Encrust yourself head-to-toe in diamonds and buy a velvet bow tie, because it’s red-carpet season in gadget land. The Oscars of the tech blogosphere, the Engadget Awards, are open for voting with the N95 8GB shortlisted for Gadget of the Year.
Up against wannabe greats such as the iPhone and HTC Kaiser, the N95 8GB should spank these contenders into next week. But the race for votes is on, and I can just picture an army of pencil-bearded Apple fan boys farming clicks in a network of underground sewers powered by thousands of blueberry G3 Macs, repeating the whispered mantra “iPhone till I die”.
Paranoid delusional? Certainly. But we must fight fire with fire, and rise up against the mere potential of seeing iPhone crowned as Engadget’s Gadget of the Year. So, let us start a click-happy crusade to ensure this doesn’t happen, and help guarantee the N95 8GB gets draped with the sash of glory it so rightfully deserves. Am I bias? Of course, I love mine. But is it the best gadget in the shortlist from an objective fence-sitter stance? Frankly, yes. See, here’s a gadget that has (with the help of it’s almighty predecessor) truly changed the landscape of convergence devices, proving that it can be done properly, excitingly and with true innovation at its core.
I’ve cast my vote. You know what to do…