Palm Pre Tops T3’s Hot 100 9
T3, a UK-based technology magazine that specializes in gadgets, gizmos, and other technology, has just released its “Hot 100” list and the Palm Pre is the leader of the pack. They called it “the hottest, most mouth-watering piece of gadgetry on the planet today.”
The write-up accompanying the list is a fun read:
A big theme of this year’s Hot 100 is time-worn brands redeeming themselves: Toshiba phones and Sony Walkmans in the top 10 is surprising enough but… a Palm phone? A hot product from a company that, like Vanilla Ice, was big in the 90s?
Believe it. Palm has taken the best aspects of the iPhone and BlackBerry Pearl, thrown away the things that users don’t like about those handsets and produced this year’s hottest gadget. Even more than Nokia’s N97, it’s the first true “iPhone killer”...…Everything about the Pre has been thought about, worked on and buffed to a sheen. Even the Touchstone charging panel – an accessory that wirelessly docks the Pre and refuels by contact alone – is exciting. As far as we’re concerned, the Pre is the hottest, most mouth-watering piece of gadgetry on the planet today…
The Pre was followed on the list by the Sony X-Series Walkman (“the Walkman legend lives again”), the Nokia N97 (“if Nokia adds Comes With Music support, this will grind the iPhone into the dust"), the Phillips 21:9 Cinema screen (“that matches almost exactly the 2.39:1 aspect ratio of feature films”), and the TomTom Go 940 LIVE (“which has a wonderfully crisp display, intuitive interface” and a traffic avoidance system is second to none).
The Pre also bested other notables like the iPod Touch (#12), iPhone (#14) and Nintendo Wii (#20).
Regarding the Palm Pre, T3’s editors stated, “Its UK launch can’t come soon enough.” We second that emotion here in the States.
Special thanks to Taharka for the tip!
9 Comments
Agreed, it is the hottest gadget this year.
But like we pointed out in the forums... Don't you think this may be a tad premature to give honors to?
Hey, to each magazine their own I suppose. Laying honors upon a device that hasn't been touched by the public is like giving honors to "The Pomegranate Phone" if you asks this goat.
The T3 list is done by voting of site and magazine readers in late January. It always heavily reflects what ever people were reading about in January.
indeed a bit premature, what about the third generation of iPhones for example? And other yet to be announced gadgets that my be much cooler than the pre (although I doubt anything will be cooler than the pre :P)
Why would you worry about gadgets that haven't been announced in this list? If you want to see the latest iphone in such a list then tell apple to announce it and demo it already.
T3? Why would they run a top 100 list in Feb/March anyways? Is this updated each month? Year? Does anyone take them seriously? Wouldn't you want them to review items first? Hands on? I could make this list..
Whoops, you guys are right, I was confused with another (of the many) top100 which the pre topped :P (in which it was declared hottest gadget of 2009)
apologies
It's not premature when taken in context. The article starts out: "Around this time of year, the office buzzes with talk of the hot kit on the tech horizon."
Kind of like winning "Best of CES", though this included known items as of now (released and unreleased).
It would be very hard to track everything right NOW that has been announced. The Pre is merely one such item. Canon for instance announced some upcoming products as many companies do. Good luck sifting through company announcements as you compile a top 100 list that can include any item that has only been announced but not reviewed.
Such a list is highly subjective in the first place but to even give a list credibility that includes items not even reviewed by the source (T3)? Any blogger could compile such a list in under 15 min, post it, and it would be just as credible.
And I'd say those products simply didn't make the top 100.
Hey, I don't completely disagree with you, my earlier point was simply that I don't think it's premature based on the context of the article.
If people can "want" a product simply by seeing the CES vids (heck, when the Pre is out, there will be people who by it based on a 30 second Sprint commercial), I personally don't take issue with a list based on the vids as well. I don't take it to be more than that. The title simply states "hot gadget" which for me speaks more to "desire" than anything else.
There are many people (including myself) that have claimed the Pre to be our next phone. Now what is that based on? None of us have used it. We haven't even touched it. There are other solid phones out there that have actual reviews and is in use by the general public. Still, those don't top our personal lists for whatever reason.
In the end, it's just some list done by some magazine, but I'm glad to see the Pre up there because from what I've seen so far, it is indeed "hot" (desired). :-)
T3 top 100 isn't picked by the magazine or editors, it is voting by readers on the site. The vote was back about two weeks after CES so it came from the publicity then, publicity that has died down since. So it is a kind of echo, it is the printing of a list that itself came form the high degree of notice in January.