NDTV announces winners of NDTV Gadget Guru Awards 2017

The NDTV Gadget Guru Awards 2017, in partnership with NEXA and 9Apps, recently honoured and acknowledged the best in the field of consumer electronics, gadgets, mobile applications and smartphones. Held at Kingdom of Dreams, Gurugram, this edition of NDTV Gadget Guru Awards included 19 categories with over 200 nominations.

Hosted by Vikram Chandra and Rajiv Makhani, the evening saw a host of tech gurus and brands gather to commemorate the change-makers and innovative thinkers from the technology world. Some of the eminent guests included Badshah, Cyrus Broacha, Ajay Bijli, Sonam Kalra, Sonal Kalra, R.S Kalsi, JJ Valaya, Ritu Beri, Rina Dhaka, Raman Roy, Reema Sen, Mohammad Kaif, Atul Wassan, and Asim Warsi, among others.

The categories and winners for this year’s awards are:

Categories	Winners
Audio Product of The Year	Devialet Phantom Gold
Consumer Electronic Product of The Year	XiaomiMi Air Purifier 2 and Amazon Fire TV Stick
Television Of The Year	LG Signature OLED 4K
Camera Of The Year	Go Pro Hero 5 Black
Portable Computing Product of the Year	Apple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
Tech Peripheral of The Year	Airtel Internet TV
Smartphone of The Year (Above Rs. 20,000)	Samsung Galaxy S8
Smartphone ofThe Year (Under Rs. 20,000)	XiaomiRedmi 4
NEXA Tech Innovation of the Year	HTC Vive
9APPS App of the Year	WhatsApp
Gaming App/Game of the Year	Pokémon Go
Wearable Gadget of the Year	Apple Watch Series 2
Tech Brand Ambassador of the Year	Alia Bhatt
Gadget Eye Candy Of The Year	HP Spectre
NDTV Gadget of the Year (Viewers’ Choice)	Samsung Galaxy S8
NDTV Gadget of the Year (Jury’s Choice)	Samsung Galaxy S8
Personal Audio Product of the Year	Sony MDR 1000X
Most Innovative Campaign of the Year	Jio
Corning® Gorilla® Glass Best Display on a Mobile Device	Acer Swift 7

On the sidelines of NDTV Gadget Guru Awards, Gadgets 360 launched Pricee.com, India’s first “search engine for shopping”. It aggregates over 60 million products across all categories (apparel, books, electronics, FMCG, appliances, sports equipment, etc.) from leading ecommerce stores in India. It is based on search algorithms built on top of Machine Learning to deliver fast and accurate results. Quality and ranking of search results are driven by Artificial Intelligence, which becomes better as the machine indexes more data. Built like a search engine and not a comparison site, the product is available on desktop, mobile and as Android and iPhone app on launch. The multi-language option enables the user to see search results in 10 Indian languages.

This year, the jury panel featured Prasanto K Roy, VP & Head of NASSCOM Internet, Mobile & E-commerce Council; Kishore Bhargava, Technology Consultant; Ashish K Bhatia, Independent Technology Writer and Nandagopal Rajan, Editor, Indian Express Online; and Chetan Bhagat, celebrated author, columnist and screenwriter; Gopal Sathe, Features Editor, Gadgets360; Anmol Taneja, Founder & CEO of Gadgets.in; Nishant Padhiar, Editor at Stuff and What Hi-Fi; Vikram Chandra, Consulting Editor, NDTV and Rajiv Makhni, Group Managing Editor, Technology, NDTV.

The awards will also be telecast on the NDTV Network and NDTV Good Times on July 22, 2017.