2015 was the year of new and innovative gadgets. We bring you a host of gadgets and technologies introduced and explored, top 10 gadgets unveiled in 2015:
1) iPad Pro
The Pro is a lot more expensive than other iPads. What you get in return is a larger screen, more performance, similar battery life (roughly 8 to 10 hours) and the ability to use some exclusive but separately sold (and expensive) accessories. Once you get past this, you’ll see that for some scenarios, the iPad Pro is an ideal device: for instance, it’s a natural fit for designers & illustrators on the move. It’s cheaper than something like the Wacom Cintiq 13HD Touch and can do a lot more.
It can replace a laptop if all you want is document editing, web and multimedia. And it’s great as a family tablet because multiple people can use it simultaneously. The question is, can you buy this one device instead of a tablet and a laptop? We think not. It’s too unwieldy as a tablet and too expensive compared to mainstream laptops. But it’s still an amazing iPad — one that has relegated all our other iPads to the bottom drawer of our cupboard.
2) Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Samsung ditched its old phone design and started afresh with this handset and the result is stunning. The Galaxy S6 Edge features a crisp Super AMOLED screen that curves down both sides, tricking the brain into thinking it’s even thinner than 7mm. Its metal and glass delivers a more premium finish, its 16-megapixel quick-launching camera and upgraded fingerprint scanner make the phone better to use day to day, and are enough to forgive its lack of expandable memory.
3) Microsoft Surface Book
4) OnePlus X
The amount of great phones being offered for sublime prices is increasing every year, and the OnePlus X is a seminal achievement in the budget premium category. It’s one of the best built phones of the year with a classic design constructed with little trimming. Add in one of the best Android operating systems in Oxygen OS and you have an all-around phone that more than pulls its weight against the big boys from Samsung and Google.
5) Google Nexus 6P
Google’s new big-screen phone ticks the right boxes: premium aluminium body, reliable, rear fingerprint scanner, more pixels than the iPhone (518ppi), powerful 2GHz octa-core chip, pure Android Marshmallow software, and a USB-C port. But its biggest and most impressive addition is that of a 12.3-megapixel rear camera with a large f2.0 aperture and larger pixels for lowlight shots.
Sphero BB-8
Even beyond this tech toy’s Star Wars: Episode VII connection, this Sphero creation is enormous fun to use. The drone can be directed from your phone like a remote-control robot, or ordered to roam autonomously. Using your phone, it can also deliver augmented reality messages with a Star Wars theme.
6) Moto 360
When it comes to wearables, fashion trumps function. That’s the mantra Motorola went by when it designed and developed the Moto 360, and judging by the enthusiastic response the watch received when it was unveiled earlier this year, plenty of people agree. The Moto 360 is undoubtedly the best-looking of the three inaugural Android Wear watches (the LG G Watch and the Samsung Gear Live are the other two), with its premium leather strap, chamfered glass and circular design.
7) Apple iPhone 6S Plus
8) Samsung 78JS9500 Curved TV
When you look at the real world you don’t perceive it as just a flat ‘screen’. The rounded nature of your eyeballs gives you peripheral vision too, so that you’re aware of the world extending around you to your sides. By curving the edges of their pictures toward you, curved TVs try to replicate this sense of a world to the side of as well as in front of you, making you feel more immersed in what you’re watching.
By curving the edges of their pictures gently forward, curved TVs appear to fill more of your field of view than flat ones – so long as you’re sat in roughly the right position, at any rate.
9) Dell XPS 13
10) TeeWe 2
India’s competition to Chromecast included a lot more features in its second avatar and continues to evolve.
Media streamers like TeeWe2 and Google’s Chromecast are an economical and simple way to turn your dumb LED/LCD TV into an internet connected screen. These let you play online content through your smart device over the same Wi-Fi network. However, a large number of media streaming services are not available in India yet, which is also the reason why we mostly download and play content. Another reason for this is the limited bandwidth and relatively slower internet speeds.