The Lazada Riang Ria Raya sales are coming – top picks for technophiles

Everyone loves a good deal – who doesn’t? Lazada’s upcoming Riang Ria Raya sales are coming and they’ve tied up with a host of merchants to offer a cornucopia of products that run the gamut from phones to cosmetics. A shortlist of tech brands participating in the grand sale include stalwarts like Samsung, Pensonic, Honor, Intel, Sandisk, Jabra, JBL and Radioshack along with other lifestyle brands like Brands (as in Essence of Chicken), Scholl, Dettol and more.

Hans-Peter Ressel, CEO of Lazada Malaysia, talking about their plans for 2016

They’ve also unveiled improved services too including the completion of their Subang Jaya fulfillment center for improved delivery times. Combined with their existing High-Speed Delivery service,  you can get whatever you bought within 24 hours. Handy if you have to get something in a jiffy before heading back to your hometown before the holiday season.

The sales take place from 7 June to 11 July on Lazada and we’ve got a heads-up on what’s coming for Malaysia right here with quite a few interesting ones especially for technophiles. Here’s our pick of the lot that’ll make a delightful gift or a nice little present for yourself  when the sales go live:

#1 Google Chromecast 2
Google’s Chromecast 2 will be officially available for purchase on Lazada. There’s no word on price yet – it’ll be announced soon – but they’re throwing in a free year of iFlix when you buy it. Win win for everyone.

#2 Honor 5C
Honor’s budget uberphone the Honor 5C will be available for preorder. The phone has a 5.2-inch 1080P display, a Kirin 650 octacore processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB of onboard storage expandable via microSD card and the rear comes with a 13-MP snapper with an f/2.0 lens along with a front mounted 8-MP selfie cam with an f/2.0 lens. A fingerprint reader is mounted on the rear along with dual SIM card support and a 3,000mAh battery keeps it juiced for quite awhile. The whole package weighs 156g. While details are scarce, the phone comes in 3G-only and 4G models with the latter retailing for RMB999, which clocks in to RM621 or so and odds are it’ll be the latter model arriving in Malaysia.

#3 Flash Plus 2
The recently released Flash Plus 2 is also hitting Lazada though the variant on offer is the upgraded one with 3GB RAM and 32GB of expandable storage for RM729. The rest of the hardware consists of a a 5.5-inch 1080P display, a MediaTek Helio P10 MT6755M processor, a rear 13-MP camera with an f/2.0 lens and a front 5-MP camera with an F/2.0 lens along with a 3,000mAh battery to keep things going.

#4 Nescafe Gold Blend Barista machine
Much like the mentats of Frank Herbert’s Dune series, all of us here in the office live on coffee – this amazing device is somewhat similar to Nestle’s other famous pod coffee machines in that it helps you to brew up barista-style beverages at the push of a button but differs in that it uses coffee powder from Nescafe’s Gold Blend to do so. Yup, you fill in the container on top with the good stuff along with a container of water on the side, press a button and away you go with the ability to make Espressos, Lattes and more. An integrated milk frother lets you create delicious milk foam too. The machine usually costs RM399 but they’re offering it for RM199 when you buy two 100G jars of their Gold Blend coffee powder for RM64 and it’s currently a Lazada exclusive.

The rest of the deals available for the duration of the sale are below: