After Samsung introducing the Galaxy S10, S10+, and S10 e in the MWC event, now the Galaxy S10+ with 1TB storage is available in Malaysia Experience Stores nationwide. Samsung proves that the Samsung S10+ has the largest storage ever on the list of smartphones available.
A smartphone with 1TB storage, what could be the possible price?. If Apple launches its smartphone with 1TB storage, it is sure the price would be almost RM8,000. However, Samsung is sticking to its plan by offering it for RM5,999. As for now, with every purchase of the Samsung Galaxy S10+ with 1TB storage, Samsung offers the Galaxy A9 worth of RM1,999 for free. This promotion is only available from April 5 until May 5.
From its official page, Samsung clearly states that this bundle deal is available at all Samsung Experience Stores nationwide. You can get this deal from the selected Samsung Authorized dealers and selected Mass Merchants too. However, this promotion is not available to the purchase which is done via Online Store, telco providers store and inactive stores. In addition to it, all the free gift redemption must be done within the same day and at the same location where you purchase the Galaxy S10+ with 1TB storage.
During those days before the existence of Facebook, MySpace was ruling the social network worldwide. However, recently MySpace lost almost 50 million of music tracks which was uploaded between 2003 to 2015. The MySpace data privacy officer confirms that during the server migration the music files is corrupted and they could not transfer the data to the current site. Now, after few weeks MySpace confirms the songs are back on its server.
With the help of the anonymous academic group almost 490,000 tracks is recovered. This group has shared the tracks to the Internet Archive, which is a non-profit digital library which gives users free access to books, movies, and musics. During the peak year of MySpace, this academic group has downloaded 1.3TB of musics as part of their research. They were using the musics to study the music networks.
ANNOUNCING THE MYSPACE MUSIC DRAGON HOARD, a 450,000 song collection of mp3s from 2008-2010 on MySpace, gathered before they were all "deleted" by mistake. https://t.co/oIunuHF7wc includes a link to a special custom search and play mechanism that lets you search and play songs. pic.twitter.com/aGkFPDBN7r
In conclusion, out of millions of tracks at least 500,000 songs is recovered and archived successfully. At this moment, MySpace is not sure whether they can recover the remaining songs yet.
The United States is almost ready to roll out the world’s first 5G network today, but South Korea has rolled out the world’s first 5G network today ahead of US. Ideally, SK Telecom plans to roll out the 5G network on Friday, but suddenly, they launch it earlier.
Malaysia still needs few more years to realize this whole new technology. It is proven the 5G can boost speed up to 100 times faster than the current 4G network technology. At this moment, SKT offers Galaxy S10 which has the 5G chip in it. In the US, Verizon offers Moto Z3 with a 5G Moto Mod. The Galaxy S10 was launch at the beginning of this year whereas, the Moto Z3 was release last year.
Apart from that, SKT also reveals the pioneer 5G subscribers who are Para-swimmer, Yong Sung-Hyuk, Olympic medalist Kim Yu-Na and the famous eSport player Lee Sang-Hyeok. At the same time, Park Jae-won is also part of the first 5G subscribers. He is also one of the most longest SKT subscribers since 1988.
During the launch event, SKT has also revealed its first 5G subscribers. This include Para-swimmer, Yong Sung-Hyuk alongside Kai from EXO, Olympic medalist Kim Yu-Na and eSports player Lee Sang-Hyeok. Park Jae-won who has been a long time subscriber since 1988 was also among the first 5G subscribers on their network.
Other than that, according to Forbes, SKT also installs 35,000 5G base stations around Seoul. They believe, this could really give a wider coverage to all iribersts 5G subscribers in South Korea. Before the end of 2019, SKT is expecting more than a million 5G subscribers.
Huawei fans a good news for all of you. Starting today onwards, Huawei is starting a new campaign called Service Day. Just bring your Huawei smart phone to your nearest service center and you can get your phone fix with no labour charges. Even if your device is out of warranty still you don’t have to pay those charges.
Huawei announces today on its Facebook page that the Service Day will start from today onwards and will continue every first Friday and Saturday of the month. This event is applicable at the certain Huawei Authorise Service Centers only.
According to the terms and conditions, its clearly states you don’t have to pay for the labor charges. However, if there is any part replacement done, then you need to pay for the replacement cost only. Other than that, each customer can only participate in this event once a month only. If you want to have a new screen protector for your Huawei smartphone, then now it’s the time for you to get one. You can get a new screen protector by liking Huawei Malaysia Facebook page or commenting on its post. Additionally, for germaphobes, Huawei provides free phone disinfect service to keep your phone clean and germs-free.
Huawei has already received complains that certain parts are unavailable when a customer walks in. To avoid this issue, you can either call the hotline number 1800-22-0086. We have even shared some of the service centers and their contact numbers respectively. Click on the links below to get the location and the contact number.
In conclusion, if you don’t have any plan to change your Huawei mobile phone, then you should head up to the store to get your device a new look. Having problems with your Huawei smartphone change the parts free without labor charge. Remember this promotion is only applicable every first Friday and Saturday of the month.
Google is seriously working on its Google Assistant. Google Assistant new mode will allow you to talk to John Legend from your home and mobile devices. You can listen to John Legend responds to your everyday queries such as weather information and random facts. However, there is a catch, where the response which the Google Assistant gives is not completely from John Legend. Google uses AI to recreate his voice.
Actually, Google made the announcement in May 2018 that it has the plan to bring John Legend voice to the Google Assistant app. Today, finally this feature is available to the consumers who live in the US only. At this moment, Google doesn’t have any plan yet to roll out this feature to worldwide consumers.
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If you are staying in the US, you can start to ask questions such as “talk like a legend” and it will change its voice to John Legend’s voice. You may change the settings back to the default settings again on your phone. According to Google, it did not use John Legend voice completely. Instead of that, Google recorded his voice on the studio and then train it using its Wavenet neural network.
The same Wavenet neural network is used to train the regular Google Assistant voice. So if you have been thinking how the Google Assistant is so fluent less robotic, Wavenet is the reason behind the fluentness. This means, whenever you ask questions to the Google Assistant, you are getting the reply from the AI with the voice of John Legend.
In conclusion, there are few queries which comes directly from the Legend himself such as “sing me a song”.
At the beginning of this year, you might have notice TM announces it wont provide the Unifi set-top-box to its new Unifi Home subscribers. It seems now TM has change its mind. They are starting a new promotion where all new Unifi Home subscribers who subscribes for the 100Mbps plan, TM will offer the set-top-box including access to all channels for free. This could be one of TM strategic plan to attract more customers to use its fibre optic plan.
According to TM spokesman, this offer is only available for a limited time. The new package includes the ultimate pack, which gives the customer to access all channels such as Fox Movies, live sports, and the BBC Player app too. All of the unlimited access is price at RM159 per month. Additionally, TM is giving its subscribers 600 minutes of talk time to all mobile and fix line nationwide too. As usual, TM will also offer its wireless router and modem.
Nevertheless, if you are planning to subscribe to Unifi now, make sure you do it before May 31. This is because after May 31 the package might not be offered again. According to TM FAQ, it clearly states that subscribers will be under the contract for a 24-month. Even though, after 24 months, subscribers will still be able to enjoy the promotional price of RM159 instead of the actual price of RM189.
In conclusion, if your residential area does not have the Unifi Home 100Mbps plan, then you can opt out for Unifi Home Basic Plan 30Mbps at RM79 per month only. You can find more details regarding the plan from here.
In the recent CFM report, its clearly states that users are not satisfy with the current mobile network in Malaysia. Each of the telco providers are competing to be the top telco providers in Malaysia. Today, we have the official report from OpenSignal on Malaysia’s mobile networks. Around 1.9 million measurements is taken from 744,691 mobile devices between the range of December 1 2018 until February 28 2019.
Let’s analyze the results below. As for now, if you take a look into the results, it is clearly stated that Maxis and Celcom are the top mobile network providers in Malaysia. When it comes to 4G availability, Celcom wins the race by 86.8% whereas Maxis wins the race by 83.2%. This clearly shows, Celcom has wider 4G network coverage overall in Malaysia.
When it comes to the video experience Maxis and Celcom nose finish as both are the winners. Both these telco providers receive a score rating of “Good” which is between 56-65. As per the report from OpenSignal, “Good” means the user should be able a slight waiting time before they start playing the video. However, changing the video resolution will give the user to have a seamless video streaming. Other than this two contenders, Digi is in the third place and the last place is U Mobile.
Other than that, Maxis and Celcom also is still the winner when it comes to downloading speed of 17.9Mbps and 14.7Mbps respectively. However, sadly U Mobile is still in the last place with 4.2Mbps. Maxis crown as the winner in download speed whereas, Celcom crowns as the winner in upload speed.
Again Maxis and Celcom have the lowest latency time which is under 50ms. If your mobile network has lower latency means the web pages and games will load quicker. As for now, U Mobile is at the third place at 54.7ms and Digi holds the last place almost 60ms.
Moreover, to get a detail view of the mobile network report for a specific region in Malaysia, you can scroll down below for the locations provided by OpenSignal. As for now, the location is Kuala Lumpur, Alor Setar, Ipoh, Johor Baharu, Kota Bharu, Kuala Terengganu, Kuantan, Kuching, Malacca, Seberang Perai and Penang, and Seremban.
In conclusion, it is clearly states that Maxis and Celcom are the best mobile networks in Malaysia. If you want to make a switch then you should able to know which mobile network you should consider now. Here is the full report from OpenSignal.
Facebook spills hot water again. Today, according to researchers from security firm UpGuard, Facebook app developers expose hundreds of millions of user data publicly to the Amazon Cloud servers. According to the researchers, there are two data sets which come from a company called Cultura Colectiva which is a Mexican based company.
Bloomberg said the researchers are able to find more than 540 million user records on the server. All of this is publicly open to the users. Merely of 146GB of data sets with user information such as user activity, account names, and user IDs as part of the data set. Other than that, an app called “At the Pool” also has a similar data set. Although the size of the data set is smaller, apparently, it still shows more than 22,000 users passwords who uses the app.
Image from UpGuard – Cultuva Collective Data Set
At this moment, UpGuard does not know how long the data is exposed to the public. There are not sure either on who might have obtained the data from the servers too. Bloomberg immediately alerts Facebook on the problem. Then immediately, Facebook contacts Amazon to verify on this issue and finally, Amazon closes the database from the cloud server.
Few weeks ago, Facebook faces the same problem on user data where users passwords are stored in a plain text format. Since last year onwards, Facebook is facing issues with sharing user data with third parties such as the political data firm Cambridge Analytica. After that issue, Facebook is working hard to reduce the number of app which is allow to access the users data.
Apparently, for now, we can see the data which appears on the cloud servers has been made available by mistake. We still not sure where could the user information travel after it was collected by the Facebook apps. The researchers from UpGuard, concludes “Data about Facebook users has been spread far beyond the bounds of what Facebook can control today. Combine that plenitude of personal data with storage technologies that are often misconfigured for public access, and the result is a long tail of data about Facebook users that continues to leak.”. UpGuard writes its sharing on its official blog post.
Image from UpGuard – Data Sets from “At the Pool” app
In conclusion, with all these issues most probably, Facebook might notify all its users to change their passwords again especially the one affected by using the app “At the Pool”. We are in the 21st century where all your data privacy is at risk. A piece of advice we can give to our readers would be try to change your passwords every three months to avoid such issues.
Xiaomi fans out there we have the official price of the Xiaomi Mi 9 smartphone. But before that let’s talk about the specs and features. In case if you missed our live blog just now, we already talk about the price and the other details. Now we will recap on what is the information we can officially provide you from the live session.
The Mi 9 is finally here in Malaysia today. This will be one of the most affordable smartphones you can get in the market. Powering it with the Snapdragon 855 processor, we bet you might think the price is over RM3000. The Mi 9 comes with two colors which are Piano Black and Ocean Blue. At this moment, you can get the 64GB model exclusively from Lazada Malaysia. Whereas, for the 128GB model you will have to wait till it reaches the retail outlet nationwide. Xiaomi is giving away the wireless charging set for free for the first 1000 pre-orders.
Other than that, Xiaomi Malaysia also announces on the availability of the 20W fast-charging wireless charger. If you compare the wireless charger with other retailers such as Samsung, it is very cheap at the price of RM129. Inside the box also comes with the 27W power adapter.
The new Mi 9 has the new 6.39-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display. It has 6GB RAM with a 64GB of internal storage. The front of the Mi 9 comes with the in-screen fingerprint sensor. The Mi 9 comes with a 20MP front camera which is good to take selfie shots. The back of the Mi 9 has a triple camera setup with a score of 107 points on DxOMark. The main camera is 48MP and the second camera is a 12MP telephoto shooter lens. The last camera comes with a 16MP camera which uses to take ultra-wide-angle shots.
The Mi 9 comes with two models in Malaysia. Here is the Xiaomi Mi 9 price in Malaysia.
Mi 9 6GB RAM + 64GB storage – RM1,699 Mi 9 6GB RAM + 128GB storage – RM1,999
In conclusion, if you have a plan to buy an affordable smartphone, then you should consider buying the Mi 9 smartphone. However, the only downside will be the Mi 9 does not have the 3.5mm headphone jack and there is no place for microSD card expansion.
