“Apple’s iPhone 3G has won a public vote to find the year’s best gadget, beating strong competition from three games consoles, a budget laptop and a balloon-shaped iPod speaker system,” Peter Griffiths reports for Reuters.
“The latest version of the mobile that combines a phone with a music and video player was chosen by readers of Stuff magazine in its annual Gadget of the Year awards,” Griffiths reports.
“The magazine described the iPhone 3G as ‘a faster, cleverer version of an already remarkable phone.’ The phone’s first incarnation, launched in Britain last year, won the coolest gadget prize at last year’s ceremony,” Griffiths reports.
“The magazine’s own gadget of the year prize, chosen by its editorial staff, went to the Asus Eee PC, a no-frills laptop that costs less than 300 pounds [US$535],” Griffiths reports. “The judges said it had made more of an impact than any other device and marked the start of a ‘laptop for everyone’ era.”
Full article here.
That’s all well and good, but Stuff’s esteemed editorial staff seems to have totally missed the fact – despite having their readers thrust it directly in their faces – that Apple’s iPhone is actually the device that made more of an impact than any other device and truly marked the start of a ‘laptop for everyone’ era. Where people have never had computers before, their first computers will be $199 Apple iPhones [or iPod touches], not stripped-down mythical “$100 laptops” or $535 Asus Eee PCs.