The Vodafone Pocket-lint Awards 2008 What's your favourite gadget of the year?

18 August 2008 14:54 GMT / By Stuart Miles

What's thought to be the UK's longest running gadget awards are back and we are looking for your suggestions before the final nominations are announced in October.

Selecting the best gadgets and gizmos from the last year, the Vodafone Pocket-lint Awards aim to commend and reward the best gadgets launched in 2008.

The final nominations deadline is Friday 10 October 2008 with the nominations announced on Monday 13 October. The winners will be announced at the beginning of November.

Pocket-lint's vigorous vetting process means that all the gadgets up for nomination have to have been seen by a member of the Pocket-lint team and have to be have been available in the UK between December 2007 and December 2008.

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 gadgets this Christmas.

The categories are:

Best music gadget
Best car gadget
Best digital camera
Best laptop
Best software/service
Best game
Best home cinema device
Best mobile phone
Best email device
Best eco gadget
Gadget of the Year 2008

You can suggest your nominations via the comments below, or via our feeback form.

Comments

Best Eco Gadget

The Solio Magnesium, a solar powered charger for handheld devices - such as your mobile phone, PSP, iPod etc. The magnesium can store power for up to a year. A fully powered magnesium can charge a conventional mobile phone a least three times. An hour of sun light will give you an hour of music on your iPod or 25 minutes worth of talk time on your mobile. The charger has a magnesium outer shell which dissolves if left in sea water. Better Energy Systems, the manufacturers of Solio will replace the internal battery and they will then recycle the old battery. BES has planted trees in a bio-diverse sustainable forest to offset the carbon dioxide produced in the manufacture of Solio. It has recyclable packing which has been printed using plant based inks, free of volatile organic compounds. BES is a carbon balanced business and do everything they can to minimize our carbon footprint. They support wind farms and methane capture projects to offset our operations, and their Solio products have undergone toxicity analysis to be as sustainable as possible. Posted by Liz Moore, United Kingdom
Best Software/Service

Palringo, www.palringo.com, is the first Rich Messaging Service - bringing together for the first time the ability to easily exchange text, voice and picture messages with friends, family and colleagues across all popular instant messaging services, whether sitting at a computer or on the move using a mobile phone or PDA. Posted by Angelique Martinez, United States