When it comes to the best and worst tech products of
2010, top billing goes to Apple, according to the Wall Street Journal’s
venerable tech tester, Walter S. Mossberg. In a list ranking the year’s
highlights and disappointments, Mossberg named the Apple iPad as the best item
on offer particularly for a 1.0 product and additionally gave the iPhone 4 top
billing, tying it with the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone line for the number
three spot.
Second place went to the nation’s new 4G wireless
networks.
In his March 31 review
of the iPad, Mossberg wrote, “I believe this beautiful new touch-screen
device from Apple has the potential to change portable computing profoundly and
challenge the primacy of the laptop.” However, Mossberg he added that it would
have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough
common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative. This seems
to have come true.
Mossberg found it a refreshing change to carry
around the iPad, instead of a heavier, bulkier laptop; the iPad’s battery to
outlast even Apples promises for it; and the device to act as a better e-reader
than even the Amazon Kindle. Mossberg even enjoyed typing on the on-screen
keyboard which The New York Times tech critic David Pogue, who was
uncharacteristically more reserved in his comments, found just barely usable.
As for the nations 4G networks, Mossberg has likely
had more opportunities than most consumers to test them, but heading into 2011,
consumers certainly have a number of options.
For more, read the eWeek article: iPad, iPhone 4, Galaxy S Top Mossberg’s List of Top Devices in 2010.
