News & Reviews:   netflix malaysia

Previously, we reported how Netflix is losing subscribers and may be introducing a cheaper, ad-supported subscription plan to combat the loss of customers. Well, it looks like the new subscription plan model may be coming sooner than expected as an alleged internal memo leak revealed that Netflix will be pushing its release to as early as October this year.

Today, a fellow Malaysian from Twitter just found out that Netflix Malaysia is testing out a new subscribing plan called Mobile+. From the screenshots, it seems like the plan is between the Mobile and Basic plan at RM25 per month. It's also only found in the phone browser instead of the desktop.

All the news on digital tax has made many Malaysians sad this December. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be stopping yet. We've already heard of how Steam will be implementing digital tax for its platform earlier today and now Netflix has also announced that it will be revising its pricing for the Malaysian market.

If you're an avid Netflix user and you often watch it on your mobile devices, here's some good news for you - Netflix Malaysia has just announced a new mobile plan called Netflix Mobile. For just RM17/month, Malaysian Netflix members will get to enjoy watching their favourite shows with no Ads interrupting on their smartphones and tablets.

Well, it's certainly been an eventful week TechNavers, as this year's 9.9 online sale happened on Monday, it quickly got followed up by the Apple iPhone 11, new Apple iPad, Apple Watch Series 5 and Apple Arcade launch. Quite a lot of things got confirmed, even the controversial rear design but check them out above for more details.

However, for some, the news below are even more important, so here's TechNave NewsBytes 2019 #20 for the bits and bytes of Malaysia's tech world last week.

So a lot of things happened this week. First, there was Computex 2019 with ASUS showing a wide range of products - a new ZenFone 6 Edition 30, ZenBook Edition 30 laptop and a Prime X299 Edition 30 motherboard for its 30th Anniversary, a ZenBook Pro Duo with two functioning 4K touchscreens, new VivoBook S14 and S15 with a 5.65-inch ScreenPad 2.0 display, two new portable monitors (ZenScreen Touch and ROG Strix XG17), ROG Swift gaming monitor, a new Glacier Blue skin for ROG gaming laptops in the near future, and many more. 

The Trade War between the USA and China still going on, the chain effect has hit across the nation. Our Prime Minister voiced out on the matter, saying Malaysia will still use Huawei technology; Huawei has also prepared to file a lawsuit against the US Government for bullying, a number of Malaysian restaurants are showing support for Huawei smartphone users, and for some reason, the Mate 20 Pro is back on the Android Q beta program. 

And on other news, Apple Malaysia has just announced a new iPod touch with AR capability coming soon to Malaysia from RM899, Pokemon Masters is also set to be released on our mobile devices this year, and finally, OPPO Reno 10X Zoom was announced for RM3399 (which to be honest, is kinda expensive comparing with the Xiaomi Mi 9 for having similar tech specs minus the 60x zoom feature for just RM1699, now you tell me which one makes more sense).