Author: Trent Meikle

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…

It should come as no surprise to hear that Apple is busy prepping its next M-series chips. After the M5 Pro and M5 Max got their start earlier this year, the next logical step is to introduce the M6 — inside the base 14in MacBook Pro, if the rumours are true. Apple’s newest laptop could be ready as soon as this year, Bloomberg suggests. Where Apple will reportedly deviate from the playbook is what it’ll do after the M6 is introduced. That’s usually when Apple works on the Pro and Max variants, to have them ready a few months down the line. According…

If you don’t already have an Xbox Series X/S, the company’s latest pricing update all but confirms you probably won’t get one anytime soon. In a new blog post, Xbox confirmed it was raising prices across the board for all its consoles, slapping an extra $100 (∼R1,650) on its 512GB models and a $150 (∼R2,480) hike on its 1TB models. That goes for both the Series X, the company’s flagship console, and the Series S, the slightly undercooked little brother that everyone still loves anyway. The hikes will affect buyers worldwide when they kick into gear on 1 August 2026. In…

It’s Prime Day in South Africa, and to celebrate, Vodacom has announced a new partnership that’ll see some of its customers securing a free Prime membership. Some, like Vodacom’s Red Flexi customers, will only get a three-month trial, while others may be entitled to lifetime access to Amazon’s usually R60/m subscription service. Vodacom stays winning Amazon Prime is a hodgepodge of services and discounts. For one thing, it provides access to Prime Video, a monthly Twitch channel subscription, as well as Luna — Amazon’s gaming service. The real value here is the same- and next-day delivery guarantee from Amazon’s digital…