iPhone 5 : Time Magazine's Gadget of the year (Updated)

Posted by Sanjaychandra on December 11, 2012 12:29 pm 110

Time's Harry McCracken has pretty nice words for iPhone 5 :

"The iPhone 5, which starts at $199 with a two-year contract, is one of the most artfully polished gadgets anyone’s ever built, with a taller screen than previous iPhones built into a thinner, lighter case. The camera, with a particularly well-done panorama mode, is another highlight. There are lots of nifty smartphones out there, including the iPhone’s impressive archrival, Samsung’s Galaxy S III. But when it comes to melding hardware, software and services so tightly that the seams fade away, Apple still has no peer"

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Here is the list of TIME's top 10 gadgets of 2012 :

  1. Apple iPhone 5
  2. Nintendo Wii U
  3. Sony Cyber-Shot RX100
  4. Raspberry Pi Model B
  5. Lytro Light-Field Camera
  6. Apple 15″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display
  7. Microsoft Surface with Windows RT
  8. Samsung Galaxy Note 2
  9. Nest Learning Thermostat
  10. Simple.TV

You are going to find some things very surprising on this list:

Biggest surprise is that , Surface RT got a spot in the list while iPad 3 or iPad 4 couldn't make the list and also Macbook Air which was on 2010 and 2011 list failed to make this year's list because of Surface RT.

TIME didn't mentioned iPad at all in this year's list.In 2010 iPad is the gadget of the year while in 2011 iPad 2 is the gadget of the year.

Another surprise is lack of Nexus device on top 10 list , In 2010 , Nexus One made the list at top 5 (No Nexus S though) and in 2011, Galaxy Nexus made the list at top 2 while this year only Note 2 could make into the list.