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Pre-order Galaxy S20+ and get Galaxy Buds+ free

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Pre-order Galaxy S20+ and get Galaxy Buds+ free
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February is just around the corner and Samsung has already revealed the launch date of its upcoming smartphone, Galaxy S20. Samsung will be launching the Galaxy S20 on 11th of February which will takes place in San Francisco. At the same time, we are also hearing rumours saying that Samsung could be introducing its next-generation wireless earbuds, Galaxy Buds+.

Surprisingly, before the launch itself, our serial leakster @evleaks claims that Samsung will be giving away the Samsung Galaxy Buds+ for free when you pre-order its latest Galaxy S20+ and S20 Ultra. This promotion is only valid during the pre-order period. If you miss this opportunity then you might need to buy the Galaxy Buds+ separately. @evleaks has even share us the photo of the promotion from Samsung.

We know that this is just a picture only. But, from the leaked picture above, it seems pretty convincing. The design of the Galaxy Buds+ looks almost similar to the current Galaxy Buds. We are not sure what are the newly added features for the Galaxy Buds+ but we are looking forward to hearing it from Samsung itself on 11th February. However, rumours say that Samsung is not including the active noise cancellation feature for the Galaxy Buds+.

Samsung Galaxy S20: 100x Space Zoom

For the pricing wise, we are expecting Samsung Malaysia to keep the Galaxy Buds+ price at within RM600. This is because the current Galaxy Buds is retailing at RM499. If Samsung wants to sell for a higher price, RM600 could be the maximum expected price for the Galaxy Buds+.

Besides the Galaxy Buds+, we also got to know that the Galaxy S20 will be upgrading its camera system. From the promotion picture above, it seems like Samsung is adding a new feature called Space Zoom. From the picture, we know that you can take space photography by zooming up to 100x Space Zoom.

Well, that’s all we have for now. We will update you all once Samsung reveals both the Galaxy S20 and also the Galaxy Buds+ very soon. Stay tuned for more updates from us.

Here’s how you can get a blue checkmark in Tinder

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Here’s how you can get a blue checkmark in Tinder
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Tinder has continuously been the world’s most used dating app. Due to that, its user’s privacy and security have to be a high priority. Last week, Tinder has introduced tons of safety features for its app.

One of the features which got out attention was the blue checkmark feature. Well we know getting a blue checkmark is not easy unless you are a public figure. But if you want to get a blue checkmark next to your profile, Tinder is the app you should use. Here’s how you can get the blue checkmark next to your Tinder profile.

All you need to get the blue checkmark you have to pass the Photo Verification test. At the moment, Tinder has started to roll out this feature slowly to all its users. The reason is that this feature is still under testing phase. If you are able to view the Photo Verification test then you have to do the following to receive the blue checkmark icon for your Tinder profile.

Tinder will request you for a series of real-time posed selfies. You have to pose according to the pose. Then Tinder uses its human-assisted AI technology to verify your profile. The AI will compare all your existing profile photos in order to train itself.

Apart from the Photo Verification feature, Tinder has also introduced other features such as Noonlight. Using this feature, you can share your date information to the people you trust. If you feel uncomfortable during your date night, you can immediately trigger the SOS-like button.

In a nutshell, that’s how you can easily get the blue checkmark for your Tinder profile. Tinder will be rolling out all these security features in the next few months.

Vivo APEX 2020 will be unveiled in MWC Barcelona

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Vivo APEX 2020 will be unveiled in MWC Barcelona
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Vivo has recently announced to debut its latest APEX 2020 at the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020 on 23 February in Barcelona. The APEX series has come to be known as a lineup of concept phones feature bezel-less design, high screen ratio, innovative cameras, pop-up selfie camera and so forth.

It is believed that Vivo APEX 2020 will be featuring bezel-less design and improved screen-to-body ratio. The device will be utilising the in-display fingerprint sensor with a waterfall display, similarly to Vivo NEX 3. While the device may be retaining the pop-up camera design or featuring an under-screen camera.

Vivo APEX 2020 is also expected to expand the screen fingerprint recognition area to the entire screen while the recognition rate and accuracy rate will be significantly improved as well. 

In terms of charging endurance, the Vivo APEX 2020 should be equipped with magnetic charging interface and wireless charging while it is also powered by Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 865 processor. The latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Mobile Platform offers cutting-edge performance, improved graphics, an uplift in CPU performance, and robust 5G connectivity.  

As of current, there is not much information to be revealed on the concept of the upcoming APEX 2020. Vivo’s press conference will be happening from 23 February till 24 February at MWC 2020 in Barcelona.

WhatsApp for Android beta gets Dark Mode

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WhatsApp for Android beta gets Dark Mode
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Finally, we can confirm you all the WhatsApp will be rolling out its Dark mode feature very soon for its Android app. This was first confirmed by the most famous WhatsApp beta website. According to WABetaInfo, the “Dark Theme” is available to all beta users with the version 2.20.13.

How to enable WhatsApp Dark Theme?

Previously, when we wrote a few articles about Dark Mode, we were really hoping WhatsApp should introduce the Dark Mode feature for its app. Soon Facebook-owned apps will be complete with the Dark Mode feature. If you are using the beta version as stated above, then you can enable the Dark Theme from the “Chat” under the settings page. WhatsApp even allows you to either manually disable it or you can also allow your Android dark mode setting to set it for you.

For you, Dark Mode is something normal. It just makes your screen darker right. But there is a scientific reason why Dark Theme is really necessary for smartphones. First of all, with Dark Mode, it improves the battery life of your smartphone especially if it has an OLED display. According to TheVerge, Dark Mode really improves your smartphone battery life. That’s the reason companies like Apple and Google are developing their apps and OS with system-wide Dark Mode.

Apart from that, Dark Mode is also good for your eyes. Many of us like to use our smartphone during the night. With the bright colour interface, it can strain our eyes. But, with Dark Mode, the interface is darker which makes it easier to use it in dark environments. See, now you already know the benefits of changing your phone settings to Dark Mode.

At the moment, the Dark Theme is available for Android beta users only. But, if it is already reaching to Android users soon then iOS users should be receiving these updates within this year itself. If you are using an Android smartphone, you can try to install the beta APK from here. Do note that, it is risky to install APK from websites because it might contain virus or malware.

In a nutshell, we can’t wait to try out the Dark Theme for WhatsApp for iOS once WhatsApp rolls out officially to non-beta users.

Apple’s first low-cost iPhone launching soon in March 2020

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Apple’s first low-cost iPhone launching soon in March 2020
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How many of you want to own an iPhone but due to the high pricing you decide to use Android smartphones? If you are one of them, then we have good news for you all. Apple will be launching its first-ever low-cost iPhone on March 2020.

According to the report from Bloomberg, Apple is prepping to launch its new low-cost iPhone this year. Well, this is not the first time Apple launches its so-called “affordable” iPhones SE. However, this year, it seems convincing that Apple is indeed working on a “low-cost” iPhone. Could this be the next-generation iPhone SE?

First of all, the low-cost iPhone will almost look-alike the previous iPhone 8 which was launched back in 2017. According to iGeeksBlog, the so-called “low-cost” iPhone could be named as either iPhone 9 or iPhone SE2. Nevertheless, the design still remains the same as the iPhone 8. Despite having a similar design, the iPhone SE2 will feature a 4.7″ display. The rear will come with the frosted glass back which you can see in the current iPhone 11.

The best part of all is the return of the home button to the iPhone. Twitter leakster @OnLeaks, confirms that the iPhone SE2 will be having an actual home button. This means you can expect the Touch ID to be built-in into the home button. Due to the “low-cost” iPhone, there wouldn’t be a Face ID on the iPhone SE2.

Bloomberg also has reported that the assembly of the iPhone SE2 will be split between three supplier Hon Hai Precision Industry, Pegatron Corp. and Wistron Corp. Previously, most of Apple’s iPhones will be assembled by Foxconn. Since Foxconn charges Apple at a higher rate now, Apple has decided to leave Foxconn and assemble its devices in other countries.

That’s all, for now, we have regarding Apple’s low-cost iPhone SE2. We will constantly update you all once we have more updates regarding the low-cost iPhone. Follow our Facebook page for more latest updates.

Google’s new search result icons are crazily irritating

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Google’s new search result icons are crazily irritating
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Google is the most used search engines in the world. You can literally search anything on Google without worrying about the results. Google is always trying to improve its search results by updating its search engines with new updates. However, for its latest updates, things seem kind of crazily irritating.

If you have noticed in your search results, Google has added a tiny favicon of the website in the search results. Even though this is a small update Google rolls out, I personally find it a kind of crazily irritating. According to Google, this is part of its plan to make sure to let the user know from where the information is coming from.

I think before this itself, the Google search engine has already had a clean interface. I am not sure why are they doing this to the search results. But, when I am searching for a search result using Google, I only want to know the results not from where it is coming from. However, for ads wise most probably, all of you want to know about it. The reason is you should know whether you are clicking on the ads or organic search results.

Google has tweeted that, apart from mobile search results, it will be rolling this update to the desktop search results too. Some of you could have already seen the search results with the irritating favicon.

If your website doesn’t have a favicon, then you can add a new one by following the guideline from Google. A special thanks to Lifehacker for sharing the steps to apply filters to remove the favicons on the search results. If you don’t care about these changes then deal with it. Let us know in the comment section whether you are happy with Google’s new search engine update.

Here’s how the Huawei P40 and P40 Pro looks like

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Here’s how the Huawei P40 and P40 Pro looks like
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MWC 2020 is just around the corner and every year Huawei will unveil its next P series smartphone. This year also Huawei will keep on following its tradition by unveiling the Huawei P40 and P40 Pro soon. Thanks to our serial leakster @evleaks for revealing the design of the Huawei P40 and Huawei P40 Pro.

Huawei P40 Pro: The white ceramic variant

Here is the first look of Huawei P40 Pro. First of all, looking at the image above, the Huawei P40 Pro features a punch-hole display. For the first time, Huawei is including two selfie cameras on the top left corner. Over at the right side, it has a volume rocker button and a power button. It looks like it has a screen-to-body ratio of at least 90%.

At the back of the Huawei P40 Pro, there is a huge rectangular bump which takes up space almost 35% of the phone. For the first time, Huawei P40 Pro features five cameras. As usual, the cameras are designed by Leica. At the moment of writing this article, the leakster did not mention regarding the camera specs.

Huawei P40: A multicolour variant

For the Huawei P40, we have gotten a few rendered images from 91Mobiles. Upfront, it has a similar display to the Huawei P40 Pro. The front features a dual selfie camera similar to the Huawei P40 Pro. The below of the device, we can see there is a speaker and below is a sim slot area. According to 91Mobiles, the front comes with a 6.1″ to 6.2″ of AMOLED display.

The rear side, instead of having five cameras, the Huawei features a triple-camera setup. It will be using the lens from Leica. From the rendered images also we got to know that Huawei will be including multicolour options for the Huawei P40. This is similar to the current Huawei P30 colours.

Overall, that all we know about the Huawei P40 series. As we said previously, Huawei could be launching the Huawei P40 series smartphone in Paris on February. Apart from that, Huawei also will be shipping the Huawei P40 series smartphone without Google Mobile Services. Stay tuned for more updates from us.

GrabPay Card will soon be launch in Malaysia

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GrabPay Card will soon be launch in Malaysia
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Similar to the Apple Card, Grab introduces its own credit card called GrabPay Card. Back in December Grab launches Asia’s fist numberless card system in Singapore. During the launch event, Grab was mentioning its plan to roll out the GrabPay Card to other countries. One of them is Philipines. Now, it seems that Grab will be rolling out the numberless card payment system in Malaysia too.

At this moment of writing this article, I am not sure whether Grab Malaysia will be debuting the GrabPay Card by Q1 of 2020 yet. This information was confirmed by our fellow Amanz.my. According to them, Grab Malaysia is having a plan to unveil the GrabPay Card in Malaysia within this year 2020. However, the official date is not planned yet.

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To recap, GrabPay Card is a payment system which you can use it to purchase over at over 53 million Mastercard merchants worldwide. Besides that, you don’t have to worry about the security because only you have access to the card details from your Grab app. Apart from that, it is Asia’s first numberless card. Which means you don’t can worry less about identity theft. Are you a shopaholic person? Then you can earn more by just spending using GrabPay Card because each time you use the card, you can redeem points as well.

In a nutshell, Grab Malaysia will soon come out with its official release date to launch the GrabPay Card. If you want to be the first one to get to know this information. Follow our TechmonQuay Facebook page. We will keep you posted for further updates regarding GrabPay Card.

TM offers 4K Unifi Plus Box free for Unifi customers

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TM offers 4K Unifi Plus Box free for Unifi customers
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After Astro introduces its own 4K Ultra Box, TM has also officially unveiled its own TV Box. TM is naming it Unifi Plus Box. If you are an Unifi customer, you can start to enjoy watching 4K Ultra HD content for free. All you need to do is subscribe to any of the Unifi Home Fibre broadband plans.

The Unifi Plus Box is built on top of the existing Android TV Box. Which means you can even stream contents from your favourite streaming service. According to TM, the Unifi Plus Box is already equipped with a few streaming apps such as Yupp TV, iFlix and YouTube. If you already have an account then probably you can enjoy watching your favourite movies or dramas from these streaming platforms.

Besides that, the Unifi Plus Box also supports voice search feature. You can use the remote control to search your favourite contents using your voice. Based on your voice search the Google Assistant will help you to search your query. If you are using an Android smartphone, you can even stream your content to your larger TV screen. This can be done via the Google Chromecast feature.

Some of you might be thinking about whether you need to subscribe to the pre-installed apps in order to stream the contents. Well, the answer is yes and no. According to the information from the TM FAQ page, only iFlix is free to use. However, if you subscribe to the Ultimate TV package, then you can access the BBC player app for free. Apps such as Viu and Yupp TV requires you to pay RM10 per months. At this moment, the Netflix app is not available yet. TM also confirms that FOX+ will soon be available on the Unifi Plus Box.

What do you need to do to get the Unifi Plus Box for free?

As we said in the beginning, you must subscribe to any of the Unifi Home Fibre broadband plans. Currently, TM offers its Android TV Box if you subscribe to its cheapest package which is the 30Mbps fibre broadband plan at RM149 per month. If you are considering for faster internet, then you can subscribe to the Unifi 100Mbps for RM189 per month. At the moment, TM offers its highest speed fibre broadband plan at 300Mbps at RM199 per month.

If you are existing Unifi customers who already subscribe to the Unifi Home Fibre broadband plans, then you might need to subscribe to a plan which comes with the Ultimate TV Pack. On top of that, you need to sign a new contract for 24-months. According to its FAQ, customers with existing Unifi TV Pack (Varnam plus/ Aneka plus/ Ruby Plus/ Jumbo Lite/ Ultimate TV pack), needs to add additional RM10 to get the Unifi Plus Box for free. New Unifi customers need to subscribe to the Unifi 300Mbps plan in order to receive the Unifi Plus Box.

Similar to other Android TV Box, the Unifi Plus Box is powered by a quad-core processor with a 2GB DDR4 RAM and an 8GB of eMMC storage. It supports both LAN and WiFi too.

For more information, visit the Unifi Plus Box official page.

Microsoft finally ends Windows 7 support

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Microsoft finally ends Windows 7 support
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How many of you are still using Windows 7 for your daily usage? Many companies are already upgrading their workstations to Windows 10 as we speak now. Back in 2019 March, Microsoft officially announces that Windows 7 will come to end of life in 2020. 14th January is the last date of Windows 7 support.

According to Microsoft, even if you are still using Windows 7, you don’t have to worry about the end of support. The end of support means, you can still use Windows 7 in your PC but Microsoft will neither be providing any technical support nor software updates. This means, your Windows 7 PC will be more prone to virus attacks.

In order to avoid this, Microsoft is suggesting its users upgrade to Windows 10 as soon as possible. Make sure, you backup your PC before upgrading it to Windows 10. Do let us know if you have any doubts regarding Windows 7 end of support.

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