Best of Tech in 2007

Ed Baig, technology reviewer for USA Today, reflects on the year's best technological developments and products. From smartphones to mobile television, check out some of the smartest ideas that surfaced in 2007.

Ed Baig counts down the best tech gadgets for the year
USA Today
Dec. 27, 2007

Home telephone service without a monthly bill. A bookstore that delivers best sellers to an e-book reader in a jiffy. And a smartphone that all but rewrites the rules of what a cellphone should be. These were among the tech items to capture my fancy this year. It's customary for columnists to compile annual "best of" lists. A list this year has to start with Apple's (AAPL) seminal wunderkind, the iPhone....And yet even as it advances the state of the art, the iPhone - and all the products on the 2007 Baig's Best list - is something less than perfect. Perhaps more than other years, the roster includes products because they're cool or broke new ground, rather than because they can't dramatically improve. So Baig's "Pretty Good" might be a more apt descriptor for the list. I selected honorees from the pool of products I reviewed in my Personal Technology column. They were chosen because I (mostly) liked them - not because they necessarily racked up big sales....
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