The latest piece of hardware to come out of Cupertino, Apple’s iPhone 3GS, has claimed the honor of being ranked number 1 in Consumer Reports new smartphone ratings. Now does this come as a surprise to anyone? In all actuality, it was pretty close within the top 8 devices: (Device/Overall Score):
- iPhone 3GS (16 GB) 73
- iPhone 3G (8 GB) 70
- Samsung Omnia 69
- BlackBerry Storm 69
- HTC G1 69
- BlackBerry Bold 69
- Samsung Epix 69
- Palm Pre 67
While the race to top honors was anything but a blow-out, the iPhone shined when it came to it’s 3.5-inch widescreen display, top of the line multimedia, ease of navigation, web browsing, and battery life. Devices like the Palm Pre, among others, beat out Apple’s gem when it came to messaging along with superior multitasking capabilities.
So the iPhone ranked number 1 this year as it did almost two years ago, congratulations goes out to Apple for a continuing job well done!
Update – We love our friends over at PreCentral.net so to be fair we wanted to let it be known the Palm Pre did not come in last place, we simply just cut the list off after the Pre. For the full list please visit the Consumer Reports site.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
Posted on Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009 by Rene Ritchie
File Under:App Store Apps, Development, News; Tags: Accuterra, ada, apple design awards, awards, mlb at bat, Topple, tweetie, Wooden Labyrinth
Apple.com has posted up the winners of the WWDC 2009 Apple Design Awards (APA), and specifically for our interests, the iPhone winners. Like last year, a lot of our favorites got the nod. Here they are, with iTunes links where available:
iPhone Developer Showcase:
Best iPhone Student App
Best iPhone OS 3.0 Beta App
Congrats to everyone and thanks for the great apps!
Yep, the iPhone has won Engadget’s Gadget of the Year and Smartphone of the Year awards, not just from the editors, but from the readers as well. That’s quadrupal honors for those keeping score at home.
For the Engadget Awards in general, the editors also picked the unibody MacBook, and iPod touch (handheld and portable), and gave the BlackBerry Storm the worst gadget honors. Readers, meanwhile went far more Apple, with for iMac, unibody MacBook, 24″ LED Cinema Display, the iPod touch (for both handheld and portable), and Time Capsule for storage. Zune was worst gadget.
TiPb’s own Editor Awards and Reader’s Choice Awards were handed out on New Year and Oscar Sunday respectively.
Forget the Oscars, we’ve got the Steves! Okay, so we’re not really calling them the Steves — they’re the TiPb Readers’ Choice Awards, and while they won’t let you watch Wolverine sing and dance, they won’t consume 4+ hours of your life either. And hey, who needs best picture when we have best fart app? (No, don’t worry, that’s not an actual category — this year!)
Right after New Year, and the TiPb Editors’ Choice Awards, we began something far more important — YOUR choices. We opened the forums up to nomination, and when we had our nominees, we let you have at the voting. And vote you did, rocketing your favorites to the very tops of the charts.
Well now the votes have been counted, the results are in, and TiPb is honored to present our Readers’ Choice Awards…
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Happy New Year and welcome to the iPhone blog’s 2008 “TiPby Awards”! This year we’re breaking them into two parts: Editors’ Awards (below), and Reader’s Choice (which is already underway in our forums and will wrap up later in the month). If you haven’t voted yet, get on over to the forums and vote now. If you haven’t guessed our Editors’ Awards… Read on after the break!
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