"Technology has changed the world", I believe that readers who are surrounded by a lot of innovative technology and enjoy a variety of conveniences every day must be able to empathize with this sentence. And as we approach the Chinese New Year, many of our friends have put purchasing a variety of digital hardware and technology products on their agenda.
Then the question arises: in the face of a large number of tech products, which ones are really worth buying?
The recent tech awards ceremony may provide a good reference for everyone.
January 23, 2018, to "technology without boundaries" as the theme of the Zhongguancun Online 2018 annual technology conference and product awards ceremony was held in Beijing.
The ceremony brought together industry leaders and industry experts*** to discuss the hottest product topics in the current technology industry: 5G technology will bring new growth points for global services; blockchain technology will effectively affect our lives in 2018. Zhongguancun Online is looking forward to reviewing the technology industry with leaders and elites***, taking the pulse of technology trends, and exploring more innovative breakthrough points.
Since its birth, Zhongguancun Online has witnessed the ups and downs of the technology industry for eighteen years; as a practitioner of the mission of the technology media, Zhongguancun Online has also continued to use its power to boost the forward development of the technology industry. At the scene of the Technology Conference and Product Awards Ceremony, Zhongguancun Online awarded the 2018 "Annual Excellent Product Award", "Annual Outstanding Product Award" and "Annual Game Equipment Award", "Annual Industry Promotion Award" four awards, including 27 excellent products, 129 annual excellent products and 155 annual recommended products. It mainly covers 15 categories, including mobile (communication) devices, PCs and tablets, intelligent traveling products, imaging products, audio devices, intelligent innovations, and DIY accessory products.
2018 is also the 10th anniversary of Zhongguancun Online's annual technology product awards, and the product awards ceremony has been carried out for the third time. In this year, in addition to the professional review from Zhongguancun Online, it also combines the data from the Tmall Boiling Point Index list to make the selection results more representative and authoritative from the perspectives of both industry and users. In this way we hope to encourage technological innovation through the coronation of outstanding products; we hope to explore the direction of the industry through the wisdom storm with industry leaders, technical experts and users.
2017 technology industry revitalization spiral upward trend is clear
From the downturn in 2015 to the trough in 2016, the technology industry seems to have entered the winter period. Time into 2017, the whole industry revitalized. Technology giants have All in AI, smart products are closer to practical; AR, VR's voice is increasing again, and the practical value of the product continues to improve; the first year of the cell phone full-screen opens, and the recognition technology becomes the second battlefield; the game application drives the hardware market to warm up, and the performance of the new chip-level products breaks through; the rise of the middle class and consumption upgrading, and home appliances breakthroughs in the interconnectivity, intelligence, and new technology in many aspects ......
In this regard, Zhongguancun Online General Manager Gao Yingbing said that the biggest charm of the technology industry is the continuous upgrading and innovation of technology and products! Throughout the industry's past trajectory, the spiral upward trend is always clear.
This year, Zhongguancun Online annual technology product awards selection ushered in the tenth anniversary. Zhongguancun Online adhere to the significance of technology product awards in which? "First, it can help the brands in this industry to get growth; second, it helps the users in the industry to be able to buy smarter and correctly." Gao Yingbing pointed out.
Low-tech era of high-tech industry 2018 where the new high-tech
Current high-tech products rely only on low price competition is no longer the mainstream, they will be the same as the most traditional low-tech industrial products to distinguish between different market positioning, high-quality products in the growing consumer capacity of the Chinese market is also a strong competitiveness. Simply put, the demand has gone from low price to quality.
For technology information is a kind of reverse promotion. That is, information from geeks to customers. Now users of technology products have gone from professional to consumer, they want to see not technical concepts and rational analysis, but how to work in daily life, buy good, good technology products, improve efficiency, solve problems, bring fun. High-tech products only produce practical value, practical solutions to the problems of low-tech life, is now what users need.
In 2017 the PC industry revitalized; DIY industry development unexpected and expected; the cell phone industry experienced a second outbreak as well as experience enhancement; the imaging industry is to return to the origin of photography; the home appliance industry consumption upgrading + intelligent interconnectivity
Looking forward to 2018 the industry also needs new technology to promote. In 2018 will be able to look forward to more practical landing applications, and no longer picture recognition voice dialog. Cameras that can have artificial intelligence can help users take more beautiful photos; sweeping robots with artificial intelligence can clean the room when it is most convenient for you; TVs with artificial intelligence can automatically optimize the picture quality and even improve the resolution. These are already features of existing and upcoming products. Artificial intelligence will bring us more surprises in 2018.
The launch of 5G is also an important point of view in 2018, and in this year we will see that 5G will be commercialized on a trial basis, in addition to providing higher bandwidth for mobile communications, 5G's connectivity and ultra-low-latency and other features. The surge of Bitcoin made many people know the concept of blockchain in 2017. And the application value of blockchain technology goes far beyond digital currency.
The growth point of 5G global services and the impact of the industry
The number of first closures and discussions of 5G technology continued to heat up in the past 2017, and two years later this key change will bring heart-stopping business opportunities in the fields of technology layout, people's lives, and industry applications.
For the impact brought by 5G, Qualcomm believes that the impact of 5G in addition to cell phones on the car, the technology of the car network. The cell phone to provide to the current high speed in addition to low-latency applications, low-latency can produce VR and virtual reality. 5G has a better experience than the video, I talk to my family remotely through remote medical, remote education, all aspects of the new experience can be produced, and there are new application scenarios.
For cell phone manufacturers, the impact of 5G comes from many aspects. OPPO said, whether it is 4G products or 5G products, we can see a variety of novelty products, we will still look for the real combination with 5G, can really change the user's life, to provide users with a better life experience.
The impact of 5G on the industry is also manifold, especially at the end of 2019 when there will be pilot commercial cities one after another, and the products of terminal manufacturers can be listed. From 2020 onwards, there should be substantial terminal products will support 5G.
Opportunities of blockchain and its derivatives, as well as hidden worries
Blockchain is undoubtedly a hot topic in the near future. To put it bluntly blockchain is a distributed ledger updated in real time. Although Bitcoin has become the most successful application of blockchain today, blockchain is still in the early stages of development, and many people have embraced it, but new things usually contain opportunities and worries.
The opportunity of blockchain is that in the closed loop of ecological services, the value of blockchain is very large. Based on the underlying technology of this technology chain, it can make our information more real in the blockchain chain, and make our information more transparent and efficiently displayed to each link of the whole industrial chain, so that our whole industrial cooperation can be more efficient. At the same time the digital credit system based on the blockchain, that is, after we all have digital assets, can really usher in the **** enjoyment economy.
The blockchain hidden worry is that the blockchain and its derivatives should not be used as a way to speculate and get rich quick, the future shape of virtual goods combined with goods with real tangible applications, measured in legal tender digital currency.
For investment in the blockchain should pay attention to the place, is that at this stage for the blockchain is a small-scale learning to understand, do not hold a gambler's mentality.
27 products crowned annual excellence award
In 2018, Zhongguancun Online annual technology product awards selection ushered in the tenth anniversary. This year's annual technology product awards selection lasted two months, by ZOL hundred professional jury through the degree of innovation, application value and cost-effective three dimensions, in the entire year of 2017 included in the Zhongguancun Online product library of 46,583 products, selected 312 shortlisted products.
The selection involves products mainly covering 15 categories, including mobile (communication) devices, PCs and tablets, intelligent travel products, imaging products, audio devices, intelligent innovations, DIY accessory products, computer peripheral products, home display devices, white goods, household appliances, purification products, commercial display products, commercial office products, and enterprise-level products.
Through: "limited shortlisting, market test, 100 tests, editorial selection, netizen votes, experts finalized" six processes, over a period of two months to determine the final, selected 129 outstanding products of the year and 155 recommended products of the year. And then after layers of rigorous selection, the final 27 excellence award products honored.
In addition to the above meticulous and professional selection process. This year, Zhongguancun Online also combined the data from the Tmall Boiling Point Index list to make the selection results more representative and authoritative from both the industry and user perspectives.
Excellence Product of the Year Award
Mobile (Communication) Device Excellence Award
Huawei Mate10 Pro
vivo X20
OPPO R11s
Samsung Gaylord Note8
PC and Tablet Excellence Award
ASUS ROG Gamer Nation GX501
Microsoft SurfaceStudio
Award of Excellence for Intelligent Mobility Products
E Guest Electric E1 Plus
Award of Excellence for Imaging Products
Nikon D850
Canon G1 X MarkIII
Canon EF 85mmf/1.4 L IS USM
Audio Device Excellence Award
BOSE SoundLinkRevolve
1MORE Quad-unit Coil Iron Headphones
Apple AirPods
Zenith The Ones Series
Smart Innovation Excellence Award
Samsung Gear S3
DIY Accessories & Peripherals Excellence Award
AMD Ryzen 7 Series
ASUS ROGRapture GT-AC5300 Gaming Router
Home Display Excellence Award
Sony OLED 65A1
Samsung QLED Luminous Mass Sub-Dot TV QA65Q8CAM
Haisin 4K Laser TV L6
Life Appliances Excellence Award
iRobot Roomba 980 Sweeping Robot
XinYi Xiaobai Pro
Commercial Office & Display Excellence Award
HP A3PagewideP77760z Managed Intelligent Color Page Wide Laminator
Epson CB-710Ui
Enterprise Product Excellence Award
HP ZBOOK x2
Huawei AR651W-X4 Gateway
Ruijie High-Density MICE Wireless Solution
Industry of the Year Promotion Award
The high-tech industry always needs new power and new technology to promote the development of the whole industry, and this year, Zhongguancun Online has selected two excellent partners to recognize their contribution to the advancement of the whole technology industry.
Qualcomm 50X 5G
LG display OLED TV
Game Gear of the Year Award
This year, driven by the gaming industry, the PC as well as the DIY industry has grown significantly. new processors are constantly being added to the upstream processor of the PC industry, and at the application level, games such as Eat Chicken and King's Honor have re-discovered the gamers, and are beginning to stimulate the PC and DIY market.
Now through: "limited shortlisting, market test, a hundred tests, editorial selection, netizen votes, experts finalized trial" six processes finally selected the following products to win the annual Zhongguancun Online Game Equipment of the Year Award.
Processor:
Intel Core i78700K processor
Motherboard:
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X APEX motherboard
GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 motherboard
Graphics card:
Seven Rainbow iGame GTX1080Ti Kudan Graphics Card
Sothai GeForce GTX 1080Ti-11GD5X Gamer Power Supreme Graphics Card
Shadowchip GeForce GTX 1080Ti Hall of Fame Limited Edition Graphics Card
Electromechanical:
Hangzhou Gigabyte MVP ARES Battle God Chassis
Golden Rivera 21+Vantage Z3 power supply<
Patriot Gaming 700 Power Supply
Xingu Kunlun KL-1080W Power Supply
Monitor:
AGON AG251FX Monitor
Whitaker GF40 Monitor
Samsung C49HG90 Quantum Dot Monitor
Headset:
Wanmu Spearhead VR gaming headset
Smartech G941 White Shark noise-canceling headset
Keyboards and Mice:
Dalu EM925pro Mouse
Bloodthirsty Ghost J95 Twin Gunslinger RGB Colorful Manga Gaming Mouse
Mercantile Corsair K95RGB Platinum Edition