With a wealthy legacy of near 20 years, the Digit Zero1 Awards are given out to the best-performing merchandise of the yr. The thought behind our initiative is to reward manufacturers for placing in years of analysis and growth to provide you with merchandise that worth efficiency over every part else. When you’re out available in the market on the lookout for the best-performing merchandise to personal, look no additional than the upcoming Zero1 Awardees.
Oh, and by ‘take a look at’, we imply we put all these merchandise by the wringer, which is our complete take a look at course of. Every product class that we cowl has a rigorous take a look at course of and each product is made to go this take a look at. Calculating the scores, a winner is said. The take a look at course of for Zero1 Awards is nearly the identical as our evaluate take a look at course of, besides that we don’t think about scores for options, worth or design.
That is what makes our Zero1 Awards distinctive. Nowhere else will you get such laser concentrate on the best-performing merchandise of the yr, just because most others ‘evaluate’ merchandise as an alternative of testing them. For the Zero1 Awards, opinions of critiques aren’t thought-about. That is about pure efficiency and the power of the product to do the job in the very best method.
So, whenever you ask “What’s the very best performing gaming laptop computer in India?”, it’s good to take a look at our Zero1 Award winner in that class as a result of that’s the one place the place it’s solely about pure efficiency and never in regards to the options of the laptop computer or the way it appears or how a lot it prices.
That’s additionally another excuse why the Zero1 Awards are so necessary. As a result of we don’t take a look at the value, however solely pure efficiency, we get to showcase merchandise you might need missed or didn’t pay a lot consideration to due to price range restrictions. That doesn’t imply this award caters solely to the wealthy children with deep pockets since a lot of the merchandise on the record are often costly. However that’s not our rationale for doing it, although. The product that wins our Zero1 Award is taken into account the trade benchmark for the yr. And what do manufacturers like to do with benchmarks? Beat them in fact! So consider the Zero1 Awards as a predictor of issues to return subsequent yr. The brand new units that can launch in 2023 should do higher than the benchmarks of 2022 – and never simply when it comes to efficiency, but in addition the value!
Product classes of Zero1 Awards 2022
Take a look at the 40 classes of merchandise we’re contemplating for Zero1 Awards 2022:
Mobiles
Premium / Flagship smartphone (Over 50k)
Highend smartphone (35k – 50k)
Mid-range smartphone (20k -35k)
Funds smartphone (underneath 20k)
Digital camera telephone underneath 30k
Digital camera telephone (No price range)
Finest show telephone (No price range)
Gaming smartphone (no price range)
Laptops
Gaming Laptop computer (worth no bar)
Gaming Laptop computer (121K – 200K)
Gaming Laptop computer (81K – 120K)
Gaming Laptop computer (Below 60K – 80K)
Mainstream Laptop computer
Creator Laptop computer
Premium skinny and lightweight Laptop computer
TVs
BEST 4K HDR TVs
BEST QLED TVs
Audio
Bluetooth Audio system
Wi-fi Headphones
Wired Headphones
Wired Earphones
Wi-fi Earphones
Premium Actually Wi-fi Earphones
Mid-Vary Actually Wi-fi Earphones
Funds Actually Wi-fi Earphones
Gaming Headsets
CPUs
Desktop Processor
Storage
NVMe SSD
Exterior SSD
Graphics
Graphics Card
Networking
Wi-Fi 6 Router
Keyboard
Mechanical keyboard
Mice
Gaming mice
Motherboard
Intel Mainstream Z790
AMD Mainstream X670E
Wearable
Smartwatch
Tablets
Tablets
Air purifiers
Air purifiers
Displays
Gaming screens
IoT
Sensible audio system for IoT
Find out how to take part in Zero1 Awards 2022
In case you are a model serious about sending us your product to be nominated for the Zero1 Awards, attain out to editor@digit.in. Do observe that merchandise launched after November 14th 2022 won’t be thought-about for this yr’s awards. You may see all of the winners from 2021 right here.
Eligibility for taking part in Zero1 Awards 2022
As a result of the Digit Zero1 Awards are given out based mostly on examined efficiency scores, no product that now we have not acquired in our Take a look at Centre can take part. We make each effort to check all potential merchandise launched within the yr, nonetheless, typically we simply don’t obtain some merchandise at our Take a look at Centres due to logistics points, or as a result of manufacturers can not ship us evaluate samples in time.
In an effort to maintain issues honest, we settle for merchandise that have been launched within the 12-month interval between Zero1 Awards. For 2022, the very best merchandise will probably be chosen from merchandise launched after November 15, 2021, and on or earlier than November 14, 2022. Why such bizarre dates? That’s as a result of we publish the awards in our December problem of the journal yearly, and contemplating we don’t have superpowers (but!), we’d like time to check them. Because of this, for merchandise launching close to the top of our acceptance interval, we name for them underneath embargo. Entries for Digit Zero1 Awards shut by 14th November 2022.
Don’t overlook… the Finest Purchase Awards 2022
Together with the Zero1 Award for best-performing merchandise of 2022, we will even crown the Finest Purchase Award in every of the 40 classes of merchandise in competition for this yr. In contrast to the Zero1 Award, which is worth agnostic and solely focuses on the efficiency of a product in every class, the Finest Purchase Award will solely be awarded to merchandise with the very best worth for cash rating in our category-wise product comparability sheet.
So, technically, can one product in any given class win each the Zero1 in addition to Finest Purchase awards? We aren’t saying no to that chance but, and whether or not it involves go stays to be seen after we lastly announce the Zero1 Awards 2022 winners in December 2022 (extra particulars on the precise date to observe quickly, watch this house).