For our first annual Smartphone Camera Shooutout, we tested nine leading devices from all the major brands. This contest is not about which phone offers the flashiest features. We tested each handset under a variety of conditions to determine which one truly captures the most accurate, colorful and detailed images. With assistance and analysis from our staff photographer, we ranked each photo in each round from 1 to 9 and then averaged each phone's rank across all of our tests to determine a winner.
This superlight 10-inch Android tablet weighs barely over a pound and is thinner than a pencil. Packed inside are a quad-core processor, a bright and crisp full-HD display, an IR transmitter, NFC and a host of clever apps to take advantage of that hardware. As if that weren't enough, the Tablet Z can survive being dunked in water for up to a half-hour. It's our Editor's Choice.
MSI has undergone an "Extreme Makeover: Badass Edition." Its new $2,799 GT70 gaming rig is one of the first notebooks to debut with a fourth-generation, quad-core Intel Haswell CPU. It's also rocking a Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M chip, which was recently declared the world's fastest notebook GPU. Did we mention the wicked limited edition dragon motif? Read on to learn why the GT70 might be the new titan of gaming notebooks.