Tech Awards 2020: Your guide to the best tech buying recommendations

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About The Tech Awards

In its 11th year running, the annual HWM + HardwareZone.com Tech Awards is back to honour all the outstanding tech brands and revolutionary products launched last year! From gadgets and services to communication and gaming, we get ready to give props to the best in the industry last year.

Tech Awards consists of two segments, Readers’ Choice voting to determine the best brands from readers of HWM and HardawareZone, while the Editor’s Choice segment identifies best tech products as tested by the review team.

Editor’s Choice

Our Editors have put your favourite tech gadgets through rigorous tests and bestowed our coveted Editor’s Choice award to those with outstanding features, performance and value.

Here are the detailed results for each of the 19 Editor’s Choice categories spread out into these sections:

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No.
Award Category
Winner
1
Best Desktop CPU
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
2
Best Motherboard
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Xtreme
3
Best Graphics Card
ASUS ROG Strix RTX2080S A8G Gaming
4
Best Wi-Fi 6 Router
ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX11000
5
Best Ultraportable Notebook
HP Spectre x360 13
6
Best SOHO Printer
Canon PIXMA Ink Efficient G7070
7
Best Workgroup Office Printer
HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M479fdw
8
Best Smartwatch
Apple Watch Series 5
9
Best Noise Cancelling Headphones
Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700
10
Best True Wireless Earbuds
Sony WF-1000XM3
11
Best 4K TV
LG C9 OLED TV (OLED65C9PTA)
12
Best 8K TV
Samsung Q900R 8K QLED TV (QA75Q900RBKXXS)
13
Best Smartphone
Samsung Galaxy Note10+
14
Best Gaming Notebook
Aftershock Vapor 15 Pro
15
Game of the Year
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
16
Innovation Award
Samsung Galaxy Fold
17
Innovation Award
Samsung micro-LED display technology
18
Innovation Award
Samsung ISOCELL Bright HMX mobile image sensor
19
Innovation Award
ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo

Readers’ Choice

The Readers’ Choice Awards are given to products and services with the highest number of votes cast by our readers of HWM and HardwareZone.com.

Here's the  detailed results breakdown for each of the 40 Readers’ Choice categories.

No.
Award Category
Winner
1
Best Motherboard Brand
ASUS
2
Best Graphics Card Brand
ASUS
3
Best SSD Brand
Samsung
4
Best External Storage Brand
Seagate
5
Best Removable Flash Storage Brand
SanDisk
6
Best NAS Brand
Synology
7
Best Wireless Networking Brand
ASUS
8
Best IP Camera Brand
D-Link
9
Best Home Printer Brand
Canon
10
Best Office Printer Brand
Fuji Xerox
11
Best Ultraportable Notebook Brand
Apple
12
Best Convertible Notebook Brand
ASUS
13
Best Business Notebook Brand
Lenovo
14
Best PC Components Retailer (Singapore)
Fuwell
15
Best Smartwatch Brand
Apple
16
Best True Wireless Earbuds Brand
Apple
17
Best Active Noise Cancelling Headphones Brand
Sony
18
Best Smart Speaker Brand
Sonos
19
Best Home Theater System Brand
Bose
20
Best Business Projector Brand
Epson
21
Best Home Theater Projector Brand
Sony
22
Best TV Brand
Samsung
23
Best Camera Brand
Canon
24
Best Consumer Electronics Chain Store (Singapore)
Challenger
25
Best Electronics Shopping Portal (Singapore)
Lazada
26
Best Shopping Rebate Service (Singapore)
Shopback
27
Best Smartphone Brand
Apple
28
Best Telco Service Provider (Singapore)
Singtel
29
Best MVNO Service Provider (Singapore)
MyRepublic
30
Best Mobile Data Roaming Service Provider (Singapore)
Singtel
31
Best Fibre Broadband Service Provider (Singapore)
Singtel
32
Best Pay TV Service Provider (Singapore)
StarHub
33
Best Video Streaming Service Provider (Singapore)
Netflix
34
Best Gaming Monitor Brand
ASUS
35
Best Gaming Keyboard Brand
Razer
36
Best Gaming Mouse Brand
Logitech
37
Best Gaming Desktop PC Brand
ASUS
38
Best Gaming Notebook Brand
ASUS
39
Best PC Games Digital Storefront
Steam
40
Best Gaming Publisher
Activision Blizzard

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