Stuff UK March 2023

Hello and welcome! If you’ve been looking to upgrade your smart tech, have we got a treat for you this time around: our lead feature is packed full of the latest kit to tack onto your burgeoning setup. ‘Matter’ is the word on all smart home lips – but while this new standard will ensure many more devices work with each other in years to come, you still need to be careful to ensure you buy home tech that’ll work with what you’ve got already; naturally, we’ll help you through the maze. We’ve also got a cracking extra section towards the back dedicated to the fastest-growing area of the smart home: lighting. Elsewhere we look at this year’s hottest flagship phones so far – the OnePlus 11 is reviewed, while…

Hello and welcome! If you’ve been looking to upgrade your smart tech, have we got a treat for you this time around: our lead feature is packed full of the latest kit to tack onto your burgeoning setup. ‘Matter’ is the word on all smart home lips – but while this new standard will ensure many more devices work with each other in years to come, you still need to be careful to ensure you buy home tech that’ll work with what you’ve got already; naturally, we’ll help you through the maze. We’ve also got a cracking extra section towards the back dedicated to the fastest-growing area of the smart home: lighting. Elsewhere we look at this year’s hottest flagship phones so far – the OnePlus 11 is reviewed, while we’ve also…

HOT FIVE #1 SAMSUNG’S GOTTEN HOLD OF MY ART Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra With one of the highest pixel counts ever seen in a phone camera, the S23 Ultra could be the new photography king of the Android world. There are 200MP squeezed into Samsung’s new HP2 sensor, which can shoot stills at a rapid 15 frames per second, while 16:1 pixel-binning promises low-light performance so good it’ll attract admiring glances from owls. The main camera is joined by a 12MP ultrawide and twin 10MP telephotos, one with 3x optical zoom and the other with 10x, plus a 12MP selfie snapper. It’s not just the pixel count that’s massive either – the S23 Ultra is a giant of a phone, with a 6.8in 3088x1440 AMOLED display that offers an adaptive 120Hz refresh rate and an…

from £2449 / samsung.com Samsung’s 2023 laptop lineup has a new hero… and it’s a real page-turner ● Book to the future It’s not just new phones (see p6) that Samsung has been pumping out this month. The 16in Ultra is the top dog in the new Galaxy Book3 range, combining meaty innards with a sleek, travel-friendly chassis. The processing power is provided by a 13th-gen Core i7 or Core i9, able to pull up to 45W for maximum grunt and paired with as much as 32GB of RAM. For the graphics you can have either an Nvidia RTX 4050 or a 4070, which should be good enough to do anything from video editing to running the latest games with the detail settings pumped to the max. ● Don’t look Book in anger Samsung has…

HOT FIVE #1 SAMSUNG’S GOTTEN HOLD OF MY ART Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra With one of the highest pixel counts ever seen in a phone camera, the S23 Ultra could be the new photography king of the Android world. There are 200MP squeezed into Samsung’s new HP2 sensor, which can shoot stills at a rapid 15 frames per second, while 16:1 pixel-binning promises low-light performance so good it’ll attract admiring glances from owls. The main camera is joined by a 12MP ultrawide and twin 10MP telephotos, one with 3x optical zoom and the other with 10x, plus a 12MP selfie snapper. It’s not just the pixel count that’s massive either – the S23 Ultra is a giant of a phone, with a 6.8in 3088x1440 AMOLED display that offers an adaptive…

Carnival Row This is the second (and apparently final) season of Amazon Studios’ steampunk-inspired fantasy series, in which Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne play star-crossed lovers across the human/pixie divide. Delevingne’s elfin looks mean she’s well cast as a member of the oppressed fae-folk – for whom an uprising is on the cards. S2 / Prime Video, 17 February Daisy Jones & The Six Largely inspired by the real-life shenanigans of Dreams-era Fleetwood Mac, this limited series details the rise and fall of a ’70s rock band. Set in both the past and the present, as former members recount the truth about the group’s breakup, the series stars Riley Keough and Sam Claflin as the band’s lovelorn lead singers. S1 / Prime Video, 3 March Sharper A thriller in which every character appears to be either disgustingly…