Author: Trent Meikle

At the beginning of October, Oppo launched the Find X10 Series in China. It didn’t take long before a global rollout was confirmed, though South Africa remained unsure of its place on the list.  Until now. Oppo SA has confirmed that the Find X10 Pro Max, at least, is launching in November. Find the X The most important details, like an exact date and pricing, are still to be determined. We’re still uncertain whether the more attainable Find X10 will enter the country. Members of the SA media have been invited to a launch event in mid-November, meaning the device…

The iPhone Air, released last year, didn’t exactly set the world alight. That hasn’t stopped the Fruit Company from trying again. The device was notably absent from Apple’s big iPhone unveiling this year — giving the iPhone Duo more room to breathe. That’s all according to plan, with Apple reportedly considering it for early next year. A breath of stale Air Once upon a time, Q1-2 was when Apple debuted its budget models. That’s still technically true, if the rumours about an early iPhone 18 and 18e launch are true. They’re not what most would call budget, but compared to…

Pick n Pay has officially launched Smart Shopper Pro – a new subscription tier meant to complement in-store shopping as well as the company’s asap! delivery service. Subscribing unlocks unlimited ‘free’ deliveries when shopping on asap! – saving you R37 per order – and other benefits, such as triple Smart Shopper points. Pick n Pay’s gone Pro If that at all sounds like Checkers’ own monthly subscription service, well done. Checkers has been ahead of the game for some time now, with other brands all playing catch-up. Pick n Pay has come closest. Perhaps because it’s essentially copying the Checkers’…

Forget Nolan. Forget Doomsday. 2026 officially belongs to Martin McDonagh, back on the big screen with Wild Horse Nine — a fantastic black comedy where the spectacle isn’t wooden horses or Avengers assembling, but a narrative-driven exhibition led by John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, and Steve Buscemi. For us, seeing directing and writing credits for McDonagh and a quick peek at the cast list was enough to get our butts seated. But if you’re still unconvinced, the trailer should do the trick. Don’t worry about it dishing out the film’s best jokes. Wild Horse Nine’s trailer barely scratches the surface, leaving the biggest…

If you haven’t kept up with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), we’ve got some good news. The broadcaster recently launched a new free channel called SABC News Live to give your eyeballs a workout. Its goal isn’t to entertain, however. Instead, it’ll provide “live, minute-by-minute coverage of election related content.” For your viewing… pleasure? Any entertainment derived from watching the country’s leaders jockeying for supremacy is entirely on you. The channel launched on 19 October, but it won’t stick around forever. It’s a pop-up channel that’ll self-destruct sometime after the elections take place on Wednesday, 4 November. You may…

Apple has kept up a steady stream of new products to satisfy the financial masochists out there, but the Fruit Company’s latest is perhaps the most gluttonous of all. Yesterday, Apple lifted the lid on the MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR Display, a touchscreen effort that runs counter to Steve Jobs’ entire laptop design philosophy. Not that that matters in today’s landscape. Touchscreen laptops have existed for quite some time. Apple is simply taking advantage of an existing market, and charging a lot of money for the privilege. We’re not talking about a  R77,000 charge. If you want the…

After its release on Friday, 23 October, Stuff finally got around to seeing Clayface, the latest (and certainly not greatest) superhero(-adjacent) film to come out of James Gunn’s DC Universe. We, like many, were initially puzzled that a) this movie exists and b) that it wasn’t an HBO series in the same vein as Lanterns. After clapping eyes on the final product, it cleared up some of our confusion. Other, larger headscratchers… not so much.  Most baffling would be Clayface getting his own solo project before Batman has appeared on James Gunn’s big screen. Admittedly, there was almost no ‘right’ way to pull…

We’re less than a month away from the hotly anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI, and the question many have had on their minds has been answered. Grand Theft Auto is on track to be one of the biggest games of all time, and the supposed 210GB file size (on PlayStation 5) confirms that. Prep your drives accordingly, folks. Say goodbye to a quarter of your console’s storage The news comes from X user PlayStation Game Size, who typically isn’t wrong when it involves their namesake. Insider Gaming later corroborated the 210GB file size, warning users to start prepping. What with the…

Stuff is always on the lookout for decent web games to keep us busy during the workday, and SA-made Lekka Moments fits that bill. Created by Daniel Fry (AKA u/danfry99), the game celebrates 23 ‘moments’ that feel wholly South African — like that goal against Mexico in 2010 or Siya lifting the Rugby World Cup in 2019. And it’ll do so in all its pixel-art glory. But Lekka Moments, despite the name, isn’t just about the moments Saffas loved. It incorporates a few other moments like ‘Lights On,’ which puts you back under Eskom’s thumb. Another will have you working toward that perfect…

Apple today unleashed its first-ever foldable, the iPhone Duo, and charges up to R77,000 for the privilege. Somehow, in amongst those thousands of Rands, the Duo never quite managed to squeeze in Face ID. Instead, Apple got the early adopters of the first-generation foldable to switch back to Touch ID for the time being. iPhone Duo 2 in the stew According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the Fruit Company is already working on a second-gen iPhone Duo. It’ll aim to fix the gripes the first model introduced, like the lack of Face ID. Gurman said that Apple was “actively working” on that new…