Saturday, January 3, 2015

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Underdog of the Year: Blackberry

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:59 PM PST

Take a look through articles on tech websites regarding Blackberry through 2014 and you may see why we think the company deserves the Underdog of the Year award. Outlets routinely round on the company and the general consensus is the Blackberry is not worth scrap and is doomed. This comes from agenda driven peers of ours who should know better and get some research done, because Blackberry is a rebounding company that has actually had a good 2014.
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Confusing Company of the Year: OnePlus

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:59 PM PST

Sure, you won't see this category in too many assessments of 2014, but we felt that OnePlus deserved a special category all for itself, because what a first full year as a business it has been. Announcing itself in 2013 with its Never Settle slogan, the company was bold before it even created the simply fantastic OnePlus One smartphone.
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Disappointment of the Year: Galaxy S5

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:59 PM PST

This is a pretty bold choice we feel, simply because the Galaxy S5 is one of the best smartphones on the market. However, 2014 was a year in which most of the major vendors raised their game considerably, we're thinking the LG G3, the HTC One M8, iPhone 6, and a number of efforts from Chinese companies. Next to a slew of stunning flagships and even Samsung's later Galaxy Note 4, the S5 looks stale
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Smartphone of the Year: LG G3

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:59 PM PST

This was quite easily the hardest category we tackled for our look back on 2014. The list of devices we could have named is long, ranging from the HTC One M8, the iPhone 6 Plus, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, the Motorola DROID Turbo, and many more from all price points. However, LG's G3 flagship takes the award for the way it announced the company among the best smartphone makers in the world.
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Surprise of the Year: Samsung's Decline

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:58 PM PST

One could argue that Samsung's utter dominance in the smartphone world was an anomaly and that the company was riding too high on an unsustainable model. The Korean giant was and indeed still is the biggest smartphone maker in the world, but this time last year its market share was through the roof, profits were high, and only Apple provided any real threat.
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Success of the Year: Apple

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:58 PM PST

There are a number of candidates here. LG for example finally arrived in the smartphone elite with the G3 flagship and recorded record sales in 2014, while Xiaomi has shaken the industry with its business model that has impacted Samsung particularly hard. However, we decided to yield to convention and choose the company that above all others really does define success in the smartphone world... Apple.
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Failure of the Year: Amazon Fire Phone

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:58 PM PST

While deciding our awards there was usually an argument in the office as there are admittedly multiple worthy candidates in each category. However, when deciding the Failure of the Year there was hushed silence, followed by an almost instant outpouring of the same answer... the Amazon Fire Phone.
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HP Debuts Pro Tablet 408 G1

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 06:45 AM PST

HP has quietly launched a new tablet on its website, opting not to reveal the device at next week's CES trade show in Las Vegas. That's because the HP Pro Tablet 408 G1 is not a particularly exciting slate and the PC giant is gearing it towards enterprise users and not general consumers. That's not to say you can't buy it, and it's arguably better than the company?s HP Stream 8.
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