News & Reviews:   Apple Watch Series 5

It's post-Chinese New Year and now you have no excuses about not to go to the gym or at least doing a walk outdoors. And if you're serious about getting your fitness+ back on track, you ought to have a smartwatch with you as a virtual assistant. Sure, most smartwatches are kind of expensive but it's for a long term investment.

That said, Maxis was the latest player to bring in the Apple Watch Series 5 into Malaysia just last December in 2019. The fact that they brought in the wearable this late (as it was first unveiled in September) is due to market demands, which Celcom and Digi are also doing. I've been using the Apple Watch Series 5 for about three months now so here's the review below. 

Finally after a few weeks, Maxis is the latest telco to launch the Apple Watch Series 5 starting today onwards (13 December 2019). Besides that, customers will be able to also order the iPad and Apple TV 4K through Maxis Zerolution with the usual monthly instalments, zero interest rate, zero upfront payment and zero credit card. 

The LTE variant of the Apple Watch Series 5 continues to become accessible in Malaysia, with Maxis the latest Malaysian telco making it available soon. According to a new promo page, Maxis will be make the Apple Watch Series 5 available through Maxis Zerolution plan.

In this short announcement, our local blue Telco, Celcom has just officially announced that the Apple Watch 5 series will soon be available in their BlueCube stores. However, if you're planning to get one from them, you will have to wait a while as the pre-order will start on the 6th of December.

Christmas is just around the corner and there may be a whole bunch of things you want to get, but if you’re looking for a tech gift in particular, you may not even know where to start as 2019 has been chock full of new tech gadgets and product releases. For that reason, we’ve compiled a list of Christmas tech gifts you can get for each of your precious friends and family (many of them are on our lists too!)

We've also segregated them according to the type of friend or family these Christmas tech gifts would be best suited for. This includes your most precious to the entire family and even gamers to workaholics. So, in no particular order, here is TechNave.com’s Christmas Gift Guide 2019.

As mentioned from our Apple Watch Series 5 news, Digi has finally begun offering their customers the latest Apple wearable with Digi PhoneFreedom 365 plan starting today (1 November 2019). It's worth noting that the Apple wearable model will be the GPS + Cellular version and from its All-In price tag, you can pay as low as RM126ALL-IN monthly payment.

In case you haven't been keeping with your watch, the Apple Watch Series 5 is now available in Malaysia with a starting price of RM1749 and comes with a few choices for those who want a different strap, from sports to leather, as well as stainless steel. 

Well, it's certainly been an eventful week TechNavers, as this year's 9.9 online sale happened on Monday, it quickly got followed up by the Apple iPhone 11, new Apple iPad, Apple Watch Series 5 and Apple Arcade launch. Quite a lot of things got confirmed, even the controversial rear design but check them out above for more details.

However, for some, the news below are even more important, so here's TechNave NewsBytes 2019 #20 for the bits and bytes of Malaysia's tech world last week.