The summer holidays are barely over and the children only back at school for a week, but already the Christmas tat has started appearing in the shops and the media is casting its collective eyes over the events of the last few months to put together some “thing of the year” contests.
And first on the radar is the UK’s Stuff Magazine, best known for the scantily clad ladies who adorn its front cover (usually clutching some gadget or other in their manicured paws).
In the Reader’s gadget of the year category, the iPhone 3G is up against Nintendo’s Wii Fit, the Asus Eee, game consoles the PS3 and XBox 360 60GB, and the B&W Zeppelin speaker system.
That’s not all though. The MacBook Air crops up in the Design of the year category, against the Zeppelin (again) and a bunch of other things that, in my opinion, don’t even come close.
But wait, there’s more. Apple is also nominated in Retailer of the year.
So does the iPhone deserve Gadget of the Year status? I’d say it does, yes. I’ve not seen anything else — except perhaps Mario Kart on the Wii — make people smile so much. Everyone who picks up an iPhone, whether they’re playing with a friend’s or toying with one of the demo models in a shop, smiles. You watch, it’s true. They pick the thing up for the first time, they start tapping on it, and they smile.
4 responses to “Is the iPhone the gadget of the year?”
Yeah, they want my cell phone number and you have to opt-out of SMS messages (although to be fair I don’t think UK gets incoming SMS charges).
Stuff Magazine for the lose. Now that I think about it, as a US-ian I bet I’m ineligible to vote seeing as it’s a UK mag.
I vote PS3, but that may be influenced by my recent addiction to Burnout:Paradise online.