Once the year has ended and there has been no surprise in terms of news in the world of technology, it is time to count and check which have been the best gadgets that have reached the market throughout 2017. If you want to know , as well, what have been the worst electronic products that have been presented throughout 2017, I invite you to take a look at the article where I mention the worst gadgets of 2017.
Throughout the year that we have just started, we will have the opportunity to get to know the new products and devices that will arrive and succeed in the market through the different technology fairs that take place throughout the year, starting with CES held in Las Vegas, followed by the MWC held in Barcelona and ending with the IFA in Berlin. But while those dates arrive, we are going to review what they have been the best gadgets of 2017.
First of all, it must be borne in mind that some of the gadgets that we show you in this article have not been presented only in one of these technology fairs, but that the manufacturer has held a special event to announce it, so it we have only been pending of this type of events, but we have been all year pending to see, check and test the best and worst of technology over the past year.
Xbox One X
Although Microsoft introduced the Xbox One X in the middle of the year, it was not until the beginning of November when it hit the market and since then it has become the first console on the market capable of playing games in 4k resolution, without having to resort to emulation as if it happens with the PlayStation 4 Pro. The Xbox One X is available for 499 euros, 100 euros more than Sony's direct competition, PlayStation 4 Pro. In addition, it offers us a TB of internal storage along with a 4k UHD Blu-ray player , becoming the ideal multimedia center for any home Who wants to enjoy not only games at their highest resolution, but also any type of audiovisual content.
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Amazon was the first manufacturer to bet on a series of smart home speakers, which allows us to interact with it through voice commands. In 2014, it launched the first Amazon Echo powered by the assistant Alexa. Three years later and after having expanded the range of this type of product, it presented the Amzaon Echo Show, a smart speaker accompanied by a 7-inch screen, with which we can not only make calls or video calls to other Echo devices or smartphones that have the application installed on their smartphone, but we can also perform quick searches on the Internet, watch videos, play music, make purchases ...
Nintendo Switch
After the last commercial failures that the Japanese firm Nintendo had had in the world of consoles, the company has managed to take flight with the Nintendo Switch, a model that has quickly become the best-selling console throughout the year that We finished a few days ago, showing users that despite previous failures, the company's followers had not thrown in the towel and still had hope.
The Nintendo Switch offers us a portable console with a 6,2-inch screen, but we can also connect to our television to enjoy the large number of games that are already available for this device, comfortably from the sofa in our home. The Joy-Con, the controls that are located on the sides of the console, are easily uncoupled and become the control knobs when we want to enjoy games on TV, being a 2-in-1 console that we can take anywhere without any problem.
DJI Spark
The Chinese firm DJI has become not only a reference in the world of drones, but has also become the leader in the sector, being the manufacturer that offers us the most models, all of them with outstanding quality. DJI launched over the past year the Spark model, a mini drone, which takes off from our hand, which includes all DJI technologies and features In addition to the intelligent flight options, mechanical stabilizer and an integrated camera with an outstanding quality with which we can expand our creativity to the maximum.
But the really fun thing about this drone, we find it in the way of controlling it, since we can do it through gestures so that it takes shots when it is focusing on us The DJI Spark is capable of detecting us and following our path, be it walking, climbing, cycling ... to record our outdoor adventures without any member of the family being out of the plane, being able to avoid the obstacles that may be encountered in the path. We can also control it through a smartphone application that offers us a large number of options and possibilities.
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The mythical gray Super Nintendo console got older when it was relaunched last year The SNES Classic comes loaded with 21 retro games like Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong Country ... plus an unreleased game: Star Fox. Both the games and the console itself and the controls allow us to remember that time when we enjoyed the best console as dwarfs that was available on the market at that time. Despite the attempts made by Nintendo to prevent resale from being a common point of purchase for the most lagging users, as happened last year with the Nintendo Classic, it once again demonstrated how it did not expect the sales pull to be so high, and shortly after reaching the market it ran out of stock.
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The Cupertino-based company has once again become the latest manufacturer to embrace the technological advancements that had hit the market in recent years. And I am not only referring to a frameless device such as the iPhone X, but I am also referring to the use of OLED screens, a technology that has come from the hand of its maximum competitor and offers us an image quality never before seen in An iphone. But if the iPhone X stands out above the competition for something, it is because of the characteristic tab located at the top of the screen, a tab where the sensors that make the operation possible are located. unlocking the terminal through our face, since Apple has decided that the fingerprint sensor is history and is not available on the back of the device.
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Samsung has managed to recover from the failure of the Galaxy Note 7, a model that due to the battery problems that were affecting the device, was forced to withdraw it from the market. The Galaxy S8 and S8 +, were presented at the end of March, being the first terminals on the market with frames reduced to the maximum and with a side-by-side screen, which has not become a reference in the market since most manufacturers have put aside the option of curved screens on the sides. This screen offers us a spectacular sensation where almost the entire terminal is a screen and where rounded edges have a corresponding function allowing you to open applications from the edge of it, to give a useful use to the rounded edge.
Buy Samsung Galaxy S8 on AmazonThe Galaxy Note 8 was officially presented at the end of August, with a design that reminded us of the Galaxy S8 but larger, but with a dual camera and a spectacular optical image stabilizer that is currently the best we can find. in the world of telephony. In addition, the S-Pen comes again fully vitaminized, like the new generation and offers us a large number of new functions to be able to get the most out of the Note and all that it represents for all those users who cannot do without another terminal other than the Samsung Note.
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With notable improvements over its predecessor and a cheaper price than Sony's A9 Alpha, the recently introduced Sony Alpha A7R III it is one of the best mirrorless cameras ever made. The Sony Alpha A7R III has twice the resolution of the A9 model, it has an autofocus twice as fast as the A7R II, although it should be noted that the A9 offers faster burst shots. The lower price and increased performance are probably more than enough to impress professional and novice photographers alike.
Apple Watch Series 3 LTE
Although Apple's Apple Watch Series 3 is an improved version of the Series 3, many will think that it should not be on this list. And it really isn't. I only consider that the LTE model, a model that at the moment is not found in Spain or in any other Spanish-speaking country, if it should be, since it offers us the connectivity we seek on a day-to-day basis without having to resort to having always our iPhone stuck. The Apple Watch Series 3 LTE offers us integrated GPS, altimeter and LTE data connection With which we can go out to do sports while listening to Apple Music, without depending on the iPhone. The bad thing, as is usual in this type of device, is the battery life, but with time and new versions of watchOS it will improve, as it happened with the Samsung Gear S2 and S3 with LTE connection.