For this week's TechNave NewsByte 2019, we see a few brands offering gift guides for the holiday season, industry conferences from Cisco and OPPO, as well having Maxis being the most happening of the bunch with its startup pitching platform and Hotlink deals.

Many smartphone manufacturers are aiming for bezel-less displays when it comes to making a new product. However, this creates an issue for the placement of front-facing cameras and it leads to the hot debate of notch designs. After the OPPO’s Innovation Day in China, a new era might begin soon as a working under-display selfie camera was being put on the show.

Are you ready for the 12.12 sale to happen yet? This is another time people would go online and shop like it’s the end of the world. If you have missed some of the deals during the last 11.11 sale, this is your last chance to make amends with all those goods you were going to buy!

For our TechNave NewsByte 2019 this time, OPPO got to be the first to make a call using a new technology, Yoodo wants you to message the Malaysian 2019 SEA Games team your words of support, Team Gaventure from Malaysia makes it to the Grand Finals of the League of Champions IV, Sony announces pre-orders for the NW-A100TPS Walkman, Time dotCom Berhad is partnering with Facebook and more. 

Earlier today, we saw Qualcomm announcing its latest Snapdragon 865 and 765 chipsets. At the same time, many brands have confirmed that they will be offering smartphones equipped with the new chipsets. Looks like 2020 will be a year filled with Qualcomm 5G-powered phones.

OPPO has recently announced that you could get an OPPO Festive Night Run Ticket worth RM55, when you purchase any OPPO Smartphone from 12 November 2019 onwards. In addition to that, you could also get a runner kit worth more than RM164 as well.

In conjunction with the OPPO Service day which is happening on 6 November 2019, get your OPPO smartphone fixed within an hour along with various repair discounts and free labour charges at the OPPO Kuala Lumpur Service Center. But that’s not all, there will also be a bunch of OPPO smartphone workshops as well as free cleaning and maintenance service on the day itself. On another note, OPPO will be conducting a special Service Talk at the OPPO Service Center in Kota Bahru on the same day.

OPPO has recently announced that they have opened their very first Super Flagship Store in Thailand, which offers a much more luxurious shopping experience for OPPO customers. Not only that, but the store also has a dedicated 5G network which can be used to test the network speeds of any 5G-capable OPPO devices.

During the 5G summit in Barcelona, OPPO’s Chief 5G Scientist Henry Tang has stated that they plan to release a dual-mode 5G-capable smartphone by the end of 2019. The aforementioned smartphone is able to support both standalone and non-standalone networks, which will improve the 5G the user experience.

Stand a chance to win up to RM800000 in prizes with OPPO’s Merdeka Fiesta Spin & Win contest, which starts from the 13 September until 16 September 2019. Prizes include products such as an OPPO Screen Protector, USB cables, 32GB Sandisk storage cards and many more up for grabs when you participate.