Four upcoming flagship devices appeared on Alipay’s smartphone rental page in China earlier today. Among the devices listed were the OPPO Reno, Huawei P30, Huawei Mate X and the Xiaomi Mi Mix 4.

Things are getting pretty interesting in the war against the notches and this time the latest innovation comes from ASUS. From leaked renders by Twitter leaker @evleaks show that the upcoming ASUS Zenfone may sport a dual slider. It was not specified which model of the ASUS Zenfone this could be but it might just be the ASUS Zenfone 6 as the team who created these renders are the same people who designed the ASUS Zenfone 5.

 Xiaomi has just revealed their 100W fast charging for smartphones called Super Charge Turbo. In a Weibo post, President and co-founder of Xiaomi stated that the technology can charge a smartphone from 0-100% in just 17 minutes.

Over at MWC 2019, Xiaomi finally showed off their 5G version of the much loved Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G features the Snapdragon 855 bundled with the Snapdragon X50 modem alongside 3500mAh battery capacity. Other than that, the phone is pretty much similar to the original Mi Mix 3. 

Redmi’s president, Lu Weibing, started a poll on his Weibo account to determine which display design is the most popular among users. Currently taking the lead on the poll is camera pop up screen. Interestingly, Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s CEO voted for the waterdrop notch display, sparking rumours that the Mi 9 may come with a waterdrop notch.

2018 was quite an interesting year for smartphones, as brands were (and are) figuring out different ways to get around the notch on top of the display, just to maximize the screen-to-body ratio as much as they can. Some didn't bother switching, some made a smaller notch and there were some pop-up front cameras too. But among all these efforts, Xiaomi came out with something that's kind of an ingenious move - a simple slider mechanism on the Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 and it's currently one of my favourite phones of 2019 so far. Read below to find out why!

DxOMark has recently announced that from 22 January 2019 onwards, they will start benchmarking the front-facing selfie cameras which are found on modern day smartphones using similar testing procedures and methodologies that were used to test the rear primary cameras.

Year 2019 is the year the screen to body ratios of smartphones get bigger. The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3’s sliding selfie camera was pretty innovative and now we are hearing that the OPPO R19 and vivoX25 may be adopting a pop up selfie camera mechanism, similar to the vivo NEX.

Today, Xiaomi Malaysia has officially announced the price for the Mi MIX 3! Previously teased to be under RM2500, the brand stays true to their word as the starting price will be RM2199 (Onyx Black), while the Jade Green and Sapphire Blue will go for sale at RM2299.

Today, on Xiaomi Malaysia's  Facebook page, the company has officially teased its upcoming flagship for January 2019. While they didn't say what smartphone it was, the tagline - "SLIDING IN SOON" is an obvious hint on the Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 and the price says under RM2500. For all we know, we think it's probably going to be RM2499 (more or less) and reserved for the 8GB + 256GB model that was revealed in China.