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(Pocket-lint) - The EE Pocket-lint Awards reaches its 18th twelvemonth successful 2021 and erstwhile again we person whittled down hundreds of products to a prime fewer to beryllium crowned the best-of-the-best successful their category. With 20 categories each year, it's nary casual feat.
But, which gadgets person won the coveted "Product of the Year" grant each twelvemonth since we've been moving the Awards? We've rounded up the wide winners, truthful you tin spot what gadgets person defined astir 2 decades of user tech.
Here are the eventual grant winners each the mode backmost to 2005. How galore of them person you owned?
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Product of the 2021 - Sony PlayStation 5
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The mighty PlayStation 5 is the EE Pocket-lint Awards 2021 wide merchandise of the twelvemonth and for bully reason. Not lone has it proven to beryllium the fastest selling console of each clip - adjacent during a planetary spot shortage - it has been location of the finest array of exclusive games truthful far. Now you conscionable person to effort to get your hands connected one.
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Product of the twelvemonth 2020 - Zoom
Let's look it, who hasn't utilized Zoom implicit the past year-and-a-half? It came from astir obscurity to beryllium the king of video calling and conferencing durung lockdown. And, by perpetually adding caller features and being arsenic consumer-friendly arsenic it is indispensable for businesses, it thoroughly deserved to beryllium our merchandise of the twelvemonth for 2020.
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Product of the Year 2019 - Nissan Leaf e+
The astir fashionable merchandise amongst each the winners successful 2020 was the Nissan Leaf e+. Not lone did it acceptable the modular for a much conscientious, greener future, it's inactive a superb looking car. Splendid.
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Product of the Year 2018 - Huawei P20 Pro
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The Huawei P20 Pro was the Pocket-lint readers' and judges' favourite smartphone of the twelvemonth for 2018. It was besides the merchandise of the year, afloat stop. In galore ways, that came arsenic a surprise, but it was an unthinkable instrumentality for its terms and a existent denotation that Huawei had grown to beryllium 1 of large boys successful this field.
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Product of the Year 2017 - Nintendo Switch
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The Switch is inactive a revolutionary console. With an astonishing enactment of games that continues to grow, it redefined on-the-go gaming, not conscionable at-home gaming, acknowledgment to apical first-party titles.
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Product of the Year 2016 - Amazon Echo
The precise archetypal Echo was much astir Alexa, Amazon's idiosyncratic assistant, than a straightforward Bluetooth speaker. We wished astatine the clip that the prime of audio was amended and determination was a built-in battery, but it inactive acceptable the stall for a caller question of technology.
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Product of the Year 2015 - Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
When plan is done correctly it fuses aesthetics with functionality. The Samsung Galaxy S6 borderline did precisely that; it was a telephone that turned heads, rightfully reinforcing its presumption arsenic the astir enticing flagship connected the market.
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Product of the Year 2014 - Apple iPhone 6
When the iPhone moved to a metallic assemblage and to a new, larger, enactment of sizes, it became a sublime combination.
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Product of the Year 2013 - Apple iPad Air
Apple did it again successful 2013, creating a tablet that was a batch amended than its last. It was light, thin, accelerated and simply amazing.
Microsoft
Product of the Year 2012 - Microsoft Windows 8
Windows 8 won our merchandise of the twelvemonth successful 2012 due to the fact that it truly acceptable the modular successful however computing should go. Of course, it seems archaic now, but it truly changed PCs forever.
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Product of the Year 2011 - Apple iPad 2
We loved the iPad 2. Similar to the archetypal iteration, it added other powerfulness which was indispensable for the time.
Amazon
Product of the Year 2010 - Amazon Kindle
Offering astonishing worth for entree to the champion ebook ecosystem around, this Kindle was a crippled changer erstwhile it came to speechmaking books connected the go.
Spotify
Product of the Year 2009 - Spotify
Some insignificant foibles didn't detract from what was and inactive is simply a large euphony service,
MSI
Product of the Year 2008 - MSI Wind
With a large surface and fantastic keyboard for its time, this mini-notebook didn't compromise connected usability oregon features.
Nintendo
Product of the Year 2007 - Nintendo Wii
Although the graphics weren't up to comparisons with the Xbox 360 and PS3 , the gameplay and interactivity has america each jumping astir the surviving country with joy.
BlackBerry
Product of the Year 2006 - BlackBerry Pearl
Where this telephone succeeded was with those looking for much messaging, but not prepared to spell for the afloat Qwerty keyboard enactment already offered by RIM. It besides makes america bittersweet that BlackBerry is nary more.
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Product of the Year 2005 - Apple iPod nano
This was genuinely revolutionary astatine the clip - an iPod that was overmuch easier to popular successful a pocket.
Writing by Stuart Miles and Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 20 October 2020.
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