Despite the competitiveness in the smartphone industry, there are actually some brands who choose to skip Malaysia as a potential market. So in celebration of Merdeka, these are the smartphone series that never came to Malaysia (lol). To make the criteria clear, imported versions do not count so it must have an official smartphone launch just like how Samsung Malaysia, Huawei Malaysia and others do it. You get the idea, here we go!

iQOO is a gaming-centric brand managed by vivo and they have been doing so well launching gaming smartphones with top-notch tech specs. Now, it appears that the gaming sub-brand is going to go big by making tablets and laptops as well. It is rumoured that one of the products will be released sooner than we thought.

Not only the competition between smartphones is intense nowadays, the manufacturers that provide chipsets for the devices are also required to keep up with the needs of the market. Today, MediaTek has launched an upgraded version of the Dimensity 1000 chipset and it's called Dimensity 1000 Plus (just like Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 and 855 Plus), and there are a lot of improvements making it strong enough to compete with the others.

Vivo’s sub-brand, iQOO has officially been announced in China and it comes equipped with the top of the line Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset and 4 different memory configuration with 4 different price point, with the first being the 6GB RAM + 128GB ROM priced at RMB2998(~RM1821), 8GB + 128GB at RMB3298(~RM2004), 8GB + 256GB at RMB3598(~RM2186) and lastly, 12GB + 256GB at RMB4298(~RM2611).

You thought you knew fast charging? Here’s another one to wrap your mind around. Vivo sub-brand, iQOO, with their 44W Super FlashCharge brings your phone back to 50% charge from 0% in just 16 minutes.

iQOO, vivo’s gaming sub-brand is said to come out with premium and futuristic phone designs. Futuristic may be the keyword here as leaked images of a foldable phone has surfaced on the internet, said to belong to the sub-brand.