Best Tech Of 2018
For every
one product highlighted here, we’ve left out five great ones
NOKIA
8.1
This is the year and this
is the phone that made the real Nokia stand up and be counted. Elegant and
understated, stunning, true android experience, always first to get updates,
great camera and a very aggressive price point. Nokia ensured customers’
experience was more important than gimmicks.
GOOGLE
HOME HUB
The Hub is Google adding
a 7-inch display to its Home devices that lets users not just hear a response,
but also see it. The screen personalises itself to every home member, shows
YouTube videos, Google map info, and can control any smart home device and IoT
product. The only thing missing is a camera for video calls.
GARMIN
FENIX 5X PLUS
In a world of fitness
bands and smartwatches, this is the ultimate beast. Made of titanium, this is
an auto sensing multi-sport GPS watch with heart rate technology, run maps on
display, a pulse blood oxygen saturation levels sensor, sapphire lens glass and
18-day battery life in smartwatch mode.
DEVIALET
- PHANTOM REACTOR 900
This company changed how
people thought of a bluetooth speaker with its Phantom series. Now a huge step
further, the Reactor is super small and yet insanely powerful. It can belt out
a true 900 watts of undistorted sound including full sub woofer output and do
it on Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, optical or analog.
SAMSUNG
GALAXY A9
They all called it
gimmicky. Why would you need four cameras at the back of a phone? Samsung
answered with a big bang. Each camera at the back has a specific function and
the phone is intelligent enough to know what to use and when. Eventually the
Samsung A9 is the best optics phone under 40K.
XIAOMI
MI TV 4 PRO 55 INCH
This was the most
exciting TV launched in the country and if it’s Xiaomi, they have to do it
different and also make all other TVs look strangely over-priced. A 55inch
display, world’s thinnest LED at 4.9 mm, near bezel less, HDR 10, integrated Mi
Sound Bar with 10 speakers and a price under 40K.
VIVO
NEX
Vivo may well be the most
innovative phone company this year. They came out with the world’s first
in-display finger print scanner. They came up with a pop out camera that
ensured that the display has no notch. Now everyone wants to do the same. The
Nex was the first to do both together.
SAMSUNG
Q8C OLED TV
The Q8C maintained its
superiority all through the year. Bezel-less design, stunning colour and an
aggressive price kept the rest of the competition at bay. Of course if you’ve
got the money then the 88-inch version of this, the Q9F at 24,99,900, is the
absolute best you can buy now.
OPPO
R17 PRO
Round up every big
innovation of the year like an indisplay fingerprint scanner, water drop notch,
three cameras at the back, add a stunning design, then add super fast charging
with dual batteries. What you get is a phone that makes your eyes and jaw open
wide.
CORNING
GORILLA GLASS 6
This is Corning taking
things to its logical conclusion where your phone screen can withstand falls
and doesn’t scratch. Nothing more heartbreaking than when your phone screen
breaks, and Corning with its 6th generation tech is ensuring in the future, it
won’t.
PANASONIC
OLED TV
With the TH-65FZ1000D
they have an absolute winner. Excellent colour reproduction, thin frame, multi
HDR support and an array of 12 speakers in its blade audio set up, this TV is
the real 4K deal!
MEDIATEK
HELIO P 70
This is the year that
Mediatek threw down the gauntlet and decided that people should buy a phone by
asking for the processor inside by name. With some serious horse power,
stunning artificial intelligence, better battery optimisation and amazing
optical tricks, the P 70 will be the chip of choice on most mid-priced phones
from here on.
Rajiv Makhni
HTBR 6 Jan 2019
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