We love to celebrate truly fantastic gadgets, so as well as awarding review scores to every bit of kit to cross our desks, we’re also now dishing out special awards for the gadgets that warrant extra praise. You can see them above, and they’re now appearing across our reviews pages too. What does a product need to qualify for a special award? Read on, and we’ll break it down.
The Angry Birds PC version was an inevitability: Rovio’s franchise is a modern-day gaming phenomenon that shows no signs of slowing down. It’s already comprehensively conquered the iPhone and Android platforms, and even boasts its own range of must-have merchandise – we’re eagerly awaiting the Angry Birds board game due in May. Find out if it’s made the transition to Windows XP and Windows 7 successfully in our Angry Birds PC review right here.
The Boxee Box first snared our interest at CES in January. Almost a year has passed since then, and yet it’s held our fickle affections remarkably well. That’s partly down to its odd design, but mostly due to the chipper folks at Boxee itself.
Begun as a media centre-style app for desktop PCs and Macs, Boxee gained notoriety as an Apple TV hack, finally making Apple’s set top companion able to play files beyond the reach of iTunes. Now, it’s at home inside a box of its own, how does it measure up? Read our full Boxee Box review and we’ll spill the beans.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has cause a lot of consternation and confusion in the months since it was first announced. Is it a sequel or not? Would a follow up just a year after Assassin’s Creed 2 mean it was rushed, buggy and uninspired? We’re still not sure about the former, and frankly, we don’t think Ubisoft is either. But we can allay all fears about the latter: this, friends, is game of the year. Read on to find out why in our Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood review.
Create for PS3 Move goes on sale on Friday, aiming to draw some of the attention back from Microsoft Kinect in the motion control wars. If you’ve caught the trailer already, it’s hard not to see it as a cross between Scribblenauts on the Nintendo DS and LittleBigPlanet, but can it match either for ingenuity and gaming enjoyment? Read our Create for PS3 Move review to find out.
The Nokia C7 was announced months after the Nokia N8, but Espoo’s been a tad more hasty getting this one on to shop shelves, and you now have a choice when it comes to buying a Symbian 3 smartphone. Are you spoiled for said choice, or is it one between a rock and a hard place? Find out in our full Nokia C7 review right here.
There’s no doubt the Nokia N8 marks the beginning of a sea change for Espoo. Nokia is slowly, surely, starting to gather up all the mojo it’s slopped all over the floor in the years since the Nokia N95, and that fightback begins with the combination of Symbian 3 and the Nokia N8, the company’s highest spec smartphone yet. How does it handle? We’ve been putting it through its paces and have the answers for you, here in our Nokia N8 review.
The HTC 7 Mozart sits next to the HTC HD7 and HTC 7 Trophy as one of the Taiwanese phone peddler’s Windows Phone 7 launch handsets. Confusing, we know, but this one is not the gigantic or economy model – the HTC 7 Mozart has a dual focus on photography and music. Hence, you know, Mozart. Is this blower blasting out more hot air than fab features? Find out in our full HTC 7 Mozart review.
