It looks like its not only the ASUS ROG 2 smartphone that will be getting Qualcomm’s upgraded Snapdragon 855+ chipset. Over on Weibo, Realme reshared Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855+ announcement post with a vague caption: Hello, Snapdragon 855+.

There have been rumours floating around, hinting the possibility of smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung and Xiaomi could have their smartphones fitted with a 64MP image sensor. Surprisingly, Realme was the first to release a photo sample taken from the aforementioned image sensor, beating Samsung and Xiaomi to the punch.

So how is the smartphone industry doing so far in 2019? Well, Canalys, an independent data analyst company from Singapore with branches worldwide, has released a new Smartphone Market Pulse report on the Indian smartphone shipments and annual growth, including smartphone brand players such as Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo, OPPO and Realme.

How's is it going, my homies! It's been a while since we did our #NewsBytes but due to the recent Chinese New Year break, there wasn't so much news. So what's in the loop? Aside from the casual news below, there are a couple of interesting tech stuff to talk about - the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S10 series livestream has been announced, Energizer came out of nowhere with a 18000mAh + dual pop-up front camera smartphone, Xiaomi Mi 9 has been teased and might be revealed in MWC 2019, we got our first look at the vivo V15 Pro in Malaysia, and other minor stuff that isn't that important. 

So this is a surprise, Realme has just announced that besides from manufacturing smartphones, the company will also launch new clothing and peripherals for the young generation, this includes T-shirts, sweaters and even office supplies. Looks like they are going in for the hip-trend with the youth as much as they can.