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OUR MONTH • The Stuff team’s latest work-dodging excuses

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IT AIN’T HEAVY, IT’S MY BLOWER • Carbon 1 Mark II €800/carbonmobile.com

SPENGLE GOLD • £10,000 (pair)/spengle.com/collections

WTF ARE PANASONIC’S STEAMPUNK GLASSES?

APPS • This month’s mobile must-downloads

NEWS FEED

Czinger 21C PRINTS & THE REVOLUTION • $1,700,000/czinger.com

FIRST PLAY • FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE PS4

STREAM • Small aliens, large tigers and medium-sized former wizards all feature in this month’s selection of on-demand telly treats

START MENU • The latest startups, crowdfunded projects and plain crazy ideas

DROP EVERYTHING & DOWNLOAD • Rtro £free (IAPs)/iOS

CLOTHES ENCOUNTERS • Matthew Griffin treads the connected catwalk in search of fashion’s future

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Huawei to the danger zone • A big-screened superphone that transforms into a tiny-bezelled tablet sounds great… but the Mate Xs has a display that dices with disaster

Mini meme OOH, AAH, ADJUST A LITTLE BIT • If you’re fed up with your phone’s snapper calling all the shots, try these manual marvels for perfect pics with a professional edge

UPVOTED SMARTWATCH BANDS • Ready for a wrist assessment, Chris Rowlands heads to band camp in search of stylish and sturdy straps to fit every ticker

Teenage bricks • Ikea’s stackable Frekvens speakers and beat-tracking lights are a mini mobile disco waiting to happen

BEST NOT IN SHOW • Barcelona was due to host the world’s biggest phone expo until the coronavirus struck. So instead of shooting Gaudi buildings with 100x zoom and 5G gaming on the beach, the Stuff team decamped to storm-battered Britain to size up the all-new Androids angling for your money…

SAMSUNG Z FLIP

SONY XPERIA 1 II

HONOR VIEW 30 PRO

Buddy murder • SoundMagic’s first true wireless in-ears sound, well, magic – and for all the rivals they’re undercutting, that’s got to hurt

Hold my Beo… • B&O finally wades into the soundbar scrap with the Beosound Stage – predictably expensive and predictably stylish, which is just how we like it

Only here for the Beo • We lift up the Kvadrat grille for a poke around inside the Beosound Stage’s engine compartment…

BETA YOURSELF TRACK YOUR LIFE • Want to keep tabs on all aspects of your existence but don’t trust your little ol’ brain to do it? Craig Grannell delves into the apps that can help – and techniques to keep you sane…

HANDY HARDWARE

Grammy nominee • Super-slim despite its 17in screen, LG’s Gram 17 is not like other ultraportables… but is that enough to make it a winner?

Just like starting Rover • Traditionalists will be choking on their Pimm’s, but Land Rover’s all-new Defender is as techy as it is tough

Let’s off-road! • We would have loved to test the new Defender in Reading, but they made us do it in Africa instead

WORN VISION • The hottest wearables in the world this year range from cyberpunk smartwatches to solar-charged jackets and a giant red effort-tracking chest strap – it’s a strong look

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