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Since the launch of the DeepSeek-V3 model on January 10 and the R1 model on January 20, the tech world, including Silicon Valley, has been stunned by DeepSeek's supposedly cheaper and more effective capabilities.  In response, local competitors in China raced to upgrade their AI models. Two days after DeepSeek-R1 was introduced, ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, updated its main AI model and claimed it outperformed OpenAI's o1 model in AIME tests.

Tech giant Alibaba has announced that it will roll out its own artificial intelligence (AI) product to rival ChatGPT. Called Tongyi Qianwen, the chatbot will be integrated across the company’s businesses.

2021 is still a long way to go but it seems that Mac Otakara, an Apple news website from Japan has done a new mock-up product of the 2021 iPhone already. While information is scarce, we just learn that the 2021 iPhone could possibly be notchless with an in-display front camera and features a USB-C port for the first time as well.

Surprisingly, popular eCommerce company Alibaba recently unveiled their designs for a foldable smartphone which can be folded over twice. This design is quite unique due to the fact that foldable smartphones from Huawei, Samsung and Motorola can only be folded once.

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

So...it's August already! But things have been a bit quiet. I mean, there are some news here and there, the Vivo S1 got officially launch in public yesterday at the Vivo SuperDay Roadshow Event, then Xiaomi Malaysia also got to show its new pure stock Android Mi A3 smartphone (which nobody really seems to care for some reason), same goes to the Black Shark 2 Pro that was revealed in China (which unfortunately still loses the favour against the ROG Phone 2, according to our fans). Besides the phone news, we got a Malaysian Pokemon fan making his own Pokemon game mod based on Malaysia so that's cool. 

Yeah so there's nothing much but just a heads up, here's what you can expect in this coming few weeks - many news about the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 series which will take place in New York and many, many Merdeka promo sales to come. Anyway, let's get started shall we? 

What's up, TechNavers? Of course, it was the MWC 2019 all week! We covered multiple MWC stuff that happened over the past few days, our boy, Jim managed to have a first impression + hands-on experience of the foldable Huawei Mate X smartphone, the untouchable (literally) Sony Xperia 1 and Xperia 10 series, the penta-camera Nokia 9 PureView, the 48MP Xiaomi Mi 9, an 18,000mAh Energizer smartphone, and many more MWC 2019 stuff (which you can find on our search engine). Also not forgetting the new vivo V15 Pro release in Malaysia on Super Brand Day, and of course - the Samsung Galaxy S10 series has officially launched in Malaysia!

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. 

12.12 sales promotion are coming real soon and there are just too many news of upcoming deal breakers coming into our mailbox. With this, we have decided to compile all of them here so that you can have a one-stop for all your gadget hunting list this week. This list comprises well-known brands such as Huawei, HONOR, vivo, OPPO, Xiaomi, Samsung, ASUS, Realme, Logitech, Shopee, Lazada, Alibaba and Alcatel (so far). Without further ado, here are our 12.12 Gadget Promotion Sales You Should Check Out!

Vivo and Alibaba’s Tmall are teaming up to manufacture an upcoming smartphone due to release around late Q4 2018. By utilizing Alibaba’s customer base of more than 500 million users, both Tmall and Vivo are able to develop a smartphone that is catered towards their target demographic of users. Vivo and Tmall have already kicked start their partnership by setting up an innovation lab where both parties are able to collaborate and develop the upcoming generations of Vivo smartphones.