News & Reviews:   Mobile

Family Mart has announced that their My FamilyMart mobile app is now officially available for download via the Google Play Store, as well as the iOS App Store. Not only that, but you can also sign up to get free stuff such as Sofuto Ice Cream and more as well every week.

From 24 August until 29 September 2019, the 4th season of the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League for Malaysia and Singapore will be happening with up to RM415000 prize pool to be won. The tournament will be aired live on Mobile Legends: Bang Bang facebook page every Saturday and Sunday from 4PM onwards, if you’re interested in watching the live stream.

The PUBG Mobile Malaysia National Championship 2019 with up to RM114000 prize pool to be won, is currently happening in Quill City Mall until Sunday, 14 July 2019. As many as 12 teams will be competing for their share of the prize pool, as well as one of the 4 spots to compete in the PMCO SEA Fall Split 2019. At the event, there are several professional teams such as Team Secret, ViP, Junior Talent, as well as AROV Esports will be there too.

On this very day, Maxis has announced that they are the first Malaysian company to sponsor Team Secret’s all Malaysian PUBG Mobile team. Not only that, but both the organisations will be collaborating together in order to bring the best eSports experiences to Malaysia via Maxis’ 4G as well as Fibre network.

Recently, officials in India have arrested 10 university students for playing the widely popular game Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile. Gujarat, a state in India enforces the ban stating that the game is heavily influential, promoting violence as well as causes students to not focus on their studies.

Shopee Malaysia and FPX have announced a collaboration to help online sellers on Shopee be more efficient and effective sellers on Shopee via the Shopee University. For those who don't know, FPX by PayNet is Shopee's online payment provider while Shopee University is the online marketplace's educational portal for their Shopee sellers. Shopee University was launched in 2016 offering workshops and tutorials that now more than 5000 sellers have benefited from.

Apex Legends, the latest battle royale game by Respawn Entertainment which is set in the same universe as Titanfall, is in the talks on developing an iOS and Android version of the game. While it may not happen so soon, they planned to include cross-play while enables the mobile players to go against players from other platforms such as PC or even consoles if they desire to.

According to Samsung Mobile division CEO DJ Koh, Samsung has plans to launch a foldable smartphone this year which could double as a tablet when unfolded with a completely different user experience to boot. The foldable Galaxy device, although complicated to develop and manufacture, is expected to make its debut at the Samsung Developer Conference some time around November 2018.

In conjunction with Malaysia’s upcoming 61st Merdeka celebration, Samsung is offering several deals with savings up to RM530 on their tablet devices such as the Galaxy Tab S, as well as the Galaxy Tab A series which is starting from as low as RM559.

During their recent global analyst summit in Shenzhen, Huawei showed a slide teasing their first Huawei 5G mobile hotspot set for Q2 of 2019. They also revealed what could be their first 5G smartphone, which is presumed to be the Huawei Mate 30 in the second half of 2019 which also indicates when Malaysia and other countries could start seeing the full implementation of 5G networks.