What is your gadget of the year?

DanMartin

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• Dec 11, 2009

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The traditional BusinessZone.co.uk and UK Business Forums Christmas Gadget Countdown is now up and running and we are looking for your suggestions for the most desirable bit of electronic kit or software for 2009.

Just like one of Santa's elves, executive peripherals editor Nigel Harris has been sorting through the potential contenders and posting his suggestions in his Gadget Zone blog on our sister site AccountingWEB.co.uk.

Harris is an accountant and is entitled to his views, but what really interests us is what gadgets and executive toys appeal most to entrepreneurs. Our definition for the term "gadget" is pretty wide. It doesn't necessarily have to be a work-related tool and can be hardware, software or a consumer electronics device. Basically, what is the thing you would most like to find under your tree on Christmas morning?

The Gadget of the Year will be awarded on the basis of popular acclaim via comments posted below and on BusinessZone.co.uk. As with previous years, similar polls are running on other Sift Media communities including Finance Week, HRzone.co.uk and TrainingZone.co.uk. Alongside each community winner, we will put forward a Sift Media Gadget of the Year.

May the best device or program win!

 

estwig

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• Dec 11, 2009

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Whhhhhhaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy, now I know Christmas is coming, you got your santa hat on Dan, cool!!!

 

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GreatSEO

• Dec 11, 2009

• #3

HTC Hero Phone

It really is a great peace of kit for a business if you are constantly on the move.

Hope this helps

Dave

 

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Bri

• Dec 12, 2009

• #4

UKSMF said:

HTC Hero Phone

It really is a great peace of kit for a business if you are constantly on the move.

Hope this helps

Dave

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a HTC Diamond, is the hero better?:|

I bought a UBISURFER, thought it was going to be the answer to my new found freedom on the train. Have hardly used it, had it since July, will have to practice with it.

 

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hereu

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• Dec 12, 2009

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HTC Hero here too and on this cracking deal from Business_No1 on here...

3,000 minutes any network any time
unlimited landlines
unlimited texts
unlimited internet & e-mail

£23.50 per month

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That deal was sweet while it lasted

 

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• Dec 12, 2009

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Every self respecting tradesman should have one of these it is certainly my gadget of the year.
I have lost count of how much time thay save.

Steve

 

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Willself

• Dec 12, 2009

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HEHEHEHE!! Mine would be new wheels on my Suit-case!lol

For those long Holidays we all need so badly!!LOL

 

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Mpg

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• Dec 12, 2009

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My Trusty SatNav

I resisted getting on for ages because the early ones were hassle

Found one that i could input 20 addresses and hit a button and it would sort them into an optimised route.

If it broke now i would be back in the dark ages

 

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Edward Moss

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• Dec 12, 2009

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Not very original but the iphone
And my new mac pro, means I'm spending less time at the computer

 

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gman

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• Dec 12, 2009

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blackberry

 

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vvaannmmaann

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• Dec 12, 2009

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Mpg said:

My Trusty SatNav

I resisted getting on for ages because the early ones were hassle

Found one that i could input 20 addresses and hit a button and it would sort them into an optimised route.

If it broke now i would be back in the dark ages

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It has to be the SatNag.
I use mine far more than any other gadget I have.

 

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Mpg

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• Dec 12, 2009

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vvaannmmaann said:

It has to be the SatNag.
I use mine far more than any other gadget I have.

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Yeah i got one of those last Xmas.

Made me laugh for ages the wife however doesnt think its funny

 

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vvaannmmaann

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• Dec 12, 2009

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Sorry.Typo,that should be satnaV !

 

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stockdam

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• Dec 12, 2009

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vvaannmmaann said:

Sorry.Typo,that should be satnaV !

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I wondered.

Satnag is ok for about a day (at most).

 

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John Stokdyk

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• Dec 24, 2009

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Bucking the trend once again this year, the UKBF members on this thread voted for HTC's Hero smartphone in preference to the Apple iPhone, which carried off the prize on both our sister sites Business Zone and AccountingWEB.co.uk (but only after an 11th hour vote on the latter site).

Overall, the iPhone is still convincingly ahead in the popular vote. HTC's cause was not helped by votes that were split between the Android-powered Hero and the Windows Mobile HD2 model.

I have to take my hat off to you people. Two years ago, UKBF members chose the iPhone as their Gadget of the Year when the popular vote on other sites favoured Nintendo's Wii console. Our rationale then was that entrepreneurs who paid for their own business technology were a little more focused on the practical paybacks than accountants, trainers and HR managers who got kit from their firms.

This year, however, when the other communities have finally acknowledged the iPhone's dominance, you're all looking for the Next Big Smartphone and it appears to be coming from HTC's direction.

I'll be very interested to see if the other sites follow your lead in next year's Christmas Gadget Countdown and whether the iPhone era is on the wane.

Merry Christmas everybody and thanks for taking part and helping to broaden our understanding of consumer and business electronics!

 

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• Dec 24, 2009

• #16

vvaannmmaann said:

It has to be the SatNag.
I use mine far more than any other gadget I have.

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You should not drink so much.

Earl

 

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• Dec 24, 2009

• #17

Is there a gadget that can zap mobile phones.?

I hate the bleeding things millions of morons shouting there heads off in public.

should have been called the hotair mobile.

Earl

 

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MaybachBillionaire

• Dec 24, 2009

• #18

iPhone (all the different models).

Posting this from my 3GS now, best phone I've ever owned (and I have had a LOT of phones!)

 

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