Nominations Are Open for 2008 GottaBeMobile Awards
We are pleased to announce that nominations for the 2008 GottaBeMobile Awards are now being accepted. We have several categories of awards, and will be accepting nominations from our readers for each category. Based on the nominations and feedback received from our readers, as well as our own meeting of the minds, the staff of GottaBeMobile.com will pick a winner in each category. Submit your nominations for each category by replying with a comment to this article. Nominations will be open through December 12th, with the winners announced on December 15th. The winning companies will be sent their own GottaBeMobile.com Splotch.
This years categories are:
- Mobile PC of the Year
- Software of the Year
- Mobile Gadget of the Year
- Most Promising Technology of the Year
- Biggest Wow! of the Year
- Biggest Letdown of the Year
To be considered for Mobile PC, Software, or Mobile Gadget of the Year, the product must have been launched or a new version released, and available for purchase during 2008.
Category: Accessories, Hardware, Mobile, Software
I didn’t really understand what this is about?
Is this a contest?
Please explain.
Readers submit nominations in each category and we’ll pick a winner and award the winning companies a Splotch. This is not a reader contest, but a way to recognize various companies in the industry about what we like / don’t like.
Oh, thanks!
-Mobile PC of the Year: Lenovo X60 tablet
-Software of the Year: Outlook 2007 and the Microsoft TIP
-Mobile Gadget of the Year: My Samsung c260
-Most Promising Technology of the Year: Hmmm tough choice: It will have to be both the Lenovo X200tablet and the HTC Touch HD
-Biggest Wow! of the Year: Windows 7
-Biggest Letdown of the Year: little improvement and innovation of inking technology.
@medic – the x60 tablet was not launched during 2008. The x200 was, though. Same for Outlook 2007 – see the guidelines above.
Mobile PC: Fujitsu T5010
Software: Bluebeam PDF Revu 6.x
Mobile Gadget: -
Most Promising Technology: tiny laser projectors
Biggest Wow!: the first useable MLC SSD from Intel
Biggest Letdown: capacitive touch and no good implementation except of image manipulation.
Mobile PC – HP TX2 – affordable, LED, capacitive touch
Software –
Mobile Gadget – G1
Most Promising Technology – Memristors
Biggest Wow! – Intel’s Core i7
Biggest Letdown – Blackberry Storm
Some of these were really hard to pick. Nothing has blown me away in terms of PC or gadget. Letdown was tough between the Storm and Gateway’s new sales model. Same for Memristors and Windows 7 for most promising technology. And I can’t even name any software that came out this year.
Mobile PC: Samsung NC 10
Software: Snagit 9
Mobile Gadget: iPhone 3G
Most Promising Technology: Intel Atom and other Low Power Processors
Biggest Wow!: Windows 7 pre beta!
Biggest Letdown: HTC Touch HD
Biggest Letdown of the Year: The iPhone!
Mobile PC: Apple Ipod Touch
Software: FireFox version 3
Mobile Gadget: Nokia N810 Tablet
Most Promising Technology: tiny laser projectors
Biggest Wow!: Ustream Website
Biggest Letdown: Aiptek Action HD Camcorder
* Mobile PC of the Year–Asus EEE PC. Started netbook craze.
* Software of the Year–Firefox 3. Better than ever. Customizable. Free.
* Mobile Gadget of the Year–16 gig USB key. Carry a portable desktop, use any computer.
* Most Promising Technology of the Year–N-Trig capacitive touch. Yeah, I know the Dell XT is a long way from perfect, but the integrated capacitive touch and inking is still a magnificent technology. Give it some time.
* Biggest Wow! of the Year–iPhone. How did it become such a “must have?”
* Biggest Letdown of the Year–Vista SP 1. Still didn’t fix so many issues.
* Mobile PC of the Year – Dell Latitude XT. Despite its detractors and problems, the first multi-touch, capacitive convertible should be recognized. Dell took a risk, and if they aren’t rewarded for it, they might not try again.
Mobile PC: HP EliteBook 2730p
Software: Gottabemobile.com’s re-design and ink enabled forum
Mobile Gadget: iPhone
Most Promising Technology: Windows 7 pre beta
Biggest Wow!: TouchSmart tx2
Biggest Letdown: Lack of interest by the italian OEMs to engage and support italian tablet pc sites
Hi Rob:
Ah, yes, well, uhmm….
well I guess I lost my chance to choose best mobile pc. I have not had the opportunity to test the other and voting voor the x200t would be argued as a suggested option by the jury, which would alter the truthfulness of choice. So I will accept my loss of vote on that part.
As for the software I would choose CCcleaner as an alternative to outlook 2007.
Axiotron Modbook for mobile gadget or most promising technology!
Mobile PC: 2730p
Software: Firefox
Mobile Gadget: iPhone 3G
Most Promising Technology: Capacitive Touch
Biggest Wow!: 2730p!
Biggest Letdown: N-Trig :(
Mobile PC: Hp TX series tablets
Software: OneNote and Dragon NS10
Mobile Gadget: iphone 3G
Most promising tech: Capacitive touch
Biggest WOW. iphone 3G
biggest let down: Microsoft’s continuing pathetic marketing of the tablet pc.
* Mobile PC of the Year: (The landscape-altering netbooks in general, but if made to pick just one netbook, I’d still nominate the Eee PC, if only for the sheer number of variations Asus managed to release this year.)
* Software of the Year: InkSeine! (Love it!)
* Mobile Gadget of the Year: Netbooks
* Most Promising Technology of the Year: 24 hour battery life for laptops!
* Biggest Wow! of the Year: InkSeine!
* Biggest Letdown of the Year: (Even in the year of the Netbook, none of the models released had excellent tablet – i.e. natural handwritten notetaking – support)
Mobile PC: 2730p
Software: Opera 9.5 for making the TIP work in Opera
Gadget: Targus wireless presenter
Promising technology: e-Ink tablets and Silver Zinc batteries
Wow: The Intel UrbanMax concept.
Letdown: Tied between Fedex whos inneptitude made RMAing a tablet hell and the continued lack of a smart phone that can last a full days hard use.
Mobile PC of the Year => Sahara Tabletkiosk i440D (refreshed with Intel® Core™ 2 Duo LV L7400 @ 1.5 GHz)
Software of the Year => ritePen
Mobile Gadget of the Year => LG KC910 RENOIR
Most Promising Technology of the Year => hydrogen refillable batteries
Biggest Wow! of the Year => Windows 7 in time for now.
Biggest Letdown of the Year => multi-touch on resistive screens is not already here !!! (or provide penabled capacitive ones).