The winners of the 2008 Engadget Awards!

You nominated, everybody voted, and the results are in. The winners of the 2008 Engadget Awards are...

Note: There are two sets of awards below. The first are the picks chosen by our readers. The second set are the Engadget editors' picks.

Go to: Readers' Choice Winners | Editors' Choice Winners
Gadget of the Year	Worst Gadget of the Year	Most Anticipated Gadget of 2009
iPhone 3G	Zune 3.0	Windows 7
Cellphone of the Year	Smartphone of the Year	Desktop of the Year
LG Vu	iPhone 3G	Apple iMac
Laptop of the Year	Netbook of the Year	Digital Camera of the Year
Unibody MacBook Pro	Dell Inspiron Mini 9	Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Display of the Year	Game Console of the Year	Game Accessory of the Year
Apple 24-inch LED Cinema Display	Nintendo Wii	Wii Fit / Balance Board
GPS Device of the Year	Handheld of the Year	HDTV of the Year
Garmin nuvi 255w	iPod touch	Sony Bravia MotionFlow
Home Entertainment Device of the Year	Peripheral of the Year	Portable Media Device of the Year
Roku Netflix Player	Sony BWU-300S 8x Blu-ray Burner	iPod touch
Robot of the Year	Storage Device or Technology of the Year	Tablet PC of the Year
Mars Phoenix Lander	Apple Time Capsule	HP TouchSmart tx2z
Wearable Device of the Year	Wireless Technology of the Year
Aliph Jawbone 2	In-flight WiFi
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Gadget of the Year	Worst Gadget of the Year	Most Anticipated Gadget of 2009
iPhone 3G	BlackBerry Storm	Palm Pre
Cellphone of the Year	Smartphone of the Year	Desktop of the Year
Samsung Instinct	iPhone 3G	Dell Studio Hybrid
Laptop of the Year	Netbook of the Year	Digital Camera of the Year
Unibody MacBook Pro	Dell Inspiron Mini 9	Nikon D90
Display of the Year	Game Console of the Year	Game Accessory of the Year
Dell 3008WFP	Xbox 360 / NXE	Wii Fit / Balance Board
GPS Device of the Year	Handheld of the Year	HDTV of the Year
Tom Tom GO 930T	iPod touch	Pioneer Kuro Elites
Home Entertainment Device of the Year	Peripheral of the Year	Portable Media Device of the Year
Roku Netflix Player	Logitech DiNovo Mini	iPod touch
Robot of the Year	Storage Device or Technology of the Year	Tablet PC of the Year
WowWee Rovio	HP MediaSmart Server ex487	HP TouchSmart tx2z
Wearable Device of the Year	Wireless Technology of the Year
Nike Sportband	WiMAX
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[Silverfox2000 Posted Mar 31st 2009 12:18AM]

It's amusing to see all these weird comments. If Apple wins anything it's because of every single reason on earth EXCEPT merit. Even in the face of popular vote some people still try to discredit the winner if the winner is Apple. The iHate is unbelievable.

And to those who still insist the Zune is a good product, wake up. It's as good as dead. Some tech blogs do say it has better sound than the iPods and that may very well be true. Unfortunately that's the only positive thing about it.

And once and for all. The iPhone is a smart phone. Wether you throw fits of rage on the floor, shake your iHater fist in the air or not. And it's beat all the other smart phones out there. Engadget users are not the only ones who think so. JD Power found out exactly the same thing:

"iPhone manufacturer Apple ranks highest in overall customer satisfaction among business wireless smartphone users"
http://www.jdpower.com/corporate/news/releases/pressrelease.aspx?id=2008240

Apple knows how to compete, RIM knows how to compete, Nokia knows how to compete, Google knows how to compete; they make incredibly good phones. These four, along with Plam will SINK WinMo because MS does not know how to compete.

[leenites Posted Mar 31st 2009 12:42AM]

PMP of the year should goes to COWON D2 for superior sound quality compared to the inferior Apple goods.

[Silverfox2000 Posted Mar 31st 2009 3:24AM]

this one?

http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/cowon-d2-4gb-black/4505-6490_7-32309446.html

[TheNewDude Posted Mar 31st 2009 1:33AM]

Nikon D90 as the Digital Camera of the year??????

you gotta be kidding me!! haha
You guys really are trying to make this into a joke..

[blabaa Posted Mar 31st 2009 4:10AM]

I think the reason for people choosing Apple products in display and storage device categories is that they don't really know about other produtcs in those categories. I guess they think "Well, lots of display models here... And there is Apple, I saw pictures of that one. I'll choose it." Apple's naming strategy may have an effect here. I mean, Cinema Display is Cinema Display for years, and it makes you think that you know the product for years.

Also the same thing about not knowing the products applies for wireless technology category. It seems weird for me how readers chose in-flight WiFi over WiMAX. I believe they chose it because WiFi sounds a lot more familiar than WiMAX.

[feraligatr8 Posted Mar 31st 2009 5:56AM]

I nominated that childrens auto toilet :( The one that scares the sh!t out of the kids after they've already taken a sh!t, by playing an excessively loud nursery rhyme and bashing them in the head with a roll of toilet paper.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 7:19AM]

TWO comments........ first, cell phones........ I don't particularly care what make/model.. my current one is a Nokia..... and all it does is make phone calls..... no photos, no movies.. the important thing there is that WHATEVER cell I purchase or use..... it comes from T-Mobile...... the ONLY company I've found that doesn't handcuff you into a two year "contract" with monster penalties if you leave early. Second, computers....... I suffered for five years with a DELL....... nothing but problems nearly every day........ and if you called Dell for "technical support"........ they wouldn't even talk to you unless you supplied your credit card number first................ over $300.00 for a five minute conversation. Now I have a Compaq/HP........... NO trouble, NO problem, and friendly, FREE, technical support. Be careful what you buy or who you buy it from.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 7:35AM]

Yet another Mac fanboy competition.
Can you all please stop defending your overpriced toys...
There are many many other gadgets that are not from Apple that deserve to win in most categories.
I guess a competition can only be as good as the readership though.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 7:35AM]

I've gota give it to apple... technology and products aside... theyre marketing is second to none. They've got lots of people following them blindy like some sort of boy band or religion. apple bigger than the beatles? bigger than jesus?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 10:19AM]

the Samsung Instinct sucks

[juzzthefuzz Posted Apr 2nd 2009 4:13AM]

Noo, I really dont think that the Dell Mini 9 should have got netbook of the year.
I dont dispute, it is a good netbook, but I think it has been completely overshadowed and more often than not overlooked down to the supremacy now cause by manufacturers such as Asus, Acer and possibly MSI as they all seem a hell of a lot more active in that are.
To be perfectly honest, in the UK, it is overpriced for what it offers.

[glamajamma Posted Mar 31st 2009 10:26AM]

These results are not surprising. Heavily biased but not surprising.

Example: the Apple Time Capsule?!?!? That choice is obvious knee jerk fanboism.
For the same price you could get a very nice raid 1 array with swappable drives to perform backups.
And including a router with a backup drive is like putting a VCR in a TV.

[lamzor Posted Mar 31st 2009 10:38AM]

So many apples. Makes me sick :)

[belarus23 Posted Mar 31st 2009 12:49PM]

storm is the worst gadget of the year? year right kills i phone any day
removable battery
expendable memory
insurance available
copy and paste
twice better camera
mms support out of the box
bb true push technology
pin messenger
offered on verizon's most reliable network

[belarus23 Posted Mar 31st 2009 12:57PM]

storm is the worst gadget of the year? year right kills i phone any day
removable battery
expendable memory
insurance available
copy and paste
twice better camera
mms support out of the box
bb true push technology
pin messenger
offered on verizon's most reliable network

[belarus23 Posted Mar 31st 2009 1:00PM]

oh forgot to mention app store is coming in 2 days and latest os upgrade apple beware ur days are over ahahahhaha

[HardcorePooka Posted Apr 3rd 2009 2:28AM]

Wow. And I really thought at least the editors of this site would have the ability to make rational decisions on best/worst lists. Guess I was wrong. I totally expected the apple fanboy readers choice picks... but the editors? Do you guys just throw darts at post-it notes to pick these lists?

[MKR Posted Apr 3rd 2009 8:30PM]

Darn, I missed the engadget awards post, I just finally read through it. I guess I'll miss all the Apple versus MS debates :(

Gimme a break though - time capsule!? As a computer nerd who uses Apple, PCs, Linux, crazy brand mp3 players, ipods, -- basically as a real gadget nerd, people always have asked me about what they are going to buy. It used to be a certain type of person would go for Macs, and I would tell them to go for it (heck, they are made for that kind of person). But, Apple has gotten out of hand! People are really brain washed. Apple is VERY bad for the computer and gadget world right now (more because of the Apple fanboys than because of Apple itself). Engadget has become quite pathetic as well (as far as being a gadget nerd place to go, now it's become a true media outlet, run by money). I wasn't depressed about the economy, but I am now getting depressed about the future of gadgets :(