Author: Brett Venter

So you want to win yourself a smartphone, do you? That’s cool, because Stuff and LG are giving away two LG Q7 handsets. Not two to one person, though. That would just be silly. No, we’ve got two phones and we’re planning on having two winners. Doing the math, that’s one LG Q7 to each of our two winners. But you probably already knew this, since you’re looking at this page right now. That’s because the URL should only be found in the September issue of Stuff Magazine, in text and QR code form. So how do you go about…

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Oh Netflix, and you were doing so well… Streaming service Netflix has been testing running promotional ads between episodes of whatever is being watched, something that has gotten right up the noses of those who have experienced the recent test. The test was spotted by various users around the world, who posted their annoyance at the ‘unskippable’ promos on Reddit and that other social media platform people use to complain about things. A suggested trailer would begin playing in between episodes of other TV shows being watched, according to those who have experienced the test. Netflix confirmed the test to…

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What do you get the Ferrari fan who has everything? Not another Ferrari, they probably already have a few of those. They have everything, remember? But if you’re serious about the Italian car brand and happen to have a fair chunk of cash to throw about, you might want to get them a limited edition coffee table book for the sort of money you’d spend on a normal-person car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH-rnv9d3jA The book — called ‘Il Fascino Ferrari’ and published by a art-book specialists Taschen — offers limited edition works of varying natures in addition to more conventional literary fare. The hand-bound,…

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You can’t have a bad hair day if you don’t have any hair. Apparently it’s just called a ‘bad day’ if you’re thinning a little on top. But if you’re one of those types with hair, be it on top of your skull or attached to your chin (or upper lip), you should probably be looking after it. Not because of its magical trouble-repelling properties, just because healthy hair is happy hair. And we’re going to help someone with that. As you might remember from a few weeks ago (or if you have a social media presence at all), we’ve…

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We often joke that Samsung isn’t very good at keeping secrets. Which is fine, because they don’t seem too upset when their news leaks out early. It does mean that we have very few pleasant surprises when the time comes for Samsung to announce their latest and greatest devices… but there’s usually something. That’s largely the case with the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 — just about all of the rumours we picked up in the run-up to this year’s Note announcement were on the mark. Here’s what Samsung announced for the Galaxy Note 9 at this year’s Unpacked 2018 event……

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We all know that data is pretty expensive if you’re a South African, mobile data even more than most, but Cell C is working on bringing those costs down at least a little. And, to be fair, a rate of less than R5 per GB for an LTE-A contract is… pretty cheap. Cell C has a new promotional offer running at the moment under their Data Democracy branding, offering users LTE-Advanced access to the internet in three contracts: 50GB/pm, 100GB/pm, and 200GB/pm. As with most of these things, the more you pay for it the cheaper it works out to…

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Android P has finally got an official name — Android Pie. And weirdly, we didn’t see it coming. We had all sorts of other titles in mind: Pancake, Popcorn, Parfait, Peppermint… Pie, just wasn’t on that list. We just weren’t thinking simple enough, given the names that have come before. Google made the announcement at the same time that they officially released the operating system upgrade. Which means that you can experience it in all its updated glory… if, that is, you’re carting around one of the smartphones that supports Android Pie at launch. The sad news? You probably don’t.…

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