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Engadget awards iPad best gadget of 2010

by Chris Ward Feb 26th 2011 at 1:00PM

iPad - big winner

Apple won big in our sister website Engadget's annual editors' awards yesterday, taking the top prize with the iPad winning 'Gadget of the Year' and a number of other Apple products either winning or coming runner-up in their categories.

"The iPad won this one going away -- there's just no denying the influence Apple's tablet had on the industry this year," said Engaget's editors. The iPad also won Tablet of the Year and was in the runner up position to Netflix in the Home Entertainment category.

The iPhone 4 won Phone of the Year, beating the HTC Evo into second place, although the Engadget editors did say that "the Evo 4G will be remembered as the first of an entirely new breed of smartphones."

The Apple MacBook Air came in second in the Laptop of the Year contest to HP's Envy 14 due to its "aluminum chassis, Core i5 power, and Radiance display...[but]that said, there's no denying the significance of the MacBook Air's new solid-state storage and speedy resume times."

Display of the year went to Corning's Gorilla Glass -- as used in the iPhone 4, whose Retina Display won runner up.

Portable media device of the year went to the iPod touch. "[t]he iPod touch is more dominant than ever, and with good reason. It's caught up to the iPhone 4 in terms of most key specs, and the App Store remains a huge advantage over the rest of the non-phone competition."

The iPod Nano came runner up to the Jawbone Icon in the Wearable Device of the Year category, and Airplay runner up to Verizon LTE in the Wireless Device or Technology category.



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alena.julia

Apple has won the heart of everyone because of its specification and multiple applications we have on it, so that the inventions of its note books are increasing and it would love to have for use because it so perfect.
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April 21 2011 at 3:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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I really liked your blog quite informative and interesting facts and figures you have discussed on your blog even the comments are very fruitful and helpful in enhancing the knowledge regarding the topic.

March 16 2011 at 6:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
scootir

Owning both the Envy and a MacBook Air I can't believe the Air came second. The Envy is a competent PC laptop, but has a far inferior display, trackpad and battery life. It trails a distant second at best.

February 27 2011 at 9:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eideard

"there's just no denying the influence Apple's tablet had on the industry this year" - but they tried like hell most of the year.

Little or no excuse for ideological writing about tech.

February 27 2011 at 12:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
HighFive

Might as well also pencil the iPad as the best gadget of the year for 2011. There definitely won't be any tablets that are even close to the iPad 2.

February 26 2011 at 5:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Anthony

I am glad the ENVY won, it's an extremely nice laptop. But, you can clearly see that it's a MacBook pro ripoff. It is my favorite computer though.

I thought the iPhone 4 doesn't use gorilla glass in it's display. They use "something 20x stronger than plastic" or whatever, but not actual corning gorilla glass. The Dell Streak uses gorilla glass, or at least they say it.

Seems that nearly the entire Apple lineup is high-up.

February 26 2011 at 3:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Cy Starkman

Whatever it is someone forgot that hardness isn't strength. Unscratchable maybe but it shatters very easily, the touchscreen keeps working though which is interesting. The 3GS and before were much stronger.

I have kind of gotten used to it now. It is like a customization. I've met others with shattered screens too, it is a status, you share thestorie, compare break patterns and missing chunks.

Lol

February 27 2011 at 6:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iPhone user

Glad to hear that Engadget awarded iPad "Gadget of the Year" etc. But if you've actually visited Engadget you'll see tons of Apple hate in the comments. They actually tried separating Apple posts from the rest of their posts last year to placate the haters.

And now Joshua Topolsky is starting to get into the Apple rumor game and getting burned. First he claimed iPad 2 will get a high-resolution display and an SD card slot. Now he's retracting those claims and says that Apple removed those features in the "eleventh hour." Now, no matter what happens, he looks like a gullible newbie.

Gizmodo - Apple haters.
Engadget - trolled by Apple haters.

February 26 2011 at 2:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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