Pocket-lint Gadget Awards 2011 winners
After much deliberation, voting and a year of mulling and musing over every piece of consumer electronics we see, Pocket-lint is proud to announce the winners of the 8th annual Pocket-lint Gadget Awards 2011.
If you’re reading this, thank you, you haven’t immediately skimmed down the page to find out the winners. Especially as we want to quickly explain how the voting process worked this year.
It is our belief that the way we find out the winners in our awards is the fairest in the industry. We take into account a number of different factors to make sure that when we tell you this each product the best in its category, it really is.
Firstly, Stuart, Chris, Ian and the team work out the nominations. These are based on the best products we have seen and reviewed, released between 1 December 2010 and the end of the nominations process. We allow as much time as possible, but some products just fall outside the timeframe and can't be included.
From that we take the top five - a hard task when it comes to something like phones or videogames - and present them to three groups:
The first is a judging panel of, what we like to call, the elite judges - members and staff of national papers, leading websites and television. They had 50 per cent of the vote.
The second includes journalists from the tech industry. Unfortunately, because some publishers aren’t too happy about their writers offering support to Pocket-lint, this is a “black ops” list. This year we’ve had just under 100 journalists vote. And they had 40 per cent of the vote.
The final 10 per cent goes to the public vote. And that 10 per cent can just tip the balance at times (and often has done in the past).
Everyone had one vote and one vote alone.
So, thousands of votes later, and a lengthy period of totting them up, may we present to you the 8th annual Pocket-lint Gadget Awards 2011 winners.
The winners are...
Best digital camera in association with Jessops - Sony NEX-5N (Full review)
Best laptop - Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (Full review)
Best app - Sky Go (Full review)
Best game - Batman: Arkham City (Full review)
Best home entertainment device - Sonos Play:3 (Full review)
Best TV - Samsung UE55D8000 (Full review)
Best tablet - Apple iPad 2 (Full review)
Best phone - Samsung Galaxy S II (Full review)
Innovation of the year - OnLive (Full review)
Product of the Year - Apple iPad 2 (Full review)
- Pocket-lint Gadget Awards 2011 in pictures
The nominees in full...
Best digital camera in association with Jessops
Fujifilm FinePix X100 - Full review
Sony Alpha SLT-A77 - Full review
Canon PowerShot S100 - Full review
Sony NEX-5N - Full review
Olympus E-P3 - Full review
Best laptop
Apple MacBook Air 13-inch - Full review
Samsung Series 9 - Full review
Dell XPS 15z - Full review
Toshiba Portege R830-138 - Full review
Medion Erazer X6813 - Full review
Best app
GarageBand for iPad - Full review
Sky Go - Full review
Onavo - Full review
Contre Jour - Full review
Runkeeper - Full review
Best game
Batman: Arkham City - Full review
Forza Motorsport 4 - Full review
FIFA 12 - Full review
Battlefield 3 - Full review
LA Noire - Full review
Best home entertainment device
Bose SoundLink - Preview
Sonos Play:3 - Full review
Onkyo TX-NR609 - Full review
Philips Fidelio AS851 - Full review
Virgin Media TV powered by TiVo - Full review
Best TV
Samsung UE55D8000 - Full review
LG 55LW980T Cinema 3D - Full review
Panasonic TX-50GT30 - Full review
Sony KDL-40HX723 - Full review
Philips Cinema 21:9 Gold - Preview
Best tablet
Apple iPad 2 - Full review
Motorola Xoom - Full review
Asus Eee Pad Transformer - Full review
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 - Full review
BlackBerry PlayBook - Full review
Best mobile phone
Apple iPhone 4S - Full review
Samsung Galaxy S II - Full review
Nokia Lumia 800 - Full review
HTC Sensation - Full review
Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray - Full review
Innovation of the year
Google+ - Full review
OnLive - Full review
Lytro - Preview
Sony PlayStation 3D Display - Preview
Nintendo Wii U - Preview
Product of the year
GoPro HD Hero2 - Preview
Apple iPad 2 - Full review
Samsung Galaxy S II - Full review
Amazon Kindle (2011) - Full review
Sonos Play:3 - Full review
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