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OUR MONTH

Adventures with shoes, skin, bricks and noodles

THE HOT FOUR

‘All-rounder’ is often a euphemism for ‘not that good

THE BUDS OF SUBURBIA

SONY’S EXTRA MICS BRING A CLAIMED 40% BUMP IN NOISE

APPS

This month’s mobile must-downloads

ICON

TAP A BUTTON AND IT’LL RISE 19 FEET INTO THE AIR BEFORE

GAMES

Control is full ‘new weird’. It’s a game that revels

STREAM

What’s the opposite of on-demand TV? Live broadcast. So see if you can you spot the odd one out in this month’s ‘streaming’ selection…

START MENU

The latest startups, crowdfunded projects and plain crazy ideas

WHEELS

Are you sure this is a new car? Just looks like a regular

Reno what we like

With the emphasis on fancy Huawei-style camera tech, Oppo’s new flagship smartphone looks like an Android superstar at a relatively affordable price

The alternative: Oppo Reno 5G

If you like sharkfins and super-fast data, here’s the Oppo for you

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Shell raiser

Let the Zeppelin rest in peace, because Bowers & Wilkins has reawakened from its hi-fi slumber with an all-new wireless speaker system

SAFE AS HOUSES

With smart home tech going from gimmicky to great, it’s about time someone made a decent connected lock for your front door

Fanned on the run

The first phone with an internal cooling fan wants to blow gamers away with fancy hardware and pretty lights – that’s enough to get our attention

A Pan for all seasons

The latest mirrorless Lumix promises to be good at just about everything – could it be all the camera you’ll ever need?

Cheaper chips

Affordable flagships have nothing to do with the Royal Navy budget cuts and everything to do with Honor and OnePlus promising more dash for less cash

Not that kinda Gal

Samsung’s latest fitness-friendly smartwatch turns its back on advanced features (and rotating bezels) in order to keep things simple and affordable

Lil yachty

Stuff doesn’t test boats, but as the Princess R35 is billed as the ideal billionaire millennial’s plaything…

WORKING CLASS HEROES

Summer’s nearly over and a village idiot is in charge of the country – but no matter how depressing it is to get back to work or school, Stuff can make it more bearable with the finest new kit

BIG CHEESE

Show the rest of the office who’s boss with this high-flying suite of cutting-edge tech

SMART STUDENT

For the autumn term, some loan-friendly tech that doesn’t even look budget

FLEXI WORKER

You often commute in slippers and know the Wi-Fi password of every cafe in town

MEDIA PLAYER

Spreadsheets are for squares and a keyboard is very much optional

MOBILE MAESTRO

In a world of speedy internet and cloud storage, who needs a computer anyway?

Mini meme SUMMER SNAP SAVIOURS

Go on holiday… take thousands of photos with poor exposure, wonky horizons and awkward cropping… get these apps to fix them… and relax

UPVOTED BARBECUES

You know the grill… keen to start sizzling in the sunshine, Chris Rowlands strikes a match and sets out to find the best barbies for patios of all sizes

INSTANT UPGRADES GARMIN FORERUNNER 945

You’ve got the watch, you’ve hit play on Eye of the

Make it EV on yourself

Breaking up (with fossil fuels) is so very hard to do… so allow Stuff to help you kick petrol bills to the kerb with a collection of the greatest electric vehicles of 2019, from practical hatches to futuristic speed demons

URBA N I M P S

These mini EVs are designed for nippiness and convenience (unless you have six kids and an Irish wolfhound)

COMPAC T K I N G S

These family-friendly electric runarounds major on practicality and won’t cost you a fortune

CLASSY CRUISERS

Tour silently in style with these sophisticated EV specimens

SMOOTH SUVs

Maybe you like your cars big and butch… but making a statement doesn’t have to mean making a mess of the atmosphere

DREAM DRIVES

Going electric isn’t all about being sensible and grown-up… as these rad concepts and upcoming supercars prove

BETA YOURSELF ‘READ IT LATER’ APPS

If you always end the day with dozens of open browser tabs, follow Craig Grannell’s advice and learn how to stash great content for when you’ve actually got time to read it

Wake news

Matt Tate enjoys a fortnight of being coaxed into consciousness

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order

You’re mad about Marvel and you swoon over your Switch – so are the two loves of your life finally about to be united in the shape of this hero-packed action RPG?

Samurai Shodown

After years in meditative hibernation, a once-lost Shogun warrior has re-emerged to do battle with Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat

Sea of Solitude

The latest EA Original has imposing monsters aplenty, but don’t expect to run around clobbering them all – this is not a traditional video game

SMARTPHONES

•Use Huawei’s OneHop tech for quick wireless file transfers

TABLETS

The latest iPad Pro isn’t cheap, but it’s a mobile

MOBILE GAMES

This game starts off as if Asteroids had a baby with

N-EARS

Wireless in-ears usually come with compromises. Great

ON/OVER-EARS

Sony’s WH-1000 series was already a top performer,

SMARTWATCHES

The Apple Watch Series 4 has everything going for it

FITNESS TRACKERS

Slow and steady wins the race, and the Now has gone

LAPTOPS

•A Touch ID button at the top right of the keyboard

WIRELESS SPEAKERS

•With iPhones and Android devices, you can control

TVs 94

Pick one of the expert preset modes and you won’t have

SOUNDBARS 95 SMART SPEAKERS

Sonos’s home cinema gear has always been a little expensive

SMART SPEAKERS

Making an amazing speaker was an easy job for the multiroom

HOME CINEMA 96

Sky Q works flawlessly and could change the way you

CONSOLES

As a gaming platform, PlayStation 4 is the best around

97 GAMES

Make sure you talk to strangers more than once – you

TECH TOYS

Building Lego models is already ridiculously good fun

ELECTRIC CARS

Not content with simply making an electric vehicle

VR HEADSETS

The Quest offers all manner of fully interactive, roamable

99 VR GAMES

Blood & Truth uses every trick available to deliver

SMART HOME 100

Check out the app’s Energy Savings Report to see how

DRONES & ACTION CAMS

This is basically the excellent Hero6 Black (a five-star

COMPACTS

We wouldn’t recommend buying this camera if you already

BUDGET BUYS

• Chickens killed you in Zelda again? You can rewind

HOW TO BUY

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