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During the end of February, it was reported that Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus is expecting theOnePlus 3 to be launched this coming June, and he hopes the new device will feature a “new design” to surprise us. This also means OnePlus is planning to move on from its traditional design from its predecessor, the OnePlus 2. 

In a recent MWC 2016 briefing, Aicha Evans, the Corporate Vice President of Platform Engineering Group and General Manager of the Intel Communication and Devices Group revealed Intel's plans regarding 5G devices, networks and technologies with the major highlight being that we should see such devices and networks in the next 6 to 12 months. According to her, Intel are working on clients, networks and the cloud to support these new 5G technologies particularly due to the Internet of Things or IoT. These always connected IoT devices may include wearables, vehicles, video security, smart buildings and energy management. Sumner Lemon, Country Manager, Malaysia and Singapore subsequently followed up with info relating to this regarding Malaysia's involvement in Intel's 5G plans.

Today on 7 March 2016, LEAGOO Alfa 2 is now available at every authorized LEAGOO dealers throughout Malaysia. For only RM449, Alfa 2 is an improved and upgraded version of the previous Lead 2 and Lead 2s models with the first ever Ion Smart Touch feature. Available in Midnight Black, Dazzling White, Champagne Gold and Glossy Pink colour options, below are the specifications:-

Having sold-out their 1000 Samsung Galaxy S7 edge pre-order, Samsung Malaysia are extending this promotion for another 2000 units tomorrow on 8 March 2016 at 10.00am. While you don't get the same deal as the first 1000, you still can get the Galaxy S7 edge at RM2634 with a 15% discount and a 64GB microSD flash memory card for free. Check it out at the Samsung site tomorrow.

Last week, Huawei allegedly released a teaser poster of an event in Berlin on 9 March and many suspected the company might reveal the Huawei P9, but turns out that's not the case when it was reported Huawei themselves confirmed there's no P9 on that day, but acknowledged the device's existence

For the past few days, HTC showed us a teaser poster and a short video clip telling us that they have been working really hard on making the next best smartphone. There is very little we know of the device, but thanks to a famed phone leaker, Evan Blass, from evleaks, we got a render image of how the HTC One M10, or rather the HTC 10 could look like.  

Yesterday, Samsung had a pre-order going on for the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge smartphone. Available to 1000 lucky buyers, the pre-order came with a number of extras including a free 128GB microSD card, 20% discount (resulting in RM2479 from the original price of RM3099) and extended warranty. Looking through the comments on the Samsung Facebook page, quite a few buyers didn't manage to make it through due to lag and the heavy load, but if you received the confirmation email from Samsung it should be confirmed that you're amongst the first 1000 and can collect the smartphone from 17 March to 20 March 2016. 

Today on 4 March, Celcom Axiata Berhad (Celcom) and Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC) have sealed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), where Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions will be facilitated and conducted by Celcom as the digital partner to MDeC’s eUsahawan programme. This means that Celcom will be extending its vast 4G coverage further covering more campuses for 300000 students in 462 institutions including universities and colleges.

Now that Meizu is focusing on the Meizu Pro 6 after canceling the Pro 5 mini, leaked images has surfaced online and according to sources, the Pro 6 will be supporting Force Touch technology.

The images were supposedly posted by Meizu's chief architect, revealing the Pro 6 with Force Touch feature. The device looks credible, as it follows a similar design to Samsung Galaxy S7 edge. It was reported that Meizu wanted the feature for the sake of providing something intuitive and new to the customers. Aside from that, rumours said it will also sport an Exynos 8890 chipset from Samsung.

So it seems like not only the OPPO R9 is coming soon, but its bigger brother the OPPO R9 Plus is tagging along too. This information is leaked by TENAA just recently and both devices look alike, with the R9 Plus featuring better specifications.