STUFF AWARDS 2024

What a year! What a lot of gear! Struggling to remember what's hot and what's not? We've done the hard work for you - welcome to 23 pages celebrating the very best tech to have come out in the past 12 months. If you're planning to add something to your gadget arsenal, these are all excellent choices.

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3D lover

The iPhone 16 allows for spatial capture of photos and video, so you can relive your memories in 3D with the Apple Vision Pro.

One more byte

The iPhone 16's new A18 chip is behind the leap in camera capabilities, overall performance and battery efficiency.

PHONE OF THE YEAR

APPLE IPHONE 16

It was awesome even before its headline innovation, the Apple Intelligence suite of AI tools, turned up. Robo-assisted shopping lists aside, though, there's more than enough about the iPhone 16 to make it this year's top phone. While it looks very similar to its last-gen equivalent, it's improved in several key areas.

Battery life is better - enough that we noticed the extra hour or so of use it provides. The biggest glow-up, however, is the camera: it now has a 2x telephoto zoom mode, while the new Camera Control hardware button makes opening and using this iPhone's snapping app a more slick and user-friendly process.

Last time around, we'd have recommended the Pro model as the go-to choice for anyone buying a new iPhone; with this generation, the baseline iPhone 16 proves itself to be more than enough smartphone for most of us.

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