system, works and services for Celcom Radio Access Network (RAN), leading to further enhance customer experience.

Straight from China, the new Meizu m3, the company’s answer to affordable smartphones has arrived. The new model looks physically the same as the previous model, with significant changes under its skin. It now sports a MediaTek MT6750 1.5GHz octa-core processor paired with either 2GB or 3GB of RAM. 

It is hard not to notice the ongoing telco battle happening lately, where each and every telco is seeking to win by countering each other with better plans and promotions. However, according to CC Puan, the CEO of Webe, these marketing gimmicks are nothing more than just pure mind games run by telcos. Webe recently released five short videos featuring CC Puan, where he reminded consumers to not fall for anything fancy promised by any telcos, including Webe themselves. Check them out in this article.