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(Pocket-lint) - Here are the champion gadgets and games of the past 12 months, arsenic picked by the manufacture and nationalist successful the EE Pocket-lint Awards and unveiled during our virtual lawsuit (which you tin ticker above).
Whittled down from hundreds of products Pocket-lint reviewed this year, the last 18 winners are the champion of the champion successful their categories. The judges person besides chosen their favourite merchandise of the year.
So, whether you're looking for proposal connected a smartphone to bargain oregon the fig 1 laptop to get, this is the eventual and definitive database of the champion products launched successful 2020.
And, what's more, we've besides made it easier for you to get clasp of immoderate of the winners oregon highly recommended runners-up from our ain storefront connected Amazon.co.uk.
Best camera
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Panasonic Lumix S5
This well-made and compact full-frame camera doesn't outgo a full batch much than the Micro Four Thirds video champ: the GH5. And it's cheaper than its larger-scale full-frame sibling: the Lumix S1. So, whichever mode you look astatine it, the Lumix S5 is fantastic worth for wealth for video-makers.
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Highly recommended: Sony ZV-1
With its precocious processing capabilities, accelerated car absorption and real-time tracking, the ZV-1 truly is simply a large enactment for vloggers.
Best car
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Polestar 2
All considered, this premium EV has got beardown imaginable to stone Tesla's dominance successful the premium EV space. Striking looks, a ace Google infotainment system, and decent apical velocity and artillery scope each marque the Polestar 2 hard to beat.
Highly recommended: Honda e
There's thing other connected the roads with the property of the Honda e. It's a enactment of caller aerial successful the electrical car market.
Best fittingness tracker
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Garmin Forerunner 945
Garmin brings large features including music, payments and maps, each portion inactive delivering large artillery beingness and affluent sports tracking to assistance marque the 945 1 of its champion sports watches yet.
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Highly recommended: Garmin Fenix 6 Pro Solar
This solar-powered outdoors smartwatch adds further artillery refilling to the regular Fenix 6 Pro, successful bid to make a singular watch.
Best flagship phone
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Apple iPhone 12 Pro
The iPhone 12 Pro does each it tin to warrant that Pro label. The surface is stunning, the camera capableness nonrecreational and, erstwhile you bash get a 5G connection, the download speeds are ace fast.
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Highly recommended: Samsung Galaxy S20 FE
Free from gimmicks, the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE appears to deed each the close notes.
Best game
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The Last of Us Part II
How bash you apical 1 of the champion games of each time? By making it bigger, badder and much focused. The Last of Us Part 2 is unsettling astatine times, but that gives its communicative and taxable much impact. This is simply a grown-up acquisition done and through, and a good illustration of gaming arsenic art. PlayStation console owners are precise fortunate indeed.
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Highly recommended: Animal Crossing: New Horizons
New Horizons takes an already much-loved look and adds much bells and whistles than a Morris dancers' convention. Crafting, terraforming and the calm, gentle gameplay marque for 1 of the console's highlights.
Best gaming laptop
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Acer Predator Triton 500
Better than ever before, acknowledgment to a superb design, modern specs, and a earnestly snazzy 300Hz panel, this laptop achieves its lofty gaming goals.
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Highly recommended: Razer Blade 15 Advanced
With the 4K mentation of its 15.6-inch laptop, Razer is saying it's not conscionable for gamers. This is besides an perfect level for creators who privation tons of powerfulness connected the go.
Best gaming / VR device
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Nintendo Switch
A revolutionary console and inactive going beardown - winning this class for the 3rd twelvemonth running. It doesn't slice successful the look of PlayStation oregon Xbox, Nintendo strides down its ain path. And for galore it redefines on-the-go gaming, not conscionable at-home, acknowledgment to apical first-party titles.
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Highly recommended: Oculus Quest 2
The second-gen tether-free, wireless virtual world headset from Oculus isn't conscionable much affordable than the original, it has heaps of improved features that marque it a VR superstar.
Best headphones
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Sony WH-1000XM4
The WH-1000XM4 wireless ANC over-ear headphones bring 1 connection to caput - superb. With an enhanced diagnostic acceptable that makes galore rivals look chromatic age, these over-ears supply fantabulous audio playback adjacent with noise-cancelling turned up to the max. The champion genuinely got adjacent amended successful 2020.
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Highly recommended: Philips Fidelio X3
These open-backed, on-ear headphones correspond a triumphant instrumentality for a much-respected audio brand.
Best in-ear headphones
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Apple AirPods Pro
We are incredibly impressed with the easiness of setup and prime of dependable that the AirPods Pro deliver. Active noise-cancellation makes a immense quality to ambient noise, making these in-ears acold much susceptible than the originals.
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Highly recommended: Beats Powerbeats
For the latest Powerbeats, Beats took a plan and dependable look that works well, and brought it to a much affordable brace of workout earphones.
Best laptop
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Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 (13.5-inch)
A sensible upgrade to the already stellar series, the instauration of a USB-C port, larger trackpad, and much powerfulness adhd plus-points onto its awesome people sheet. Certainly, this is 1 sleek and blase Windows laptop.
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Highly recommended: Dell XPS 13
While different laptops thin to opt for 'normal', the XPS bid has ever pushed itself to beryllium a measurement ahead.
Best telephone (£250 - £500)
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Google Pixel 4a 5G
This telephone makes the astir consciousness successful Google's 2020 Pixel bid line-up. It's cheaper than the Pixel 5, has a larger display, and the aforesaid large camera, making it a triumph successful our books.
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Highly recommended: OnePlus Nord
What OnePlus has rather expertly done is marque a telephone that doesn't permission you pining for a pricier alternative.
Best astute location device
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Ring Video Doorbell 3 Plus
Ring's 2020 flagship battery-powered doorbell is its astir diagnostic packed, implicit with Pre-roll to seizure events earlier they adjacent happen. It'll rapidly go a reliable portion of your astute location that you usage everyday.
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Highly recommended: Amazon Echo Show 8
At a importantly cheaper terms than the larger Echo Show, the Show 8 has astir of its appealing features and is besides a important measurement up from Echo Show 5.
Best smartwatch
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Apple Watch SE
By pulling unneurotic galore of the champion bits from the Series 4 and Series 5, the SE is an affordable introduction into the Apple Watch acquisition that volition suit a bulk of users. It's the cleanable mediate crushed for those users who aren't fussed astir having aggregate high-end wellness sensors and the further disbursal that brings successful the S6 model.
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Highly recommended: Samsung Galaxy Watch 3
The second-gen Galaxy Watch refines alternatively than reinvents the plan of the original, delivering a much feature-packed wrist-worn wearable with further finesse
Best soundbar
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Sonos Arc
Sonos has not lone followed up its erstwhile full-fledged soundbar offering, it has improved it successful each mode possible. The Arc is simply a superb Dolby Atmos soundbar and has each the benefits of Sonos' multi-room strategy and more.
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Highly recommended: Harman Kardon Citation MultiBeam 700
This Harman Kardon could beryllium the perfect solution for those who privation immoderate due audio beingness to their TV dependable without the large carnal beingness that often goes on with it.
Best speaker
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Bang & Olufsen Beosound A1 2nd Gen
It mightiness beryllium small, but the second-gen Beosound A1 packs a large punch successful the dependable department. That, positive Alexa dependable power and waterproofing, makes it worthy each penny.
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Highly recommended: Amazon Echo (3rd Gen)
It whitethorn person been precocious superceded by a rounder model, the 3rd Gen Echo is inactive a superb, compact astute talker that immoderate mightiness adjacent prefer.
Best streaming device
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Sky Q
A victor for the 2nd clip successful a row, Sky's strategy has perpetually evolved to go the hub of household entertainment, not conscionable outer TV. And, with a immense magnitude of 4K Ultra HD contented connected offer, positive Netflix and DIsney+, it genuinely is the yardstick of paid TV.
Highly recommended: Amazon Fire Stick 4K
The worth of Amazon's 4K instrumentality can’t beryllium questioned compared to its rivals, making this a large entree constituent to streaming services beyond conscionable Amazon's ain Prime portal.
Best tablet / 2-in-1
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Apple iPad Pro
The iPad Pro continues to beryllium the cleanable level to usage arsenic a existent laptop-replacement and on-the-go tablet. It truly is unrivalled.
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Highly recommended: Apple iPad
This is the cleanable iPad enactment for galore – there's inactive nary amended entry-level tablet around.
Best TV
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Philips OLED 805
Philips has upgraded its representation motor with AI processing wizardry, and the results are spectacular. This 4K OLED telly makes everything look good.
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Highly recommended: LG OLED CX
Oustanding representation show - which, let’s look it, is the astir important thing) -makes the latest 'entry-level' LG OLED scope each spot arsenic worthy arsenic those that person gone earlier it.
EE superfast grant 2020
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 765
The Snapdragon 765 supports high-power features, specified arsenic 4K HDR seizure and the fifth-gen Qualcomm AI Engine, arsenic good arsenic supporting precocious gaming features, but each for handsets that won't interruption the bank. That is worthy of the EE superfast grant 2020 successful itself.
Product of the twelvemonth 2020
Zoom
Zoom
Let's look it, who hasn't utilized Zoom implicit the past six months? It has travel from astir obscurity to beryllium the king of video calling and conferencing. By perpetually adding caller features and being arsenic consumer-friendly arsenic it is indispensable for businesses, it thoroughly deserves to beryllium our merchandise of the year. The mode things are going, it volition apt beryllium arsenic important successful 2021 too.
Previous Pocket-lint Awards winners
The Pocket-lint Gadget Awards were archetypal held successful 2005. Over that clip we've rewarded the champion gadgets successful the manufacture each twelvemonth pursuing akin criteria arsenic today.
Over the years, the categories person changed and adapted to bespeak the manufacture astatine the time, but the halfway purpose has ever been the same; to assistance showcase the champion gadgets of the moment, the ones that person the quality to marque a quality to our lives, oregon are conscionable large amusive to use.
Here past were the winners going each the mode backmost to our archetypal Awards successful 2005...
2019
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Product of the twelvemonth 2019: Nissan Leaf e+
- Best camera 2019: Fujifilm X-T3
- Best car 2019: Nissan Leaf e+
- Best fittingness tracker 2019: Garmin Fenix 6 Pro
- Best flagship telephone 2019: Apple iPhone 11 Pro
- Best crippled 2019: Red Dead Redemption 2
- Best gaming laptop 2019: Alienware m15 R2
- <Best gaming / VR instrumentality 2019: Nintendo Switch
- Best headphones 2019: Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700
- Best in-ear headphones 2019: Sony WF-1000XM3
- Best laptop 2019: Microsoft Surface Laptop 2
- Best telephone (under £500) 2019: Google Pixel 3a
- Best information camera 2019: Ring Video Doorbell 2<
- Best astute location instrumentality 2019: Amazon Echo Show 5
- Best smartwatch 2019: Apple Watch Series 5
- Best soundbar 2019: Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar
- Best talker 2019: Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2
- Best streaming instrumentality 2019: Sky Q
- Best tablet / 2-in-1 2019: Apple iPad Air
- Best TV 2019: Philips OLED+ 984
- EE Superfast tech grant 2019: Qualcomm X50 5G Modem
2018
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Product of twelvemonth 2018: Huawei P20 Pro
- Best crippled 2018: God of War
- <Best camera 2018: Sony A7R III
- Best soundbar 2018: Sonos Beam
- Best smartphone 2018: Huawei P20 Pro
- Best mid-range telephone 2018: Honor Play
- Best tablet / 2-in-1 2018: Apple iPad
- Best laptop 2018: Dell XPS 13
- Best on-ear headphones 2018: Sony WH-1000XM3
- Best in-ear headphones 2018: Libratone Track+
- <Best TV 2018: Philips OLED 803
- Best location amusement instrumentality 2018: Sky Q
- Best streaming work 2018: BBC iPlayer
- Best astute location instrumentality 2018: Google Home
- Best talker 2018: Sonos One
- Best gaming / VR instrumentality 2018: Sony PS4 Pro
- Best fittingness instrumentality 2018: Fitbit Versa
- Best smartwatch 2018: Apple Watch Series 4
- Best car 2018: Jaguar i-Pace
- EE Superfast Award 2018 (joint winners): Apple A12 Bionic & Huawei Kirin 980
2017
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Product of the twelvemonth 2017:Nintendo Switch
- Best crippled 2017: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Best interchangeable lens camera 2017: Panasonic Lumix GH5
- Best compact camera 2017: Sony Cyber-shot RX100 V
- Best smartphone 2017: Samsung Galaxy S8 / S8+
- Best mid-range telephone 2017: Honor 9
- Best tablet / 2-in-1 2017: Apple iPad Pro 10.5
- Best laptop 2017: Microsoft Surface Laptop
- Best headphones 2017: Bowers & Wilkins PX
- Best in-ear headphones 2017: Sony WF-1000X
- Best TV 2017: LG OLED B7
- Best location amusement instrumentality 2017: Amazon Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote
- Best streaming work 2017: Netflix
- Best astute location instrumentality 2017: Amazon Echo
- Best wireless talker 2017: Sonos Playbase
- Best gaming / VR instrumentality 2017: Nintendo Switch
- Best fittingness gadget 2017: Garmin Fenix 5
- Best smartwatch 2017: Apple Watch Series 3
- Best car 2017: Range Rover Velar
- EE superfast grant 2017: Apple W1 chip
2016
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Product of the twelvemonth 2016: Amazon Echo
- Best crippled 2016: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
- Best camera 2016: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
- Best location amusement instrumentality oregon work 2016: Sky Q
- Best astute location instrumentality 2016: Amazon Echo
- Best smartwatch 2016: Apple Watch Series 2
- Best wireless talker 2016: BeoPlay A1 from B&O Play
- Best headphones 2016: Sony MDR-1000X
- Best tablet 2016: Apple iPad Pro 9.7
- Best fittingness tracker 2016: Fitbit Charge 2
- Best TV 2016: Sony ZD9
- Best laptop 2016: Apple MacBook (2016)
- Best VR instrumentality 2016: Sony PlayStation VR
- Best telephone 2016: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge
- Best car 2016: Tesla Model S
2015
Product of the twelvemonth 2015: Samsung Galaxy S6 edge
- Best tablet / 2-in-1 2015: Apple iPad mini 4
- Best laptop 2015: Dell XPS 13
- Best telephone 2015: Samsung Galaxy S6 edge
- Best camera 2015: Leica Q
- Best crippled 2015: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Best location amusement instrumentality 2015: Amazon Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD
- Best wearable 2015: Apple Watch
- Best talker 2015: Naim mu-so
- Best headphones 2015: Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay H8
- Best TV 2015: LG 65EF950V 4K OLED
- Best smarthome instrumentality 2015: Philips Hue with Siri
- Best Connected Toy 2015: Sphero BB-8
2014
Product of the twelvemonth 2014: iPhone 6
- Best crippled 2014: Alien: Isolation
- Best strategy camera 2014: Panasonic Lumix GH4
- Best telephone 2014: Apple iPhone 6
- Best tablet 2014: Apple iPad Air 2
- Best phablet 2014: Samsung Galaxy Note 4
- Best laptop / 2-in-1 2014: Apple MacBook Air 2014
- Best location amusement instrumentality 2014: Sony PlayStation 4
- Best headphones 2014: Sony MDR-1A
- Best TV 2014: Sony KD-65X9005B 4K TV
- Best smarthome instrumentality 2014: Philips Hue
- Best talker 2014: Cambridge Audio Go V2
- Best compact camera 2014: Sony Cyber-shot RX100 III
- Best wearable 2014: LG G Watch R
- Product of the twelvemonth 2014: iPhone 6
2013
Product of the twelvemonth 2013: Apple iPad Air
- Best integer compact camera 2013: Sony Cyber-shot RX100 II
- Best integer strategy camera 2013: Sony Alpha A7
- Best crippled 2013: Grand Theft Auto V
- Best location amusement instrumentality 2013: Now TV
- Best wearable tech 2013: Pebble
- Best headphones 2013: Sennheiser Momentum On-Ear
- Best portable speakers 2013: Cambridge Audio Minx Go
- Best tv 2013: Sony KD-65X9005A 65-inch 4K TV
- Best tablet 2013: Apple iPad Air
- Best mobile telephone 2013: HTC One
- Best phablets 2013: Samsung Galaxy Note 3
- Best laptop 2013: MacBook Air 13-inch
2012
Product of the twelvemonth 2012: Windows 8
- Best integer camera 2012: Nikon D800
- Best laptop 2012: Apple MacBook Air 13-inch
- Best app 2012: Google Chrome
- Best crippled 2012: Journey
- Best location amusement instrumentality 2012: Sky TV
- Best portable audio 2012: iPod Touch 5th generation
- Best TV 2012: Panasonic Viera TX-P50VT50B and the Sony Bravia KDL-46HX853
- Best tablet 2012: Nexus 7
- Best mobile telephone 2012: Samsung Galaxy S III
- Innovation of the twelvemonth 2012: Nike+ Fuelband
2011
Product of the twelvemonth 2011: Apple iPad 2
- Best integer camera 2011: Sony NEX-5N
- Best laptop 2011: Apple MacBook Air 13-inch
- Best app 2011: Sky Go
- Best crippled 2011: Batman: Arkham City
- Best location amusement instrumentality 2011: Sonos Play:3
- Best TV 2011: Samsung UE55D8000
- Best tablet 2011: Apple iPad 2
- Best telephone 2011: Samsung Galaxy S II
- Innovation of the twelvemonth 2011: OnLive
2010
Product of the twelvemonth 2010: Kindle Wi-Fi
- Best audio 2010: Apple iPod interaction 4G
- Best app 2010: Amazon Kindle app
- Best crippled 2010: Angry Birds
- Best TV 2010: Philips 21:9 Cinema 3D
- Best location cinema kit 2010: Xbox 360 S
- Best telephone 2010: HTC Desire HD
- Best camera 2010: Canon EOS 550D
- Best machine 2010: Apple iPad
- Innovation of the twelvemonth 2010: Microsoft Kinect
2009
Product of the twelvemonth 2009: Spotify
- Best euphony gadget 2009: Apple iPod interaction (3rd gen)
- Best car gadget 2009: TomTom XL Live
- Best integer camera 2009: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1
- Best laptop 2009: Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch
- Best bundle 2009: Spotify
- Best crippled 2009: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Best location cinema gadget 2009: PS3 Slim
- Best mobile telephone 2009: HTC Hero
- Best gadget 2009: Eye-Fi
2008
Product Of The twelvemonth 2008: MSI Wind
- Best euphony gadget 2008: Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin iPod speakers
- Best car gadget 2008: TomTom One
- Best integer camera 2008: Fujifilm F60fd
- Best laptop 2008: MSI Wind
- Best software/service 2008: Firefox 3
- Best crippled 2008: LittleBigPlanet
- Best location cinema instrumentality 2008: Pioneer KURO PDP-LX5090 television
- Best mobile telephone 2008: BlackBerry Storm
- Best email instrumentality 2008: Nokia E71
- Best Eco gadget 2008: Pure Evoke Flow
- Innovation of the twelvemonth 2008: Asus, for the Eee PC
2007
Product of the twelvemonth 2007: Nintendo Wii
- Best MP3/portable media subordinate 2007: Archos 605 Wi-Fi
- Best headphones 2007: Sennheiser PXC450
- Best DAB vigor 2007: Pure Evoke-1S
- Best iPod talker strategy 2007: Logic3 i-Station Traveller speakers
- Best mobile telephone 2007: Nokia N95 8GB
- Best smartphone 2007: Apple iPhone
- Best mobile telephone accessory 2007: Jawbone Bluetooth headset
- Best satnav 2007: Navman S90i
- Best car gadget 2007: Griffin itrip auto
- Best compact integer camera 2007: Fuji FinePix Z5fd integer camera
- Best DLSR integer camera 2007: Canon EOS 40D DSLR integer camera
- Best printer 2007: Kodak EasyShare 5300 All In One Printer
- Best laptop 2007: Sony VAIO VGN-TZ11XN
- Best PC peripheral 2007: Sandisk USB SD Card
- Best VoIP accessory 2007: Philips VOIP841
- Best bundle 2007: iLife 08
- Best website 2007: Facebook
- Best TV 2007: Pioneer Kuro
- Best location cinema accessory 2007: Apple TV
- Best console crippled 2007: Gears of War
- Best PC crippled 2007: Bioshock
- Best games console 2007: Nintendo Wii
- Best sports and fittingness Gadget 2007: Timex iControl
- Best greenish gadget 2007: USBcell
2006
Product of the twelvemonth 2006: BlackBerry Pearl
- Best MP3/portable media subordinate 2006: Creative Zen Vision:M
- Best mobile telephone 2006: Sony Ericsson k800i
- Best mobile telephone oregon MP3 accessory 2006: Bose QuietComfort 3 sound cancelling headphones
- Best GPS portion 2006: TomTom One
- Best compact integer camera 2006: Fujifim Finepix F30
- Best prosumer integer camera 2006: Nikon D80
- Best imaging accessory 2006: HP Photosmart A618 printer
- Best laptop 2006: Apple MacBook Pro
- Best PC peripheral 2006: Logitech MX Revolution mouse
- Best location amusement instrumentality 2006: Sky HD
- Best PC oregon console crippled 2006: New Super Mario Brothers (Nintendo DS)
- Best bundle 2006: Apple iLife '06
- Best website 2006: YouTube
- Best gadget 2006: Nintendo DS Lite
2005
- Best MP3 subordinate 2005: Apple iPod nano
- Best portable media subordinate 2005: Sony PSP console
- Best mobile telephone 2005: Samsung SGH-D600
- Best prosumer integer camera 2005: Nikon D50
- Best compact integer camera 2005: Pentax Optio 50
- Best PC oregon console crippled 2005: Lumines (PSP)
- Best laptop 2005: Apple 15-inch PowerBook
- Best location amusement gadget 2005: Sonos Digital Music System
- Best PDA/smartphone 2005: Palm Treo 650
- Best GPS portion 2005: TomTom Go 700
- Best manner gadget 2005: Sony PSP console
- Innovation of the twelvemonth 2005: Dyson Ball
Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 22 November 2016.
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