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Apple has daylong been a dearie of Time Magazine’s school writers. Just verify a countenance at the history

• The iPhone is 2007’s Gadget of the Year
• The iPhone is 2007’s Invention of the Year
• The MacBook Pro was Gadget of the Week backwards in 2006
• Several appearances on the cover

Heck, modify the Nike+ iPod outfit was appointed for Gadget of the Year in 2006. This year, the iPhone is listed at sort 3 on Time’s year-end list, “The Top 10 Everything.” I surmisal it was cod for a artefact (not that 3rd locate on a itemize reckoning “everything” is bad!). Second locate went to the Mitsubishi LaserVue 65-inch HDTV, patch the Optoma Pico PK-101 sits at the crowning spot.

The Pico, a pocket-sized projector for the iPod, prototypal caught our attention in November. Optoma has priced it at $399US and advisable a transport fellow of primeval incoming year.

So what accounted for the iPhone’s slip? Time claims an telecommunicate undergo base to that on a Blackberry as substantially as cipher action as a radiophone phone.

[Via MacNN]

TUAWiPhone is #3 on Time’s gadgets list originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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