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One of the famous leaker in this industry, Roland Quandt, somehow managed to buy the Samsung Galaxy Buds+ and had it shipped to him. It arrived at his doorstep many days ahead of the launch. Being a leaker of information himself, he shared his hands-on and unboxing of the new Galaxy Buds+.

Everyone wants a thin and light laptop - and today, to celebrate Acer Malaysia's 30th anniversary, the company announced that two of the latest laptops that were just announced at CES2020 are going to be available in Malaysia soon. Introducing, the new Acer Spin 3 and also the new Acer TravelMate P614.

The coronavirus is really spreading and it is affecting China the most. Many factories and offices are closing down to mitigate the spread of the virus, too. As factories close down, that means the production of tech gadgets will be affected as well. While the general consensus tells us that the prices of electronics will rise, Xiaomi Malaysia decided to lower their prices of some products instead.

My eyebrows raised when I first saw this news. It is reported by Reuters that 4 big Android smartphone brands, OPPO, Vivo, Xiaomi, and Huawei, are teaming up to go against Google Play Store's monopoly. The entity is dubbed as the Global Developer Service Alliance (GDSA).

Pocophone. It was a big hit when the F1 was launched back in 2018. It's not the best-looking or has the best hardware overall - but it's great enough while having a surprisingly low price tag. That phone became a hot-selling phone and literally propelled the brand Pocophone from nothing to world-renowned with just one phone. But they went into hiatus until today - the Poco X2 is now official.

Let's start off with a refresher. Back on December 21st 2016, we published the article titled "BlackBerry & TCL Communications Enter Long-Term Licensing Agreement". But today, that long-term licensing agreement has a deadline. 31st August 2020 is the last day that TCL will be manufacturing and selling BlackBerry smartphones. Essentially, TCL is breaking up with BlackBerry.

Over the course of these few weeks, flip phones are back in the headlines become of the Motorola Razr and the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip. Currently, the Motorola Razr is already in the market - and the hinge worries many people.

realme Malaysia has announced that they're bringing in the Chroma White version of the realme 5 Pro for Valentine's Day. And it'll be in limited quantities, too.

JEDEC has published the specs for the new UFS 3.1 storage chip in an update for the new standard. This new standard brings speed and power efficiency improvement which wil be beneficial for smartphones and other embedded uses.