Author: Trent Meikle

Forty years later, people are still buying Fuji’s QuickSnap disposable cameras at nearly R400 a pop. And we mean a pop. Once you’ve finished the roll, that’s it; you’re done. It makes sense that Fujifilm would want to capitalise on Gen Z’s nostalgia for a time they never quite experienced by bringing back the ol’ faithful QuickSnap. Chuck ’em in the bin Technically, the company has announced two new models of the little disposable. There’s the QuickSnap Black and White and the QuickSnap Active, which replaces the current waterproof QuickSnapper. Both of ’em are exactly what you’d expect from a disposable…

Later this month, Samsung will take its first big swing into the smart glasses market with the Galaxy Glasses — rivalling Meta’s very successful Ray-Ban and Oakley lines. We don’t actually know this yet. Samsung has barely even confirmed the glasses’ existence, much less the fact that they’ll be unveiled as soon as this month. Classic Samsung… That was until SammyGuru managed to get their hands on the yet-to-be-released Samsung Galaxy Glasses Manager app, which is where you’ll — you guessed it — manage your Samsung Galaxy Glasses. Inside the app, we got our first proper look at the glasses themselves. We also…

It’s been nearly two years since FNB teamed up with Pick n Pay to deliver its ‘Easy’ customers a loaf of bread for only 99c a week — up to four times per month. Now, the bank has expanded the same benefit to Boxer stores nationwide, allowing shoppers to cut grocery costs by picking up at least one loaf of bread a week for 99c. Time to get that bread “From 1 July, FNB Easy, Aspire and Prime Life customers who shop at Boxer and swipe their cards in-store will qualify for the 99c bread benefit from the following week,…

The world likes to give Xbox a hard time (and rightfully so) for its scummy business practices, but PlayStation hasn’t fared much better lately. It was the first company to pull the trigger on console price hikes before Nintendo, and more recently, Xbox followed suit. Now, the company might be looking to hike prices again. Not console prices, though. The company has at least spared us on that front. Instead, Sony’s gaming division is reportedly planning another PlayStation Plus price hike. This follows PlayStation’s last PS Plus price hike back in May, which saw newcomers to the service hit by a…

The Xiaomi 17T is the most recent of the Chinese company’s products to pass through Stuff’s doors. Like most of the company’s products, it’s good. We might even go as far as calling it great. But where it differs from the Xiaomi MO is the price. The cheapest we’ve been able to locate the 17T is a hefty R19,500. Sure, the sizable 512GB storage does a lot of the heavy lifting here, but when you can pick up an arguably more favourable Samsung flagship (admittedly with half the storage) for the same price, the prospect is no longer exciting. It’s just…

We’re nearly two years on from the release of Samsung’s Galaxy Ring, which means a successor is almost certainly coming. Samsung’s Senior Vice President, Dr. Hon Pak, confirmed as much today in a conversation with Forbes. While Samsung is still holding back a lot for the grand unveiling, Pak hinted at at least one big change. That would be the Galaxy Ring 2’s (if that is indeed its name) ability to hook up with an iPhone. Dr. Hon Pak didn’t outright confirm this was happening, but when asked about iOS compatibility, he said: “I’m smiling but I can’t say anything.…

After much chatter on the subject, WhatsApp has finally unveiled usernames for the messaging app. Sorta. See, this week Meta-owned WhatsApp confirmed the feature inside the app by allowing users to “reserve” their chosen name before the feature rolls out “later this year”. When that’ll be, only WhatsApp knows. When it does eventually land, it will finally allow folks to ditch the phone number for good, and rely wholly on their chosen string of characters to get by. As WABetaInfo pointed out in the feature’s beta test, users can decide whether anyone can find them using their username, or if they’d like an extra…

If you’re anything like us, you probably need the sultry tones of Stephen Fry to help you fall into the arms of Morpheus. If you’re not like us… you’ll just have to pretend you never saw that. Stuff recently got hold of Anker’s new Soundcore Sleep A30 — a pair of buds that want you to sleep on ’em. Stephen Fry not included. Sure, you’ve already got a pair of buds. Maybe even a decent pair. They probably work just fine for just about everything but sleep. They’re pointy in all the wrong places, and you’ll usually only stick them in the…

Bumming off someone’s Netflix account just got more cumbersome We’re living in a post-Netflix password-sharing world. You’d think that’d be enough for the streaming behemoth, but apparently not. Earlier this month, Netflix changed how shared household accounts work, now requiring every profile to have its own unique email address tied to it. Preferably, one owned by the watcher in question. Before, only a single email address and password controlled the entire Netflix ‘household’. Each user, assuming they lived at the same address as the account holder, had access to their own profile inside the service, no strings attached. As recently…

Despite the many leaky holes in Samsung’s ship, the South Korean company has finally announced the budget Galaxy A27 on its own time. We think we’ve got a pretty good idea why the Galaxy A26’s successor took so long to reach shelves. That would be the R2,000 price hike Samsung has introduced without any worthwhile upgrades. Unlike last year’s Galaxy A efforts, which cost R5,000, the Galaxy A27 wants R7,000 of your budget bucks. In a lot of ways, the Galaxy A27 is the inferior choice for buyers looking to wring every bit of value out of their smartphone. Unless…