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Following up for 2020 this year, Digi showed off their 5G tech, Mobile Legends Bang Bang Professional League Season 5 teams got confirmed and GrabPay weighed in on their e-Tunai eWallet. There’s also a number of CES awards for LG and HONOR while MoUs got signed and more. Check it out below.

It seems that another Chinese software has run afoul of the US government recently. The US Navy has just banned all of its personnel from using the app TikTok on any government-issued mobile device. It's claimed that the app presents some cybersecurity concerns.

This week sees a bit more variety of happenings for our TechNave NewsByte 2019. There's SOCAR's promo, LG winning some awards at the first Asia Tech Awards, Mudah.my encouraging us to sell back stuff we might have bought unnecessarily, and more. Let's see what these are all about, shall we?

It seems like Facebook is doing a good job of keeping its younger generation of users on Instagram. However, the social media company is not stopping yet. It has developed a new feature that is similar to the one on TikTok and it's already released to Instagram users in Brazil. 

NewsBytes 2019 #21 - Samsung goes Platinum twice, Celcom + Google + MoE, Grab, TikTok, Alibaba and more

Tiktok creator has given the confirmation that they are currently working on a TikTok smartphone, which is due to release sometime in the future. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like the aforementioned smartphone will be released outside of China.

And just like that, the Raya holiday is over and a bunch of news just burst through our doors. Father's Day is just around the corner so check out what Shopee has in store for you, you get to trade-in old OPPO phones for the latest Reno series which is nice, ASUS Malaysia finally launched new lightweight VivoBook Ultra series from RM2699 and...oh, Huawei going boldly by saying their HongMeng OS is 60% faster than Android, requesting trademark approval on HongMeng OS in several countries, as well as inviting developers to publish their apps on AppGallery. 

Financial Times revealed that Bytedance, the owners of popular app TikTok is currently developing its own smartphone. This isn’t that surprising as the company had acquired some people from Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Smartisan.

What's uppppp TechNaversss! NewBytes is back and it's gonna be our first 2019 edition! It's a bit late but we had a slow startup and now we are picking up some steam. There were plenty of things happening over the past three weeks, the most notable one would be the #10YearsChallenge "conspiracy theory", CES 2019 also happened over the week before, and many many smartphones were released such as Huawei's first Punch Fullview phone - Nova 4, the budget-friendly HONOR 10 Lite and HONOR Band 4 series, the magnetic slider Xiaomi Mi MIX 3, the rather late  Razer Phone 2 and finally, Samsung also announced the upcoming Galaxy S10 launching date in San Francisco, California. 

What's up TechNavers? We are already coming to the end of November and once again, there isn't much news around except for a couple of smartphone releases and promotions. In anticipation of Christmas, vivo Malaysia has dropped the price tag on the Vivo V11i and the Y81i starting from RM499, the Realme C1 was on a special sale for just RM399, the  HONOR Play – Player Edition Red x Audi Sports LMS lucky draw has begun on HONOR Malaysia's #Fansgiving Campaign, and the quad-cam Samsung Galaxy A9 (2018) got a rather quiet release for RM1999 (which is a pretty good deal if you ask me).