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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).

Welcome back to another weekly NewsBytes segment where we bring you the latest tech news from the edge (at least for us). So how was your 11.11 shopping spree? You might have spent quite a sum but don't feel guilty about it - our TechNave team also did the same becase this year's 11.11 sale was really good and I bought some items that I don't even need like a ninja flu mask, but it's too cool and cheap to ignore it. Thanks to my and the many Malaysians contribution to 11.11, Huawei Online Store did great, so did Lazada, Shopee,  honor Malaysia and 11street too which you can read below after this introduction.

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