Golden gadget list announced for Christmas

Experts recommend award winning gadgets of the year to suit every stocking

The crème of the UK's technology and gadget media have today revealed their Ôgolden list' of the best gadgets of 2007.   Casting their votes as part of gadget website Pocket-lint.co.uk's Annual Gadget Awards, the high profile journalist Ôgadget inspectors' crowned winners in over 25 categories including home cinema, gaming, car, photography and audio. Christmas shoppers would be wise to heed the panel's expert and impartial recommendations before filling any stockings with technology gifts.

Winner of coveted best gadget of the year award and set to become the hottest piece of kit for any stocking this Christmas is the Nintendo Wii. A sign of its greatness, the Wii was the only gadget in all the categories to receive full marks from all the judges Ð a sure sign if any for shoppers to snap up the popular console, particularly in light of current rumours that games giant Nintendo is running dangerously low on stock for Christmas.

Proving that gadgets can live up to their media hype, the Apple iPhone impressed the savvy judges and was duly crowned ÔBest Smartphone', streets ahead of its nearest rival the Blackberry 8310.

The most surprising result of all however, was that little known brand Archos knocked heavyweight Apple off the top spot by trouncing its iPod Touch to the title of ÔBest MP3 player' with the Archos 605 Wi-Fi.   Challenger in-car gadget brand Navman also managed to finally release rival TomTom's three year grip on ÔBest Satnav' with the hugely improved Navman S90i.

For the man or woman that has everything, the ÔGadget Top 20' of gold award winners is the most definitive gadget gift guide this year - from top end plasma TVs for all the family to smaller stocking fillers for gamers and gadget fans.   With a combined total of over 100 years experience of reviewing gadgets between them, the expert panel have tried and tested virtually every gadget brought out this year - so avoiding disappointment on the big day is guaranteed!

The Gadget Top 20, 2007

•  Best Gadget Ð Nintendo Wii

•  Best MP3 Player Ð Archos 605 Wi-Fi

•  Best Headphones Ð Sennheiser PXC450

•  Best DAB radio Ð Pure Evoke Ð 1S

•  Best Console Ð Nintendo Wii

•  Best Smartphone Ð Apple iPhone

•  Best Mobile Phone Ð Nokia N95 8GB

•  Best Mobile Phone Accessory Ð Jawbone Bluetooth headset

•  Best Satnav Ð Navman S901

•  Best Car Gadget Ð Griffing itrip auto

•  Best Compact Digital Camera Ð Fuji FinePix Z5fd

•  Best DLSR Digital Camera Ð Canon EOS 40D DSLR digital camera

•  Best Printer Ð Kodak Easyshare 5300 All In One Printer

•  Best Laptop Ð Sony VAOI TZ11XN

•  Best VoIP Accessory Ð Philips VOIP841

•  Best TV Ð Pioneer Kuro

•  Best Home Cinema Accessory Ð Apple TV

•  Best Console Game Ð Gears of War, Xbox

•  Best Sports and fitness gadget Ð Timex iControl

•  Best Green Gadget - usbcell

•  Best Website - Facebook.com

•  Best iPod Speaker System - Logic3 i-Station Traveller

•  Best PC Peripheral - SanDisk USB SD Card

•  Best Software - iLife 08

•  Best PC Game - Bioshock

And the nominations were:

The longest running gadget awards in the UK*. This year's Pocket-lint Gadget Awards are bigger and better than ever before with 25 categories in total including the coveted Best Gadget of the Year 2007.

The awards, voted by a panel of leading gadget journalists**, including the staff from the Pocket-lint team, will decide the real must have gadgets of the year, rather than those simply deemed cool or anticipated, and be the definitive guide for consumers looking to buy gifts this Christmas.

Taking into account over 600 products Pocket-lint has reviewed on the site since December 2006, the rules of the awards state that for any product to be nominated it has to has to have been seen by a member of the Pocket-lint editorial team and been released in the UK between December 2006 and December 2007.

* As far as we know.

** Judges so far include Stuart Miles (Pocket-lint, The Times), Amy-Mae Elliott (Pocket-lint), Nigel Kendall (The Times), Mark Prigg (The Evening Standard), Mark Harris (Freelance), Kevin Lynch (The Mirror), Shaun Marin (Freelance), Susi Weaser (ShinyShiny), David Phelan (TimeOut/Independent/The Sunday Times) and Scott Snowden (The Register).

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